IBM AIX 5.x - 'Diag' Local Privilege Escalation

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12041/info diag is reported prone to a local privilege escalation vulnerability. This issue is due to a failure of certain diag applications to properly implement security controls when executing an application specified by the 'DIAGNOSTICS' environment...

CVE-2002-1687

Buffer overflow in the diagnostics library in AIX allows local users to "cause data and instructions to be overwritten" via a long DIAGNOSTICS environment variable...

LBL Traceroute 1.4 a5 - Heap Corruption (2)

// source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1739/info Traceroute is a well-known network diagnostic tool used for analyzing the path on a network between two hosts. On unix systems, traceroute is typically installed setuid root because of its use of raw sockets. Certain versions of LBNL tracerou...

Update for customer experience and diagnostic telemetry (KB3080149)

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Security update for the Diagnostic Hub Standard Collector elevation of privilege vulnerability in Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 (KB4576950)

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Diagnostics Hub Standard Collector improperly handles file and data operations. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could run processes in an elevated context...