Gert Doering mgetty 1.1.19/1.1.20/1.1.21/1.22.8 - Symbolic Link Traversal

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1612/info A vulnerability exists in a portion of the mgetty package, by Gert Doering. By exploiting a flaw in the faxrunq and faxrunqd programs, it is possible for local users to create arbitrary files, and alter arbitrary files on the filesystem. This in...

FreeBSD-SA-00:35.proftpd

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-00:35 Security Advisory FreeBSD, Inc. Topic: proftpd port contains remote root compromise Category: ports Module: proftpd Announced: 2000-08-14 Credits: lamagra Affects:...

eTrust Access Control - Root compromise for default install

eTrust Access Control formerly SeOS default installation vulnerable to root level compromise In working with eTrust Access ControlSeOS we found that the default installation can be compromised in order to gain root access to the machines. The attacker is required to be on the same network as the...

FreeBSD-SA-00:29.wu-ftpd

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-00:29 Security Advisory FreeBSD, Inc. Topic: wu-ftpd port contains remote root compromise REVISED Category: ports Module: wu-ftpd Announced: 2000-07-05 Revised: 2000-07-11...

Netscape Professional Services FTP Server (LDAP Aware) 1.3.6 - FTP Server

Netscape Professional Services FTP Server LDAP Aware 1.3.6 - FTP Server source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1411/info Certain versions of the LDAP-aware Netscape Professional Services FTP Server distributed with Enterprise Web Server have a serious vulnerability which may lead to a remote o...

Netscape Professional Services FTP Server (LDAP Aware) 1.3.6 - FTP Server

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1411/info Certain versions of the LDAP-aware Netscape Professional Services FTP Server distributed with Enterprise Web Server have a serious vulnerability which may lead to a remote or local root compromise. The vulnerability in essence is a failure of of...

[TL-Security-Announce] Linux Kernel TLSA2000013-1

TurboLinux Security Announcement Package: kernel-2.2.15 and earlier Date: Monday June 19 17:45 PDT 2000 Affected TurboLinux versions: 6.0.5 and earlier Vulnerability Type: local root compromise TurboLinux Advisory ID: TLSA2000013-1 BugTraq ID: 1322 Credits: This vulnerability was discovered by...

kill_sntsd.pl

I noticed an uncommon scanf overflow in the Simple Network Time Sync daemon and client version 1.0, tested on Redhat 6.1. I haven't looked into this fully yet, but it looks as tho it could be root comprimising as it sits on a priveledged udp port and seems to coredump, but looks like it only give...

Vulnerability in SNTS

I noticed an uncommon scanf overflow in the Simple Network Time Sync daemon and client version 1.0, tested on Redhat 6.1. I haven't looked into this fully yet, but it looks as tho it could be root comprimising as it sits on a priveledged udp port and seems to coredump, but looks like it only give...

KDE 1.1.2 KApplication configfile - Local Privilege Escalation (1)

KDE 1.1.2 KApplication configfile - Local Privilege Escalation 1 source: https://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...

KDE 1.1.2 KApplication configfile - Local Privilege Escalation (3)

KDE 1.1.2 KApplication configfile - Local Privilege Escalation 3 source: https://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...

KDE 1.1.2 KApplication configfile - Local Privilege Escalation (2)

KDE 1.1.2 KApplication configfile - Local Privilege Escalation 2 source: https://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...

KDE 1.1.2 KApplication configfile - Local Privilege Escalation (3)

source: https://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 files when running setuid root...

KDE 1.1.2 KApplication configfile - Local Privilege Escalation (2)

source: https://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 files when running setuid root...

RedHat Linux 6.x - X Font Server Buffer Overflow (Denial of Service)

RedHat Linux 6.x - X Font Server Buffer Overflow Denial of Service // source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1111/info A denial of service exists in the X11 font server shipped with RedHat Linux 6.x. Due to improper input validation, it is possible for any user to crash the X fontserver. This...

FreeBSD-SA-00:12.healthd

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-00:12 Security Advisory FreeBSD, Inc. Topic: healthd allows a local root compromise Category: ports Module: healthd Announced: 2000-04-10 Credits: Discovered during FreeBSD...

Local root compromise in GNQS 3.50.6 and 3.50.7

A large security hole was uncovered last month in Generic-NQS ver. 3.50.6 and 3.50.7. This hole leads to immediate local root compromise. All users of those versions are requested to upgrade to ver. 3.50.8 or later ASAP. The updated package can be downloaded from...

FreeBSD-SA-00:10.orville-write

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-00:10 Security Advisory FreeBSD, Inc. Topic: orville-write port contains local root compromise. Category: ports Module: orville-write Announced: 2000-03-15 Affects: Ports...

FreeBSD-SA-00:02.procfs

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-00:01 Security Advisory FreeBSD, Inc. Topic: Old procfs hole incompletely filled Category: core Module: make Announced: 2000-01-24 Affects: All versions before the correctio...

Corel Linux OS 1.0 - get_it PATH

Corel Linux OS 1.0 - getit PATH source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/928/info A component of the "Corel Update" utility distributed with Corel's Linux OS is vulnerable to a local PATH vulnerability. The binary "getit", which is stored in /usr/X11R6/bin, is setuid root installed by default on...