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,...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: initscripts security update

An updated initscripts package that fixes a privilege escalation issue and several bugs is 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-1999-1585

The CVE-1999-1585 entry concerns Sun Solaris 2.x (possibly before 2.4) where the rcS and mountall programs start a privileged shell on the system console if fsck fails during boot. This local vulnerability could let attackers with physical access gain root privileges. The root cause is the boot-t...

Solaris 9 (sparc) : 113073-14

SunOS 5.9: ufs and fsck patch. Date this patch was last updated by Sun : Aug/23/04 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text in this plugin was extracted from the Oracle SunOS Patch Updates. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc'; include'compat.inc'; if description...

CVE-2001-1345

The CVE concerns bctool in Jetico BestCrypt 0.7 and earlier, which trusts a user-supplied PATH to locate and execute an fsck utility. This PATH manipulation allows local users to gain privileges by renaming or placing a Trojan horse program earlier in PATH. Affected component: bctool within Jetic...

CVE-2001-1345

bctool in Jetico BestCrypt 0.7 and earlier trusts the user-supplied PATH to find and execute an fsck utility program, which allows local users to gain privileges by modifying the PATH to point to a Trojan horse program...

CVE-1999-1585

The 1 rcS and 2 mountall programs in Sun Solaris 2.x, possibly before 2.4, start a privileged shell on the system console if fsck fails while the system is booting, which allows attackers with physical access to gain root privileges...

CVE-1999-0334

In Solaris 2.2 and 2.3, when fsck fails on startup, it allows a local user with physical access to obtain root access...

PT-1993-1003 · Oracle · Solaris

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Solaris versions 2.2 through 2.3 Description: A local user with physical access can obtain root access when fsck fails on startup. Recommendations: For Solaris versions 2.2 and 2.3, ensure that physical access to the system is restricted to...