GLSA-201209-22 : libgssglue: Privilege escalation

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201209-22 libgssglue: Privilege escalation libgssglue does not securely use getenv when loading a library for a setuid application. Impact : A local attacker could gain escalated privileges. Workaround : There is no known workarou...

SuSE 10 Security Update : libgssapi (ZYPP Patch Number 7541)

This update fixes insecure getenv usage, which could be used under some circumstances by local attackers do gain root privileges. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc'; include'compat.inc'; if...

SuSE 10 Security Update : libgssapi (ZYPP Patch Number 7544)

This update fixes insecure getenv usage, which could be used under some circumstances by local attackers do gain root privileges. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc'; include'compat.inc'; if...

CVE-2010-2267: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

Multiple cross-site scripting XSS vulnerabilities in Accoria Web Server aka Rock Web Server 1.4.7 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via 1 the query string to the getenv sample program, 2 the desc parameter to loadstatic.cgi, 3 the name parameter to httpdcfg.cgi, or 4 t...

FreeBSD : sudo -- Secure path vulnerability (d42e5b66-6ea0-11df-9c8d-00e0815b8da8)

Todd Miller reports : Most versions of the C library function getenv return the first instance of an environment variable to the caller. However, some programs, notably the GNU Bourne Again SHell bash, do their own environment parsing and may choose the last instance of a variable rather than the...

sudo -- Secure path vulnerability

Todd Miller reports: Most versions of the C library function getenv return the first instance of an environment variable to the caller. However, some programs, notably the GNU Bourne Again SHell bash, do their own environment parsing and may choose the last instance of a variable rather than the...

CVE-2005-3346

Buffer overflow in the environment variable substitution code in main.c in OSH 1.7-14 allows local users to inject arbitrary environment variables, such as LDPRELOAD, via pathname arguments of the form "$VAR/EVAR=arg", which cause the EVAR portion to be appended to a buffer returned by a getenv...

CVE-2005-3346

Buffer overflow in the environment variable substitution code in main.c in OSH 1.7-14 allows local users to inject arbitrary environment variables, such as LDPRELOAD, via pathname arguments of the form "$VAR/EVAR=arg", which cause the EVAR portion to be appended to a buffer returned by a getenv...