[RHSA-2000:062-03] glint symlink vulnerability

--------------------------------------------------------------------- Red Hat, Inc. Security Advisory Synopsis: glint symlink vulnerability Advisory ID: RHSA-2000:062-03 Issue date: 2000-09-19 Updated on: 2000-09-19 Product: Red Hat Linux Keywords: glint symlink rpm Cross references: N/A...

Advisory: mgetty local compromise

Author : Stan Bubrouski Date : August 26, 2000 Package : mgetty Versions affected : 1.1.22, 1.1.21 and prior at least back to 1994 Severity : faxrunqd follows symbolic links when creating certain files. The default location for the files is /var/spool/fax/outgoing, which is a world-writable...

OpenLDAP 1.2.7/1.2.8/1.2.9/1.2.10 - '/usr/tmp/' Symlink

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1232/info A vulnerability exists in OpenLDAP as shipped with some versions of Linux, including RedHat 6.1 and 6.2, and TurboLinux 6.0.2 and earlier. OpenLDAP will create files in /usr/tmp, which is actually a symbolic link to the world writable /tmp...

CVE-1999-1499

named in ISC BIND 4.9 and 8.1 allows local users to destroy files via a symlink attack on 1 nameddump.db when root kills the process with a SIGINT, or 2 named.stats when SIGIOT is used...