vlock vulnerability in RedHat 7.0

I've tried to lock all virtual consoles in RedHat 7.0 using vlock, which is delivered with this release of RedHat. If user root locks all consoles - it's no problem, but if normal user locks consoles then anybody can unlock without typing a password. Try to use it in the following way: 1. logon a...

Sam Hawker wmcdplay 1.0 beta1-2 - Local Buffer Overflow (2)

Sam Hawker wmcdplay 1.0 beta1-2 - Local Buffer Overflow 2 source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1047/info wmcdplay is cdplayer generally used with the WindowMaker X11 window-manager on unix systems. While wmcdplay is rarely installed at all by default, when it is installed it is typically set...

linuxconf.txt

Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 20:35:42 -0500 From: Alex Mottram Subject: Security concerns in linuxconf shipped w/RedHat 5.1 There exists a security / DOS problem with linuxconf-1.11.r11-rh3/i386 as upgraded from RedHat's FTP site. No other versions have been tested by me. Both the maintainer of linuxco...

CVE-1999-1394

BSD 4.4 based operating systems, when running at security level 1, allow the root user to clear the immutable and append-only flags for files by unmounting the file system and using a file system editor such as fsdb to directly modify the file through a device...