script.command.txt

------------------------------------------------------------- Title: Silly hardlink vulnerability in UNIX 'script' command Linux version maintainer: Andries Brouwer [email protected] Bug found by: Marco van Berkum [email protected] Date: 17-12-2001 Priority: low...

CVE-1999-1467

The CVE-1999-1467 issue affects the rcp service on SunOS 4.0.x. The underlying problem is tied to the configuration of the nobody user, enabling remote attackers from trusted hosts to execute arbitrary commands as root. The connected PT-1989-1001 entry confirms SunOS 4.0.x as the affected platfor...

FreeBSD-SA-01:57.sendmail

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-01:57 Security Advisory FreeBSD, Inc. Topic: sendmail contains local root vulnerability REVISED Category: core Module: sendmail Announced: 2001-08-27 Revised: 2001-08-30...

glibc unsetenv fails to properly handle environment variables passed more than once to a program

Overview The glibc implementation of unsetenv fails to properly remove one of two successive occurrences of the same environment variable if the variable is redundently passed to a program. Description The glibc implementation of unsetenv, if called to remove an environment variable that occurs t...

[SECURITY] [DSA-032-2] proftp runs as root, /var symlink removal

Package: proftpd Vulnerability: proftpd running as root, /var symlink removal Debian-specific: yes This is an update to the DSA-032-1 advisory. The powerpc package that was listed in that advisory was unfortunately compiled on the wrong system which caused it to not work on a Debian GNU/Linux 2.2...

/usr/sbin/audlinks has the following behavior: $ id uid=100optyx gid=1other $ mkdir -p /tmp/b/dev $ ln -s /.rhosts /tmp/b/dev/.devfsadmdev.lock $ su root Password: /usr/sbin/audlinks -r /tmp/b ls -l /.rhosts -rw-r--r-- 1 root other 4 Dec 28 14:28 /.rhosts truss output snippet:...

Sun Solaris 7.0 - '/usr/dt/bin/dtprintinfo' Local Buffer Overflow

/ source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/249/info The dtprintinfo is a setuid commands open the CDE Print Manager window. A stack based buffer overflow in the handling of the "-p" option allow the execution of arbitrary code as root. This vulnerablity has been assigned Sun Bug 4139394. The...

Slackware Linux 3.4 - netconfig Temporary File

Slackware Linux 3.4 - netconfig Temporary File source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/81/info netconfig creates the file /tmp/tmpmsg insecurely and follows symbolic links. An attacker can create a symbolic link from /tmp/tmpmsg to any file and wait for root to run the program. This will clober...