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[SECURITY] New versions of ncurses fixes security problem
We have received a report that using ncurses in setuid programs will give the user a way to open arbitrary files. We recommend you upgrade your ncurses3.4-dev package immediately. dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file. Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 alias hamm This version of Debian were releas...
[SECURITY] New versions of ncurses fixes security problem
We have received a report that using ncurses in setuid programs will give the user a way to open arbitrary files. We recommend you upgrade your ncurses3.4-dev package immediately. dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file. Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 alias hamm ------------------------------- Th...
Linux libc 5.3.12 (RedHat Linux 4.0 / Slackware Linux 3.1) - libc NLSPATH
// source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/379/info There is a serious vulnerability in linux libc affecting all Linux distributions using libc 5.2.18 and below. The vulnerability is centered around the NLSPATH environment variable. Through exporting the oversized and shell-code including buffe...
BSD/OS 2.1 / Caldera UnixWare 7/7.1.0 / FreeBSD 1.1.5.1/2.0 / HP HP-UX 10.34 / IBM AIX 4.2 / SGI IRIX 6.3 / SunOS 4.1.4 - 'libXt Library' Local Overflow / Local Privilege Escalation (2)
/ source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/237/info The libXt library is part of the X Windows system. There are several buffer overflow conditions that may allow an unauthorized user to gain root privileges through setuid and setgid programs that are linked to libXt. These problems were openly...
IBM AIX 3.2.5 - 'IFS' Local Privilege Escalation
source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/454/info Under older versions of AIX By changing the IFS enviroment variable to / setuid root programs that use system or popen can be fooled into running user provided programs. !/bin/csh IFS hole in AIX3.2 rmail gives egid=mail. Apr. 1994 Setup needed...
CVE-1999-1142
SunOS 4.1.2 and earlier allows local users to gain privileges via "LD" environmental variables to certain dynamically linked setuid or setgid programs such as 1 login, 2 su, or 3 sendmail, that change the real and effective user ids to the same user...
SunOS 4.1.3 - LD_LIBRARY_PATH / LD_OPTIONS
source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/43/info There exists a vulnerability involving environment variables and setuid/setgid programs under SunOS 4.0 and higher. A dynamically-linked program that is invoked by a setuid/setgid program has access to the caller's LD environmental variables if th...