vendor:
KON (Kanji On Console)
by:
E-Ligth (Hugo Oliveira Dias)
7.2
CVSS
HIGH
Buffer Overflow
119
CWE
Product Name: KON (Kanji On Console)
Affected Version From: KON (Kanji On Console) prior to version 2.2.2
Affected Version To: KON (Kanji On Console) version 2.2.2
Patch Exists: YES
Related CWE: N/A
CPE: N/A
Metasploit:
N/A
Other Scripts:
N/A
Tags: N/A
CVSS Metrics: N/A
Nuclei References:
N/A
Nuclei Metadata: N/A
Platforms Tested: Linux
2000
KON (Kanji On Console) Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
KON (Kanji On Console) is a package for displaying Kanji text under Linux and comes with two suid binaries which are vulnerable to buffer overflows. 'fld', one of the vulnerable programs, accepts options input from a text file. Through this mechanism it is possible to input arbitrary code into the stack and spawn a root shell. The other binary, kon, suffers from a buffer overflow as well. The buffer overflow in kon can be exploited via the -StartupMessage command line option, and fld via the command line options: -t bdf <file to be read>.
Mitigation:
Disable the vulnerable programs or upgrade to a version that is not vulnerable.