FTE fails to properly validate command line arguments

Overview FTE contains a vulnerability in the processing of command line arguments that could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code. Description FTE is a text editor available for a variety of operating systems. There is a buffer overflow vulnerability in the way FTE performs bounds checking...

CVE-2003-0648

CVE-2003-0648 concerns multiple buffer overflow vulnerabilities in vfte (a fork/variant of FTE) prior to version 0.50, enabling a local user to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the FTE process. The Debian advisory and CERT entries describe issues in both environment variable handling...

[Full-Disclosure] [SECURITY] [DSA 472-1] New fte packages fix buffer overflows

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 472-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Matt Zimmerman April 3rd, 2004 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

[SECURITY] [DSA 472-1] New fte packages fix buffer overflows

-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 472-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Matt Zimmerman April 3rd, 2004 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

DSA-472 fte - several vulnerabilities

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CVE-1999-1276

fte-console in the fte package before 0.46b-4.1 does not drop root privileges, which allows local users to gain root access via the virtual console device...

CVE-1999-1276

The CVE-1999-1276 entry describes a local privilege escalation in fte-console: before 0.46b-4.1 it does not drop root privileges, allowing local users to gain root via the virtual console device. Affected: fte-package fte-console. Impact per CVSS: complete impact to confidentiality, integrity, an...

CVE-1999-1276: Undefined Security Weakness

fte-console in the fte package before 0.46b-4.1 does not drop root privileges, which allows local users to gain root access via the virtual console device...

[SECURITY] New version of fte fixes access problems

We have found that the fte package as supplied in our slink frozen and potato unstable archives does not drop its root priviliges after initializing the virtual console device. This allows all users to read and write files with root priviliges, and execute all programs as root. A new package...

CVE-1999-1276

fte-console in the fte package before 0.46b-4.1 does not drop root privileges, which allows local users to gain root access via the virtual console device...

[SECURITY] New version of fte fixes access problems

We have found that the fte package as supplied in our slink frozen and potato unstable archives does not drop its root priviliges after initializing the virtual console device. This allows all users to read and write files with root priviliges, and execute all programs as root. A new package...