WindowsNT DNS Server Character Saturation DoS

We could make the remote DNS server crash by flooding it with characters. It is likely a WindowsNT DNS server. Crashing the DNS server could allow an attacker to make your network non-functional, or even to use some DNS spoofing techniques to gain privileges on the network. C Tenable Network...

CVE-1999-1559

Xylan OmniSwitch before 3.2.6 allows remote attackers to bypass the login prompt via a CTRL-D control d character, which locks other users out of the switch because it only supports one session at a time...

textcounter.pl 1.2 - Arbitrary Command Execution

textcounter.pl 1.2 - Arbitrary Command Execution source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2265/info textcounter.pl is distributed through Matt's Scripts archive, and provides added features to httpd servers such as counters, guestbooks, and http cookie management. Due to insufficient checking of...

AZL-7358 CVE-1999-0163 affecting package sendmail 8.15.2-46

In older versions of Sendmail, an attacker could use a pipe character to execute root commands...

PT-1997-1070 · Sendmail · Sendmail

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Sendmail versions prior to the fixed version Description: The issue allows an attacker to execute root commands using a pipe character. Recommendations: For versions prior to the fixed version, update to the fixed version to resolve the issue...

PT-1996-1035 · Gnu · Bash

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Bash affected versions not specified Description: The issue concerns how Bash handles characters with a value of 255, treating them as command separators. Recommendations: At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that...

FreeBSD-SA-96:02.apache

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-96:02 Security Advisory FreeBSD, Inc. Topic: apache httpd meta-character escaping Category: port Module: apache Announced: 1996-04-22 Affects: FreeBSD 2.0.5 and 2.1.0...

Chargen Probe Utility

Chargen is a debugging and measurement tool and a character generator service. A character generator service simply sends data without regard to the input. Chargen is susceptible to spoofing the source of transmissions as well as use in a reflection attack vector. The misuse of the testing featur...