CVE-2000-1207

userhelper in the usermode package on Red Hat Linux executes non-setuid programs as root, which does not activate the security measures in glibc and allows the programs to be exploited via format string vulnerabilities in glibc via the LANG or LCALL environment variables CVE-2000-0844...

Проблема с ld.so из glibc

Переменная окружения LDPRELOAD используется для поиска динамических библиотек. При вызове suid/sgid программы эта переменная сбрасывается, но не сбрасывается, когда suid/sgid вызывает другое приложение, что позволяет подсунуть пользовательскую библиотеку...

RedHat 6 GLIBClocale - Subsystem Format String

RedHat 6 GLIBClocale - Subsystem Format String / source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1634/info Conectiva 4.x/5.x,Debian 2.x,IBM AIX 3.x/4.x,Mandrake 7,RedHat 5.x/6.x,IRIX 6.x, Solaris 2.x/7/8,Turbolinux 6.x,Wirex Immunix OS 6.2 Locale Subsystem Format String Many UNIX operating systems...

RedHat 6 GLIBC/locale - Subsystem Format String

/ source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1634/info Conectiva 4.x/5.x,Debian 2.x,IBM AIX 3.x/4.x,Mandrake 7,RedHat 5.x/6.x,IRIX 6.x, Solaris 2.x/7/8,Turbolinux 6.x,Wirex Immunix OS 6.2 Locale Subsystem Format String Many UNIX operating systems provide internationalization support according to t...

[SECURITY] glibc update for Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 (update)

Package: glibc Vulnerability: local exploit Debian-specific: no Recently two problems have been found in the glibc suite, which could be used to trick setuid applications to run arbitrary code. An earlier advisory listed the updates for Debian 2.2/potato. This advisory contains updates for Debian...

: glibc 2.1.3 vulnerabilities patched

Three locale-related vulnerabilities with glibc 2.1.3 were recently reported on BugTraq. These vulnerabilities could allow local users to gain root access. Users of Slackware 7.0, 7.1, and -current are strongly urged to upgrade to the new glibc packages in the -current branch...

[SECURITY] glibc update for Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 (update)

------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Security Advisory [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Wichert Akkerman September 5, 2000 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Package: glibc Vulnerability: local...

Serious vulnerability in glibc

PROBLEM DESCRIPTION A vulnerability exists in glibc versions up to version 2.1.3, ie. all released versions, allowing local users to get root access. Fix packages for most major Linux distributions have been released or will be released within a day or two. There's also a quick workaround describ...

[SECURITY] glibc update for Debian GNU/Linux 2.1

Package: glibc Vulnerability: local exploit Debian-specific: no Recently two problems have been found in the glibc suite, which could be used to trick setuid applications to run arbitrary code. An earlier advisory listed the updates for Debian 2.2/potato. This advisory contains updates for Debian...

[SECURITY] glibc update for Debian GNU/Linux 2.1

------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Security Advisory [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Wichert Akkerman September 5, 2000 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Package: glibc Vulnerability: local...

[SECURITY] New version of glibc released

Package: glibc Vulnerability: local exploit Debian-specific: no Recently two problems have been found in the glibc suite, which could be used to trick setuid applications to run arbitrary code. The first problem is the way ld.so handles environment variables: in order to provide a safe environmen...

[SECURITY] New version of glibc released

------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Security Advisory [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Wichert Akkerman September 2, 2000 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Package: glibc Vulnerability: local...

glibc unsetenv bug

Hello, Two distribution vendors have recently issued updated packages and advisories regarding a glibc bug. While I don't consider this bug to be a serious security issue, a more detailed description of the bug and information on affected glibc versions is needed. I am forwarding a message I post...

Security Update: ld.so unsetenv problem

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Caldera Systems, Inc. Security Advisory Subject: ld.so unsetenv problem Advisory number: CSSA-2000-028.0 Issue date: 2000 August, 24 Cross reference: 1. Problem Description A bug has been discovered in ld.so that could allow local users to obtain supe...

CVE-2000-0335

The resolver in glibc 2.1.3 uses predictable IDs, which allows a local attacker to spoof DNS query results...

openlink.3.2.txt

Overview: A serious security hole has been found in the web configuration utility that comes with OpenLink 3.2. This hole will allow remote users to execute arbitrary code as the user id under which the web configurator is run inherited from the request broker, oplrqb. The hole is a run-of-the-mi...

unsetenv.txt

o unsetenv off-by-one error: The unsetenv function in glibc 2.1.1 suffers from a problem whereby when running through the environment variables, if the name of the variable being unset is present twice consecutively, the second is not destroyed. unsetenv is sometimes used by programs that depend ...

glibc_exploit.txt

Subject: Linux glibc 2.1.x / wu-ftpd =2.5 / BeroFTPD / lynx / vlock / mc / glibc 2.0.x To: [email protected] First of all, something less or more personal - sorry to all [email protected] people for this post. I'm really angry, as this stuff become well-known without my knowledge... so, only a...

GNU glibc 2.12.1.1 -6 - pt_chown Local Privilege Escalation

GNU glibc 2.12.1.1 -6 - ptchown Local Privilege Escalation // source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/597/info // ptchown is a program included with glibc 2.1.x that exists to aid the proper allocation of terminals for non-suid programs that don't have devpts support. It is installed setuid roo...

GNU glibc 2.1/2.1.1 -6 - 'pt_chown' Local Privilege Escalation

// source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/597/info // ptchown is a program included with glibc 2.1.x that exists to aid the proper allocation of terminals for non-suid programs that don't have devpts support. It is installed setuid root, and is shipped with RedHat Linux 6.0. As it stands,...