3181 : Cactus shell-lock Retrieve Protected Source Code
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Disclosure

Oct 04, 1999

Discovery

Unknown

Dates

Exploit

Oct 04, 1999

Solution

Unknown

Description

Cactus International Software's shell-lock utility uses a weak encoding mechanism that can trivially be bypassed to read the shell code it tries to protect. If a local attacker has read access to the desired file, they can decode and retrieve the original shell code.

Classification

Unknown or Incomplete

Solution

Currently, there are no known upgrades, patches, or workarounds available to correct this issue.

Products

Cactus International

shell-lock

2.1.1.1

References

Other Advisory URL: http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/1999-q3/1182.html
ISS X-Force ID: 3356
CVE ID: 1999-1540 (see also: NVD)
Vendor URL: http://www.cactus.com/

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