Debian DSA-171-1 : fetchmail - buffer overflows

Stefan Esser discovered several buffer overflows and a broken boundary check within fetchmail. If fetchmail is running in multidrop mode these flaws can be used by remote attackers to crash it or to execute arbitrary code under the user id of the user running fetchmail. Depending on the...

Local root compromise possible with getmail

The following vulnerabilities apply to all releases of getmail prior to 3.2.5, and all version 4 releases prior to 4.2.0. They do not apply where getmail is run as an unprivileged user, or where an unprivileged external MDA is used for the final delivery of mail. They are not exploitable remotely...

Possible root compromose with bsdmainutils 6.0.x < 6.0.15 (Debian testing/unstable)

Possible root compromise with calendar bsdmainutils 6.0.x 6.0.15 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Introduction ------------ The calendar utility is a handy little tool that informs you about upcoming events. Each user can define his/her own calendar events. In...

GLSA-200408-15 : Tomcat: Insecure installation

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200408-15 Tomcat: Insecure installation The Gentoo ebuild for Tomcat sets the ownership of the Tomcat init scripts as tomcat:tomcat, but those scripts are executed with root privileges when the system is started. This may allow a...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : expect (MDKSA-2001:087)

A packaging problem that can lead to a root compromise existed in the expect package as provided in Mandrake Linux 8.1. expect would look for libraries in the directory /home/snailtalk/tmp/tcltk-root/usr/lib before any other and if such a user existed on the system, with rogue libraries, if root...

SUSE-SA:2003:032: wuftpd

The remote host is missing the patch for the advisory SUSE-SA:2003:032 wuftpd. Janusz Niewiadomski and Wojciech Purczynski of iSEC Security Research have found a single byte buffer overflow in the Washington University ftp daemon wuftpd, a widely used ftp server for Linux-like systems. It is yet...

Sun Solaris 8/9 Unspecified Passwd Local Root Compromise Vulnerability

Sun Solaris 8/9 Unspecified Passwd Local Root Compromise Vulnerability. CVE-2004-0360. Local exploit for solaris platform source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9757/info Sun has reported an unspecified vulnerability in the passwd utility on Solaris that may permit local attackers to gain...

Buffer overflow in pam_smb password handling

Applications utilizing pamsmb can be compromised by any user who can enter a password. In many cases, this is a remote root compromise...

ProFTPD ASCII translation bug resulting in remote root compromise

A buffer overflow exists in the ProFTPD code that handles translation of newline characters during ASCII-mode file uploads. An attacker may exploit this buffer overflow by uploading a specially crafted file, resulting in code execution and ultimately a remote root compromise...

SRT2003-08-22-104 - Wireless Intrusion dection remote root compromise

Secure Network Operations, Inc. http://www.secnetops.com Strategic Reconnaissance Team [email protected] Team Lead Contact [email protected] Our Mission: Secure Network Operations offers expertise in Networking, Intrusion Detection Systems IDS, Software Security Validation, and...

Login Vulnerabilities on IRIX

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- SGI Security Advisory Title : Login Vulnerabilities Number : 20030702-01-P Date : July 16, 2003 Reference: CVE CAN-2003-0574 Reference: SGI BUGS 850587 889119 Fixed in : IRIX 6.5.21 or patch 5182 SGI provides this information freely to the SGI user community for...

MABRYdtv.txt

MABRY HTTP Directory Traversal Vulnerabilities Release Date: July 10, 2003 Severity: Root Compromise Systems Affected: Mabry HTTP 1.00.047 Description: A directory traversal vulnerability in the product allows remote attackers to view the content of files that reside outside the bounding HTML roo...

Qt temporary files race condition in Knoppix 3.1

Qt libaries works with KDE. Knoppix 3.1 comes with KDE3. A default installation on hard disk of this live CD linux distribution with the SSHD daemon running may allow a serious D.o.S. attack and potential root compromise. I've found a race condition in knoppix 3.1 live CD. I've confirmed it on 2...

SRT2003-06-13-0945 - Progress PATH based dlopen() issue

Secure Network Operations, Inc. http://www.secnetops.com Strategic Reconnaissance Team [email protected] Team Lead Contact [email protected] Our Mission: Secure Network Operations offers expertise in Networking, Intrusion Detection Systems IDS, Software Security Validation, and...

SRT2003-06-13-1009.txt

Secure Network Operations, Inc. http://www.secnetops.com Strategic Reconnaissance Team [email protected] Team Lead Contact [email protected] Our Mission: Secure Network Operations offers expertise in Networking, Intrusion Detection Systems IDS, Software Security Validation, and...

SRT2003-06-13-1009 - Progress _dbagent -installdir dlopen() issue

Secure Network Operations, Inc. http://www.secnetops.com Strategic Reconnaissance Team [email protected] Team Lead Contact [email protected] Our Mission: Secure Network Operations offers expertise in Networking, Intrusion Detection Systems IDS, Software Security Validation, and...

ChiTeX/ChiLaTeX unsafe set-user-id root

Niels Heinen reports that ChiTeX installs set-user-id root executables that invoked system3 without setting up the environment, trivially allowing local root compromise...

SRT2003-04-01-1231 - Progress DLC overflows

Secure Network Operations, Inc. http://www.secnetops.com Strategic Reconnaissance Team [email protected] Team Lead Contact [email protected] Our Mission: Secure Network Operations offers expertise in Networking, Intrusion Detection Systems IDS, Software Security Validation, and...

Sendmail: -1 gone wild

CVE: CAN-2003-0161 CERT: VU897604 FORCED RELEASE -- VENDOR NOTIFIED AS OF 03/18/03 There is a vulnerability in Sendmail versions 8.12.8 and prior. The address parser performs insufficient bounds checking in certain conditions due to a char to int conversion, making it possible for an attacker to...

iDEFENSE Security Advisory 01.21.03: Buffer Overflows in Mandrake Linux printer-drivers Package

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 iDEFENSE Security Advisory 01.21.03: Buffer Overflows in Mandrake Linux printer-drivers Package http://www.idefense.com/advisory/01.21.03.txt January 21, 2003 I. BACKGROUND MandrakeSoft Inc.'s Mandrake Linux includes the printer-drivers package in mos...