CVE-1999-1048

CVE-1999-1048 affects Bash versions including 2.0.0 and 1.4.17, where a buffer overflow can be triggered by an extremely large directory name. The vulnerability is exploited via the PS1 prompt (\w) when another user changes into that directory, enabling local privilege escalation. The provided do...

CVE-1999-1048

Buffer overflow in bash 2.0.0, 1.4.17, and other versions allows local attackers to gain privileges by creating an extremely large directory name, which is inserted into the password prompt via the \w option in the PS1 environmental variable when another user changes into that directory...

CVE-1999-1383

1 bash before 1.14.7, and 2 tcsh 6.05 allow local users to gain privileges via directory names that contain shell metacharacters back-tick, which can cause the commands enclosed in the directory name to be executed when the shell expands filenames using the \w option in the PS1 variable...

CVE-1999-1383

CVE-1999-1383 affects bash (before 1.14.7) and tcsh (6.05). The vulnerability arises when a directory name contains shell metacharacters (back-tick) that are expanded during filename expansion for the PS1 variable, allowing local users to gain privileges. Affects local privilege escalation via di...

Symlinks symlinks...this time KTVision

Hi ppl, the subject already states the problem: there is a symlink follow problem in the in many distributions suid root ktvision binary = 0.1.1-271. It is discouraging that nowadays such trivial symlink attacks are still possible. No comment anymore. In order to be complete: a bash script...

FreeBSD-SA-01:03.bash1

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-01:03 Security Advisory FreeBSD, Inc. Topic: bash1 creates insecure temporary files Category: ports Module: bash1 Announced: 2001-01-15 Affects: Ports collection prior to th...

RedHat 6.1/6.2 - TTY Flood Users

!/bin/bash by teleh0r TTYDIR=/dev/pts NONSENSE=/bin/nice MYTTY=tty To prevent flooding of one's own TTY while /bin/true ; do for i in $TTYDIR/ ; do if -w $i -a -c $i -a $i != $MYTTY ; then cat $NONSENSE $i fi done done unset i milw0rm.com 2001-01-02...

/bin/ksh creates insecure tmp files

Recently I reported that, similarly to the recently discussed tcsh vulnerability, the Bourne shell /bin/sh creates temporary files in an insecure way: http://www.securityfocus.com/templates/archive.pike?list=1&[email protected] At the time I also tested the Korn...

UUCP - File Creation/Overwriting Symlinks

/ root exploit: multiple subsystem errors allowing root exploit bashack.c - Thu Nov 30 21:50:50 NZDT 2000 redhat 6.1 /etc/rc.d/ and scripts that are trusting the untrustworthy. /bin/sh acts silly when u get it to use the include define FNAME "/usr/man/man1/last.1.gz;export PATH=.;cd ..;cd ..;cd...

UUCP Exploit - file creation/overwriting (symlinks)

Exploit for linux platform in category local exploits =================================================== UUCP Exploit - file creation/overwriting symlinks =================================================== / root exploit: multiple subsystem errors allowing root exploit bashack.c - Thu Nov 30...

[ADV/EXP]: RH6.x root from bash /tmp vuln + MORE

Advisory: its been fixed, check some previous messages. bash1 /tmp vulns Also: uucp exploit - file creation/overwriting symlinks kinda exploit for man/makewhatis Requires: 1 local access to run the program 2 a crash or reboot to happened 3 /etc/cron.weekly/makewhatis.cron to be executed by cron 4...

Дырка в bash (temp files)

При многострочном вводе пользователя создается временный файл без проверки символьных линков...

Security Update: bash creates insecure temp files

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Caldera Systems, Inc. Security Advisory Subject: bash creates insecure temp files Advisory number: CSSA-2000-042.0 Issue date: 2000 November, 24 Cross reference: 1. Problem Description Bash creates temp files for here scripts insecurely. This can be...

Re: possible bug in rcp...

On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 09:11:20AM +1100, Andrew Griffiths wrote: Here is a possible bug in rcp; since I think it calls system. I haven't had much time to play with this, because exama are coming up. It is negated because system calls /bin/cp which with the newer versions of bash, it drops it's...

possible rcp hole...

Here is a possible bug in rcp; since I think it calls system. I haven't had much time to play with this, because exama are coming up. It is negated because system calls /bin/cp which with the newer versions of bash, it drops it's effective credientals... $ ls -alF which rcp -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root...

CVE-1999-0491

CVE-1999-0491 involves a vulnerability in the bash prompt parsing that lets a local user run commands as another user by creating a directory named after the command to execute. Affected component: bash prompt parsing. Root cause: command-name directory expansion during prompt handling enables pr...

CVE-1999-0491

The prompt parsing in bash allows a local user to execute commands as another user by creating a directory with the name of the command to execute...

bugzpladv1_eng.txt

0x15.0x05.Y2K ------------------------------------- BugzPL ADVISORY 1, final version ------------------------------------- Bypassing restricted bash for fun and profit ; I. Introduction bash-2 gives us a possibility to use a shell in restricted mode. This mode can be initiated using several metho...

bash_1.x.txt

Rather dangerous bug is present in output processing after "command substitution" in bash 1.xx. It seems to be NOT present in bash 2.0.x, but I haven't found any bugreport on this vulnerability. I looked for: 'command substitution', 'ff', 'subshell' and '$' CHANGES file, no effects... Seems to be...

CVE-1999-0234

The CVE-1999-0234 issue involves Bash treating any byte with value 0xFF as a command separator, per the CVE record and related entries (Red Hat, CVE list, EUVD, PT-1996-1035). These connected documents confirm the underlying root cause (parsing of 0xFF) but do not specify exact affected Bash vers...