Symbolic link problem in pppd

It's possible to change file permisions via symbolic link by using it as a tty device...

FreeBSD-SA-02:32.pppd

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-02:32.pppd Security Advisory The FreeBSD Project Topic: exploitable race condition in pppd Category: core Module: pppd Announced: 2002-07-31 Credits: Sebastian Krahmer...

FreeBSD 4.x / NetBSD 1.4.x/1.5.x/1.6 / OpenBSD 3 - pppd Arbitrary File Permission Modification Race Condition

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5355/info A vulnerability has been reported in some versions of the pppd daemon included with multiple BSD distributions. A race condition error in the code may result in the pppd process changing the file permissions on an arbitrary system file. pppd wil...

FreeBSD 4.x NetBSD 1.4.x1.5.x1.6 OpenBSD 3 - pppd Arbitrary File Permission Modification Race Condition

FreeBSD 4.x NetBSD 1.4.x1.5.x1.6 OpenBSD 3 - pppd Arbitrary File Permission Modification Race Condition source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5355/info A vulnerability has been reported in some versions of the pppd daemon included with multiple BSD distributions. A race condition error in the...

CVE-2002-0265

Sawmill for Solaris 6.2.14 and earlier creates the AdminPassword file with world-writable permissions, which allows local users to gain privileges by modifying the file...

AlienForm2 CGI script: arbitrary file read/write

===================================================================== Vulnerable: AlienForm2 revision 1.5 Category: Perl/CGI coding errors Impact: Subject to file permissions, an attacker can read any file on the server, append arbitrary data to any existing file or write arbitrary data to new...

Уязвимость утилиты для UPS

Hello 3APA3A! APC American Power Conversion Corp. http://www.apc.com PowerChute plus 5.0.2 for Windows 95/98 Утилита мониторинга источников бесперебойного питания. После установки, без ведома пользователя открывает полный сетевой доступ под именем PWRCHUTE к своему каталогу Program FilesPwrchute...

CVE-2002-0355

netstat in SGI IRIX before 6.5.12 allows local users to determine the existence of files on the system, even if the users do not have the appropriate permissions...

CVE-2002-0295

Alcatel OmniPCX 4400 installs files with world-writable permissions, which allows local users to reconfigure the system and possibly gain privileges...

Weak file permissions in pipermail

Local user can access any private maillist...

Unauthorized remote control access to Funk Proxy

Weak file permissions, decryptable password and unauthorized access to configuration file allow to obtain administrator's password...

CVE-2002-0103

An installer program for Oracle9iAS Web Cache 2.0.0.x creates executable and configuration files with insecure permissions, which allows local users to gain privileges by 1 running webcached or 2 obtaining the administrator password from webcache.xml...

CVE-1999-1188

mysqld in MySQL 3.21 creates log files with world-readable permissions, which allows local users to obtain passwords for users who are added to the user database...

CVE-1999-1144

Certain files in MPower in HP-UX 10.x are installed with insecure permissions, which allows local users to gain privileges...

CVE-2001-0635

Red Hat Linux 7.1 sets insecure permissions on swap files created during installation, which can allow a local attacker to gain additional privileges by reading sensitive information from the swap file, such as passwords...

CVE-1999-1433

HP JetAdmin D.01.09 on Solaris allows local users to change the permissions of arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/jetadmin.log file...

CVE-1999-1433

HP JetAdmin D.01.09 on Solaris is affected by a local privilege escalation via a symlink attack on /tmp/jetadmin.log, allowing a local user to change file permissions. The root cause is a race/symlink vulnerability in the handling of the log file, enabling arbitrary file permission changes. Publi...

CVE-1999-1243: Undefined Security Weakness

SGI Desktop Permissions Tool in IRIX 6.0.1 and earlier allows local users to modify permissions for arbitrary files and gain privileges...

CVE-1999-1433: Undefined Security Weakness

HP JetAdmin D.01.09 on Solaris allows local users to change the permissions of arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/jetadmin.log file...

Oracle 9iAS default configuration allows arbitrary users to view sensitive configuration files

Overview It is possible to read the "XSQLConfig.xml" and "soapConfig.xml" configuration files from an Oracle 9i Application Server under the default installation without any authorization. This can lead to an intruder gaining access to sensitive information about the server and potentially...