FreeBSD 3.3,Linux Mandrake 7.0 'xsoldier' Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (1)

No description provided by source. source: http://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 root binary meant to be run via ...

AFD 1.2.x Working Directory Local Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5626/info AFD Automatic File Distributor is prone to a number of locally exploitable stack and heap based buffer overflow conditions. These issues are all related to insufficient bounds checking of externally supplied...

HP-UX 10/11 NLSPATH Environment Variable Format String Vulnerability (2)

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/8985/info HP-UX allows the NLSPATH to be set for setuid root programs, which use catopen3C and may be executed by other local users. This could result in privilege escalation as an attacker could specify an arbitrary path...

HP-UX 9.x/10.x/11.x cu Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1886/info cu is a unix utility that is used for communication between two hosts usually over phone lines. It is typically isntalled setuid root so that it can access communications hardware when executed by a regular user...

Linuxconf 1.1.x/1.2.x Local Environment Variable Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (1)

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5585/info Linuxconf is a Linux configuration utility from Solucorp. It is typically installed as a setuid root utility for the management and configuration of Linux operating systems. A buffer overflow vulnerability has...

Linuxconf 1.1.x/1.2.x Local Environment Variable Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (3)

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5585/info Linuxconf is a Linux configuration utility from Solucorp. It is typically installed as a setuid root utility for the management and configuration of Linux operating systems. A buffer overflow vulnerability has...

ISDN4Linux 3.1 IPPPD Device String SysLog Format String Vulnerability (1)

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5437/info isdn4linux is a freely available, open source package of isdn compatibility tools. It is available for Linux operating systems. isdn4linux contains a format string vulnerability in the ipppd utility. In some...

SCO Open Server 5.0.5 X Library Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (1)

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/638/info A buffer overflow vulnerability in the shared X library may allows local users to obtain higher privileges. Any setuid applications linked against the library are possibly vulnerable. The vulnerability is in the...

SGI Performance Co-Pilot 2.1.x/2.2 pmpost Symbolic Link Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2887/info Performance Co-Pilot PCP is a set of services to support system-level performance monitoring developed by SGI. It has traditionally been an IRIX product, however SGI has made it open source and it is now availab...

BSDI BSD/OS <= 2.1,FreeBSD <= 2.1,IBM AIX <= 4.2,SGI IRIX <= 6.4,Sun SunOS <= 4.1.3

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/129/info Rdist is a program to maintain identical copies of files over multiple hosts. It preserves the owner, group, mode, and mtime of files if possible and can update programs that are executing. Rdist reads commands...

KDE 1.1.2 KApplication configfile vulnerability (2)

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

QNX RTOS 4.25/6.1 phgrafx-startup Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4916/info The QNX phgrafx-startup utility is prone to an issue which may make it possible for local attackers to escalate privileges. This issue is due to unsafe use of the system function to invoke other programs. This...

QNX RTOS 4.25 monitor Arbitrary File Modification Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4902/info The QNX RTOS monitor utility is prone to an issue which may allow local attackers to modify arbitrary system files such as /etc/passwd. monitor is installed setuid root by default. The monitor -f command line...

QNX RTOS 6.2 Application Packager Non-Explicit Path Execution Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6146/info A vulnerability has been discovered in an application packager shipped with QNX RTOS. It should be noted that the vulnerable packager is installed setuid root by default. It has been reported that the packager...

openSUSE Security Update : glibc (openSUSE-SU-2010:0912-1)

This update of glibc fixes two bugs and security issues : CVE-2010-3847: Decoding of the $ORIGIN special value in various LD environment variables allowed local attackers to execute code in context of e.g. setuid root programs, elevating privileges. This issue does not affect SUSE as an assertion...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : libcap-ng (MDVSA-2014:117)

Updated libcap-ng packages fix security vulnerability : capnglock in libcap-ng before 0.7.4 sets securebits in an attempt to prevent regaining capabilities using setuid-root programs. This allows a user to run setuid programs, such as seunshare from policycoreutils, as uid 0 but without...

FreeBSD : libXfont -- X Font Service Protocol and Font metadata file handling issues (b060ee50-daba-11e3-99f2-bcaec565249c)

Alan Coopersmith reports : Ilja van Sprundel, a security researcher with IOActive, has discovered several issues in the way the libXfont library handles the responses it receives from xfs servers, and has worked with X.Org's security team to analyze, confirm, and fix these issues. Most of these...

libXfont -- X Font Service Protocol and Font metadata file handling issues

Alan Coopersmith reports: Ilja van Sprundel, a security researcher with IOActive, has discovered several issues in the way the libXfont library handles the responses it receives from xfs servers, and has worked with X.Org's security team to analyze, confirm, and fix these issues. Most of these...

QNX 6.x phgrafx File Enumeration

QNX 6.x phgrafx file enumeration vulnerability by cenobyte 2013 - vulnerability description: QNX setuid root /usr/photon/bin/phgrafx allows any non-root user to enumerate files and directories due to opendir messages. - vulnerable platforms: QNX 6.5.0SP1 QNX 6.5.0 QNX 6.4.1 QNX 6.3.0 QNX 6.2.0 -...

QNX 6.4.x6.5.x pppoectl - Information Disclosure

QNX 6.4.x6.5.x pppoectl - Information Disclosure QNX 6.4.x/6.5.x pppoectl disclose /etc/shadow by cenobyte 2013 - vulnerability description: QNX setuid root /sbin/pppoectl allows any user to gain access to privileged information such as the root password hash. The vulnerability exists because of ...