Linux Security Vulnerabilities

CVE-1999-0798

Buffer overflow in bootpd on OpenBSD, FreeBSD, and Linux systems via a malformed header...

CVE-1999-1288

Samba 1.9.18 inadvertently includes a prototype application, wsmbconf, which is installed with incorrect permissions including the setgid bit, which allows local users to read and write files and possibly gain privileges via bugs in the...

CVE-1999-0002

Buffer overflow in NFS mountd gives root access to remote attackers, mostly in Linux...

CVE-1999-1048

Buffer overflow in bash 2.0.0, 1.4.17, and other versions allows local attackers to gain privileges by creating an extremely large directory name, which is inserted into the password prompt via the \w option in the PS1 environmental variable when another user changes into that...

CVE-1999-1406

dumpreg in Red Hat Linux 5.1 opens /dev/mem with O_RDWR access, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) by redirecting fd 1 (stdout) to the...

CVE-1999-1490

xosview 1.5.1 in Red Hat 5.1 allows local users to gain root access via a long HOME environmental...

CVE-1999-0009

Inverse query buffer overflow in BIND 4.9 and BIND 8...

CVE-1999-0011

Denial of Service vulnerabilities in BIND 4.9 and BIND 8 Releases via CNAME record and zone...

CVE-1999-0010

Denial of Service vulnerability in BIND 8 Releases via maliciously formatted DNS...

CVE-1999-1407

ifdhcpc-done script for configuring DHCP on Red Hat Linux 5 allows local users to append text to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the dhcplog...

CVE-1999-0502

A Unix account has a default, null, blank, or missing...

CVE-1999-0125

Buffer overflow in SGI IRIX mailx...

CVE-1999-0192

Buffer overflow in telnet daemon tgetent routing allows remote attackers to gain root access via the TERMCAP environmental...

CVE-1999-1095

sort creates temporary files and follows symbolic links, which allows local users to modify arbitrary files that are writable by the user running sort, as observed in updatedb and other programs that use...

CVE-1999-1182

Buffer overflow in run-time linkers (1) ld.so or (2) ld-linux.so for Linux systems allows local users to gain privileges by calling a setuid program with a long program name (argv[0]) and forcing ld.so/ld-linux.so to report an...

CVE-1999-0034

Buffer overflow in suidperl (sperl), Perl 4.x and...

CVE-1999-0037

Arbitrary command execution via metamail package using message headers, when user processes attacker's message using...

CVE-1999-0042

Buffer overflow in University of Washington's implementation of IMAP and POP...

CVE-1999-0318

Buffer overflow in xmcd 2.0p12 allows local users to gain access through an environmental...

CVE-1999-0868

ucbmail allows remote attackers to execute commands via shell metacharacters that are passed to it from...

CVE-1999-0041

Buffer overflow in NLS (Natural Language...

CVE-1999-1299

rcp on various Linux systems including Red Hat 4.0 allows a "nobody" user or other user with UID of 65535 to overwrite arbitrary files, since 65535 is interpreted as -1 by chown and other system calls, which causes the calls to fail to modify the ownership of the...

CVE-1999-0297

Buffer overflow in Vixie Cron library up to version 3.0 allows local users to obtain root access via a long environmental...

CVE-1999-0043

Command execution via shell metachars in INN daemon (innd) 1.5 using "newgroup" and "rmgroup" control messages, and...

CVE-1999-0130

Local users can start Sendmail in daemon mode and gain root...

CVE-1999-0234

Bash treats any character with a value of 255 as a command...

CVE-1999-0131

Buffer overflow and denial of service in Sendmail 8.7.5 and earlier through GECOS field gives root access to local...

CVE-1999-1491

abuse.console in Red Hat 2.1 uses relative pathnames to find and execute the undrv program, which allows local users to execute arbitrary commands via a path that points to a Trojan horse...

CVE-1999-1186

rxvt, when compiled with the PRINT_PIPE option in various Linux operating systems including Linux Slackware 3.0 and RedHat 2.1, allows local users to gain root privileges by specifying a malicious program using the -print-pipe command line...

CVE-2000-0508

rpc.lockd in Red Hat Linux 6.1 and 6.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a malformed...