exim -- local privilege escalation

David Woodhouse reports: Secondly a privilege escalation where the trusted 'exim' user is able to tell Exim to use arbitrary config files, in which further $run ... commands will be invoked as root...

Debian DSA-1075-1 : awstats - programming error

Hendrik Weimer discovered that awstats can execute arbitrary commands under the user id the web-server runs when users are allowed to supply arbitrary configuration files. Even though, this bug was referenced in DSA 1058 accidentally, it was not fixed yet. The new default behaviour is not to acce...

Fedora Core 4 : sudo-1.6.8p8-2.2 (2005-473)

Tue Jun 21 2005 Karel Zak 1.6.8p8-2.2 - fix 161116 - CVE-2005-1993 sudo trusted user arbitrary command execution Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it...

[SECURITY] New version of sendmail released

------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Security Advisory [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Wichert Akkerman December 7, 1999 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The version of sendmail that was...