Microsoft Systems Management Server 2.0 - Default Permissions

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/945/info The default permissions applied to the directory containing the SMS Remote Control executable allow any user to replace the executable with any other executable. The new executable will run with System privileges after the next reboot. Replace...

Microsoft Windows 95/98/NT 4.0 - Help File Backdoor

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/868/info The help files for the Windows Help system .cnt, .hlp can be edited so that they run an arbitrary executable when selected by a user. The executable will run at the privelege level of the user. The .cnt files are like tables of contents that tell...

Microsoft Windows 9598NT 4.0 - Help File Backdoor

Microsoft Windows 9598NT 4.0 - Help File Backdoor source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/868/info The help files for the Windows Help system .cnt, .hlp can be edited so that they run an arbitrary executable when selected by a user. The executable will run at the privelege level of the user. Th...

Microsoft Windows NT 4.0SP1SP2SP3SP4SP5SP6 - Services.exe Denial of Service (2)

Microsoft Windows NT 4.0SP1SP2SP3SP4SP5SP6 - Services.exe Denial of Service 2 source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/754/info A specially crafted packet can cause a denial of service on an NT 4.0 host, rendering local administration and network communication nearly unusable. This attack will...

Microsoft Windows NT 4.0/SP1/SP2/SP3/SP4/SP5/SP6 - 'Services.exe' Denial of Service (2)

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/754/info A specially crafted packet can cause a denial of service on an NT 4.0 host, rendering local administration and network communication nearly unusable. This attack will crash the "services" executable, which in turn, disables the ability for the...

SCO Open Server 5.0.5 - 'userOsa' Symlink

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/701/info Under certain versions of SCO OpenServer there exists a symlink vulnerability which can be exploited to overwrite any file which is group writable by the 'auth' group. The problem in particular is in the the /etc/sysadm.d/bin/userOsa executable...

SCO Open Server 5.0.5 - userOsa Symlink

SCO Open Server 5.0.5 - userOsa Symlink source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/701/info Under certain versions of SCO OpenServer there exists a symlink vulnerability which can be exploited to overwrite any file which is group writable by the 'auth' group. The problem in particular is in the th...

RedHat Linux 4.2/5.2/6.0 / S.u.S.E Linux 6.0/6.1 - Cron Buffer Overflow (1)

// source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/602/info The version of Vixie cron that ships with RedHat versions 4.2, 5.2 and 6.0 is vulnerable to a local buffer overflow attack. By utilizing the MAILTO environment variable, a buffer can be overflown in the cronpopen function, allowing an attacker...

aspads.txt

We've had a number of questions and possible solutions suggested in the past few hours, let me try and summarize. 1. Several people noted that enabling extensions with "::$DATA" added, i.e. ".asp::$DATA", would cause them to be executed instead of read. This does work, and is faster than removing...

defeat.solaris.nonexec.stack.txt

Hi, I've recently been playing around with bypassing the non-executable stack protection that Solaris 2.6 provides. I'm referring to the mechanism that you control with the noexecuserstack option in /etc/system. I've found it's quite possible to bypass this protection, using methods described...

icq-hidden-files.txt

Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1999 14:20:34 +1100 From: Justin Clift To: [email protected] Subject: Win32 ICQ 98a flaw Hello everyone, A while ago I found a flaw in ICQ which I believe to be fairly serious and asked whom to notify. Thanks for everyone's assistance in this. :- I notified Mirabilis and they...

processdump.txt

Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 12:36:22 +0800 From: David Luyer Subject: Dump a mode --x--x--x binary on Linux 2.0.x The following file can be LDPRELOAD'ed against a mode 111 --x--x--x binary on Linux 2.0.x. It will dump the binary to a series of process-dump-... files in the current directory. The...

digital-unix-4.0-bof.txt

Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 12:21:45 -0800 From: Lamont Granquist To: [email protected] Subject: Digital Unix 4.0 exploitable buffer overflows Previously Digital Unix has been relatively immune to buffer overflow attacks due to the lack of an executable stack in the 3.x versions. For the 4.0 versio...

digital-unix4.0-asm-shell.txt

Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 15:18:08 -0500 From: Seth Michael McGann To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Digital Unix 4.0 exploitable buffer overflows On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, Lamont Granquist wrote: Previously Digital Unix has been relatively immune to buffer overflow attacks due to the lack of an...

Web Server /cgi-bin Shell Access

The remote web server has one of these shells installed in /cgi-bin : ash, bash, csh, ksh, sh, tcsh, zsh Leaving executable shells in the cgi-bin directory of a web server may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the target machine with the privileges of the HTTP daemon. %NASLMINLEV...

CVE-1999-1019

SpectroSERVER in Cabletron Spectrum Enterprise Manager 5.0 installs a directory tree with insecure permissions, which allows local users to replace a privileged executable processd with a Trojan horse, facilitating a root or Administrator compromise...

Omnicron OmniHTTPd 1.1/2.0 Alpha 1 - 'visiadmin.exe' Denial of Service

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1808/info OmniHTTPD is a web-server offered by Omnicron for the MS Windows platform. One of the CGI utilities it ships with and installs by default contains a bug that could, if exploited, lead to a denial of service condition on host it runs on. When the...

SGI IRIX 6.5.4 - midikeys Root

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/262/info The setuid root "midikeys" executable can be used to edit arbitrary files via its graphical user interface. This grants malicious users root access to the system. Running the midikeys application, clicking in sounds, and then songs will bring up ...

Solaris 2.67.08 - netpr Local Buffer Overflow (2)

Solaris 2.67.08 - netpr Local Buffer Overflow 2 // source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1200/info A buffer overrun exists in the 'netpr' program, part of the SUNWpcu LP package included with Solaris, from Sun Microsystems. Versions of netpr on Solaris 2.6 and 7, on both Sparc and x86 have be...

CVE-1999-1440

Win32 ICQ 98a 1.30, and possibly other versions, does not display the entire portion of long filenames, which could allow attackers to send an executable file with a long name that contains so many spaces that the .exe extension is not displayed, which could make the user believe that the file is...