Netscape Communicator 4.x JPEG-Comment Heap Overwrite Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1503/info Netscape Browsers use the Independent JPEG Group's decoder library to process JPEG encoded images. The library functions skip JPEG comments; however, the browser uses a custom function to process these comments...

External news readers and e-mail clients can be used to execute arbitrary code

If a user has configured Opera to use an external newsgroup client or e-mail application, specially crafted Web pages can cause Opera to run that application incorrectly. In some cases this can lead to execution of arbitrary code...

CVE-1999-1091

UNIX news readers tin and rtin create the /tmp/.tinlog file with insecure permissions and follow symlinks, which allows attackers to modify the permissions of files writable by the user via a symlink attack...

CVE-1999-1091

Vulnerability: UNIX news readers tin and rtin create the file "/tmp/.tin_log" with insecure permissions and follow symlinks. Root cause: insecure file permissions combined with symlink handling allows a local attacker to modify permissions of files writable by the user via a symlink attack. Affec...

CVE-1999-1091

UNIX news readers tin and rtin create the /tmp/.tinlog file with insecure permissions and follow symlinks, which allows attackers to modify the permissions of files writable by the user via a symlink attack...