PHP local security issue

New PHP packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, and -current to fix a security issue. These fix a problem in previous Slackware php packages where linking PHP against a static library in an insecure path under /tmp could allow a local attacker to place shared libraries at this locatio...

RealPlayer 9 *nix - Local Privilege Escalation

RealPlayer 9 nix - Local Privilege Escalation / rp9-priv-esc.c A local privilege escalation attack against the community supported version of Real.com's Realplayer, version 9. Written by: Jon Hart warchild spoofed.org By default, configuration files are stored in $USER/.realnetworks/, but all the...

RealOne Player for Linux 2.2 Alpha - Insecure Configuration File Permission Privilege Escalation

// source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/8571/info The configuration files for the RealOne Player are installed in the a hidden folder in a users home directory. The issue presents itself, because configuration files stored in this directory are installed with insecure permissions. This means...

RealPlayer 9 *nix Local Privilege Escalation Exploit

Exploit for linux platform in category local exploits ==================================================== RealPlayer 9 nix Local Privilege Escalation Exploit ==================================================== / rp9-priv-esc.c A local privilege escalation attack against the community supported...

IBM DB2 - Shared Library Injection

IBM DB2 - Shared Library Injection source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/8346/info IBM DB2 ships with a number of shared libraries, stored in a directory owned by the user and group 'bin'. As setuid root utilities are linked to these libraries, their ownership by a user and group of a lower...

Progress Database 9.1 - Environment Variable Privilege Escalation

Progress Database 9.1 - Environment Variable Privilege Escalation // source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7916/info It has been reported that Progress database does not properly handle untrusted input when opening shared libraries. Specifically, the dlopen function used by several Progress...

Progress Database 9.1 - Environment Variable Privilege Escalation

// source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7916/info It has been reported that Progress database does not properly handle untrusted input when opening shared libraries. Specifically, the dlopen function used by several Progress utilities checks the user's PATH environment variable when includin...

Multiple bugs in XFree86

User's directory in search path for shared libraries for suid applications, shared memory acces via MIT-SHM...

Solaris/SPARC 2.7 lpset exploit (well not likely !)

Hi, lpset seems to use strcat to pass the argument for -r flag /usr/lib/print/lib/../../../../tmp/foo and appends .so to the end. in this case /tmp/foo.so is going to be dlopen but there is a special case /usr/lib/print/lib directory has to exist. xploit shell script is attached. $ uname -a SunOS...

SCO Open Server 5.0.5 / IRIX 6.2 ibX11/X11 Toolkit/Athena Widget Library - Local Buffer Overflow

// source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/884/info SCO Openserver and SGI IRIX 6.2 confirmed, possibly others are vulnerable to several buffer overflows in various shared libraries related to the X window system. This means that all programs which link to these libraries could be vulnerable to...