IBM Network Station Manager 2.0 R1 Race Condition Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/900/info IBM's Network Station Manager is a client/server application which facilitates management for IBM Network Stations. It is possible to locally gain root priviliges on hosts running the NetStation daemon. NetStatio...

Hylafax Hylafax 4.0.2 - Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/765/info Hylafax is a popular fax server software package designed to run on multiple UNIX operating systems. Some versions of Hylafax ship with a vulnerable sub program 'faxalter'. This program is installed SUID UUCP and...

soapbox <= 0.3.1 - Local Root Exploit

No description provided by source. ----------------------------------- soapbox 0.3.1 = Local Root Exploit ----------------------------------- Vendor URI: http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/soapbox/ Credit: Jean Pascal Pereira [email protected] Description: Soapbox allows to restrict processes to wri...

X11R6 3.3.3 Symlink Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://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...

OpenSSH 3.x Challenge-Response Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities (2)

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5093/info The OpenSSH team has reported two vulnerabilities in OpenSSH that are remotely exploitable and may allow for unauthenticated attackers to obtain root privileges. The conditions are related to the OpenSSH SSH2...

Debian Linux 2.0 Super Syslog Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://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...

ProFTPD 1.2 pre6 snprintf Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/650/info Lack of user input validation in ProFTPD can lead to a remote root vulnerability. On systems that support it ProFTPD will attempt to modify the name of the program being executed argv0 to display the command bein...

SunOS <= 4.1.4 arp(8c) Memory Dump Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/291/info The version of arp8c which shipped with versions of SunOs 4.1.X could be used to dump system memory by using the -f flag. This flag causes the file filename to be read and multiple entries to be set in the ARP...

Itetris 1.6.1/1.6.2 Privileged Arbitrary Command Execution Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2139/info Itetris, or Intelligent Tetris, is a clone of the popular Tetris puzzle game for linux systems. The svgalib version of Itetris is installed setuid root so that it may access video hardware when run by a regular...

Solaris 7.0 kcms_configure

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/831/info The binary kcmsconfigure, part of the Kodak Color Management System package shipped with OpenWindows and ultimately, Solaris is vulnerable to a local buffer overflow. The buffer which the contents of the...

Caldera OpenUnix 8.0/UnixWare 7.1.1,HP HP-UX <= 11.0,Solaris <= 7.0,SunOS <= 4.1.4 rpc.cmsd Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (1)

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/524/info There is a remotely exploitable buffer overflow vulnerability in rpc.cmsd which ships with Sun's Solaris and HP-UX versions 10.20, 10.30 and 11.0 operating systems. The consequence is a remote root compromise. /...

Sun Solaris <= 7.0 ff.core Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://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 levereged against a series of other configuration issues in a standa...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : sysklogd (MDKSA-2000:050-1)

A problem exists with the kernel logging daemon klogd in the sysklogd package. A 'format bug' makes klogd vulnerable to local root compromise, as well as the possibility for remote vulnerabilities under certain circumstances, which are unprobable. There is also a more probable semi-remote exploit...

Trend Micro IWSS 3.1 - Local Privilege Escalation

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/50380/info Trendmicro IWSS is prone to a local privilege-escalation vulnerability. Local attackers can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code with root privileges and completely compromise the affected computer. Trendmicro IWSS 3.1 is vulnerable;...

FreeBSD : ChiTeX/ChiLaTeX unsafe set-user-id root (49ad1bf8-5d7e-11d8-80e3-0020ed76ef5a)

Niels Heinen reports that ChiTeX installs set-user-id root executables that invoked system3 without setting up the environment, trivially allowing local root compromise. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from...

Accellion File Transfer Appliance Multiple Vulnerabilities

R7-0039: Accellion File Transfer Appliance Multiple Vulnerabilities February 7, 2011 -- Vulnerability Details: The Accellion File Transfer Appliance, prior to version FTA80562, suffers from a number of security flaws that can lead to a remote root compromise. 1. Message Routing Daemon Default...

DISA SRR Root Compromise

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Executive Summary - ----------------- Unprivileged local users can obtain root access on Unix systems where the DISA SRR scripts are run. If a remote user can introduce a file into the filesystem e.g. anonymous ftp, http upload, cdrom, samba share,...

FreeBSD : ProFTPD ASCII translation bug resulting in remote root compromise (cf0fb426-3f96-11d8-b096-0020ed76ef5a)

A buffer overflow exists in the ProFTPD code that handles translation of newline characters during ASCII-mode file uploads. An attacker may exploit this buffer overflow by uploading a specially crafted file, resulting in code execution and ultimately a remote root compromise. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 ...

Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200904-18 (udev)

The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory GLSA 200904-18. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2009 E-Soft Inc. Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only OR GPL-3.0-only...

Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200312-08 (cvs)

The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory GLSA 200312-08. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $ Description: Auto generated from Gentoo's XML based advisory Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2008 E-Soft Inc. http://www.securityspace.com Text descriptions are largely excerpted fr...