LogWatch 2.1.1/2.5 - Insecure Temporary Directory Creation

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4374/info LogWatch is a freely available, open source script for monitoring log files. It may be used with the Linux and Unix Operating systems. Upon execution, LogWatch creates a directory in /tmp. This directory uses the name logwatch.$pid, where $pid i...

Rumpus FTP Server 1.3.x2.0.3 - Stack Overflow Denial of Service

Rumpus FTP Server 1.3.x2.0.3 - Stack Overflow Denial of Service source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2864/info Rumpus FTP Server is an implementation for MacOS which allows file-sharing across TCP/IP connections. Rumpus FTP is prone to a denial of service. An ftp user can engage the attack b...

Rumpus FTP Server 1.3.x/2.0.3 - Stack Overflow Denial of Service

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2864/info Rumpus FTP Server is an implementation for MacOS which allows file-sharing across TCP/IP connections. Rumpus FTP is prone to a denial of service. An ftp user can engage the attack by making a directory with an unusual number of sub-folders. This...

SuSE 6.x7.0 - MkDir Error Handling rctab Race Condition (2)

SuSE 6.x7.0 - MkDir Error Handling rctab Race Condition 2 source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2207/info rctab is the Run Control Tab script included with the SuSE distribution of the Linux Operating System. SuSE is a freely available, Open Source Operating system maintained by SuSE...

RedHat Linux 6.1 i386 - Tmpwatch Recursive Write Denial of Service

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1664/info Any user with write access to /tmp or /var/tmp, can induce tmpwatch to cause Red Hat and others runnng tmpwatch from cron to stop responding, and possibly require a hard reboot. This is accomplished by creating a directory tree many ie. 6000 nod...

RedHat Linux 6.1 i386 - Tmpwatch Recursive Write Denial of Service

RedHat Linux 6.1 i386 - Tmpwatch Recursive Write Denial of Service source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1664/info Any user with write access to /tmp or /var/tmp, can induce tmpwatch to cause Red Hat and others runnng tmpwatch from cron to stop responding, and possibly require a hard reboot...

CVE-1999-0782

KDE kppp is affected by CVE-1999-0782. Local users can create a directory in an arbitrary location by manipulating the HOME environment variable. The core issue is the use of HOME to determine user directories, enabling an attacker with local access to create files/directories outside their inten...

Avirt Gateway Suite 3.3/3.3 a/3.5 - Directory Creation

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/764/info The aVirt Mail Server has a weakness in the code that handles the RCPT TO command. By specifying a path in the command instead of an email recipient , an attacker could cause the mail server to create a directory in the server's local filesystem...

Avirt Gateway Suite 3.33.3 a3.5 - Directory Creation

Avirt Gateway Suite 3.33.3 a3.5 - Directory Creation source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/764/info The aVirt Mail Server has a weakness in the code that handles the RCPT TO command. By specifying a path in the command instead of an email recipient , an attacker could cause the mail server to...

SGI IRIX 6.2 - 'cdplayer' Local Privilege Escalation

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/333/info A vulnerability exists in the /usr/bin/X11/cdplayer application as shipped with SGI's IRIX operating system. By failing to shed root privileges, and creating arbitrary directories as root, cdplayer allows arbitrary users to gain root on the syste...

SGI IRIX 6.2 - cdplayer Local Privilege Escalation

SGI IRIX 6.2 - cdplayer Local Privilege Escalation source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/333/info A vulnerability exists in the /usr/bin/X11/cdplayer application as shipped with SGI's IRIX operating system. By failing to shed root privileges, and creating arbitrary directories as root, cdplay...