mkpasswd: acutally its worse than just not many passwords

due to a fault in expect the interpreter that runs the mkpasswd script it is trivially easy to cause arbitrary commands to be executed by someone else. under RH7.0 anyway the search path for libs for it includes /var/tmp/ check out http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/showbug.cgi?id=28224 for...

Microsoft Windows NT 4.02000 - DLL Search Path

Microsoft Windows NT 4.02000 - DLL Search Path source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1699/info When a program executes under Microsoft Windows, it may require additional code stored in DLL library files. These files are dynamically located at run time, and loaded if necessary. A weakness exis...

Microsoft Windows NT 4.0/2000 - DLL Search Path

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1699/info When a program executes under Microsoft Windows, it may require additional code stored in DLL library files. These files are dynamically located at run time, and loaded if necessary. A weakness exists in the algorithm used to locate these files...

CVE-1999-1232

Untrusted search path vulnerability in day5datacopier in SGI IRIX 6.2 allows local users to execute arbitrary commands via a modified PATH environment variable that points to a malicious cp program...