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LPRng/rhs-printfilters - remote execution of commands
posted to vendor security ppl, no reply, no patch, so posting here. --begin forwarded message-- RedHat 7.0 possibly others If the lpd is listening on 0.0.0.0 and no access controls are in place, it is possible to execute commands as the lp user, assuming tetex-dvips is installed. From man dvips...
CVE-2000-1221
The line printer daemon lpd in the lpr package in multiple Linux operating systems authenticates by comparing the reverse-resolved hostname of the local machine to the hostname of the print server as returned by gethostname, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access controls by...
CVE-2000-1221
The line printer daemon lpd in the lpr package in multiple Linux operating systems authenticates by comparing the reverse-resolved hostname of the local machine to the hostname of the print server as returned by gethostname, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access controls by...
unixware.pkg.txt
Greetings, OVERVIEW Any user may read any file on the system. BACKGROUND Only UnixWare 7.1 has been tested. DETAILS As previously stated, UnixWare binaries gain additional privileges via standard suid/sgid AND /etc/security/tcb/privs. The majority of the UnixWare "pkg" command, such as pkginfo,...
SCO Unixware 7.1 - 'pkg' Local Privilege Escalation
source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/850/info Certain versions of SCO's Unixware only version 7.1 was tested ship with a series of package install/removal utilities which due to design issues under the SCO UnixWare operating system may read any file on the system regardless of their permissi...
Web Server robots.txt Information Disclosure
The remote host contains a file named 'robots.txt' that is intended to prevent web 'robots' from visiting certain directories in a website for maintenance or indexing purposes. A malicious user may also be able to use the contents of this file to learn of sensitive documents or directories on the...
squid -- possible abuse of cachemgr.cgi
The squid patches page notes: This patch adds access controls to the cachemgr.cgi script, preventing it from being abused to reach other servers than allowed in a local configuration file...
NTMail3 Arbitrary Mail Relay
Nessus has detected that the remote SMTP server allows anyone to use it as a mail relay provided that the source address is set to ''. This issue allows any spammer to use your mail server to send their mail to the world, thus flooding your network bandwidth and possibly getting your mail server...
Sun Solaris 2.5.1 - rpc.statd rpc Call Relaying
// source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/450/info The rpc service rpc.statd, shipped with all major versions of Sun's solaris, is the status monitoring service for NFS file locking. The vulnerability lies in rpc.statd's ability to relay rpc calls to other rpc services without being validated ...
Microsoft Site Server Commerce Edition 3.0 alpha - AdSamples Sensitive Information
source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/256/info A vulnerability in Microsoft Site Server's Ad Server Sample directory allows the retrieval of a site's configuration file SITE.CSC which contains sensitive information pertaining to an SQL database. The AdSamples directory is a part of the Ad...
