Solaris 2.5/2.6/7.0/8 - 'mailx -F' Local Buffer Overflow (2)

// source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2610/info Solaris is the variant of the UNIX Operating System distributed by Sun Microsystems. Solaris is designed as a scalable operating system for the Intel x86 and Sun Sparc platforms, and operates on machines varying from desktop to enterprise...

[SECURITY] [DSA-044-1] mailx local exploit

Package : mailx Problem type : buffer overflow Debian-specific: no The mail program a simple tool to read and send email as distributed with Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 has a buffer overflow in the input parsing code. Since mail is installed setgid mail by default this allowed local users to use it to...

CVE-2000-0545

Buffer overflow in mailx mail command aka Mail on Linux systems allows local users to gain privileges via a long -c carbon copy parameter...