Dell TrueMobile 1300 WLAN System 3.10.39.0 Tray Applet - Local Privilege Escalation

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9714/info It has been reported that a privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the Dell TrueMobile 1300 Wireless System Tray Applet. The issue is due to the software starting with SYSTEM privileges, to enable access to the wireless hardware, and...

Microsoft Windows XP2000 - PostThreadMessage() Arbitrary Process Killing

Microsoft Windows XP2000 - PostThreadMessage Arbitrary Process Killing // source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/8747/info A vulnerability has been discovered in the Microsoft Windows operating system. The flaw lies in the way that processes handle messages sent from another process via the...

DSA-332 linux-kernel-2.4.17 - several vulnerabilities

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QNX 6.x - 'ptrace()' Arbitrary Process Modification

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4919/info The QNX implementation of 'ptrace' is reportedly insecure. An unprivileged process may attach to a setuid program without restriction. Since the attaching process may view or edit memory, an attacker may exploit this issue to escalate privileges...

Microsoft Windows Server 2000 - Debug Registers

Microsoft Windows Server 2000 - Debug Registers // source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2764/info A vulnerability exists in the handling of debug registers in Windows 2000. It is possible for unprivileged processes to create breakpoints for arbitrary processes. This can be used to 'kill'...

Microsoft Windows Server 2000 - Debug Registers

// source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2764/info A vulnerability exists in the handling of debug registers in Windows 2000. It is possible for unprivileged processes to create breakpoints for arbitrary processes. This can be used to 'kill' arbitrary processes without administrative...

CVE-2001-0040

The CVE concerns apcupsd, where during startup the daemon creates /var/run/apcupsd.pid with world-writable permissions (mode 666). This allows a local attacker to overwrite the PID file with arbitrary process IDs, causing legitimate processes to be killed when apcupsd restarts or stops. The Mandr...

PT-1999-1109 · Netscape · Netscape

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Netscape version 4.5 Description: A local user can kill an arbitrary process of another user whose Netscape crashes due to the talkback feature in Netscape. Recommendations: For Netscape version 4.5, consider disabling the talkback feature to...