security flaw

The installation confirmation dialog in Firefox before 1.0.1, Thunderbird before 1.0.1, and Mozilla before 1.7.6 allows remote attackers to use InstallTrigger to spoof the hostname of the host performing the installation via a long "user:pass" sequence in the URL, which appears before the real...

CVE-2004-1681: Undefined Security Weakness

Multiple buffer overflows in 1 phrelay-cfg, 2 phlocale, 3 pkg-installer, or 4 input-cfg in QNX Photon microGUI for QNX RTP 6.1 allow local users to gain privileges via a long -s server command line parameter...

CVE-2004-2635

An ActiveX control for McAfee Security Installer Control System 4.0.0.81 allows remote attackers to access the Windows registry via web pages that use the control's RegQueryValue method...

AppServ 2.5.x and Prior Exploit

what AppServ ========== AppServ is the Apache/PHP/MySQL open source software installer packages. Objective : - Easy to buid Webserver and Database Server - For those who just beginning client/server programming. - For web programmers/developers using PHP & MySQL. - For programming techniques that...

CVE-2004-0906

CVE-2004-0906 is supported by multiple feeds: Mozilla’s XPInstall installer in Firefox (pre-Preview Release), Mozilla before 1.7.3, and Thunderbird before 0.8 sets insecure file permissions for files inside XPI packages. This can let a local user overwrite arbitrary files or execute code. Connect...

Mozilla Linux installer does not properly set file permissions

Overview Mozilla's Linux installers may not properly set file permissions on the installed program files. A local user may then be able to modify or replace these files with malicious versions. Description Some versions of Mozilla's Linux installer may create installation and program files with...

QNX Photon pkg-installer - '-s' Overflow

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11164/info Reportedly QNX Photon MicroGUI is affected by multiple buffer overflow vulnerabilities in MicroGUI utilities. These issues are due to a failure of the affected applications to validate user-supplied string lengths before copying them into finit...

Two Invision Power Board 1.1.x vulns

Hola, Invision Power Services have continued to show their amazing support and understanding for the security community by release two patches for their 'Invision Power Board' product now one of the most widely used 'Board' programs around. Without sending out any security mailing list...

CVE-2002-0622

The CVE-2002-0622 entry concerns the Office Web Components (OWC) package installer used with Microsoft Commerce Server 2000. The vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute commands by providing input to the OWC package installer (Command Execution via installer input). This is described as ...

CVE-2002-0622: Undefined Security Weakness

The Office Web Components OWC package installer for Microsoft Commerce Server 2000 allows remote attackers to execute commands by passing the commands as input to the OWC package installer, aka "OWC Package Command Execution"...

QNX RTOS 6.1 - 'PKG-Installer' Local Buffer Overflow

/ source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4918/info It has been reported that the pkg-installer utility for QNX is vulnerable to a buffer overflow condition. The vulnerability is a result of an unbounded string copy of the argument to the "-U" commandline option of pkg-installer to a local...

QNX RTOS 6.1 - PKG-Installer Local Buffer Overflow

QNX RTOS 6.1 - PKG-Installer Local Buffer Overflow / source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4918/info It has been reported that the pkg-installer utility for QNX is vulnerable to a buffer overflow condition. The vulnerability is a result of an unbounded string copy of the argument to the "-U"...

Gator installer Plugin allows any software to be installed

Advisory Title: Gator installer Plugin allows any software to be installed Release Date: 21/01/2002 Application: Gator installer plugin for Internet Explorer GAIN Platform: Windows clients with Internet Explorer. DLL version - 3.0.6.1 Severity: Malicious users can install backdoor software and ga...

remedy.txt

Security Holes in Remedy Client Installer Summary ------- Due to improper handling of temporary files, the installer program for Remedy Software's Action Request System client for unix can allow local users to gain root privileges. Details ------- The installer script for the unix AR clients...

TrendMicro InterScan VirusWall shared folder problem

I could not find any reference to this particular issue on bugtraq, and as it seems rather serious I decided to submit it. This message concerns what seems to be a security 'feature' in all versions of InterScan SMTP VirusWall for Windows NT at least through version 3.4. The problem is not with t...

Registry Permissions reminder - local privilege escalation on Windows NT

Howdy all, The generic security issue of lax permissions on registry keys under Windows NT 4 has been known for sometime see Stephen Sutton's Windows NT Security Guidelines http://www.trustedsystems.com/tssnsaguide.htm but here's a "new" curtly reminder of why it is so important to do so. Local...

Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 - MSIEXEC Registry Permissions

Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 - MSIEXEC Registry Permissions // source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1835/info Due to weak permission settings for the registry key that handles the Microsoft Installer Service MSIEXEC, it is possible for a local user on Windows NT to escalate their privilege level...

Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 - MSIEXEC Registry Permissions

// source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1835/info Due to weak permission settings for the registry key that handles the Microsoft Installer Service MSIEXEC, it is possible for a local user on Windows NT to escalate their privilege level. The file extension associated with the Microsoft...

CVE-2000-0724

CVE-2000-0724 involves the go-gnome Helix GNOME pre-installer. The vulnerability arises from a symlink attack in /tmp that lets local users overwrite arbitrary files, including uudecode, snarf, and some installer files. The described impact is complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability...

CVE-2000-0724: Undefined Security Weakness

The go-gnome Helix GNOME pre-installer allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on various files in /tmp, including uudecode, snarf, and some installer files...