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Samba NETBIOS Name Traversal Arbitrary Remote File Creation
The remote Samba server, according to its version number, allows creation of arbitrary remote files. This vulnerability allows an attacker to overwrite arbitrary files by supplying an arbitrarily formed NetBIOS machine name to this server, and to potentially become root on the remote server. An...
Sun Solaris catman creates temporary files insecurely
Overview catman, the unix manual display utility, creates insecure temporary files with predictable names in a world-writable directory. Since catman executes with system administration privileges, a symbolic link attack could overwrite arbitrary files. Description There is a vulnerability in...
CVE-2001-0474: Undefined Security Weakness
Utah-glx in Mesa before 3.3-14 on Mandrake Linux 7.2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/glxmemory file...
Samba creates temporary files insecurely
Overview Samba handles temporary files insecurely, allowing arbitrary files to be overwritten and left in a state that would permit later modification. Description Samba is an implementation of the Server Message Block SMB protocol. Some versions of samba handle temporary files in an insecure...
CVE-1999-1210: Undefined Security Weakness
xterm in Digital UNIX 4.0B with patch kit 5 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a core dump file, which is created when xterm is called with a DISPLAY environmental variable set to a display that xterm cannot access...
CVE-1999-1388: Undefined Security Weakness
passwd in SunOS 4.1.x allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack and the -F command line argument...
CVE-1999-1426: Undefined Security Weakness
Solaris Solstice AdminSuite AdminSuite 2.1 follows symbolic links when updating an NIS database, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files...
CVE-1999-1517: Undefined Security Weakness
runtar in the Amanda backup system used in various UNIX operating systems executes tar with root privileges, which allows a user to overwrite or read arbitrary files by providing the target files to runtar...
CVE-1999-1299: Undefined Security Weakness
rcp on various Linux systems including Red Hat 4.0 allows a "nobody" user or other user with UID of 65535 to overwrite arbitrary files, since 65535 is interpreted as -1 by chown and other system calls, which causes the calls to fail to modify the ownership of the file...
Sambar Server pagecount CGI Traversal Arbitrary File Overwrite
By default, there is a pagecount script with Sambar Web Server located at http://sambarserver/session/pagecount This counter writes its temporary files in c:\sambardirectory\tmp. It allows to overwrite any files on the filesystem since the 'page' parameter is not checked against '../../' attacks...
CVE-2001-0605
Headlight Software MyGetright prior to 1.0b allows a remote attacker to upload and/or overwrite arbitrary files via a malicious .dld skins-data file which contains long strings of random data...
CVE-2001-1268
Directory traversal vulnerability in Info-ZIP UnZip 5.42 and earlier allows attackers to overwrite arbitrary files during archive extraction via a .. dot dot in an extracted filename...
CVE-2001-1277
makewhatis in the man package before 1.5i2 allows an attacker in group man to overwrite arbitrary files via a man page whose name contains shell metacharacters...
CVE-2001-0417: Undefined Security Weakness
Kerberos 4 aka krb4 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on new ticket files...
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'...
ARCservIT 6.61/6.63 Client - inetd.tmp Arbitrary File Overwrite
source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2748/info ARCservIT from Computer Associates contains a vulnerability which may allow malicious local users to corrupt arbitrary files. When it runs with the parameters 'inet add', 'asagent', opens and overwrites it if it exists a file in /tmp called...
ARCservIT 6.616.63 Client - asagent.tmp Arbitrary File Overwrite
ARCservIT 6.616.63 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 an...
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...