Subject: [SECURITY] Debian not vulnerable to recent minicom exploit

Description ----------- Recent messages on a computer security forum have again reported that there are buffer overflows in minicom. These can lead into root exploits if the program is installed setuid root. Vulnerability ------------- Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 is not vulnerable to this exploit. The...

Linux imapd - Remote Overflow File Retrieve

Linux imapd - Remote Overflow File Retrieve / This is the remote exploit of the hole in the imap daemon, for Linux. The instruction code is doing open, write, and close system calls, and it adds a line root::0:0.. at the beggining of /etc/passwd change to /etc/shadow if needed. The code needs to ...