ld.so bug - LD_DEBUG_OUTPUT follows symlinks

Hi, ld.so from glibc2 doesn't unset variables LDDEBUGOUTPUT and LDDEBUG when running suid. If program calls setuid0 and then fork, child process will follow prepared symlink $LDDEBUGOUTPUT.$pid and overwrites any file in system. Jakub Vlasek...

solaris7.ff.core.txt

Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 22:11:03 -0700 From: Russell Van Tassell To: [email protected] Subject: Solaris7 and ff.core Forgive me as I just started playing with Solaris 7 and don't recall seeing this yet posted to Bugtraq. It would appear as though an old bug with the OpenWeirdos File Mangler has...

CVE-1999-0096

Sendmail decode alias can be used to overwrite sensitive files...