[SECURITY] New versions of cfingerd fixes root compromise

We have received a report that a user can execute arbitrary commands from a .plan or .project file. While the option that would allow this is disabled by default the system is vulnerable if the system admin had this option enabled. We recommend you upgrade your cfingerd package immediately. dpkg ...

CVE-1999-1039

Vulnerability in 1 diskalign and 2 diskperf in IRIX 6.4 patches 2291 and 2848 allow a local user to create root-owned files leading to a root compromise...

Armidale Software Yapp Conferencing System 2.2 - Local Buffer Overflow

// source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/365/info Armidale Software's Yapp Conferencing System is vulnerable to an environment variable related buffer overflow vulnerability in at least the Linux version. The consequence of the vulnerability being exploited is a local root compromise. / Explo...

Armidale Software Yapp Conferencing System 2.2 - Local Buffer Overflow

Armidale Software Yapp Conferencing System 2.2 - Local Buffer Overflow // source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/365/info Armidale Software's Yapp Conferencing System is vulnerable to an environment variable related buffer overflow vulnerability in at least the Linux version. The consequence o...

SGI IRIX 6.4 - xfsdump Local Privilege Escalation

SGI IRIX 6.4 - xfsdump Local Privilege Escalation source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/472/info The xfsdump program shipped with Irix 5.x and 6.x from SGI contains a vulnerability which could lead to root compromise. By creating a log file in /usr/tmp called bck.log, a user could create a...

SGI IRIX 6.4 - 'xfsdump' Local Privilege Escalation

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/472/info The xfsdump program shipped with Irix 5.x and 6.x from SGI contains a vulnerability which could lead to root compromise. By creating a log file in /usr/tmp called bck.log, a user could create a symbolic link from this file to any file they wish t...

BSDOS 2.13.0 Larry Wall Perl 5.0 03 RedHat 4.04.1 SGI Freeware 1.02.0 SUIDPerl - Local Overflow (2)

BSDOS 2.13.0 Larry Wall Perl 5.0 03 RedHat 4.04.1 SGI Freeware 1.02.0 SUIDPerl - Local Overflow 2 source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/708/info Several buffer overflows were found in the Perl helper application 'suidperl' or 'sperl'. When this program is installed setuid root the overflows m...

BSD/OS 2.1/3.0 / Larry Wall Perl 5.0 03 / RedHat 4.0/4.1 / SGI Freeware 1.0/2.0 SUIDPerl - Local Overflow (2)

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/708/info Several buffer overflows were found in the Perl helper application 'suidperl' or 'sperl'. When this program is installed setuid root the overflows may lead to a local root compromise...

BSD/OS 2.1/3.0 / Larry Wall Perl 5.0 03 / RedHat 4.0/4.1 / SGI Freeware 1.0/2.0 SUIDPerl - Local Overflow (1)

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/708/info Several buffer overflows were found in the Perl helper application 'suidperl' or 'sperl'. When this program is installed setuid root the overflows may lead to a local root compromise. !/usr/bin/perl yes, this suidperl exploit is in perl, isn't it...

Slackware Linux 3.1 - usrX11binSuperProbe Local Buffer Overflow

Slackware Linux 3.1 - usrX11binSuperProbe Local Buffer Overflow / source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/364/info superprobe is an program supplied with XFree86 that helps determine video hardware. It is shipped with Slackware Linux 3.1 and is installed setuid root. There is an exploitable...

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...

SunOS 4.1.4 - arp(8c) Memory Dump

SunOS 4.1.4 - arp8c Memory Dump source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/291/info The version of arp8c which shipped with versions of SunOs 4.1.X could be used to dump system memory by using the -f flag. This flag causes the file filename to be read and multiple entries to be set in the ARP...

SunOS 4.1.4 - arp(8c) Memory Dump

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/291/info The version of arp8c which shipped with versions of SunOs 4.1.X could be used to dump system memory by using the -f flag. This flag causes the file filename to be read and multiple entries to be set in the ARP tables. However, in this instance...