Security Advisory: FreeBSD-SA-00:16.golddig

============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-00:16 Security Advisory FreeBSD, Inc. Topic: golddig port allows users to overwrite local files Category: ports Module: golddig Announced: 2000-05-09 Credits: Discovered during internal ports collection...

Potential security problem with mtr

Hi. One of my users asked me to install mtr, most adequately described as a GUI:ed combination of traceroute and ping. I thought it looked cool, and had a closer look. In this mail follows a warning about a potential security problem with this program if installed as suggested. No exploit has bee...

minor issue with IBM HTTPD and /usr/bin/ikeyman

Summary: /usr/bin/ikeyman is a shell script installed with setuid root permissions by the IBMHSSSB package on Solaris. The script does not seem to work very well in a Solaris 2.6 environment because of dynamic linker issues; if they are resolved, however, an unprivileged user may then be able to...

Halloween Linux 4.0 SuSE Linux 6.06.16.26.3 - kreatecd Local Privilege Escalation

Halloween Linux 4.0 SuSE Linux 6.06.16.26.3 - kreatecd Local Privilege Escalation source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1061/info A vulnerability exists in the kreatecd program for Linux. This program is a graphical front end to the cdrecord program, and is installed setuid root. This program...

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...

Halloween Linux 4.0 RedHat Linux 6.16.2 - imwheel (2)

Halloween Linux 4.0 RedHat Linux 6.16.2 - imwheel 2 // source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1060/info A vulnerability exists in the 'imwheel' package for Linux. This package is known to be vulnerable to a buffer overrun in its handling of the HOME environment variable. By supplying a...

Sam Hawker wmcdplay 1.0 beta1-2 - Local Buffer Overflow (2)

Sam Hawker wmcdplay 1.0 beta1-2 - Local Buffer Overflow 2 source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1047/info wmcdplay is cdplayer generally used with the WindowMaker X11 window-manager on unix systems. While wmcdplay is rarely installed at all by default, when it is installed it is typically set...

Sam Hawker wmcdplay 1.0 beta1-2 - Local Buffer Overflow (2)

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1047/info wmcdplay is cdplayer generally used with the WindowMaker X11 window-manager on unix systems. While wmcdplay is rarely installed at all by default, when it is installed it is typically set setuid root. wmcdplay is vulnerable to a buffer overflow...

Halloween Linux 4.0 / RedHat Linux 6.1/6.2 - 'imwheel' (1)

// source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1060/info A vulnerability exists in the 'imwheel' package for Linux. This package is known to be vulnerable to a buffer overrun in its handling of the HOME environment variable. By supplying a sufficiently long string containing machine executable code...

AT Computing atsar_linux 1.4 - File Manipulation

AT Computing atsarlinux 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...

Majordomo 1.94.4/1.94.5 - Local -C Parameter (1)

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/903/info It is possible for a local user to gain majordomo privileges through a vulnerability which allows privileged arbitrary commands to be executed. If the -C parameter is passed to majordomo or one of several other scripts when run with the setuid ro...

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 setgiding to lowered but still elevated privileges which it ru...

SunOS 4.1.1 - usrreleasebinwinstall Local Privilege Escalation

SunOS 4.1.1 - usrreleasebinwinstall Local Privilege Escalation source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22/info This applies to sites that have installed Sun Source tapes only. The Sun distribution of sources sunsrc has an installation procedure which creates the directory /usr/release/bin and...

dtsession_vuln.txt

Subject: Vulnerability in dtsession To: [email protected] Hello, I discovered the following security problem in dtsession actually in libtt.so, part of CDE: Description ----------- The session manager dtsession contains an overflow vulnerability when parsing the environment variable...

Martin Stover Mars NWE 0.99 - Local Buffer Overflow

Martin Stover Mars NWE 0.99 - Local Buffer Overflow // source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/617/info There are several buffer overflows in the setuid root components of the Mars Netware Emulator package. They allow for a local root compromise through the overflowing of buffers without bounds...

RedHat Linux 4.2/5.2/6.0 / S.u.S.E Linux 6.0/6.1 - Cron Buffer Overflow (2)

// source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/602/info The version of Vixie cron that ships with RedHat versions 4.2, 5.2 and 6.0 is vulnerable to a local buffer overflow attack. By utilizing the MAILTO environment variable, a buffer can be overflown in the cronpopen function, allowing an attacker...

digital.unix.bofs.txt

Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 14:18:18 -0800 From: Lamont Granquist To: [email protected] Subject: More Buffer Overflows in Digital Unix 1. No return-into-libc exploit for Digital Unix I didn't understand the return-into-libc method really prior to my previous BUGTRAQ post. Since then, I understand i...

Oracle 8 8.1.5 - Intelligent Agent (1)

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/585/info A vulnerability in the Oracle Intelligent Agent allows local malicious users to execute arbitrary commands and to create world writable files as the root user. The problem lies in the dbsnmp program located in $ORACLEHOME/bin . This setuid root a...

[SECURITY] new version isdnutils fixes exploitable xmonisdn

We have received reports that the version of xmonisdn as distributed in the isndutils package from Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 has a security problem. Xmonisdn is an X applet that shows the status of the ISDN links. You can configure it to run two scripts when the left or right mouse button are clicked ...

VMware 1.0.1 - Local Buffer Overflow

VMware 1.0.1 - Local Buffer Overflow // source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/490/info VMWare is virtual machine software produced by VMWare inc. VMWare version 1.0.1 for Linux is vulnerable to a buffer overflow attack. Since VMWare is installed with binaries that are setuid root, local users...