Possible IE5.0 exposure of local environment variables

I ran across this today, anyone have any thoughts? I'm using a moderately patched IE 5.0 browser on NT 4.0 SP5 workstation. Couldn't find any reference to this in the archives, but maybe it's been covered before. I type in the url www.home.com/computername & press enter, then and IE actually...

FreeBSD 3.5.14.2 - Ports Package xklock Local Privilege Escalation

FreeBSD 3.5.14.2 - Ports Package xklock Local Privilege Escalation / xklock - FreeBSD 3.5.1 & 4.2 ports package local root exploit The X key lock program contain several exploitable buffer overflows in command line arguments aswell as the 'JNAME' environment variable. xklock is installed setuid...

PT-2001-1319 · Gtk · Gtk+ Library

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: GTK+ library affected versions not specified Description: The issue allows local users to specify arbitrary modules via the GTK MODULES environmental variable. This could potentially allow local users to gain privileges if GTK+ is used by a...

SCO OpenServer 5.0.5 - Env Local Stack Overflow

SCO OpenServer 5.0.5 - Env Local Stack Overflow / Copyright c 2000 ADM / / All Rights Reserved / / THIS IS UNPUBLISHED PROPRIETARY SOURCE CODE OF ADM / / The copyright notice above does not evidence any / / actual or intended publication of such source code. / / / / Title: SCO OpenServer mscreen ...

CVE-2000-0048: Undefined Security Weakness

getit program in Corel Linux Update allows local users to gain root access by specifying an alternate PATH for the cp program...

GTK+ 1.2.8 - Arbitrary Loadable Module Execution

// source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2165/info GTK+ is the Gimp Toolkit, freely available to the public and maintained by the GTK Development Team. A problem exists in the Gimp Toolkit that could allow a user elevated privileges. The problem occurs in the ability to load modules with the...

CVE-2000-1125: Undefined Security Weakness

restore 0.4b15 and earlier in Red Hat Linux 6.2 trusts the pathname specified by the RSH environmental variable, which allows local users to obtain root privileges by modifying the RSH variable to point to a Trojan horse program...

CVE-2000-0976: Undefined Security Weakness

Buffer overflow in xlib in XFree 3.3.x possibly allows local users to execute arbitrary commands via a long DISPLAY environment variable or a -display command line parameter...

GLIBC (via /bin/su) Local Root Exploit

Exploit for linux platform in category local exploits ====================================== GLIBC via /bin/su Local Root Exploit ====================================== / Working exploit for glibc executing /bin/su To exploit this i have used a technique that overwrites the .dtors section of...

BSDi 3.0 inc - Local Buffer Overflow / Local Privilege Escalation

/ BSDiincmh buffer overflow, by [email protected]. this is will give you euid=0root on BSDi/3.0 systems. / define PATH "/usr/contrib/mh/bin/inc" / path to inc on BSDi/3.0 / define BUFFER 2048 / no need to change this. / define DEFAULTOFFSET -7000 / generalized offset. / static char exec=...

CVE-2000-1012: Undefined Security Weakness

The catopen function in FreeBSD 5.0 and earlier, and possibly other OSes, allows local users to read arbitrary files via the LANG environmental variable...

RedHat 0.4 b15 restore - Insecure Environment Variables

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1914/info restore is a program for backup and recovery procedures, distributed with the RedHat Linux Operating System. A vulnerability exists that could allow a user elevated permissions. The problem occurs in the RSH environment variable. restore is...

RedHat 0.4 b15 restore - Insecure Environment Variables

RedHat 0.4 b15 restore - Insecure Environment Variables source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1914/info restore is a program for backup and recovery procedures, distributed with the RedHat Linux Operating System. A vulnerability exists that could allow a user elevated permissions. The problem...

CVE-2000-0009: Undefined Security Weakness

The bnapass program in Optivity NETarchitect uses the PATH environmental variable for finding the "rm" program, which allows local users to execute arbitrary commands...

XFree86 3.3.5/3.3.6 - Xlib Display Buffer Overflow

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1805/info A vulnerability exists in xlib, the C language interface to the X Window System protocol. When applications linked to the xlib library are run, user-supplied values for the DISPLAY environment variable and the command-line argument -display are...

Серьезная уязвимость многих Unix через locale в glibc

Функции работы с locale позволяют пользователям создавать пользовательские отображения строк, при этом не проверяется наличие форматных символов. Функции locale используются многими suid-приложениями. В некоторых случаях проблема становится удаленной из-за некорректной обработки переменных...

OpenBSD 2.x - fstat Format String

OpenBSD 2.x - fstat Format String // source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1746/info fstat is a program shipped with BSD unix variants that is used to list the open files on a system. It is installed sgid kmem so it can access information about open files from the kernel memory structures. A...

Дырка в catopen (libc)

В дополнение к ошибке форматной строки в catopen/setlocale в catopen так же имеется переполнение буфера при разборе локальных переменных окружения...

telnet and rlogin URLs disclose sensitive information, including Environment variables

Overview Some telnet clients may disclose sensitive information in environment variables Description Web browsers can be configured to respond to certian protocol types through the use of a helper application. In this case, web browsers can respond to telnet: URLs with the use of a helper...

tco.txt

Synnergy Laboratories Advisory SLA-2000-14 NAME BSD/Linux telnet client overflow AFFECTED Linux Debian Redhat Mandrake Slackware possibly others BSD FreeBSD possible others SYNOPSIS Synnergy Labs has found a bug in the telnet client that causes a stack overflow by filling the DISPLAY environment...