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 6.2/6.3 - '/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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

BSDOS 2.13.0 Larry Wall Perl 5.0 03 RedHat 4.04.1 SGI Freeware 1.02.0 SUIDPerl - Local Overflow (2)

BSDOS 2.13.0 Larry Wall Perl 5.0 03 RedHat 4.04.1 SGI Freeware 1.02.0 SUIDPerl - Local Overflow 2 source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/708/info Several buffer overflows were found in the Perl helper application 'suidperl' or 'sperl'. When this program is installed setuid root the overflows m...

BSD/OS 2.1/3.0 / Larry Wall Perl 5.0 03 / RedHat 4.0/4.1 / SGI Freeware 1.0/2.0 SUIDPerl - Local Overflow (1)

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/708/info Several buffer overflows were found in the Perl helper application 'suidperl' or 'sperl'. When this program is installed setuid root the overflows may lead to a local root compromise. !/usr/bin/perl yes, this suidperl exploit is in perl, isn't it...

BSD/OS 2.1/3.0 / Larry Wall Perl 5.0 03 / RedHat 4.0/4.1 / SGI Freeware 1.0/2.0 SUIDPerl - Local Overflow (2)

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/708/info Several buffer overflows were found in the Perl helper application 'suidperl' or 'sperl'. When this program is installed setuid root the overflows may lead to a local root compromise...

Slackware Linux 3.1 - usrX11binSuperProbe Local Buffer Overflow

Slackware Linux 3.1 - usrX11binSuperProbe Local Buffer Overflow / source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/364/info superprobe is an program supplied with XFree86 that helps determine video hardware. It is shipped with Slackware Linux 3.1 and is installed setuid root. There is an exploitable...

RedHat Linux 2.1 - 'abuse.console' Local Privilege Escalation

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/354/info Abuse is a game that is included with RedHat Linux 2.1 in the games package. The console version, abuse.console, is suid-root and will load the program sndrv as root without checking for an absolute pathname. This means that sndrv can be...

SunOS 4.1.4 - arp(8c) Memory Dump

SunOS 4.1.4 - arp8c Memory Dump source: https://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...

SunOS 4.1.4 - arp(8c) Memory Dump

source: https://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 tables. However, in this instance...