ppp: No denial of service vulnerability

Background ppp is a Unix implementation of the Point-to-Point Protocol. Description The pppd server improperly verifies header fields, potentially leading to a crash of the pppd process handling the connection. However, since a separate pppd process handles each ppp connection, this would not...

isec-0016-procleaks.txt

Synopsis: Linux kernel file offset pointer handling Product: Linux kernel Version: 2.4 up to to and including 2.4.26, 2.6 up to to and including 2.6.7 Vendor: http://www.kernel.org/ URL: http://isec.pl/vulnerabilities/isec-0016-procleaks.txt CVE: CAN-2004-0415 Author: Paul Starzetz Date: Aug 04,...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : gzip (MDKSA-2003:068)

A vulnerability exists in znew, a script included with gzip, that would create temporary files without taking precautions to avoid a symlink attack. Patches have been applied to make use of mktemp to generate unique filenames, and properly make use of noclobber in the script. Likewise, a fix for...

Linux Kernel 2.4.x mremap() bound checking Root Exploit

Exploit for linux platform in category local exploits ======================================================= Linux Kernel 2.4.x mremap bound checking Root Exploit ======================================================= / Linux kernel mremap bound checking bug exploit. Bug found by Paul Starzetz...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security update

Updated kernel packages are now available that fix a security vulnerability which may allow local users to gain root privileges. The Linux kernel handles the basic functions of the operating system. Paul Starzetz discovered a flaw in bounds checking in mremap in the Linux kernel versions 2.4.23 a...

Linux Kernel <= 2.4.22 (do_brk) Local Root Exploit (working)

Exploit for linux platform in category local exploits ============================================================ Linux Kernel Further research and exploit development by Wojciech Purczynski and Paul Starzetz. c 2003 Copyright by IhaQueR and cliph. All Rights Reserved. COPYING, PRINTING,...

CVE-2001-1324

The CVE-2001-1324 issue affects Paul Jarc’s idtools (cvmlogin and statfile) prior to 2001-06-27, where the code does not properly validate the return value of pathexec_env. This absence of check could allow setuid to the UID environmental variable, enabling local privilege escalation. The availab...

CVE-2001-1324

cvmlogin and statfile in Paul Jarc idtools before 2001.06.27 do not properly check the return value of a call to the pathexecenv function, which could cause the setstate utility to setuid to the UID environment variable and allow local users to gain privileges...

CVE-2000-1096

crontab by Paul Vixie uses predictable file names for a temporary file and does not properly ensure that the file is owned by the user executing the crontab -e command, which allows local users with write access to the crontab spool directory to execute arbitrary commands by creating...

ksh.temp-hole.txt

Author: Paul Szabo Recently I reported that, similarly to the recently discussed tcsh vulnerability, the Bourne shell /bin/sh creates temporary files in an insecure way: http://www.securityfocus.com/templates/archive.pike?list=1&msg=200011230225.N [email protected] At the time I als...