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Cherokee Web Server Port Bind Privilege Drop Weakness
The remote host is running Cherokee - a fast and tiny web server. The remote version of this software is vulnerable to remote command execution due to a lack of web requests sanitization, especially shell metacharacters. Additionally, this version fails to drop root privileges after it binds to...
Debian DSA-056-1 : man-db - local file overwrite
Ethan Benson found a bug in man-db packages as distributed in Debian GNU/Linux 2.2. man-db includes a mandb tool which is used to build an index of the manual pages installed on a system. When the -u or -c option were given on the command-line to tell it to write its database to a different...
RHEL 2.1 : tcpdump (RHSA-2003:151)
Updated tcpdump packages that fix an infinite loop vulnerability and drop privileges on startup are now available. Tcpdump is a command-line tool for monitoring network traffic. A vulnerability exists in tcpdump before 3.7.2 and is related to an inability to handle unknown RADIUS attributes...
DEBIAN-CVE-2003-0489
tcptraceroute 1.4 and earlier does not fully drop privileges after obtaining a file descriptor for capturing packets, which may allow local users to gain access to the descriptor via a separate vulnerability in tcptraceroute...
Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: tcpdump security update
Updated tcpdump packages that fix an infinite loop vulnerability and drop privileges on startup are now available. Tcpdump is a command-line tool for monitoring network traffic. A vulnerability exists in tcpdump before 3.7.2 and is related to an inability to handle unknown RADIUS attributes...
DEBIAN-CVE-2002-1311
Courier sqwebmail before 0.40.0 does not quickly drop privileges after startup in certain cases, which could allow local users to read arbitrary files...
perl getpwuid problem
Getpwuid call doesn't clode /etc/shadow, it leaves the possibility to access file descriptor after privelege are dropped...
FreeBSD ktrace problem
It's possible to obtain sensitive data from suid process's memory after dropping privileges...
procmail heap overflow
hi, i found a heap overflow in procmail up until latest some time ago. flatline@intra:/usr/bin$ ls -la procmail -rwsr-xr-x 1 root mail 64344 Jun 3 2001 procmail flatline@intra:/usr/bin$ ./procmail perl -e 'print "A"x10240'=A procmail: Exceeded LINEBUF Segmentation fault flatline@intra:/usr/bin$ a...
CVE-1999-1326
Wu-FTPD ABOR privilege escalation (CVE-1999-1326) affects the wu-ftpd server. The vulnerability arises when handling an ABOR after a data connection has closed, due to a flaw in the dologout() path that can allow a remote attacker to gain elevated privileges (potentially root). Exploitation could...
CVE-2001-0559
crontab in Vixie cron 3.0.1 and earlier does not properly drop privileges after the failed parsing of a modification operation, which could allow a local attacker to gain additional privileges when an editor is called to correct the error...
CVE-1999-1326
wu-ftpd 2.4 FTP server does not properly drop privileges when an ABOR abort file transfer command is executed during a file transfer, which causes a signal to be handled incorrectly and allows local and possibly remote attackers to read arbitrary files...
CVE-1999-1165
GNU fingerd 1.37 is affected. The flaw is failure to drop privileges before accessing user information, enabling local attackers to (1) gain root via a malicious .fingerrc and (2) read arbitrary files via .plan/.forward/.project symbolic links. No patch/version or remediation is specified in the ...