PT-2026-26286

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions XML::Parser versions through 2.47 Description The software contains a heap buffer overflow in the st serial stack function. This occurs when parsing XML files with deeply nested elements. Specifically, when stackptr equals stacksize - 1, the...

planetBackdoor.txt

Hello all, Today i discovered a pseudo backdoor thru a default password while trying to reset the password on a Planet Technology Corp FGSW2402RS switch. Allthough i dont consider this to be a real problem since the only access seems to be thru the serial port, i would like to share this with the...

Buffer overflow in moxa driver

Buffer overflow in the MoxaDriverIoctl function for the moxa serial driver moxa.c in Linux 2.2.x, 2.4.x, and 2.6.x before 2.6.22 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a certain modified length value...

CVE-2005-2984

Avocent CCM console server running firmware 2.1 CCM4850 allows remote authenticated attackers to bypass port restrictions by connecting to the server via SSH and using the connect command to access the serial port...

Avocent CCM: Port Access Control Bypass Vulnerability

Hi, this is another bug I found during my research on console servers which is presumably fixed by now. So here you go: Summary: Port Access Control Bypass Vulnerability Details: Avocents CCM console server have a flaw which enables users to bypass access control by using ssh with standard passwo...

RHEL 2.1 : kernel (RHSA-2005:529)

Updated kernel packages that fix a number of security issues as well as other bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 32 bit architectures This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The Linux kernel handles the basic...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security update

Updated kernel packages that fix a number of security issues as well as other bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 32 bit architectures This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The Linux kernel handles the basic...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security update

Updated kernel packages are now available to correct security issues and bugs for Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 2.1 Itanium. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The Linux kernel handles the basic functions of the operating syste...

CVE-2001-1520

Xircom REX 6000 allows local users to obtain the 10 digit PIN by starting a serial monitor, connecting to the personal digital assistant PDA via Rextools, and capturing the cleartext PIN...

Fortinet Fortigate firewall backdoor account

maintainer/pbcpbnserial number account has local root access to device...

CVE-2005-1837

Fortinet firewall running FortiOS 2.x contains a hardcoded username with the password set to the serial number, which allows local users with console access to gain privileges...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security update

Updated kernel packages that fix several security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Updated 9 August 2005 The advisory text has been updated to show that this update fixed...

USN-103-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Mathieu Lafon discovered an information leak in the ext2 file system driver. When a new directory was created, the ext2 block written to disk was not initialized, so that previous memory contents which could contain sensitive data like passwords became visible on the raw device. This is...

CVE-2005-0504

Buffer overflow in the MoxaDriverIoctl function for the moxa serial driver moxa.c in Linux 2.2.x, 2.4.x, and 2.6.x before 2.6.22 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a certain modified length value...

Fedora Core 1 : kernel-2.4.22-1.2199.nptl (2004-251)

Paul Starzetz discovered flaws in the Linux kernel when handling file offset pointers. These consist of invalid conversions of 64 to 32-bit file offset pointers and possible race conditions. A local unprivileged user could make use of these flaws to access large portions of kernel memory. The...

linux kernel IEEE1394(Firewire) driver integer overflow vulnerabilities

Linux kernel IEEE 1394Firewire driver - integer overflows ----------------------------------------------------------- Link: http://www.linux1394.org/index.php Driver Description: IEEE 1394 is a standard defining a high speed serial bus. This bus is also named FireWire by Apple or i.Link by Sony...

security flaw

/proc/tty/driver/serial in Linux 2.4.x reveals the exact number of characters used in serial links, which could allow local users to obtain potentially sensitive information such as the length of passwords...

CVE-2003-0960

CVE-2003-0960 refers to a vulnerability in OpenCA where, before 0.9.1.4, the system did not use the correct certificate in a chain when checking the serial, which could allow revoked or expired certificates to be accepted as valid. Multiple connected sources (SUSE advisory, OpenVAS/NASL/Nessus en...

CVE-2003-0461

/proc/tty/driver/serial in Linux 2.4.x reveals the exact number of characters used in serial links, which could allow local users to obtain potentially sensitive information such as the length of passwords...

CVE-2003-0461

CVE-2003-0461 affects the Linux kernel 2.4.x family. The /proc/tty/driver/serial interface exposes the exact number of characters used in serial links, which could allow local users to infer sensitive information such as password lengths. Public advisories confirm fixes via kernel updates or acce...