Solaris 10 Patch 137097-01 Symlink Attack Privilege Escalation

Exploit for solaris platform in category local exploits Larry W. Cashdollar 8/6/2012 Here is another symlink attack with temp file creation using process id in Solaris 10 patch cluster. You can over write the contents of root owned files with the contents of inetd.conf. In...

postgresql: Absent permission checks on trigger function to be called when creating a trigger

CREATE TRIGGER in PostgreSQL 8.3.x before 8.3.18, 8.4.x before 8.4.11, 9.0.x before 9.0.7, and 9.1.x before 9.1.3 does not properly check the execute permission for trigger functions marked SECURITY DEFINER, which allows remote authenticated users to execute otherwise restricted triggers on...

postgresql: Absent permission checks on trigger function to be called when creating a trigger

CREATE TRIGGER in PostgreSQL 8.3.x before 8.3.18, 8.4.x before 8.4.11, 9.0.x before 9.0.7, and 9.1.x before 9.1.3 does not properly check the execute permission for trigger functions marked SECURITY DEFINER, which allows remote authenticated users to execute otherwise restricted triggers on...

Sky News: Hacking was "Responsible Journalism" in Public Interest

In a statement published by The Guardian Thursday, Sky News admitted to twice authorizing a journalist to hack into the email accounts of persons suspected of crimes, defending its actions as “editorially justified.” In the first incident, the broadcaster admitted hacking the e-mail account of Jo...

Pre-Owned Hardware

Counterfeit and “certified pre-owned” hardware is nothing new, but we think 2012 will see this issue morph from a sideshow in the cyber security world to center stage, with new revelations about contamination of the global supply chain by hardware and software components of dubious origin and...

glibc LD_AUDIT Privilege Escalation

!/bin/sh I Can't Read and I Won't Race You Either by zx2c4 This is an exploit for CVE-2010-3856. A while back, Tavis showed us three ways to exploit flaws in glibc's dynamic linker involving LDAUDIT. 1 2 The first way involved opening a file descriptor and using fexecve to easily win a race with...

AdvancedDvdPlayer Local Exploit

Exploit for windows platform in category local exploits / Not so usual exploit method Local Heapoverflow exploit An Advanced Exploit For An AdvancedDvdPlayer ; 02-10-2011 AdvancedDvdPlayer 3.03 Download Link : http://download.cnet.com/Advanced-DVD-Player/3000-21394-10310889.html?tag=mncol;3 Teste...

jakarta-commons-daemon: jsvc does not drop capabilities allowing access to files and directories owned by the superuser

native/unix/native/jsvc-unix.c in jsvc in the Daemon component 1.0.3 through 1.0.6 in Apache Commons, as used in Apache Tomcat 5.5.32 through 5.5.33, 6.0.30 through 6.0.32, and 7.0.x before 7.0.20 on Linux, does not drop capabilities, which allows remote attackers to bypass read permissions for...

mod_perl2 -- execute arbitrary Perl code

modperl2 2.0.11 fixes Arbitrary Perl code execution in the context of the user account via a user-owned .htaccess. modperl 2.0 through 2.0.10 allows attackers to execute arbitrary Perl code by placing it in a user-owned .htaccess file, because contrary to the documentation there is no configurati...

helpctr (windows) DLL Hijacking Exploit (cwheapgrd.dll)

Exploit for windows platform in category local exploits ======================================================= helpctr windows DLL Hijacking Exploit cwheapgrd.dll ======================================================= / helpctr windows DLL Hijacking Exploit cwheapgrd.dll Author : anT!-Tr0J4n...

rpc.ttdbserverd x86 Proof Of Concept Exploit

Check Point Software Technologies - Vulnerability Discovery Team VDT Rodrigo Rubira Branco - RPC TTDB .rec parser Heap Overflow thrjmptable does not exist on Solaris 10 u8 See the SPARC version of this exploit to see how to specify other addresses to be overwritten use POSIX; use IO::Socket; use...

Gbook MX 4.1.0 (Arabic Version) - Remote File Inclusion

======================================================================================== | Title : Gbook MX v4.1.0 Arabic Version File inclusion Vulnerability | Author : indoushka | email : [email protected] | Home : Souk Naamane - 04325 - Oum El Bouaghi - Algeria -00213771818860 | Total aler...

DISA STIG SRR Still Vulnerable

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 After the issue in CVE-2009-4211 was made public, the Unix SRR script was removed from http://iase.disa.mil/stigs/SRR/unix.html with a note saying: ?Due to a recently identified security issue, please do not run any version of the UNIX SRR scripts unt...

XOOPS SmartMedia 0.85 Module XSS

No description provided by source. Exploit Title: XOOPS Module Smartmedia XSS Version : SmartMedia 0.85 Date: 2009-11-30 Discovred By : SoldierOfAllah Software Link: http://dev.xoops.org/dl/smartmedia/5 - Beta and RC Releases/SmartMedia 0.85 Beta/XOOPS2modsmartmedia0.85BETAsmartfactory.zip CVE-ID...

Microsoft .NET Plug-In Exposes Firefox Users to Malware Attacks

Remember that Microsoft .NET Framework Assistant add-on that Microsoft sneaked into Firefox without explicit permission from end users? Well, the code in that add-on has a serious code execution vulnerability that exposes Firefox users to the “browse and you’re owned” attacks that are typically...

Linux Kernel 2.x sock_sendpage() Local Ring0 Root Exploit

Exploit for linux platform in category local exploits ========================================================= Linux Kernel 2.x socksendpage Local Ring0 Root Exploit ========================================================= / dedicated to my best friend in the whole world, Robin Price the joke i...

xscreensaver 5.01 - Arbitrary File Disclosure Symlink

xscreensaver 5.01 - Arbitrary File Disclosure Symlink xscreensaver local arbitrary file disclosure | symlink attack The �xscreensaver� program distributed normally with Xorg can be abused to disclose local files owned by other users also of the root account. Xscreensaver has the setuid bit on...

xscreensaver Symlink Attack

xscreensaver local arbitrary file disclosure | symlink attack The ´xscreensaver´ program distributed normally with Xorg can be abused to disclose local files owned by other users also of the root account. Xscreensaver has the setuid bit on by default Example: Opensolaris The xscreensaver program...

Prismstumbler 0.7.3 File Overwrite

I found a symlink vuln in this older program. Prismstumbler 0.7.3 is most often ran as root to utilize all of capabilities. Prismstumbler pst creates /tmp/.psintercom and /tmp/spotkoord.txt as default. Can be changed within preferences. srw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 2009-04-02 00:44 .psintercom...

Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200411-26 (GIMPS, SETI@home, ChessBrain)

The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory GLSA 200411-26. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2008 E-Soft Inc. Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...