[Full-disclosure] Mac OS X - malloc() local privilege escalation vulnerability.

Suresec Security Advisory - 00007 25/09/2005 Mac OS X - malloc insecure use of environment variable. Advisory: http://www.suresec.org/advisories/adv7.pdf Description: The malloc function on Mac OS X insecurely trusts a debug variable, regardless of the fact that the calling application may be sui...

CVE-2005-2810: Undefined Security Weakness

Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in urban before 1.5.3 allow local users to gain privileges via a long HOME environment variable to 1 config.cc, 2 game.cc, 3 highscor.cc, or 4 meny.cc...

CVE-2004-2372: Undefined Security Weakness

Buffer overflow in Bochs before 2.1.1, if installed setuid, allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a long HOME environment variable, which is used if the .bochsrc, bochsrc, and bochsrc.txt cannot be found in a known path. NOTE: some external documents recommend that Bochs be installed...

x_aix5_bellmail.pl.txt

-bash-2.05b$ -bash-2.05b$ cat xaix5bellmail.pl !/usr/bin/perl FileName: xaix5bellmail.pl Exploit "Race condition vulnerability BUGTRAQ ID: 8805" of /usr/bin/bellmail command on Aix5 to change any file owner to current user. Usage : xaix5bellmail.pl aimfile aimfile : then file wich you want to cho...

CVE-2005-2482: Undefined Security Weakness

The StateToOptions function in msfweb in Metasploit Framework 2.4 and earlier, when running with the -D option defanged mode, allows attackers to modify temporary environment variables before the "Defanged" environment option is checked when processing the Exploit command...

CVE-2002-2099

Buffer overflow in the GNU DataDisplay Debugger DDD 3.3.1 allows local users to execute arbitrary code and possibly gain privileges via a long HOME environment variable. NOTE: since DDD is not installed setuid or setgid, perhaps this issue should not be included in CVE...

CVE-2002-2087

Buffer overflow in Borland InterBase 6.0 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a long INTERBASE environment variable when calling 1 gdsdrop, 2 gdslockmgr, or 3 gdsinetserver...

CVE-2002-2099

Buffer overflow in the GNU DataDisplay Debugger DDD 3.3.1 allows local users to execute arbitrary code and possibly gain privileges via a long HOME environment variable. NOTE: since DDD is not installed setuid or setgid, perhaps this issue should not be included in CVE...

CVE-2002-2099: Undefined Security Weakness

Buffer overflow in the GNU DataDisplay Debugger DDD 3.3.1 allows local users to execute arbitrary code and possibly gain privileges via a long HOME environment variable. NOTE: since DDD is not installed setuid or setgid, perhaps this issue should not be included in CVE...

CVE-2002-2087: Undefined Security Weakness

Buffer overflow in Borland InterBase 6.0 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a long INTERBASE environment variable when calling 1 gdsdrop, 2 gdslockmgr, or 3 gdsinetserver...

Advanced Guestbook User-Agent Header HTML Injection

The remote host is running Advanced Guestbook, a free guestbook written in PHP. The installed version of Advanced Guestbook fails to properly sanitize the 'HTTPUSERAGENT' environment variable before using it in dynamically-generated content. An attacker can exploit this flaw to launch cross-site...

CVE-2004-2264

GNU less versions 358–382 contain a format-string bug in the open_altfile function (filename.c) that may allow local users to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code via the LESSOPEN environment variable. The PT-2004-3159 advisory notes this is not a vulnerability unless priv...

CVE-2004-2264

Format string bug in the openaltfile function in filename.c for GNU less 382, 381, and 358 might allow local users to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code via format strings in the LESSOPEN environment variable. NOTE: since less is not setuid or setgid, then this is not a...

Sun Solaris LD_AUDIT privilege escalation

LDAUDIT environment variable allows to attch external dynamic library compiled with ld.so library. In addition, there is buffer overflow while parsing this variable...

CVE-2002-2017

sastcpd in SAS/Base 8.0 allows local users to execute arbitrary code by setting the authprog environment variable to reference a malicious program, which is then executed by sastcpd...

CVE-2002-2018

CVE-2002-2018 affects SAS/Base 8.0. The affected component is sastcpd; a local user can set the NETENCRALG environment variable, which causes a segmentation fault and may grant privileges. Exploit details and remediation/patch information are not provided in the connected documents.

CVE-2002-2040: Undefined Security Weakness

The 1 phrafx and 2 phgrafx-startup programs in QNX realtime operating system RTOS 4.25 and 6.1.0 do not properly drop privileges before executing the system command, which allows local users to execute arbitrary commands by modifying the PATH environment variable to reference a malicious crttrap...

CVE-2002-2017: Undefined Security Weakness

sastcpd in SAS/Base 8.0 allows local users to execute arbitrary code by setting the authprog environment variable to reference a malicious program, which is then executed by sastcpd...

FreeBSD : portupgrade -- insecure temporary file handling vulnerability (22f00553-a09d-11d9-a788-0001020eed82)

Simon L. Nielsen discovered that portupgrade handles temporary files in an insecure manner. This could allow an unprivileged local attacker to execute arbitrary commands or overwrite arbitrary files with the permissions of the user running portupgrade, typically root, by way of a symlink attack...

FreeBSD : golddig -- local buffer overflow vulnerabilities (949c470e-528f-11d9-ac20-00065be4b5b6)

Two buffer overflow vulnerabilities where detected. Both issues can be used by local users to gain group games privileges on affected systems. The first overflow exists in the map name handling and can be triggered when a very long name is given to the program during command-line execution The...