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 ...