CVE-1999-0373: Undefined Security Weakness

Buffer overflow in the "Super" utility in Debian GNU/Linux, and other operating systems, allows local users to execute commands as root...

CVE-1999-0374: Undefined Security Weakness

Debian GNU/Linux cfengine package is susceptible to a symlink attack...

[SECURITY] New version of amd fixes remove exploit

------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Security Advisory [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Wichert Akkerman September 24, 1999 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The version of amd that was...

LPRng.txt

Subject: Security problem with LPRng To: [email protected] Hi all, During some recent work I've been doing with LPRng, I found that is is possible on a default LPRng installation to control the print queues on the LPRng server. Most default installations allow the root user at the localhost to...

Debian GNU/Linux 2.1r3 fixes reported security problems

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[SECURITY] New versions of cron fixes possible root exploit

Debian Security Advisory [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze August 30, 1999 Red Hat has recently released a Security Advisory RHSA-1999:030-01 covering a reverse denial of service bug in the vixie cron package. As user you could restart sendmail even if the host...

[SECURITY] New versions of cron fixes possible root exploit

---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze August 30, 1999 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Red Hat has recently released a...

[SECURITY] New versions of epic4 fixes possible DoS vulnerability

Debian Security Advisory [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze August 26, 1999 We have received a report from the author of epic4 covering a denial of service vulnerability. All versions of epic4 between version pre1.034 including and version pre2.004-19990718 excludi...

[SECURITY] New versions of epic4 fixes possible DoS vulnerability

--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze August 26, 1999 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- We have received a report from the...

RedHat Linux 4.25.26.0 S.u.S.E Linux 6.06.1 - Cron Buffer Overflow (2)

RedHat Linux 4.25.26.0 S.u.S.E Linux 6.06.1 - Cron Buffer Overflow 2 // source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/602/info The version of Vixie cron that ships with RedHat versions 4.2, 5.2 and 6.0 is vulnerable to a local buffer overflow attack. By utilizing the MAILTO environment variable, a...

[SECURITY] New versions of trn fixes /tmp race

All former versions of trn used a hardcoded filename in /tmp as temporary storage. If the file already exists as symbolic link to users files they will be overwritten. We recommend you upgrade your man2html package as soon as possible. wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will...

[SECURITY] New versions of man2html fixes postinst glitch

Former versions of man2html uses a static file in /tmp for writing. This can lead into overwriting system files if a malicious user has created a symbolic link to it before upgrading man2html. We recommend you upgrade your man2html package as soon as possible. wget url will fetch the file for you...

[SECURITY] New versions of smtp-refuser fixes security hole

This bug was experienced in May 1999 but wasnt reported on this channel yet. Former versions of the smtp-refuser package came with unchecked logging facility to /tmp/log. This allowed deleting arbitrary, root-owned files by any user who has write access to /tmp. We recommend you upgrade your...

[SECURITY] New versions of man2html fixes postinst glitch

Former versions of man2html uses a static file in /tmp for writing. This can lead into overwriting system files if a malicious user has created a symbolic link to it before upgrading man2html. We recommend you upgrade your man2html package as soon as possible. wget url will fetch the file for you...

[SECURITY] New versions of trn fixes /tmp race

All former versions of trn used a hardcoded filename in /tmp as temporary storage. If the file already exists as symbolic link to users files they will be overwritten. We recommend you upgrade your man2html package as soon as possible. wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will...

[SECURITY] New versions of termcap-compat fixes buffer overflow

We have received a report that former versions of libtermcap contained an exploitable buffer overflow. Debian itself is not exploitable by this bug since termcap was abandoned in favour of terminfo long ago. However, if you have compiled your own programs using termcap or have installed third par...

[SECURITY] New versions of rsync fixes security hole

This is an old report from May 1999 but it wasnt reported on this channel yet. The author of rsync, Andrew Tridgell, has reported that former versions of rsync contained a security-related bug. I you were transferring an empty directory into a non-existent directory on a remote host, permissions ...

[SECURITY] New versions of termcap-compat fixes buffer overflow

We have received a report that former versions of libtermcap contained an exploitable buffer overflow. Debian itself is not exploitable by this bug since termcap was abandoned in favour of terminfo long ago. However, if you have compiled your own programs using termcap or have installed third par...