teTeX 1.0.7 Filters Temporary File Race Condition Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2974/info teTeX is a TeX distribution for UNIX compatible systems. A race condition vulnerability exists in the temporary file handling method used by some teTeX filters. The problem exists because in some cases temporary...

ISC INN 2.x Command-Line Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (1)

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2620/info The innfeed utility, part of ISC InterNetNews, has an exploitable buffer overflow in its command-line parser. Specifically, innfeed will overflow if an overly long -c option is passed to it. A local attacker in...

RedHat 6.1/6.2/7.0/7.1 - Man Cache File Creation Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2815/info A vulnerability exists in the 'man' system manual pager program. It is possible for local users to cause man to cache files in the system cache directory from outside of the configured manual page hierarchy sear...

IM-Switch Insecure Temporary File Handling Symbolic Link Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10717/info IM-Switch Insecure Temporary File Handling Symbolic Link VulnerabilityIt is reported that im-switch is prone to a local insecure temporary file handling symbolic link vulnerability. This issue is due to a desig...

Apache suEXEC Privilege Elevation / Information Disclosure

No description provided by source. Apache suEXEC privilege elevation / information disclosure Discovered by Kingcope/Aug 2013 The suEXEC feature provides Apache users the ability to run CGI and SSI programs under user IDs different from the user ID of the calling web server. Normally, when a CGI ...

IBM U2 UniVerse 10.0 .0.9 uvrestore Buffer Overflow vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/8206/info It has been reported that the uvrestore binary does not perform bounds checking when parsing command-line arguments. Because this binary is installed with suid root privileges by default, local attackers my be...

MS Windows 2000/NT 4/XP Window Message Subsystem Design Error Vulnerability (3)

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5408/info A serious design error in the Win32 API has been reported. The issue is related to the inter-window message passing system. This vulnerability is wide-ranging and likely affects almost every Win32 window-based...

Tarantella Enterprise 3 Symbolic Link Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4115/info Tarantella Enterprise 3 contains a locally exploitable symbolic link vulnerability during it's installation procedure. This vulnerability can be exploited to elevate privileges. An attacker anticipating the...

Juergen Weigert screen 3.9 User Supplied Format String Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1641/info Various format string vulnerabilities exist in versions 3.9.5 and prior of 'screen' that may allow local users to elevate their privileges. If screen is setuid root, it is possible to alter the contents of the...

QPopper 4.0.x PopAuth Trace File Shell Command Execution Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3710/info Qpopper is a freely available, open source Post Office Protocol server. It is maintained and distributed by Qualcomm. When popauth is executed with the trace option, it does not correctly handle user-supplied...

Linux Kernel <= 2.4.29-rc2 uselib() Privilege Elevation

No description provided by source. / binfmtelf uselib VMA insert race vulnerability v1.08 gcc -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer elflbl.c -o elflbl Copyright c 2004 iSEC Security Research. All Rights Reserved. THIS PROGRAM IS FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY IT IS PROVIDED AS IS AND WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY...

Microsoft SQL 2000/7.0 Agent Jobs Privilege Elevation Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5483/info Microsoft SQL Server 2000 uses an Agent which is responsible for restarting the SQL Server service, replication, and running scheduled jobs. Some of the jobs that the Agent executes have weak permissions, which...

Microsoft Windows 2000 / NT 4.0 Process Handle Local Privilege Elevation Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4287/info A vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 2000 and NT 4 could allow a user to gain SYSTEM-level privileges on the local host. The debugging subsystem, which is available to all users, may be used to create duplicate...

HP Tru64 NLSPATH Environment Variable Local Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (1)

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5647/info Tru64 is a commercially available UNIX operating system. Tru64 was originally developed by Digital and is now distributed and maintained by HP. A buffer overflow has been discovered in a number of Tru64 binaries...

MS Windows 2000/NT 4/XP Window Message Subsystem Design Error Vulnerability (5)

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5408/info A serious design error in the Win32 API has been reported. The issue is related to the inter-window message passing system. This vulnerability is wide-ranging and likely affects almost every Win32 window-based...

KDE 1.1.2 KApplication configfile vulnerability (3)

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1291/info The KDE configuration-file management has a bug which could result in root compromise. Due to insecure creation of configuration rc files via KApplication-class, local users can modify ownership of arbitrary fil...

ISC INN 2.x Command-Line Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (2)

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2620/info The innfeed utility, part of ISC InterNetNews, has an exploitable buffer overflow in its command-line parser. Specifically, innfeed will overflow if an overly long -c option is passed to it. A local attacker in...

[SE-2014-01] Security vulnerabilities in Oracle Database Java VM

Hello All, Security Explorations discovered multiple security issues in the implementation of a Java VM embedded in Oracle Database software 1. Discovered security issues violate many "Secure Coding Guidelines for the Java Programming Language" 2. Most of them demonstrate a well known problem...

Microsoft Group Policy Preferences Privilege Elevation Vulnerability (2962486)

This host is missing an important security update according to Microsoft Bulletin MS14-025. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbms14-025.nasl 6692 2017-07-12 09:57:43Z teissa $ Microsoft Group Policy Preferences Privilege Elevation Vulnerability 2962486 Authors: Veerendra GG Copyright: Copyright C...

Microsoft .NET Framework Privilege Elevation Vulnerability (2958732)

This host is missing an important security update according to Microsoft Bulletin MS14-026. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbms14-026.nasl 5365 2017-02-20 13:46:09Z cfi $ Microsoft .NET Framework Privilege Elevation Vulnerability 2958732 Authors: Antu Sanadi Copyright: Copyright C 2014 Greenbone...