Solaris 7/8 - ximp40 Library Buffer Overflow

// source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2322/info Solaris is a variant of the UNIX Operating System, maintained and distributed by Sun Microsystems. It is freely available, with source code available. A problem in the ximp40 library packaged with Openwin could allow a user to gain elevated...

glibc 2.2 local vulnerability on setuid binaries

glibc-2.2 contains a local vulnerability that affects all setuid root binaries. Any user on affected systems will be able to read any file on the system through a simple process: The user sets the RESOLVHOSTCONF environment variable to the name of the file that they wish to read, then runs any...

Fixed local AIX V43 vulnerabilities

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Just for the record, here are some local AIX vulnerabilities we have found, and which have been fixed by IBM this year. If you have been applying fixes, there should be no problem with these anymore. But it might be interesting to know what some of those massive...

dump 0.4b15 (RedHat 6.2) - Local Privilege Escalation

dump 0.4b15 RedHat 6.2 - Local Privilege Escalation / dump-0.4b15x.c dump-0.4b15 exploit: Redhat 6.2 dump command executes external program with suid priviledge. affected: /sbin/dump /sbin/dump.static /sbin/restore /sbin/restore.static Bug found by [email protected] This example was coded by...

[SECURITY] New Debian xmcd packages released

Package: xmcd Vulnerability: untrustworthy privileged binaries Debian-specific: yes Vulnerable: yes The Debian GNU/Linux xmcd package has historically installed two setuid helpers for accessing cddb databases and SCSI cdrom drives. More recently, the package offered the administrator the chance t...

[SECURITY] New Debian xmcd packages released

---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Daniel Jacobowitz November 21, 2000 - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package: xmcd Vulnerability:...

FreeBSD-SA-00:60.boa

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-00:60 Security Advisory FreeBSD, Inc. Topic: boa web server allows arbitrary file access/execution Category: ports Module: boa Announced: 2000-10-30 Credits: Lluis Mora...

Multiple Security Holes in LPPlus

LPPlus is Plus Technologies' print management system for unix. It contains several serious security holes, some of which undermine the integrity of the printing subsystem, some of which threaten the security of the system on which the product is installed. Details ------- Hole 1: Of the 74 binari...

New Tool: initd_.sh;

/ Attachment did not send... resending sorry for the bulk / Heyas ; I wrote this tool in the last couple of days to see if I could actually implement a program that would automatically attack local binaries and attempt to find exploits in respect to buffer overflows via command line switches...

Multisoft FlagShip 4.4 - Installation Permission

Multisoft FlagShip 4.4 - Installation Permission source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1586/info A vulnerability exists in the installation of Multisoft's FlagShip 4.4 product. Some binaries are installed with world writable permissions. This may allow an attacker to alter a binary and cause...

Multisoft FlagShip 4.4 - Installation Permission

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1586/info A vulnerability exists in the installation of Multisoft's FlagShip 4.4 product. Some binaries are installed with world writable permissions. This may allow an attacker to alter a binary and cause other users to execute arbitrary code. The files:...

Advisory: mailman local compromise

Author : Stan Bubrouski Date : August 1, 2000 Package : mailman Versions affected : 2.0beta3 released: 2000-Jun-28 23:25 2.0beta4 released: 2000-Jul-06 21:27 Severity : access to group mailman binaries are installed as which usually mailman. Most directories in a mailman install are mode 2755 as...

Mandrake 7.07.1 RedHat Kon2 0.3.9 - usrbinfld Input File Overflow

Mandrake 7.07.1 RedHat Kon2 0.3.9 - usrbinfld Input File Overflow / source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1371/info KON Kanji On Console is a package for displaying Kanji text under Linux and comes with two suid binaries which are vulnerable to buffer overflows. "fld", one of the vulnerable...

userv security boundary tool 1.0.1 (SECURITY FIX)

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- SUMMARY This is a combination security advisory and release announcement. GNU userv 1.0.0 and earlier versions have a vulnerability where under some conditions some local users may be able carry out unauthorised actions, or unlikely be able to take control of...

Nortel Networks Optivity NETarchitect 2.0 - PATH

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/907/info NETarchitect is an application for simplifying the task of designing and deploying complex switched network system configurations, produced by Nortel Networks and usually shipped with the Optivity Network Configuration System suite of utilities. ...

SunOS 4.1.1 - usrreleasebinmakeinstall Local Privilege Escalation

SunOS 4.1.1 - usrreleasebinmakeinstall Local Privilege Escalation source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21/info This applies to sites that have installed Sun Source tapes only. The Sun distribution of sources sunsrc has an installation procedure which creates the directory /usr/release/bin an...

SunOS 4.1.1 - '/usr/release/bin/winstall' Local Privilege Escalation

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22/info This applies to sites that have installed Sun Source tapes only. The Sun distribution of sources sunsrc has an installation procedure which creates the directory /usr/release/bin and installs two setuid root files in it: makeinstall and winstall...

Mandriva Linux Mandrake 6.0 Gnome Libs 1.0.8 - espeaker Local Buffer Overflow

Mandriva Linux Mandrake 6.0 Gnome Libs 1.0.8 - espeaker Local Buffer Overflow source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/663/info A buffer overflow vulnerabilityin GNOME's shared libraries handling of the 'espeaker' command line argument may allow local users to attack setuid binaries linked again...

Mandriva Linux Mandrake 6.0 / Gnome Libs 1.0.8 - 'espeaker' Local Buffer Overflow

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/663/info A buffer overflow vulnerabilityin GNOME's shared libraries handling of the 'espeaker' command line argument may allow local users to attack setuid binaries linked against these libraries to obtain root access. Calling a program linked against GNO...

backhoe.article

backhoe article, by miff 1. what is it? backhoe is a backdoor daemon that copies a rootshell into /tmp periodically, then deletes it. You set the frequency that you want rootshells to appear, and you set the amount of time that they will persist before backhoe deletes them. This gives the user wh...