Caldera kdenetwork 1.1.1-1 / Caldera OpenLinux 1.3/2.2 / KDE KDE 1.1/1.1. / RedHat Linux 6.0 - K-Mail File Creation

// source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/300/info KMail is a mail user agent that comes with the kdenetwork package, part of the K Desktop Environment. A vulnerability in the way KMail creates temporary files to save attachments may allow malicious users to overwrite any file that user runnin...

X11R6 3.3.3 - Symlink

X11R6 3.3.3 - Symlink // source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/326/info There is a symlink vulnerability known to exist under most modern linux and NetBSD distributions. It involves /tmp/.X11-unix and the tendency to follow to/overwrite the file pointed to if a symlink. It may be possible for...

X11R6 3.3.3 - Symlink

// source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/326/info There is a symlink vulnerability known to exist under most modern linux and NetBSD distributions. It involves /tmp/.X11-unix and the tendency to follow to/overwrite the file pointed to if a symlink. It may be possible for a regular user to wri...

Debian 2.0 - Super Syslog Buffer Overflow

Debian 2.0 - Super Syslog Buffer Overflow // source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/342/info // // After the first super buffer overflow vulnerability was discovered, another appeared shortly after. This vulnerability exists when the syslog option is enabled. The overflow is in the file error....

Debian 2.0 - Super Syslog Buffer Overflow

// source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/342/info // // After the first super buffer overflow vulnerability was discovered, another appeared shortly after. This vulnerability exists when the syslog option is enabled. The overflow is in the file error.c, in the Error function where the...

CVE-1999-0363

SuSE 5.2 PLP lpc program has a buffer overflow that leads to root compromise...

Sun Solaris 7.0 - 'ff.core' Local Privilege Escalation

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/327/info There is a vulnerability in Solaris's ff.core utility which allows normal users to execute the rename command as root. This particular bug when leveraged against a series of other configuration issues in a standard Solaris setup can lead to a roo...

Sun Solaris 7.0 - ff.core Local Privilege Escalation

Sun Solaris 7.0 - ff.core Local Privilege Escalation source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/327/info There is a vulnerability in Solaris's ff.core utility which allows normal users to execute the rename command as root. This particular bug when leveraged against a series of other configuration...

Solaris 2.5.1 - 'kcms' Local Buffer Overflow (2)

/ source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/452/info There is an unchecked sprintf call in the versions of /usr/openwin/bin/kcmsconfigure shipped with solaris 2.5, 2.5.1 and 2.6. Unfortunately, kcmsconfigure is installed setuid root, making it possible for an attacker to overflow the buffer and...

IRIX 6.26.3 - binlpstat Local Buffer Overflow

IRIX 6.26.3 - binlpstat Local Buffer Overflow / source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1529/info Certain versions of IRIX ship with a version of lpstat which is vulnerable to a buffer overflow attack. The program, lpstat, is used to check the status of the printer being used by the IRIX machin...

IRIX 6.2/6.3 - '/bin/lpstat' Local Buffer Overflow

/ source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1529/info Certain versions of IRIX ship with a version of lpstat which is vulnerable to a buffer overflow attack. The program, lpstat, is used to check the status of the printer being used by the IRIX machine. The problem is in the command line parsing...

HP-UX 10.x11.x - Aserver PATH

HP-UX 10.x11.x - Aserver PATH source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1929/info Aserver is a server program that ships with HP-UX versions 10.x and above that is used to interface client applications with the audio hardware. Because it talks to hardware, it is installed setuid root by default...

[SECURITY] Seyon is vulnerable to a root exploit

Description ----------- We have received a report from SGI that a vulnerability has been discovered in the seyon program. This can lead to a root compromise. Any user who can execute the seyon program can exploit this vulnerability. Since SGI does not provide exploit information, we are unable to...

[SECURITY] New versions of cfingerd fixes root compromise

We have received a report that a user can execute arbitrary commands from a .plan or .project file. While the option that would allow this is disabled by default the system is vulnerable if the system admin had this option enabled. We recommend you upgrade your cfingerd package immediately. dpkg ...

[SECURITY] New versions of cfingerd fixes root compromise

We have received a report that a user can execute arbitrary commands from a .plan or .project file. While the option that would allow this is disabled by default the system is vulnerable if the system admin had this option enabled. We recommend you upgrade your cfingerd package immediately. dpkg ...

CVE-1999-1039

Vulnerability in 1 diskalign and 2 diskperf in IRIX 6.4 patches 2291 and 2848 allow a local user to create root-owned files leading to a root compromise...

Armidale Software Yapp Conferencing System 2.2 - Local Buffer Overflow

// source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/365/info Armidale Software's Yapp Conferencing System is vulnerable to an environment variable related buffer overflow vulnerability in at least the Linux version. The consequence of the vulnerability being exploited is a local root compromise. / Explo...

Armidale Software Yapp Conferencing System 2.2 - Local Buffer Overflow

Armidale Software Yapp Conferencing System 2.2 - Local Buffer Overflow // source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/365/info Armidale Software's Yapp Conferencing System is vulnerable to an environment variable related buffer overflow vulnerability in at least the Linux version. The consequence o...

SGI IRIX 6.4 - 'xfsdump' Local Privilege Escalation

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/472/info The xfsdump program shipped with Irix 5.x and 6.x from SGI contains a vulnerability which could lead to root compromise. By creating a log file in /usr/tmp called bck.log, a user could create a symbolic link from this file to any file they wish t...

SGI IRIX 6.4 - xfsdump Local Privilege Escalation

SGI IRIX 6.4 - xfsdump Local Privilege Escalation source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/472/info The xfsdump program shipped with Irix 5.x and 6.x from SGI contains a vulnerability which could lead to root compromise. By creating a log file in /usr/tmp called bck.log, a user could create a...