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helvis -- information leak vulnerabilities
Once a recovery file has been preserved by the setuid root elvprsv utility it is placed in a worldreadable directory with worldreadable permissions. This possibly allows sensitive information to leak. In addition to this information leak, it is possible for users to recover files that belong to...
Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : gdm (MDKSA-2003:085)
Several vulnerabilities were discovered in versions of gdm prior to 2.4.1.6. The first vulnerability is that any user can read any text file on the system due to code originally written to be run as the user logging in was in fact being run as the root user. This code is what allows the examinati...
susegnome.txt
Author: l0om Date: 12.01.2004 page: www.excluded.org SuSE 9.0 - YaST script SuSEconfig.gnome-filesystem There is a symlink problem in the SuSEconfig.gnome-filesystem scribt. a normal user can creat and overwrite every file on the system. This script gets executed after a configuration change by t...
CVE-2003-0937
SCO UnixWare 7.1.1, 7.1.3, and Open UNIX 8.0.0 allows local users to bypass protections for the "as" address space file for a process ID PID by obtaining a procfs file descriptor for the file and calling execve on a setuid or setgid program, which leaves the descriptor open to the user...
CVE-2003-0448
Portmon 1.7 and possibly earlier versions allows local users to read and write arbitrary files via the 1 -c host file or 2 -l log file command line options...
Matlab /tmp usage
INTRODUCTION MATLAB is "The Language of Technical Computing" http://www.mathworks.com/ PROBLEM As installed on UNIX machines, matlab uses shell scripts to launch; these scripts use files in /tmp in an unsafe way. DETAILS The matlab script uses /tmp/$$a and may clobber it, allowing an attacker to...
Серьезная дырка в ncurses
Классическое переполнение буфера при обработке пользовательского файла .terminfo...
CVE-1999-1227
CVE-1999-1227 concerns Ethereal and a local symlink-attack that allows overwriting arbitrary files via the packet capture file. Documentation consistently states the flaw is a local-privilege issue due to a symlink race, enabling complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact for af...
[Real Security] Advisory for Nudester 1.10
------------------------- Real Security Advisory 1 Author: Cyph3r www.Real-Security.org Date: 08/16/2001 ------------------------- Vulnerable: Nudester 1.10and below? OS: Win9x/me/2k/nt/xp Site: www.nudester.org ------------------------- - Severity: Malicious users can gain full access to the use...
Дырка в tnef
При извлечении данных из MS-TNEF-файлов не проверяется наличие служебных символов в имени файла, что позволяет переписать любой файл, принадлежащий пользователю...
SmartFTP Daemon v0.2 Beta Build 9 - Remote Exploit
I found a bug in the SmartFTP-D Server which will give an attacker full access to the server, if he has the right to write files on the server. For every user, the program is checking if a special Userfile exists Sample: Username=hacker & Userfile=hacker.FTPUser. If it exists, the configuration,...
CVE-2000-0210
CVE-2000-0210 affects the lit program in Sun Flex License Manager (FlexLM). The vulnerability arises because lit follows symbolic links, allowing a local user to modify arbitrary files on the host. Root cause: improper handling of symlinks in the lit utility. Impact described in sources is local ...
svga.textmode.1.8.txt
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 19:14:50 +0300 From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: svgatextmode hello, I sent on bugtraq the bug with savetextmode. I thought that it belonged to SVGATextMode, but it is included in svgalib. So the threat is bigger... Please update your page...