iDEFENSE Security Advisory 11.08.02b: Non-Explicit Path Vulnerability in QNX Neutrino RTOS

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 iDEFENSE Security Advisory 11.08.02b: http://www.idefense.com/advisory/11.08.02b.txt Non-Explicit Path Vulnerability in QNX Neutrino RTOS November 8, 2002 I. BACKGROUND QNX Software Systems Ltd.'s Neutrino RTOS QNX is a real-time operating system...

QNX timer DoS

If user mode apllicatation creates a number of timer system hangs...

QNX 6.1 TimeCreate weakness

I've found bug in QNX-6.1 timer implementation. After creating some number at least 2 of timers with 1 ms tick system hangs. Please consider attached source code. Code can be executed by unprivilegged users. Pawel Pisarczyk ------------------------ IMMOS - IMMOrtal Systems...

QNX RTOS 6.2 - Application Packager Non-Explicit Path Execution

QNX RTOS 6.2 - Application Packager Non-Explicit Path Execution source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6146/info A vulnerability has been discovered in an application packager shipped with QNX RTOS. It should be noted that the vulnerable packager is installed setuid root by default. It has bee...

QNX RTOS 6.2 - Application Packager Non-Explicit Path Execution

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6146/info A vulnerability has been discovered in an application packager shipped with QNX RTOS. It should be noted that the vulnerable packager is installed setuid root by default. It has been reported that the packager fails to use absolute paths to...

QNX 6.1 - TimeCreate Local Denial of Service

QNX 6.1 - TimeCreate Local Denial of Service // source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6114/info A denial of service vulnerability has been discovered in QNX. It has been reported that it is possible for unprivileged users to cause QNX systems to stop responding, by creating multiple timers...

QNX 6.1 - 'TimeCreate' Local Denial of Service

// source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6114/info A denial of service vulnerability has been discovered in QNX. It has been reported that it is possible for unprivileged users to cause QNX systems to stop responding, by creating multiple timers containing specific characteristics. It should ...

Multiple buffer overflow vulnerabilities in QNX

Overview Multiple buffer overflow vulnerabilities have been reported in QnX. Description QnX is an RTOS Realtime Operating System. QnX is used in many different devices and industries, including, but not limited to, Routers Manufacturing and Processing Medical Equipment Automotive and...

CVE-2002-0793

Hard link and possibly symbolic link following vulnerabilities in QNX RTOS 4.25 aka QNX4 allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via 1 the -f argument to the monitor utility, 2 the -d argument to dumper, 3 the -c argument to crttrap, or 4 using the Watcom sample utility...

CVE-2002-0793

CVE-2002-0793 affects QNX RTOS 4.25 (QNX4). Hard link and possibly symbolic link following allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via specific arguments: monitor -f, dumper -d, crttrap -c, or the Watcom sample utility. Vulnerability is local with LOW attack complexity and partial confiden...

CVE-2002-0793

Hard link and possibly symbolic link following vulnerabilities in QNX RTOS 4.25 aka QNX4 allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via 1 the -f argument to the monitor utility, 2 the -d argument to dumper, 3 the -c argument to crttrap, or 4 using the Watcom sample utility...

Multiple bugs in QNX

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QNX

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QNX RTOS 6.1 - usrphotonbinphlocale Environment Variable Buffer Overflow

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QNX RTOS 4.25/6.1 - 'phgrafx-startup' Local Privilege Escalation

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4916/info The QNX phgrafx-startup utility is prone to an issue which may make it possible for local attackers to escalate privileges. This issue is due to unsafe use of the system function to invoke other programs. This vulnerability may be trivially...

QNX RTOS 4.25/6.1 - su Password Hash Disclosure

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4914/info It has been reported that the 'su' utility for QNX RTOS accepts the SIGSEGV signal and dumps a world readable core file. An attacker is able to analyze the core file and obtain very sensitive information. It is very probable that this is a...

QNX RTOS 6.1 - 'PKG-Installer' Local Buffer Overflow

/ source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4918/info It has been reported that the pkg-installer utility for QNX is vulnerable to a buffer overflow condition. The vulnerability is a result of an unbounded string copy of the argument to the "-U" commandline option of pkg-installer to a local...

QNX 6.x - ptrace() Arbitrary Process Modification

QNX 6.x - ptrace Arbitrary Process Modification source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4919/info The QNX implementation of 'ptrace' is reportedly insecure. An unprivileged process may attach to a setuid program without restriction. Since the attaching process may view or edit memory, an attack...

QNX RTOS 6.1 - '/usr/photon/bin/phlocale' Environment Variable Buffer Overflow

/ source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4917/info The QNX phlocale utility is prone to an exploitable buffer overflow condition. This is due to insufficient bounds checking of the ABLANG environment variable. Exploitation of this issue may result in execution of arbitrary attacker-supplied...

QNX 6.x - 'ptrace()' Arbitrary Process Modification

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4919/info The QNX implementation of 'ptrace' is reportedly insecure. An unprivileged process may attach to a setuid program without restriction. Since the attaching process may view or edit memory, an attacker may exploit this issue to escalate privileges...