VULHUB ™

A serious bug exists in UnixWare 7.1's libc. A buffer overflow in gethostbyname() will allow any user to obtain elevated privileges. My demonstration exploit happened to be "arp", but any program calling this function will do.

A serious bug exists in UnixWare 7.1's libc. A buffer overflow in gethostbyname() will allow any user to obtain elevated privileges. My demonstration exploit happened to be "arp", but any program calling this function will do.