upgrade.sendmail.8x.txt

Seems to me there's something really bad about software vendors. First of all, if author of program finds bug in it - even when this bug seems to be nasty - very often, he'll silently fix it, even without mentioning it in CHANGES blessed those who put there text like 'some security fixes', at lea...

CA-99-13: minimal fix for Slackware 3.5 through 4.0

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CVE-1999-0340

Buffer overflow in Linux Slackware crond program allows local users to gain root access...

CVE-1999-0340

Summary (CVE-1999-0340): A buffer overflow in the Linux Slackware crond program allows local users to gain root access . The published data identifies the attack as local with low complexity and no authentication required, and it results in full compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and avail...

CVE-1999-0340: Undefined Security Weakness

Buffer overflow in Linux Slackware crond program allows local users to gain root access...

cron_root_patch.txt

Subject: Vixie Cron version 3.0pl1 vulnerable to root exploit To: [email protected] Vixie Cron version 3.0pl1 vulne.ems Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii PGP Signature Status: unknown Signer: Unknown, Key ID xAE8F7CF5 Signed: 8/28/99 11:42:41 PM Verified: 9/22/99 1:44:11 AM BEGIN...

VMWare_exploit.txt

Subject: Re: VMWare Advisory.. - exploit To: [email protected] / VMware v1.0.1 root sploit funkySh 02/07/99 1. Redhat 5.2 2.2.9 offset 800-1100 2. offset 1600-2200 1. Slackware 3.6 2.2.9 offset 0 2. offset ? 1 - started from xterm on localhost 2 - started from telnet, with valid display /...

slackdb.txt

Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 09:22:40 +0200 From: Martin Bene Subject: Berkley DB problem in slackware distribution Hi! I recently ran into a potential problem with berkley db 1.85 as distributed with all versions of slackware linux: fixed in slackware 3.5 as of 07.14.98 libdb.so.1.85.4 defines snprint...

rxvt.sh

There is a major security hole in rxvt, a terminal emulator for X, when it is run on systems suid root, as is required on many configurations in order to write to the utmp file. It is obvious from the code that this program was not written to be run suid root, its a pity that sysadmins that insta...

SuSE Linux 6.2 Slackware Linux 3.23.6 - identd Denial of Service

SuSE Linux 6.2 Slackware Linux 3.23.6 - identd Denial of Service // source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/587/info In the inetd.conf under certain distributions of SuSE Linux the in.identd daemon is started with the -w -t120 option. This means that one identd process waits 120 seconds after...

SuSE Linux 6.2 / Slackware Linux 3.2/3.6 - 'identd' Denial of Service

// source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/587/info In the inetd.conf under certain distributions of SuSE Linux the in.identd daemon is started with the -w -t120 option. This means that one identd process waits 120 seconds after answering the first request to answer the next request. If a...

mailx 8.1.1-10 (BSDSlackware) - Local Buffer Overflow (2)

mailx 8.1.1-10 BSDSlackware - Local Buffer Overflow 2 / source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1305/info Some Linux distributions ship with BSD mailx 8.1.1-10 On Slackware 7.x it can be found as /usr/bin/Mail. A vulnerability exists in the 'mail' program, part of the Berkeley mailx package. Th...

CVE-1999-0421

During a reboot after an installation of Linux Slackware 3.6, a remote attacker can obtain root access by logging in to the root account without a password...

RedHat Linux 5.05.15.2 Slackware Linux 3.5 - klogd Local Buffer Overflow (2)

RedHat Linux 5.05.15.2 Slackware Linux 3.5 - klogd Local Buffer Overflow 2 // source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/398/info It is possible to cause a denial of service remote and local through generating old, obscure kernel messages not terminated with \n in klogd. The problem exists because...

RedHat Linux 5.0/5.1/5.2 / Slackware Linux 3.5 - 'klogd' Local Buffer Overflow (1)

// source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/398/info It is possible to cause a denial of service remote and local through generating old, obscure kernel messages not terminated with \n in klogd. The problem exists because of a buffer overflow in the klogd handling of kernel messages. It is...

RedHat Linux 5.0/5.1/5.2 / Slackware Linux 3.5 - 'klogd' Local Buffer Overflow (2)

// source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/398/info It is possible to cause a denial of service remote and local through generating old, obscure kernel messages not terminated with \n in klogd. The problem exists because of a buffer overflow in the klogd handling of kernel messages. It is...

RedHat Linux 5.05.15.2 Slackware Linux 3.5 - klogd Local Buffer Overflow (1)

RedHat Linux 5.05.15.2 Slackware Linux 3.5 - klogd Local Buffer Overflow 1 // source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/398/info It is possible to cause a denial of service remote and local through generating old, obscure kernel messages not terminated with \n in klogd. The problem exists because...

CVE-1999-1422

The default configuration of Slackware 3.4, and possibly other versions, includes . dot, the current directory in the PATH environmental variable, which could allow local users to create Trojan horse programs that are inadvertently executed by other users...

CVE-1999-1434

login in Slackware Linux 3.2 through 3.5 does not properly check for an error when the /etc/group file is missing, which prevents it from dropping privileges, causing it to assign root privileges to any local user who logs on to the server...

Slackware Linux 3.5 - '/etc/group' Local Privilege Escalation

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/155/info Due to the way /bin/login behaves when a /etc/group file is not present under Slackware's version of the password shadowing suite, users who log in while this file is not present will be given uid and gid 0. This will allow them unrestricted acce...