SunOS 4.x overflows! This example is for xterm

Summary
Description:Willy has created SunOS 4.x buffer overflow code, and gives the appended example, which overflows the X libraries.
Author:Willy TARREAU <tarreau@AEMIAIF.LIP6.FR>
Compromise: root (local)
Vulnerable Systems:SunOS 4.x for this particular exploit. Many other systems are vulnerable (see my other pages on the topic).
Date:8 July 1997
Notes:This is in uuencoded form. Be sure to copy & paste, don't save as a file because it has html codez in it.
Details

Date: Tue, 8 Jul 1997 17:11:40 +0200
From: Willy TARREAU 
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
Subject: Buffer Overflows exploit for SunOS 4.1.4

Hello,

   about one month ago, I posted here a generic exploit for buffer
overflows on SunOS 4. I didn't find a real bug which could be exploited in
a standard application so my exploit applied only to my own programs.

Now, I succeeded in getting a root shell using the X11 ressource manager
bug ('xterm -xrm xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx...xxxxxxxxx'), which isn't new, but
demonstrates that my exploit really works.

As I saw, there aren't many buffer overflow exploits for SunOS, perhaps
because of some complications.

My package includes a script which can automatically try several stack
offsets, which could be useful when testing a wrapper in development.

You can retrieve this on my web page:

        http://www-miaif.lip6.fr/willy/security/sunos.html

Hope this can help somebody...

Willy Tarreau
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| Willy Tarreau | tarreau@aemiaif.lip6.fr | http://www-miaif.lip6.fr/willy/ |
| Magistere d'Informatique Appliquee de l'Ile de France (MIAIF), promo 97   |
| DEA  A.S.I.M.E. |  Universite Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6), FRANCE     |
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