mtr 0.45, 0.46

Few days ago, a new version of mtr has been released. Authors wrote in CHANGELOG, that they fixed a non-exploitable buffer overflow. In fact, this vulnerability is very easly exploitable and allows attacker to gain access to raw socket, which makes possible ip spoofing and other malicious network...

Tru64 5 - 'su' Env Local Stack Overflow

/ Copyright c 2000 ADM / / All Rights Reserved / / THIS IS UNPUBLISHED PROPRIETARY SOURCE CODE OF ADM / / The copyright notice above does not evidence any / / actual or intended publication of such source code. / / / / Title: Tru64 5 su / / Tested under: Tru64 5A OSF/1 / / By: K2 thx horizon,lamo...

CVE-2000-1213

ping in iputils before 20001010, as distributed on Red Hat Linux 6.2 through 7J and other operating systems, does not drop privileges after acquiring a raw socket, which increases ping's exposure to bugs that otherwise would occur at lower privileges...

LBL Traceroute 1.4 a5 - Heap Corruption (3)

LBL Traceroute 1.4 a5 - Heap Corruption 3 // source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1739/info Traceroute is a well-known network diagnostic tool used for analyzing the path on a network between two hosts. On unix systems, traceroute is typically installed setuid root because of its use of raw...

LBL Traceroute 1.4 a5 - Heap Corruption (2)

LBL Traceroute 1.4 a5 - Heap Corruption 2 // source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1739/info Traceroute is a well-known network diagnostic tool used for analyzing the path on a network between two hosts. On unix systems, traceroute is typically installed setuid root because of its use of raw...

Potential security problem with mtr

Hi. One of my users asked me to install mtr, most adequately described as a GUI:ed combination of traceroute and ping. I thought it looked cool, and had a closer look. In this mail follows a warning about a potential security problem with this program if installed as suggested. No exploit has bee...