scponly -- local privilege escalation exploits

Max Vozeler reports: If ALL the following conditions are true, administrators using scponly-4.1 or older may be at risk of a local privilege escalation exploit: the chrooted setuid scponlyc binary is installed regular non-scponly users have interactive shell access to the box a user executable...

Low: Red Hat Security Advisory: perl security update

Updated Perl packages that fix security issues and contain several bug fixes are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. This update has been rated as having low security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Perl is a high-level programming language commonly used for system...

Linux Kernel 2.4 - SUID 'execve()' System Call Race Condition Executable File Read

/ source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/8042/info A race condition vulnerability has been discovered in the Linux execve system call, affecting the 2.4 kernel tree. The problem lies in the atomicity of placing a target executables file descriptor within the current process descriptor and...

QNX RTOS 4.25 - 'CRTTrap' File Disclosure

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4901/info The QNX RTOS crttrap binary includes a command-line option for specifying a configuration file. crttrap is installed setuid by default. crttrap Local attackers may specify an arbitrary system file in place of the configuration file and crttrap...

More Sonata Conferencing software vulnerabilities.

Vulnerability Report 2 For Voyant Technologies Sonata Conferencing product. Larry W. Cashdollar Vapid Labs Date Published: 12/18/2000 Advisory ID: 12182000-02 CVE CAN: None currently assigned. Title: Sonata doroot command vulnerability. Class: Design Error Remotely Exploitable: no Locally...

S.u.S.E Linux 4.x/5.x/6.x/7.0 / Slackware 3.x/4.0 / Turbolinux 6 / OpenLinux 7.0 - 'fdmount' Local Buffer Overflow (3)

// source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1239/info A buffer overflow exists in the 0.8 version of the fdmount program, distributed with a number of popular versions of Linux. By supplying a large, well crafted buffer containing machine executable code in place of the mount point, it is possib...

xsoldier (FreeBSD 3.3Linux Mandrake 7.0) - Local Buffer Overflow (2)

xsoldier FreeBSD 3.3Linux Mandrake 7.0 - Local Buffer Overflow 2 / source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/871/info Certain versions of FreeBSD 3.3 Confirmed and Linux Mandrake confirmed ship with a vulnerable binary in their X11 games package. The binary/game in question, xsoldier, is a setuid...

xsoldier (FreeBSD 3.3Linux Mandrake 7.0) - Local Buffer Overflow (1)

xsoldier FreeBSD 3.3Linux Mandrake 7.0 - Local Buffer Overflow 1 // source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/871/info Certain versions of FreeBSD 3.3 Confirmed and Linux Mandrake confirmed ship with a vulnerable binary in their X11 games package. The binary/game in question, xsoldier, is a setui...

AT Computing atsar_linux 1.4 - File Manipulation

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1048/info atsar is a linux load monitoring software package released under the GPL by AT Computing. atsadc is a setuid root binary that is included in the atsar package. atsadc is setuid because it obtains informatin via /dev/kmem. atsadc will accept as a...

Great Circle Associates Majordomo 1.94.4 - Local resend

Great Circle Associates Majordomo 1.94.4 - Local resend source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/902/info It is possible to execute arbitrary commands with elevated privileges through exploiting the majordomo binary, "resend". A setuid root wrapper program calls resend after setuiding and...