CVE-2006-1744

Buffer overflow in plmain.c in sail in BSDgames before 2.17-7 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a long player name that is used in a scanf function call...

One byte buffer overflow in CVSD

One byte buffer overflow in scanf...

[DER ADV#8] - Local off by one in CVSD

Local off by one overflow in CVSD. intro: the family of scanf functions scanf, sscanf, fscanf are generally insecure in usage and steps have been taken to make them more...secure you might say like adding bounds checking sscanfhey, ".4096s d", buffer, int but the function still remains quite...

kill_sntsd.pl

I noticed an uncommon scanf overflow in the Simple Network Time Sync daemon and client version 1.0, tested on Redhat 6.1. I haven't looked into this fully yet, but it looks as tho it could be root comprimising as it sits on a priveledged udp port and seems to coredump, but looks like it only give...