CVE-2000-0864

Race condition in the creation of a Unix domain socket in GNOME esound 0.2.19 and earlier allows a local user to change the permissions of arbitrary files and directories, and gain additional privileges, via a symlink attack...

CVE-1999-0787

The SSH authentication agent follows symlinks via a UNIX domain socket...

GNOME esound 0.2.19 - Unix Domain Socket Race Condition

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1659/info EsounD, part of the GNOME desktop environment, is a server process allowing several applications to share the same sound hardware. Versions of esound up to and including 0.2.19 create a world-writable directory /tmp/.esd which is also used to...

GNOME esound 0.2.19 - Unix Domain Socket Race Condition

GNOME esound 0.2.19 - Unix Domain Socket Race Condition source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1659/info EsounD, part of the GNOME desktop environment, is a server process allowing several applications to share the same sound hardware. Versions of esound up to and including 0.2.19 create a...

CVE-1999-0787

The SSH authentication agent follows symlinks via a UNIX domain socket...

SSH Communications Security SSH 1.2.27 - Authentication Socket File Creation

SSH Communications Security SSH 1.2.27 - Authentication Socket File Creation source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/660/info A vulnerability in SSH's creation of the authentication agent UNIX domain socket allows local users to create a UNIX domain socket with an arbitrary file name in the...

FreeBSD 3.1 Solaris 2.6 - Domain Socket

FreeBSD 3.1 Solaris 2.6 - Domain Socket // source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/456/info Solaris 2.6 and many other unices/clones have a serious problem with their unix domain socket implementation that has it's origins in old BSD code. Any unix socket created by any application is set mode...

CVE-1999-1402

The access permissions for a UNIX domain socket are ignored in Solaris 2.x and SunOS 4.x, and other BSD-based operating systems before 4.4, which could allow local users to connect to the socket and possibly disrupt or control the operations of the program using that socket...