Multiple BSD Distributions 'gdtoa/misc.c' Memory Corruption Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35510/info Multiple BSD distributions are prone to a memory-corruption vulnerability because the software fails to properly bounds-check data used as an array index. Attackers may exploit this issue to execute arbitrary...

CVE-2006-6165

CVE-2006-6165 concerns ld.so in FreeBSD and NetBSD (and possibly other BSDs) that does not remove certain harmful environment variables before loading processes, enabling local privilege escalation by manipulating environment variables. The impact is described as local confidentiality, integrity,...

Rogue 5.3 - Local Buffer Overflow

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5837/info Rogue is a game included with BSD distributions including FreeBSD and NetBSD. By passing an overly long value when restoring a saved game, it is possible for an attacker to corrupt memory. Exploitation of this issue could result in privilege...

FreeBSD 4.x / NetBSD 1.4.x/1.5.x/1.6 / OpenBSD 3 - pppd Arbitrary File Permission Modification Race Condition

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5355/info A vulnerability has been reported in some versions of the pppd daemon included with multiple BSD distributions. A race condition error in the code may result in the pppd process changing the file permissions on an arbitrary system file. pppd wil...