Linux Kernel 2.4/2.6 bluez Local Root Privilege Escalation Exploit (update)

Exploit for linux platform in category local exploits =========================================================================== Linux Kernel 2.4/2.6 bluez Local Root Privilege Escalation Exploit update =========================================================================== / Due to many...

XMail 1.21 (-t Command Line Option) Local Root Buffer Overflow Exploit

No description provided by source. / XMail 1.21 'sendmail' local exploit ret-into-libc Yields uid root || gid mail By qaaz at centrum dot cz, 2005 / include stdio.h include stdlib.h include unistd.h include string.h include signal.h include sys/types.h include sys/wait.h include sys/select.h defi...

ppxp -- local root exploit

A Debian Advisory reports: Jens Steube discovered that ppxp, yet another PPP program, does not release root privileges when opening potentially user supplied log files. This can be tricked into opening a root shell...

CVE-2004-1452

Tomcat before 5.0.27-r3 in Gentoo Linux sets the default permissions on the init scripts as tomcat:tomcat, but executes the scripts with root privileges, which could allow local users in the tomcat group to execute arbitrary commands as root by modifying the scripts...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: perl security update

Updated Perl packages that fix several security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3. Perl is a high-level programming language commonly used for system administration utilities and Web programming. Kevin Finisterre discovered a stack based buffer overflow flaw in sperl, the Pe...

CVE-2004-0793

The calendar program in bsdmainutils 6.0 through 6.0.14 does not drop root privileges when executed with the -a flag, which allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a calendar event file...

CDRecord's ReadCD Local Root Privileges

Exploit for linux platform in category local exploits ======================================= CDRecord's ReadCD Local Root Privileges ======================================= !/bin/bash echo "readcd-exp.sh -- ReadCD local exploit Test on cdrecord-2.01-0.a27.2mdk" echo "Author : newbug at chroot.or...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : kernel (MDKSA-2001:079-2)

Alexander Viro discovered a vulnerability in the devfs implementation that is shipped with Mandrake Linux 8.1. We are aware of the problem and are currently working on a solution. As a workaround, until an update becomes available, please boot with the devfs=nomount option. Rafal Wojtczuk found a...

SUS 2.0.2 local root vulnerability

LSS Security Advisories http://security.lss.hr --- Title : SUS 2.0.2 local root vulnerability Advisory ID : LSS2004-09-01 Date : September 14th, 2004 Advisory URL: : http://security.lss.hr/index.php?page=details&ID=LSS-2004-09-01 Impact : Any user can obtain root privileges Risk level : High...

cdrtools: Local root vulnerability in cdrecord if set SUID root

Background The cdrtools package is a set of tools for CD recording, including the popular cdrecord command-line utility. Description Max Vozeler discovered that the cdrecord utility, when set to SUID root, fails to drop root privileges before executing a user-supplied RSH program. By default,...

[Full-Disclosure] MDKSA-2004:091 - Updated cdrecord packages fix local root vulnerability

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mandrakelinux Security Update Advisory Package name: cdrecord Advisory ID: MDKSA-2004:091 Date: September 7th, 2004 Affected versions: 10.0, 9.2 Problem Description: Max Vozeler found that the cdrecord program, which is suid root, fails to drop euid=0...

Debian proftpd root Privilege Escalation

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Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : sudo (MDKSA-2002:003)

The SuSE Security Team discovered a vulnerability in sudo that can be exploited to obtain root privilege because sudo is installed setuid root. An attacker could trick sudo to log failed sudo calls executing the sendmail or equivalent mailer program with root privileges and an environment that is...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : kernel (MDKSA-2004:001)

A flaw in bounds checking in mremap in the Linux kernel versions 2.4.23 and previous was discovered by Paul Starzetz. This flaw may be used to allow a local attacker to obtain root privilege. Another minor information leak in the RTC real time clock routines was fixed as well. All Mandrake Linux...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : openssh (MDKSA-2002:019)

Joost Pol found a bug in the channel code of all versions of OpenSSH from 2.0 to 3.0.2. This bug can allow authenticated users with an existing account on the vulnerable system to obtain root privilege or by a malicious server attacking a vulnerable client. OpenSSH 3.1 is not vulnerable to this...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : samba (MDKSA-2003:032)

The SuSE security team, during an audit of the Samba source code, found a flaw in the main smbd code which could allow an external attacker to remotely and anonymously gain root privilege on a system running the Samba server. This flaw exists in all version of Samba 2.x up to and including 2.2.7a...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : cups (MDKSA-2003:001)

iDefense reported several security problems in CUPS that can lead to local and remote root compromise. An integer overflow in the HTTP interface can be used to gain remote access with CUPS privilege. A local file race condition can be used to gain root privilege, although the previous bug must be...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : mm (MDKSA-2002:045)

Marcus Meissner and Sebastian Krahmer discovered a temporary file vulnerability in the mm library which is used by the Apache webserver. This vulnerability can be exploited to obtain root privilege if shell access to the apache user typically apache or nobody is already obtained. %NASLMINLEVEL...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : tcltk (MDKSA-2002:060)

Some problems were discovered with the Tcl/Tk development environment. The expect application would search for its libraries in /var/tmp prior to searching in other directories, which could allow a local user to gain root privilege by writing a trojan library and waiting for the root user to run...

Fedora Core 1 : kernel-2.4.22-1.2138.nptl (2003-046)

Paul Starzetz discovered a flaw in bounds checking in mremap in the Linux kernel versions 2.4.23 and previous which may allow a local attacker to gain root privileges. No exploit is currently available; however, it is believed that this issue is exploitable although not trivially. The Common...