EUVD-2000-0171

Malware in sbrugna...

Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200611-05 (ftpd)

The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory GLSA 200611-05. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $ Description: Auto generated from Gentoo's XML based advisory Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2008 E-Soft Inc. http://www.securityspace.com Text descriptions are largely excerpted fr...

DEBIAN-CVE-2008-0008

The padroproot function in PulseAudio 0.9.8, and a certain 0.9.9 build, does not check return values from 1 setresuid, 2 setreuid, 3 setuid, and 4 seteuid calls when attempting to drop privileges, which might allow local users to gain privileges by causing those calls to fail via attacks such as...

CVE-2000-0172

The CVE concerns the mtr program, where a seteuid call is used only when attempting to drop privileges, enabling local users to gain root privileges. The available sources confirm a local-privilege escalation risk but do not provide concrete exploit details, affected versions, or remediation step...