Slackware Linux 3.5 - '/etc/group' Local Privilege Escalation

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/155/info Due to the way /bin/login behaves when a /etc/group file is not present under Slackware's version of the password shadowing suite, users who log in while this file is not present will be given uid and gid 0. This will allow them unrestricted acce...

SunOS 4.1.3 - '/etc/crash' SetGID kmem Privilege Escalation

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/59/info /etc/crash was installed setgid kmem and excutable by anyone. Any user can use the ! shell command escape to executes commands, which are then performed with group set to kmem. $ /etc/crash ! sh...