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CVE-1999-1232
Untrusted search path vulnerability in day5datacopier in SGI IRIX 6.2 allows local users to execute arbitrary commands via a modified PATH environment variable that points to a malicious cp program...
CVE-1999-1422
The CVE-1999-1422 entry concerns Slackware 3.4 (and possibly other versions) where the PATH environment variable may include the current directory (.) by default. This enables local users to create Trojan horse programs that could be inadvertently executed by other users, due to execution precede...
CVE-2001-0943
dbsnmp in Oracle 8.0.5 and 8.1.5, under certain conditions, trusts the PATH environment variable to find and execute the 1 chown or 2 chgrp commands, which allows local users to execute arbitrary code by modifying the PATH to point to Trojan Horse programs...
CVE-2001-1091
The 1 dump and 2 dumplfs commands in NetBSD 1.4.x through 1.5.1 do not properly drop privileges, which could allow local users to gain privileges via the RCMDCMD environment variable...
Aladdin Ghostscript LD_RUN_PATH environment variable allows libraries to be loaded from current directory
Overview Alladin Ghostscript, a previewer for postscript files, uses an insecure value for the LDRUNPATH environment variable. This allows attackers to supply malicious libraries to be loaded from the current directory. Description Alladin Ghostscript is a previewer for postscript files. In...
Linux dump uses environment variables insecurely, allowing for root compromise
Overview Some implementations of the Linux backup utility, dump, call external programs on remote machines via the RSH environment variable. This may permit an attacker to compromise root if dump is setuid root. Description Some implementations of the Linux backup utility, dump, permit use of...
CVE-2001-0548
Buffer overflow in dtmail in Solaris 2.6 and 7 allows local users to gain privileges via the MAIL environment variable...
Oracle 89i - DBSNMP Oracle Home Environment Variable Buffer Overflow
Oracle 89i - DBSNMP Oracle Home Environment Variable Buffer Overflow // source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3138/info Oracle is an Enterprise level SQL database, supporting numerous features and options. It is distributed and maintained by Oracle Corporation. When the ORACLEHOME environment...
Oracle 8/9i - DBSNMP Oracle Home Environment Variable Buffer Overflow
// source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3138/info Oracle is an Enterprise level SQL database, supporting numerous features and options. It is distributed and maintained by Oracle Corporation. When the ORACLEHOME environment variable is filled with 750 bytes or more, a buffer overflow occurs...
Debian glibc 2 symlink issue could allow arbitrary file overwriting
Overview Some versions of ld.so, the loader for shared libraries in UNIX/LINUX, do not properly clear risky environment variables, allowing a symlink attack to overwrite arbitrary files. Description LDDEBUGOUTPUT specifies a directory in which ld.so creates a file with a predictable name based on...
Solaris 2.67.0 - DTMail Mail Environment Variable Buffer Overflow
Solaris 2.67.0 - DTMail Mail Environment Variable Buffer Overflow // source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3081/info dtmail is an application included with the Common Desktop Environment, one of the X Window Managers included with Solaris. A buffer overflow in dtmail makes it possible for a...
FreeBSD TOP Format String Vulnerability
Exploit for bsd platform in category local exploits ======================================= FreeBSD TOP Format String Vulnerability ======================================= / freebsd x86 top exploit affected under top-3.5beta9 including this version 1. get the address of .dtors from /usr/bin/top...
CVE-2001-1178
Buffer overflow in xman allows local users to gain privileges via a long MANPATH environment variable...
Solaris 8 libsldap - Local Buffer Overflow (2)
// source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2931/info Solaris 8 ships with a shared library that implements LDAP functionality called 'libsldap'. This library is linked to by a number of system utilities, many of them installed setuid or setgid. Libsldap contains a buffer overflow vulnerability ...
Solaris 8 libsldap - Local Buffer Overflow (1)
Solaris 8 libsldap - Local Buffer Overflow 1 // source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2931/info Solaris 8 ships with a shared library that implements LDAP functionality called 'libsldap'. This library is linked to by a number of system utilities, many of them installed setuid or setgid...
XFree86 X11R6 3.3.2 XMan - ManPath Environment Variable Buffer Overflow
XFree86 X11R6 3.3.2 XMan - ManPath Environment Variable Buffer Overflow source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3030/info xman is a component included with the XFree86 Window System. A buffer overflow in the handling of the MANPATH environment variable by xman makes it possible for a local user...
Solaris 8 mailtool - Local Buffer Overflow
// source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2787/info The mailtool program included with OpenWindows in Solaris, contains a buffer overflow vulnerability which may allow local users to execute arbitrary code/commands with group 'mail' privileges. The overflow occurs when a string exceeding...
glibc unsetenv fails to properly handle environment variables passed more than once to a program
Overview The glibc implementation of unsetenv fails to properly remove one of two successive occurrences of the same environment variable if the variable is redundently passed to a program. Description The glibc implementation of unsetenv, if called to remove an environment variable that occurs t...
CVE-2001-0170
glibc 2.1.9x and earlier does not properly clear the RESOLVHOSTCONF, HOSTALIASES, or RESOPTIONS environmental variables when executing setuid/setgid programs, which could allow local users to read arbitrary files...
