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Desktop Linux Password Stealer and Privilege Escalation
This module steals the user password of an administrative user on a desktop Linux system when it is entered for unlocking the screen or for doing administrative actions using PolicyKit. Then, it escalates to root privileges using sudo and the stolen user password. It exploits the design weakness...
FreeBSD 3.3,Linux Mandrake 7.0 'xsoldier' Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (1)
No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/871/info Certain versions of FreeBSD 3.3 Confirmed and Linux Mandrake confirmed ship with a vulnerable binary in their X11 games package. The binary/game in question, xsoldier, is a setuid root binary meant to be run via ...
IBM DB2 Shared Library Injection Vulnerability
No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/8346/info IBM DB2 ships with a number of shared libraries, stored in a directory owned by the user and group 'bin'. As setuid root utilities are linked to these libraries, their ownership by a user and group of a lower...
SunOS <= 4.1.1 /usr/release/bin/makeinstall Vulnerability
No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21/info This applies to sites that have installed Sun Source tapes only. The Sun distribution of sources sunsrc has an installation procedure which creates the directory /usr/release/bin and installs two setuid root files...
LPPlus 3.2.2/3.3 Permissions DoS Vulnerabilities
No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1643/info Vulnerability 1: Several files that are part of the LPPlus print management system are installed setuid root by default. These files include: $LPHOME/bin/dccsched $LPHOME/bin/dcclpdser $LPHOME/bin/dccbkst These...
KDE 1.1.2 KApplication configfile vulnerability (2)
No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1291/info The KDE configuration-file management has a bug which could result in root compromise. Due to insecure creation of configuration rc files via KApplication-class, local users can modify ownership of arbitrary fil...
Linuxconf 1.1.x/1.2.x Local Environment Variable Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (1)
No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5585/info Linuxconf is a Linux configuration utility from Solucorp. It is typically installed as a setuid root utility for the management and configuration of Linux operating systems. A buffer overflow vulnerability has...
ISDN4Linux 3.1 IPPPD Device String SysLog Format String Vulnerability (1)
No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5437/info isdn4linux is a freely available, open source package of isdn compatibility tools. It is available for Linux operating systems. isdn4linux contains a format string vulnerability in the ipppd utility. In some...
Digital Unix 4.0 MSGCHK MH_PROFILE Symbolic Link Vulnerability
No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3320/info The msgchk utility under certain versions of Digital Unix contains an information disclosure vulnerability which could yield root privilege. Because msgchk fails to check file permissions before opening user...
SunOS <= 4.1.1 /usr/release/bin/winstall Vulnerability
No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22/info This applies to sites that have installed Sun Source tapes only. The Sun distribution of sources sunsrc has an installation procedure which creates the directory /usr/release/bin and installs two setuid root files...
Samba Pre-2.0.5 Vulnerabilities
No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/536/info There were a number of vulnerabilities in the Samba package pre-2.0.5. The first is a possible denial of service in nmbd the netbios name service daemon, which resulted in nmbd spinning until killed. The second...
AT Computing atsar_linux 1.4 File Manipulation Vulnerability
No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1048/info atsar is a linux load monitoring software package released under the GPL by AT Computing. atsadc is a setuid root binary that is included in the atsar package. atsadc is setuid because it obtains informatin via...
FreeBSD 3.3,Linux Mandrake 7.0 'xsoldier' Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (2)
No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/871/info Certain versions of FreeBSD 3.3 Confirmed and Linux Mandrake confirmed ship with a vulnerable binary in their X11 games package. The binary/game in question, xsoldier, is a setuid root binary meant to be run via ...
Sun Cobalt RaQ 4.0 Predictable Temporary Filename Symbolic Link Attack Vulnerability
No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5529/info A vulnerability has been reported in Cobalt RaQ that may allow attackers to obtain elevated privileges. The vulnerability exists in the /usr/lib/authenticate utility which is used by Apache for authentication...
kosch suid wrapper 1.1.1 - Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2837/info A boundary condition error exists in suid wrapper or 'su-wrapper.' The overflow occurs when a string exceeding approximately 1032 characters is given as the first argument when the program is run. Because the...
Snes9x 1.3 - Local Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3437/info Snes9x is a free Super Nintendo emulator that runs on a number of platforms. Snes9x is prone to a buffer overflow. This is due to improper bounds checking of rom names. In this case, 4089 characters are required...
David Bagley xlock 4.16 User Supplied Format String Vulnerability (2)
No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1585/info A vulnerability exists in versions of the xlockmore program, originally written by David Bagley. It is believed to affect all versions of xlock derived from xlockmore. This includes the xlock shipped with a numb...
QNX 6.4.x/6.5.x pppoectl - Information Disclosure
No description provided by source. QNX 6.4.x/6.5.x pppoectl disclose /etc/shadow by cenobyte 2013 [email protected] - vulnerability description: QNX setuid root /sbin/pppoectl allows any user to gain access to privileged information such as the root password hash. The vulnerability exis...
QNX RTOS 4.25/6.1 phgrafx-startup Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4916/info The QNX phgrafx-startup utility is prone to an issue which may make it possible for local attackers to escalate privileges. This issue is due to unsafe use of the system function to invoke other programs. This...
SGI Performance Co-Pilot 2.1.x/2.2 pmpost Symbolic Link Vulnerability
No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2887/info Performance Co-Pilot PCP is a set of services to support system-level performance monitoring developed by SGI. It has traditionally been an IRIX product, however SGI has made it open source and it is now availab...