Exploitation Summary
EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2003-0408. PoCs published by Gino Thomas.
AI-analyzed exploit summary This exploit targets a buffer overflow vulnerability in UpClient 5.0b7 on FreeBSD by passing an excessively long command-line argument. It uses a NOP sled and shellcode to spawn a shell with elevated privileges (typically setuid kmem).
Description
Buffer overflow in Uptime Client (UpClient) 5.0b7, and possibly other versions, allows local users to gain privileges via a long -p argument.
Exploits (1)
This exploit targets a buffer overflow vulnerability in UpClient 5.0b7 on FreeBSD by passing an excessively long command-line argument. It uses a NOP sled and shellcode to spawn a shell with elevated privileges (typically setuid kmem).