Buffer overflow in the environment variable substitution code in main.c in OSH 1.7-14 allows local users to inject arbitrary environment variables, such as LD_PRELOAD, via pathname arguments of the form "$VAR/EVARarg", which cause the EVAR portion to be appended to a buffer returned by a getenv function call.
Publication date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 03:03:00 +0000