Oracle 8.x cmctl Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

No description provided by source. / source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1968/info cmctl is the Connection Control Manager, part of the Oracle 8i installation. A vulnerability exists that can allow elevation of privileges. The problem occurs in the way cmctl handles the user-supplied command...

rh 6.2 - gid compromises, etc

Probably it's nothing exciting, but several packets supplied with RH 6.2 will allow 500 gid/uid compromises. On every system it HAS some kind of meaning - sometimes just a little exceeding quotas, hiding from accounting, anonymous intrusions to other systems - but sometimes compromised uucp or ne...