Solaris 7.08 - IPCS Timezone Buffer Overflow

Solaris 7.08 - IPCS Timezone Buffer Overflow source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2581/info Solaris is the variant of the UNIX Operating System distributed by Sun Microsystems. Solaris is designed as a scalable operating system for the Intel x86 and Sun Sparc platforms, and operates on...

Solaris Xsun buffer overflow vulnerability

Solaris Xsun buffer overflow vulnerability Discovered and exploited by: Riley Hassell [email protected] Release Date: April 10, 2001 Systems Affected: Solaris 7/8 x86 and sparc Description: Yet some more Solaris spring cleaning... A buffer overflow was discovered in Xsun. Since Xsun is SUID root,...

SGI IRIX 6.5 / Solaris 7.0/8 CDE - '/usr/dt/bin/dtsession' Local Buffer Overflow

/ source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2603/info The CDE Session Manager 'dtsession' is vulnerable to a buffer overflow that could yield root privileges to an attacker. The bug exists in dtsession's LANG environment variable parser. If an overly long LANG variable is set and dtsession is...

Solaris 2.x7.08 - Xsun HOME Buffer Overflow

Solaris 2.x7.08 - Xsun HOME Buffer Overflow // source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2561/info The X11 server that ships with Sun Microsystems' Solaris, Xsun, contains a locally exploitable buffer overflow vulnerability. The condition is present when the value of the HOME environment variable...

Solaris 2.x/7.0/8 - Xsun HOME Buffer Overflow

// source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2561/info The X11 server that ships with Sun Microsystems' Solaris, Xsun, contains a locally exploitable buffer overflow vulnerability. The condition is present when the value of the HOME environment variable is of excessive length more than 1050 bytes...

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

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...

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...

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...