GNU Mailutils: Privilege escalation

Background The GNU Mailutils are a collection of mail-related utilities, including an IMAP4 server imap4d. Description GNU Mailutils runs maidag by default with setuid root permissions. Impact An attacker can use this to write to arbitrary files as root. Workaround There is no known workaround at...

FreeBSD-SA-00:10.orville-write

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-00:10 Security Advisory FreeBSD, Inc. Topic: orville-write port contains local root compromise. Category: ports Module: orville-write Announced: 2000-03-15 Affects: Ports...