HeliSec: StarOffice symlink exploit

= Helios Security and Administration = - Hi everyone, StarOffice creates a temporary directory in /tmp called soffice.tmp, with permissions 0777. Into this directory other temporary files are creates, with the format: svZZZZ.tmp, where ZZZZ in a four or five digits number. StarOffice not only...

Commerce.cgi Directory Traversal

Introduction: Commerce.cgi can have your store's catalog up and running on the web in literally a couple of hours. The easy to use Store Manager will even allow you to add and remove products from your inventory right through your web browser. Best of all, it's free, vulnerable & open source. The...

Vim 5.x - Swap File Race Condition

/ source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2927/info Vim is an enhanced version of the popular text editor vi. A race condition vulnerability exists in the swap file mechanism used by the 'vim' program. The error occurs when a swap file name for a file being opened is symbolically linked to a...

CVE-2000-1096

crontab by Paul Vixie uses predictable file names for a temporary file and does not properly ensure that the file is owned by the user executing the crontab -e command, which allows local users with write access to the crontab spool directory to execute arbitrary commands by creating...

Samba 2.0.7 - SWAT Logfile Permissions

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1874/info The Samba software suite is a collection of programs that implements the SMB protocol for unix systems, allowing you to serve files and printers to Windows, NT, OS/2 and DOS clients. This protocol is sometimes also referred to as the LanManager ...

Уязвимость файловой системы в AIX

При некоторых условиях пользователь может записать файл, даже не имея на это разрешений...

CVE-1999-0899

The Windows NT 4.0 print spooler allows a local user to execute arbitrary commands due to inappropriate permissions that allow the user to specify an alternate print provider...

CVE-1999-0473

The rsync command before rsync 2.3.1 may inadvertently change the permissions of the client's working directory to the permissions of the directory being transferred...

CVE-1999-0353

rpc.pcnfsd in HP gives remote root access by changing the permissions on the main printer spool directory...

[SECURITY] New versions of rsync fixes security hole

This is an old report from May 1999 but it wasnt reported on this channel yet. The author of rsync, Andrew Tridgell, has reported that former versions of rsync contained a security-related bug. I you were transferring an empty directory into a non-existent directory on a remote host, permissions ...