RedHat Linux 5.0/5.1/5.2 / Slackware Linux 3.5 - 'klogd' Local Buffer Overflow (2)

// source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/398/info It is possible to cause a denial of service remote and local through generating old, obscure kernel messages not terminated with \n in klogd. The problem exists because of a buffer overflow in the klogd handling of kernel messages. It is...

RedHat Linux 5.05.15.2 Slackware Linux 3.5 - klogd Local Buffer Overflow (1)

RedHat Linux 5.05.15.2 Slackware Linux 3.5 - klogd Local Buffer Overflow 1 // source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/398/info It is possible to cause a denial of service remote and local through generating old, obscure kernel messages not terminated with \n in klogd. The problem exists because...

RedHat Linux 5.1 / Caldera OpenLinux Standard 1.2 - Mountd

// source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/121/info NFS servers running certain implementations of mountd, primarily Linux systems. On some systems, the vulnerable NFS server is enabled by default. This vulnerability can be exploited even if the NFS server does not share any file systems. This...

RedHat Linux 5.1 Caldera OpenLinux Standard 1.2 - Mountd

RedHat Linux 5.1 Caldera OpenLinux Standard 1.2 - Mountd // source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/121/info NFS servers running certain implementations of mountd, primarily Linux systems. On some systems, the vulnerable NFS server is enabled by default. This vulnerability can be exploited even...

RedHat Linux 5.0 - msgchk Local Privilege Escalation

RedHat Linux 5.0 - msgchk Local Privilege Escalation // source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/383/info // // Similar to the mh vulnerability, a buffer overflow exists in the version of msgchk shipped with RedHat Linux 5.0. The vulnerability allows a user to execute arbritrary commands as root...

RedHat Linux 5.0 - 'msgchk' Local Privilege Escalation

// source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/383/info // // Similar to the mh vulnerability, a buffer overflow exists in the version of msgchk shipped with RedHat Linux 5.0. The vulnerability allows a user to execute arbritrary commands as root to compromise superuser access. // include define...

RedHat Linux 2.1 - abuse.console Local Privilege Escalation

RedHat Linux 2.1 - abuse.console Local Privilege Escalation source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/354/info Abuse is a game that is included with RedHat Linux 2.1 in the games package. The console version, abuse.console, is suid-root and will load the program sndrv as root without checking for...

RedHat Linux 2.1 - 'abuse.console' Local Privilege Escalation

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/354/info Abuse is a game that is included with RedHat Linux 2.1 in the games package. The console version, abuse.console, is suid-root and will load the program sndrv as root without checking for an absolute pathname. This means that sndrv can be...