uzzzval/cve-2004-2167Reproduction and patching guide for CVE-2004-2167, a buffer overflow in LaTeX2RTF, with a C exploit and patch for educational vulnerability analysis.
Code to be tested:
Download CentOS 6.4 Opertaing System
Download the Latex2RTf to the Downloads folder from the below link:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/latex2rtf/files/latex2rtf-win/1.9.15/
cd /home/username/Downloads/
tar -xvf latex2rtf-1.9.15.tar.gz
cd latex2rtf-1.9.15
sudo make
sudo make install
gcc -o exploit exploit.c
./exploit > shell_code.tex
./latex2rtf shell_code.tex
Steps for patching: Download the patch from:
https://github.com/uzzzval/cve-2004-2167/blob/master/definitions_patch.c
cp definitions_patch.c /home/username/Downloads/latex2rtf-1.9.15/ mv definitions_patch.c definitions.c sudo Make sudo make install ./latex2rtf shell_code.tex