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Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: initscripts security update
Updated initscripts packages that fix a privilege escalation issue and several bugs are now available. This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The initscripts package contains the basic system scripts used to boot your Red Hat system,...
CVE-2005-3629
CVE-2005-3629 affects initscripts in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. A bug in how environment variables are handled when /sbin/service is executed allows a local user with sudo access to /sbin/service to run commands with root privileges. Public advisories (RHSA-2006:0015, RHSA-2006:0016) and CentOS/...
security flaw
initscripts in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 does not properly handle certain environment variables when /sbin/service is executed, which allows local users with sudo permissions for /sbin/service to gain root privileges via unknown vectors...
EV0082.txt
New eVuln Advisory: Leif M. Wright's Blog Multiple Vulnerabilities http://evuln.com/vulns/82/summary.html --------------------Summary---------------- eVuln ID: EV0082 CVE: CVE-2006-0843 CVE-2006-0844 CVE-2006-0845 CVE-2006 Software: Leif M. Wright's Blog Sowtware's Web Site:...
Buffer overflow
Multiple buffer overflows in STLport 5.0.2 might allow local users to execute arbitrary code via 1 long locale environment variables to a strcpy function call in clocaleglibc2.c and 2 long arguments to unspecified functions in numputfloat.cpp...
CVE-2006-0963
Multiple buffer overflows in STLport 5.0.2 might allow local users to execute arbitrary code via 1 long locale environment variables to a strcpy function call in clocaleglibc2.c and 2 long arguments to unspecified functions in numputfloat.cpp...
Race condition
Race condition in phfont in QNX Neutrino RTOS 6.2.1 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via unspecified manipulations of the PHFONT and PHOTON2PATH environment variables...
CVE-2006-0620
Race condition in phfont in QNX Neutrino RTOS 6.2.1 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via unspecified manipulations of the PHFONT and PHOTON2PATH environment variables...
CVE-2006-0619
Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in QNX Neutrino RTOS 6.3.0 allow local users to execute arbitrary code via long 1 ABLPATH or 2 ABLANG environment variables in the libAP library libAp.so.2 or 3 a long PHOTONPATH environment variable to the setitem function in the libph library...
CVE-2006-0620
Race condition in phfont in QNX Neutrino RTOS 6.2.1 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via unspecified manipulations of the PHFONT and PHOTON2PATH environment variables...
kernel security update
CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2006:0191-01 Updated kernel packages that fix a number of security issues as well as other bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 32 bit architectures This security advisory has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat...
CVE-2003-1291
VMware ESX Server 1.5.2 before Patch 4 allows local users to execute arbitrary programs as root via certain modified VMware ESX Server environment variables...
Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security update
Updated kernel packages that fix a number of security issues as well as other bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 64 bit architectures. This security advisory has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The Linux kernel handles the...
Ubuntu 4.10 / 5.04 / 5.10 : sudo vulnerability (USN-235-1)
Charles Morris discovered a privilege escalation vulnerability in sudo. On executing Perl scripts with sudo, various environment variables that affect Perl's library search path were not cleaned properly. If sudo is set up to grant limited sudo execution of Perl scripts to normal users, this coul...
[SECURITY] [DSA 946-1] New sudo packages fix privilege escalation
-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 946-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze January 20th, 2006 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...
[SECURITY] [DSA 946-1] New sudo packages fix privilege escalation
-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 946-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze January 20th, 2006 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...
Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : sudo (MDKSA-2005:234)
Charles Morris discovered a vulnerability in sudo versions prior to 1.6.8p12 where, when the perl taint flag is off, sudo does not clear the PERLLIB, PERL5LIB, and PERL5OPT environment variables, which could allow limited local users to cause a perl script to include and execute arbitrary library...
Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : uim (MDKSA-2005:198)
Masanari Yamamoto discovered that Uim uses environment variables incorrectly. This bug causes a privilege escalation if setuid/setgid applications are linked to libuim. The updated packages have been patched to address this issue. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descripti...
USN-235-2: sudo vulnerability
USN-235-1 fixed a vulnerability in sudo's handling of environment variables. Tavis Ormandy noticed that sudo did not filter out the PYTHONINSPECT environment variable, so that users with the limited privilege of calling a python script with sudo could still escalate their privileges. For referenc...
