Microsoft Windows XP/2000/2003 - Keyboard Event Privilege Escalation

// source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14743/info Microsoft Windows is prone to a privilege escalation weakness. This issue is due to a design error when desktop applications handle keyboard events sent through the keybdevent function. The specific issue is that programs may send keyboard...

SUSE-SA:2003:017: file

The remote host is missing the patch for the advisory SUSE-SA:2003:017 file. The file command can be used to determine the type of files. iDEFENSE published a security report about a buffer overflow in the handling-routines for the ELF file-format. In conjunction with other mechanisms like...

SUSE-SA:2003:018: qpopper

The remote host is missing the patch for the advisory SUSE-SA:2003:018 qpopper. The Post-Office-Protocol- POP- Server qpopper version 4 was vulnerable to a buffer overflow. The buffer overflow occurs after authentication has taken place. Therefore pop-users with a valid account can execute...

TOCTOU with NT System Service Hooking

TOCTOU Time-Of-Check-to-Time-Of-Use problem is known for a while 1. Nevertheless such bugs are still not uncommon. That is more or less acceptable for general software but not for security products. I believe there are drivers that hook kernel system services by well known technique 2,3,4. Those...

Webdeskpro role modify vulnerability

Webdeskpro has 4 role authority levels- author, editor, administrator, master We found a vulnerability in Webdeskpro UI. After login, if we modify some role variables as follows , we can read upper role level?s files. Role Modification FRAME...

CVE-2002-1601

The Connectables feature in Adobe PhotoDeluxe 3.1 prepends the Adobe directory to the CLASSPATH environment variable, which allows applets to run with higher privileges and remote attackers to gain privileges via an HTML e-mail message or a web page...

CVE-2001-0456

postinst installation script for Proftpd in Debian 2.2 does not properly change the "run as uid/gid root" configuration when the user enables anonymous access, which causes the server to run at a higher privilege than intended...

CVE-1999-1413

Solaris 2.4 before patching, prior to the kernel jumbo patch -35, is vulnerable. Set-gid programs can dump core even if the real user is not in the set-gid group, enabling local privilege escalation through a core dump (e.g., via dmesg). The connected documents confirm the vulnerability details; ...

CVE-1999-1413

Solaris 2.4 before kernel jumbo patch -35 allows set-gid programs to dump core even if the real user id is not in the set-gid group, which allows local users to overwrite or create files at higher privileges by causing a core dump, e.g. through dmesg...

SCO Open Server 5.0.5 - X Library Buffer Overflow (2)

// source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/638/info A buffer overflow vulnerability in the shared X library may allows local users to obtain higher privileges. Any setuid applications linked against the library are possibly vulnerable. The vulnerability is in the handling of the '-bg' command...