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-2001-0379: Undefined Security Weakness

Vulnerability in the newgrp program included with HP9000 servers running HP-UX 11.11 allows a local attacker to obtain higher access rights...

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...