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Atstake Security Advisory A080703-1 - Both IPNetSentryX and IPNetMonitorX come with three helper tools that each have security issues associated with them. The first two tools: RunTCPDump and RunTCPFlow allow arbitrary users to monitor the network without requiring any form of authentication or privilege. The third tool, tcpflow (executed by RunTCPFlow), contains a format string vulnerability, allowing arbitrary commands to be run as the user calling the program. Since RunTCPFlow is setuid root and will pass arguments to tcpflow, we can execute arbitrary commands as root.

Atstake Security Advisory A080703-1 - Both IPNetSentryX and IPNetMonitorX come with three helper tools that each have security issues associated with them. The first two tools: RunTCPDump and RunTCPFlow allow arbitrary users to monitor the network without requiring any form of authentication or privilege. The third tool, tcpflow (executed by RunTCPFlow), contains a format string vulnerability, allowing arbitrary commands to be run as the user calling the program. Since RunTCPFlow is setuid root and will pass arguments to tcpflow, we can execute arbitrary commands as root.