globus -- Multiple tmpfile races

The Globus Alliance reports: The proxy generation tool grid-proxy-init creates the file, secures the file to provide access only to owner and writes proxy to the file. A race condition exists between the opening of the proxy credentials file, and making sure it is safe file to write to. The check...

CVE-2002-1924

CVE-2002-1924 affects PowerChute Plus 5.0.2. The installation creates a directory named “Pwrchute” that is shared and world-writable, allowing remote attackers to modify or create files within that directory. Root cause: insecure directory permissions at install. Impact: potential unauthorized mo...

Responding to BugTraq ID 2014 - "Trend Micro InterScan VirusWall Shared Directory Vulnerability"

Hello, This is to respond to BugTraq ID: 2014, "Trend Micro InterScan VirusWall Shared Directory Vulnerability", posted on SecurityFocus.com on November 28, 2000. Overview: Trend Micro has acknowledged that during installation, by default, InterScan VirusWall for Windows NT creates "Intscan" shar...

Translate:f summary, history and thoughts

Because Microsoft went the way of HIDING the actual mechanism of Translate:f from all of us original KB article is gone and new Security Bulletin is playing nasty game of downplaying the problem, i have decided to write follow up with sufficient information. HOW IT WORKS -------------------------...

win98-con-lan.txt

All versions of Win 95 & 98 in a LAN can be crashed using a modified version of the 'win98-con'-Bug. The target must have at lea st one shared directory read-only access is enough. You just have to execute a 'special' link in a HTML-File on your own machine. This will crash down the victim's...

CVE-1999-1345

AutoFTP.pl script in AutoFTP 0.2 uses the /tmp/ftptmp as a shared directory with insecure permissions, which allows local users to 1 send arbitrary files to the remote server by placing them in the directory, and 2 view files that are being transferred...

Cheyenne Inoculan for Windows NT 4.0 - Share

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106/info It is possible to run arbitrary code on any Intel machine running Cheyenne Inoculan version 4.0 for Windows NT prior to SP2. Inoculan runs as a service, called "Cheyenne InocuLAN Anti-Virus Server". When it starts, it replaces any shared director...

Cheyenne Inoculan for Windows NT 4.0 - Share

Cheyenne Inoculan for Windows NT 4.0 - Share source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106/info It is possible to run arbitrary code on any Intel machine running Cheyenne Inoculan version 4.0 for Windows NT prior to SP2. Inoculan runs as a service, called "Cheyenne InocuLAN Anti-Virus Server". Wh...