USN-99-1: PHP4 vulnerabilities

Stefano Di Paola discovered integer overflows in PHP's pack and unpack functions. A malicious PHP script could exploit these to break out of safe mode and execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the PHP interpreter. CAN-2004-1018 Note: The second part of CAN-2004-1018 buffer overflow in the...

CVE-1999-1468

CVE-1999-1468 affects rdist in various UNIX systems. The vulnerability arises when rdist uses popen to invoke sendmail, enabling local users to gain root privileges by modifying the IFS (Internal Field Separator) variable. The provided sources confirm the component and the privileged escalation v...

CVE-2002-0652

xfsmd for IRIX 6.5 through 6.5.16 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via shell metacharacters that are not properly filtered from several calls to the popen function, such as exportfs...

sendmail.php.txt

Sequoiasoft's sendmail php script dangerous - By jwilkins PHP-Nuke Written by Sequioa Software, this script allows execution of arbitrary code by a malicious user. Written by Sequioa Software, this script allows execution of arbitrary code by a malicious user. Essentially, popen executes a shell...

2dopewars_exploits.txt

two security holes i found for local use in dopewars1.4.7-current. dopewars is setgid=games. by: [email protected]. LOCAL VULNERABILITY 1: insecure popen call, a shell script can handle this. -- dopewars.sh start -- !/bin/sh dopewars.sh1.4.7: shell script by [email protected]. gives...

PHP 3.0.13 - Safe_mode Failure

PHP 3.0.13 - Safemode Failure source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/911/info PHP Version 3.0 is an HTML-embedded scripting language. Much of its syntax is borrowed from C, Java and Perl with a couple of unique PHP-specific features thrown in. The goal of the language is to allow web developer...

PHP 3.0.13 - 'Safe_mode' Failure

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/911/info PHP Version 3.0 is an HTML-embedded scripting language. Much of its syntax is borrowed from C, Java and Perl with a couple of unique PHP-specific features thrown in. The goal of the language is to allow web developers to write dynamically generat...

IBM AIX 3.2.5 - 'IFS' Local Privilege Escalation

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/454/info Under older versions of AIX By changing the IFS enviroment variable to / setuid root programs that use system or popen can be fooled into running user provided programs. !/bin/csh IFS hole in AIX3.2 rmail gives egid=mail. Apr. 1994 Setup needed...