SDFingerD 1.1 - Failure To Drop Privileges Privilege Escalation

SDFingerD 1.1 - Failure To Drop Privileges Privilege Escalation source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7977/info sdfingerd has been reported prone to a local privilege escalation vulnerability. The issue presents itself because the sdfingerd daemon fails to sufficiently drop group privileges...

[CERT-intexxia] pfinger Format String Vulnerability

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 SECURITY ADVISORY INTEXXIAc 18 12 2001 ID 1050-181201 TITLE : pfinger Format String Vulnerability CREDITS : Guillaume Pelat / INTEXXIA SYSTEM AFFECTED =============== pfinger = 0.7.7 DESCRIPTION =========== pfinger is a finger daemon written in C. It ...

CVE-2001-1215

Format string vulnerability in PFinger 0.7.5 through 0.7.7 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in a .plan file...