PureFTPd DoS

There is an endless loop on specific condition with 0 written to memory...

Man 1.5.1 - Catalog File Format String

Man 1.5.1 - Catalog File Format String // source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7812/info A vulnerability has been reported in the man utility. The problem is said to occur due to a format string bug when handling a catalog file. As a result, an attacker may be capable of writing arbitrary...

CVE-2001-1036: Undefined Security Weakness

GNU locate in findutils 4.1 on Slackware 7.1 and 8.0 allows local users to gain privileges via an old formatted filename database locatedb that contains an entry with an out-of-range offset, which causes locate to write to arbitrary process memory...

user-mode-linux problems

Program: User-mode-linux Version tested: patch-2.4.17-8 I assume all previous versions would be Not vulnerable: patch-2.4.17-9 Haven't tested any different techniques. Now for something completely different. Anything in 's is my comments to my article... deal with it. Description: ------------...

FreeBSD-SA-97:04.procfs

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-97:04 Security Advisory FreeBSD, Inc. Topic: security compromise via procfs Category: core Module: procfs Announced: 1997-08-19 Affects: FreeBSD 2.1., FreeBSD 2.2.,...