VMware Workstation 4.0: Possible privilege escalation on the host via symlink manipulation

It is possible for a user to gain an esclation in privileges on a system running VMware Workstation 4.0 for Linux systems by symlink manipulation in a world-writable directory such as /tmp. Affected systems: VMware Workstation 4.0 for Linux systems Dates: This was reported to VMware on 2003-06-17...

Ifenslave 0.0.7 - Argument Local Buffer Overflow (2)

Ifenslave 0.0.7 - Argument Local Buffer Overflow 2 // source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7682/info ifenslave for Linux has been reported prone to a buffer overflow vulnerability. The issue is reportedly due to a lack of sufficient bounds checking performed on user-supplied data before it i...

OpenSSH/PAM 3.6.1p1 - Remote Users Discovery Tool

/ SSHBRUTE - OpenSSH/PAM Proof of concept code by Maurizio Agazzini Tested against Red Hat, Mandrake, and Debian GNU/Linux. Reference: http://lab.mediaservice.net/advisory/2003-01-openssh.txt $ tar xvfz openssh-3.6.1p1.tar.gz $ patch -p0 include include / an illegal user / define NOUSER...

Samba < 2.2.8 (Linux/BSD) - Remote Code Execution

/ Remote root exploit for Samba 2.2.x and prior that works against Linux all distributions, FreeBSD 4.x, 5.x, NetBSD 1.x and OpenBSD 2.x, 3.x and 3.2 non-executable stack. sambal.c is able to identify samba boxes. It will send a netbios name packet to port 137. If the box responds with the mac...

Remote Buffer Overflow in Sendmail

Overview There is a vulnerability in sendmail that may allow remote attackers to gain the privileges of the sendmail daemon, typically root. Description Researchers at Internet Security Systems ISS have discovered a remotely exploitable vulnerability in sendmail. This vulnerability could allow an...

Security bug in CGI::Lite::escape_dangerous_chars&#40;&#41; function

SUBJECT Security bug in CGI::Lite::escapedangerouschars function, part of the CGI::Lite 2.0 package, and earlier revisions thereof. SUMMARY The CGI::Lite::escapedangerouschars function fails to escape the entire set of special characters that may have significance to the underlying shell command...

ESCPUtil 1.15.2 2 - Printer Name Local Buffer Overflow

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6658/info It has been reported that a buffer overflow in escputil exists. When supplied with excessively long arguments, it is possible to overwrite stack memory. escputil is reportedly installed setgid 'sys' on Mandrake Linux, so it is possible that this...

GLIBC locale - Format Strings

/ su.c by xp, modified by logikal@efnet - tested on redhat 5 - 7 / include include include include include include include include char shellcode = "\x31\xc0\x83\xc0\x17\x31\xdb\xcd\x80\xeb" "\x30\x5f\x31\xc9\x88\x4f\x17\x88\x4f\x1a" "\x8d\x5f\x10\x89\x1f\x8d\x47\x18\x89\x47"...

[RAZOR] Problems with mkstemp&#40;&#41;

Common use of 'tmpwatch' utility and its counterparts triggers race conditions in many applications Michal Zalewski [email protected], 12/05/2002 Copyright C 2002 by Bindview Corporation 1 Scope and exposure info -------------------------- A common practice of installing 'tmpwatch' utili...

apache-linux.txt

/ LINUX X86 APACHE REMOTE EXPLOIT!!!!!!!!! This is the unpublished source for apache OpenSSL handshake exploit. We obtained this exploit by modifying a circulating apache worm, created by contem@efnet BY nebunu compile: gcc -o apache-ex apache.ex.c -lcrypto run: ./apache-ex do not use hostname! u...

SCPOnly 2.3/2.4 - SSH Environment Shell Escaping

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5526/info scponly is a freely available, open source restricted secure copy client. It is available for Unix and Linux operating systems. The default installation of scponly does not place sufficient access controls on the .ssh subdirectory. Due to this...

Advisory CA-2002-26 Buffer Overflow in CDE ToolTalk

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- CERT Advisory CA-2002-26 Buffer Overflow in CDE ToolTalk Original release date: August 12, 2002 Last revised: -- Source: CERT/CC A complete revision history can be found at the end of this file. Systems Affected Systems running CDE ToolTalk Overview The Common...

CVE-2002-0767

simpleinit on Linux systems does not close a read/write FIFO file descriptor before creating a child process, which allows the child process to cause simpleinit to execute arbitrary programs with root privileges...

E-Guest 1.1 - Server Side Include Arbitrary Command Execution

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5129/info E-Guest guest book is a freely available, open source guest book. It is designed for Unix and Linux operating systems. E-Guest does not adequately sanitize user-supplied input in guest book entries. Because of this, it is possible to pass along...

Mandrake 7/8/9 / RedHat 6.x/7 Bonobo EFSTool - Commandline Argument Buffer Overflow (1)

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5125/info Bonobo is a set of tools and CORBA interfaces included as part of the Gnome infrastructure. It is designed for use on the Linux and Unix operating systems. A boundry condition error has been discovered in the efstool program. Due to improper...

IGMP denial of service vulnerability

Topic : IGMP denial of service vulnerability Date : June 14, 2002 Credit : krishna, arun, [email protected] Site : http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/krishna/igmpdos/ Description ------------ The IGMP report suppression mechanism can be exploited for launching an insider denial of service attack against a ho...

Apache 1.x2.0.x - Chunked-Encoding Memory Corruption (1)

Apache 1.x2.0.x - Chunked-Encoding Memory Corruption 1 // source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5033/info When processing requests coded with the 'Chunked Encoding' mechanism, Apache fails to properly calculate required buffer sizes. This is believed to be due to improper signed interpretatio...

My Postcards 6.0 - MagicCard.cgi Arbitrary File Disclosure

My Postcards 6.0 - MagicCard.cgi Arbitrary File Disclosure source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5029/info My Postcards is a commercial available eletronic postcard system. It is available for Unix and Linux Operating Systems. The magiccard.cgi script does not properly handle some types of...

Ayman Akt IRCIT 0.3.1 - Invite Message Remote Buffer Overflow

Ayman Akt IRCIT 0.3.1 - Invite Message Remote Buffer Overflow // source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4998/info IRCIT is a terminal based IRC client for Linux and Unix systems. IRCIT contains a remote buffer overflow vulnerability. When a INVITE message is received, the supplied from user da...

Slurp 1.10 - SysLog Remote Format String

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4935/info slurp is a freely available, open source NNTP client. It is designed for use on most Unix and Linux operating systems. It may be possible for a remote server to execute code on a vulnerable client. slurp offers functionality that allows the...