CVE-2004-1161: Undefined Security Weakness

rssh 2.2.2 and earlier does not properly restrict programs that can be run, which could allow remote authenticated users to bypass intended access restrictions and execute arbitrary programs via 1 rdist -P, 2 rsync, or 3 scp -S...

TC-IDE unfiltered shell characters problem

Shell characters filtering problem on external program execution in multiple utilities...

Debian DSA-036-1 : Midnight Commander - arbitrary program execution

It has been reported that a local user could tweak Midnight Commander of another user into executing an arbitrary program under the user id of the person running Midnight Commander. This behaviour has been fixed by Andrew V. Samoilov. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The...

Debian DSA-097-1 : exim - Uncontrolled program execution

Patrice Fournier discovered a bug in all versions of Exim older than Exim 3.34 and Exim 3.952. The Exim maintainer, Philip Hazel, writes about this issue: 'The problem exists only in the case of a run time configuration which directs or routes an address to a pipe transport without checking the...

Debian DSA-377-1 : wu-ftpd - insecure program execution

wu-ftpd, an FTP server, implements a feature whereby multiple files can be fetched in the form of a dynamically constructed archive file, such as a tar archive. The names of the files to be included are passed as command line arguments to tar, without protection against them being interpreted as...

CVE-2004-0873: Undefined Security Weakness

Apple iChat AV 2.1, AV 2.0, and 1.0.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary programs via a "link" that references the program...

QNX PPPoEd 2.4/4.25/6.2 - Multiple Local Buffer Overrun Vulnerabilities

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11104/info QNX PPPoEd is reported to be prone to multiple local buffer overflow vulnerabilities. The issues presents themselves when PPPoEd handles certain command line arguments that are greater than 256 bytes in length. Because variables that are crucia...

CVE-2004-0121: Improper Neutralization of Argument Delimiters in a Command

Argument injection vulnerability in Microsoft Outlook 2002 does not sufficiently filter parameters of mailto: URLs when using them as arguments when calling OUTLOOK.EXE, which allows remote attackers to use script code in the Local Machine zone and execute arbitrary programs...

GLSA-200405-18 : Buffer Overflow in Firebird

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200405-18 Buffer Overflow in Firebird A buffer overflow exists in three Firebird binaries gdsinetserver, gdslockmgr, and gdsdrop that is exploitable by setting a large value to the INTERBASE environment variable. Impact : An...

Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express Arbitrary Program Execution Vulnerability

Binary data 1290.prm...

a2ps -- insecure command line argument handling

Rudolf Polzer reports: a2ps builds a command line for file containing an unescaped version of the file name, thus might call external programs described by the file name. Running a cronjob over a public writable directory a2ps-ing all files in it - or simply typing "a2ps .txt" in /tmp - is...

Symantec Norton AntiVirus 2004 ActiveX control fails to properly validate input

Overview There is a vulnerability in an ActiveX control provided by Norton AntiVirus 2004 that could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary programs, launch a browser window containing an unauthorized URL, or cause a denial of service on a vulnerable system. Description Norton AntiVirus 2004 is a...

Yahoo! Messenger 5.6 - YInsthelper.dll Multiple Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities

Yahoo! Messenger 5.6 - YInsthelper.dll Multiple Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10199/info Yahoo! Messenger COM objects YInstHelper.YInstStarter.1 and YInstHelper.YSearchSetting2 have been reported prone to remotely exploitable buffer overflow...

Yahoo! Messenger 5.6 - 'YInsthelper.dll' Multiple Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10199/info Yahoo! Messenger COM objects YInstHelper.YInstStarter.1 and YInstHelper.YSearchSetting2 have been reported prone to remotely exploitable buffer overflow vulnerabilities. The conditions are triggered when properties are assigned values strings o...

CVE-2004-0364: Undefined Security Weakness

The WrapNISUM ActiveX component WrapUM.dll in Norton Internet Security 2004 is marked safe for scripting, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary programs via the LaunchURL method...

IE 5.x-6.0 allows executing arbitrary programs using showHelp()

IE 5.x-6.0 allows executing arbitrary programs using showHelp =============================================================== Title: IE 5.x-6.0 allows executing arbitrary programs using showHelp Date: Monday, December 29, 2003 Software: IE 5.x, 6.0 Vendor: Microsoft Corp. Patch: N/A Author: Arman...

CVE-2003-0742

SCO Internet Manager mana allows local users to execute arbitrary programs by setting the REMOTEADDR environment variable to cause menu.mana to run as if it were called from ncsahttpd, then modifying the PATH environment variable to point to a malicious "hostname" program...

CVE-2003-0742

SCO Internet Manager mana allows local users to execute arbitrary programs by setting the REMOTEADDR environment variable to cause menu.mana to run as if it were called from ncsahttpd, then modifying the PATH environment variable to point to a malicious "hostname" program...

Low: Red Hat Security Advisory: lv security update

Updated lv packages that fix the possibility of local privilege escalation are now available. Lv is a powerful file viewer similar to less. It can decode and encode multilingual streams through many coding systems, such as ISO-8859, ISO-2022, EUC, SJIS Big5, HZ, and Unicode. A bug has been found ...

AIX 4.35.1 - diagrpt Arbitrary Privileged Program Execution

AIX 4.35.1 - diagrpt Arbitrary Privileged Program Execution source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2916/info AIX ships with a diagnostic reporting utility called 'diagrpt'. This utility is installed setuid root by default. When 'diagrpt' executes, it relies on an environment variable to locate...