ARCservIT 6.61/6.63 Client - asagent.tmp Arbitrary File Overwrite

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2741/info ARCservIT from Computer Associates contains a vulnerability which may allow malicious local users to overwrite arbitrary files. When it runs for the first time, 'asagent', opens and truncates it if it exists a file in /tmp called 'asagent.tmp'...

CVE-2001-0169

When using the LDPRELOAD environmental variable in SUID or SGID applications, glibc does not verify that preloaded libraries in /etc/ld.so.cache are also SUID/SGID, which could allow a local user to overwrite arbitrary files by loading a library from /lib or /usr/lib...

CVE-2001-0120

CVE-2001-0120 relates to the shadow-utils package, specifically the useradd component. The vulnerability arises from insecure temporary file handling: useradd creates temporary files in /etc/default with predictable names. If /etc/default is world-writable, an attacker could perform a symbolic-li...

CVE-2001-0114

statsconfig.pl in OmniHTTPd 2.07 allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via the cgidir parameter...

CVE-2001-0142

squid 2.3 and earlier allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack in some configurations...

CVE-2000-0992

Directory traversal vulnerability in scp in sshd 1.2.xx allows a remote malicious scp server to overwrite arbitrary files via a .. dot dot attack...

CVE-2000-0992

Directory traversal vulnerability in scp in sshd 1.2.xx allows a remote malicious scp server to overwrite arbitrary files via a .. dot dot attack...

STM symlink Vulnerability

Support Tool Manager Symlink Vulnerability From the STM manual page : The Support Tools Manager STM provides three interfaces that allow a user access to an underlying toolset, consisting of information modules, firmware update tools, verifiers, diagnostics, exercisers, expert tools, and utilitie...

CVE-2000-0530

The CVE-2000-0530 entry describes a vulnerability in KDE 1.1.2 where the KApplication-class creates configuration files without proper ownership checks or existence verification. The result is a local privilege-attack risk: a local user can exploit a symlink/ownership flaw to overwrite arbitrary ...

CVE-2000-0530

The KApplication class in the KDE 1.1.2 configuration file management capability allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files...

FreeBSD-SA-00:55.xpdf

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-00:55 Security Advisory FreeBSD, Inc. Topic: xpdf contains multiple vulnerabilities Category: ports Module: xpdf Announced: 2000-10-13 Credits: Unknown Affects: Ports...

scp.hole.txt

This issue appears quite often - tar suffers from problem of this kind as well using cute symlink tricks, you can create an archive, which, when unpacked, can overwrite or create specific files anywhere in your filesystem. This time, similar scp vulnerability has been found and acknowledged in ss...

CVE-2000-0724

The go-gnome Helix GNOME pre-installer allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on various files in /tmp, including uudecode, snarf, and some installer files...

MDKSA-2000:041 - xpdf update

Linux-Mandrake Security Update Advisory Package name: xpdf Date: August 29th, 2000 Advisory ID: MDKSA-2000:041 Affected versions: 6.0, 6.1, 7.0, 7.1 Problem Description: There is a potential race condation when using tmpnam and fopen in xpdf versions prior to 0.91. This exploit can be only used a...

HP-UX 10.20/11.0 - man '/tmp' Symlink

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1302/info The programmers of the 'man' command on various HPUX releases have made several fatal mistakes that allow an attacker to trivially set a trap that could result in any arbitrary file being overwritten on the system when root runs the 'man' comman...

HP HP-UX 10.2011.0 IBM AIX 4.3 SCO Unixware 7.0 Sun Solaris 2.6 - Change File Permission

HP HP-UX 10.2011.0 IBM AIX 4.3 SCO Unixware 7.0 Sun Solaris 2.6 - Change File Permission source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/131/info Due to improper checking of ownership, the dtappgather utility shipped with the Common Desktop Environment allows arbitrary users to overwrite any file prese...

CVE-1999-0049

Csetup under IRIX allows arbitrary file creation or overwriting...