CVE-2005-0248

The Solaris Management Console SMC GUI for Solaris 8 and 9, when creating user accounts that are configured for password aging, creates the accounts with a blank password, which allows remote or local attackers to break into those accounts...

rsnapshot: Local privilege escalation

Background rsnapshot is a filesystem snapshot utility based on rsync, allowing local and remote systems backups. Description The copysymlink subroutine in rsnapshot follows symlinks when changing file ownership, instead of changing the ownership of the symlink itself. Impact Under certain...

Mozilla Suite: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background The Mozilla Suite is a popular all-in-one web browser that includes a mail and news reader. Description The following vulnerabilities were found and fixed in the Mozilla Suite: Mark Dowd from ISS X-Force reported an exploitable heap overrun in the GIF processing of obsolete Netscape...

CVE-2004-1151

Multiple buffer overflows in the 1 sys32nisyscall and 2 sys32vm86warning functions in sysia32.c for Linux 2.6.x may allow local attackers to modify kernel memory and gain privileges...

CVE-2004-0913

Unknown vulnerability in ecartis 0.x before 0.129a+1.0.0-snap20020514-1.3 and 1.x before 1.0.0+cvs.20030911-8 allows attackers in the same domain to gain administrator privileges and modify configuration...

CVE-2004-1151

Multiple buffer overflows in the 1 sys32nisyscall and 2 sys32vm86warning functions in sysia32.c for Linux 2.6.x may allow local attackers to modify kernel memory and gain privileges...

Debian DSA-423-1 : linux-kernel-2.4.17-ia64 - several vulnerabilities

The IA-64 maintainers fixed several security related bugs in the Linux kernel 2.4.17 used for the IA-64 architecture, mostly by backporting fixes from 2.4.18. The corrections are listed below with the identification from the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE project : - CAN-2003-0001 :...

CVE-2002-1284

The wizard in KGPG 0.6 through 0.8.2 does not properly provide the passphrase to gpg when creating new keys, which causes secret keys to be created with an empty passphrase and allows local attackers to steal the keys if they can be read...

CVE-2002-1476

Buffer overflow in setlocale in libc on NetBSD 1.4.x through 1.6, and possibly other operating systems, when called with the LCALL category, allows local attackers to execute arbitrary code via a user-controlled locale string that has more than 6 elements, which exceeds the boundaries of the...

CVE-2002-1227

PAM 0.76 treats a disabled password as if it were an empty null password, which allows local and remote attackers to gain privileges as disabled users...

[Full-Disclosure] iDEFENSE Security Advisory 08.24.04: CDE Mailer argv[0] Format String Vulnerability

CDE Mailer argv0 Format String Vulnerability iDEFENSE Security Advisory 08.24.04 www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=132&type=vulnerabilities August 24, 2004 I. BACKGROUND CDE Mailer dtmail is the mail user agent MUA for CDE, which is installed on Solaris 8 and 9 by default. It provides a...

[Full-Disclosure] iDEFENSE Security Advisory 03.19.04: Borland Interbase admin.ib Administrative Access Vulnerability

Borland Interbase admin.ib Administrative Access Vulnerability iDEFENSE Security Advisory 03.19.04 www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=80&type=vulnerabilities March 19, 2004 I. BACKGROUND Borland Interbase is a small, high performance commercial database for Linux, Solaris, and Windows...

Apache 2.0.4x mod_perl - File Descriptor Leakage (3)

Apache 2.0.4x modperl - File Descriptor Leakage 3 source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9471/info A vulnerability has been reported to exist in the Apache modperl module that may allow local attackers to gain access to privileged file descriptors. This issue could be exploited by an attacker ...

DSA-423 linux-kernel-2.4.17-ia64 - several vulnerabilities

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Linux Kernel do_mremap Function Boundary Condition Vulnerability

Description A vulnerability involving the domremap system function has been reported in the Linux kernel, allowing for local privilege escalation. Due to a bounds checking issue within the function, it is possible for local attackers to disrupt the operation of the kernel. Attack vectors also exi...

NSFOCUS SA2003-08: HP-UX libc NLSPATH Environment Variable Privilege Elevation Vulnerability

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 NSFOCUS Security AdvisorySA2003-08 Topic: HP-UX libc NLSPATH Environment Variable Privilege Elevation Vulnerability Release Date: 2003-11-13 CVE CAN ID: CAN-2003-0090 http://www.nsfocus.com/english/homepage/research/0308.htm Affected system:...

NSFOCUS SA2003-07: HP-UX Software Distributor Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 NSFOCUS Security AdvisorySA2003-07 Topic: HP-UX Software Distributor Buffer Overflow Vulnerability Release Date: 2003-11-13 CVE CAN ID: CAN-2003-0089 http://www.nsfocus.com/english/homepage/research/0307.htm Affected system: =================== - -...

[EXPL] iwconfig Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

The following security advisory is sent to the securiteam mailing list, and can be found at the SecuriTeam web site: http://www.securiteam.com - - promotion The SecuriTeam alerts list - Free, Accurate, Independent. Get your security news from a reliable source...

IBM DB2 db2job - File Overwrite

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/8344/info IBM's DB2 database ships with a utility called db2job, installed with permissions 4550 and owned by root.db2asgrp. It has been reported that db2job writes to a number of files with root privileges. The files written to are created with 0770...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: : : : Updated 2.4 kernel fixes vulnerabilities

Updated kernel packages are now available fixing several security vulnerabilities. Updated 28 August 2003 Added CAN-2003-0699 and CAN-2003-0700 to the list of security issues that are fixed by this advisory there are no changes to the packages themselves. The Linux kernel handles the basic...