RedHat Linux 6.1 i386 Tmpwatch Recursive Write DoS Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1664/info Any user with write access to /tmp or /var/tmp, can induce tmpwatch to cause Red Hat and others runnng tmpwatch from cron to stop responding, and possibly require a hard reboot. This is accomplished by creating ...

CVE-2000-0715

Summary (CVE-2000-0715) : The vulnerability affects Red Hat Linux 6.2’s DiskCheck script (diskcheck.pl), a Powertools utility that alerts on near-capacity disks. Diskcheck.pl creates a temporary file in /tmp with a predictable name and runs with elevated privileges (setuid root). An attacker can ...