MIT Kerberos 5 ksu may allow either the '-r' or '-l' time-interval parameter to overflow the stack with the characters ''d', 'h', 'm', or 's'
Vulnerability Note VU#38336
Original Release Date: 2000-10-19 | Last Revised: 2003-04-11
Overview
Description
From the reporter:
Time-interval parsing for the "-r" and "-l" command-line options calls a library routine which uses sscanf("%d%[d]") and passes the address of an automatic int variable to correspond to the second %-sequence. But the %[ sequence needs an arbitrarily large string buffer. So it's possible to get an arbitrary-length string consisting entirely of the letter 'd' written to the stack. Other sscanf formats it tries to use will also allow a string of 'h', 'm', or 's' characters to be written, with all characters the same in any string.
Impact
Local user may be able to crash the machine by overwriting the stack with the characters 'd', 'h', 'm', or 's'