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...

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...

IBM UniVerse 10.0 .0.9 uvadmsh Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/8203/info A vulnerability has been reported in the IBM U2 UniVerse uvadmsh program that could permit the uvadm user to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges. The -uv.install option of the vulnerable program allo...

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...

SCO Open Server 5.0.5 X Library Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (1)

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/638/info A buffer overflow vulnerability in the shared X library may allows local users to obtain higher privileges. Any setuid applications linked against the library are possibly vulnerable. The vulnerability is in the...

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...

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...

Adobe Version Cue 1.0/1.0.1 - (-lib) Local Root Exploit (OSX)

No description provided by source. / Adobe Version Cue VCNativeOSX: local root exploit. dyld by: vade79/v9 [email protected] fakehalo/realhalo Adobe Version Cue's VCNative program allows un-privileged local users to load arbitrary librariesbundles while running setuid root. this is done via the -lib...

Oracle9i Database Default Library Directory Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10829/info Oracle database implementations are reportedly prone to a default library directory privilege escalation vulnerability. This issue arises due to a default configuration error that will permit the attacker to...

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...

HP-UX 9.x/10.x/11.x cu Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1886/info cu is a unix utility that is used for communication between two hosts usually over phone lines. It is typically isntalled setuid root so that it can access communications hardware when executed by a regular user...

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 ...

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...

Halloween Linux 4.0,RedHat Linux 6.1/6.2 imwheel Vulnerability (2)

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1060/info A vulnerability exists in the 'imwheel' package for Linux. This package is known to be vulnerable to a buffer overrun in its handling of the HOME environment variable. By supplying a sufficiently long string...

openSUSE Security Update : glibc (openSUSE-SU-2010:0912-1)

This update of glibc fixes two bugs and security issues : CVE-2010-3847: Decoding of the $ORIGIN special value in various LD environment variables allowed local attackers to execute code in context of e.g. setuid root programs, elevating privileges. This issue does not affect SUSE as an assertion...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : libcap-ng (MDVSA-2014:117)

Updated libcap-ng packages fix security vulnerability : capnglock in libcap-ng before 0.7.4 sets securebits in an attempt to prevent regaining capabilities using setuid-root programs. This allows a user to run setuid programs, such as seunshare from policycoreutils, as uid 0 but without...

FreeBSD : libXfont -- X Font Service Protocol and Font metadata file handling issues (b060ee50-daba-11e3-99f2-bcaec565249c)

Alan Coopersmith reports : Ilja van Sprundel, a security researcher with IOActive, has discovered several issues in the way the libXfont library handles the responses it receives from xfs servers, and has worked with X.Org's security team to analyze, confirm, and fix these issues. Most of these...

libXfont -- X Font Service Protocol and Font metadata file handling issues

Alan Coopersmith reports: Ilja van Sprundel, a security researcher with IOActive, has discovered several issues in the way the libXfont library handles the responses it receives from xfs servers, and has worked with X.Org's security team to analyze, confirm, and fix these issues. Most of these...

QNX 6.x phgrafx File Enumeration

QNX 6.x phgrafx file enumeration vulnerability by cenobyte 2013 - vulnerability description: QNX setuid root /usr/photon/bin/phgrafx allows any non-root user to enumerate files and directories due to opendir messages. - vulnerable platforms: QNX 6.5.0SP1 QNX 6.5.0 QNX 6.4.1 QNX 6.3.0 QNX 6.2.0 -...

QNX 6.5.0 x86 io-graphics - Local root Exploit

Exploit for QNX platform in category local exploits / QNX 6.5.0 x86 io-graphics local root exploit by cenobyte 2013 - vulnerability description: Setuid root /usr/photon/bin/io-graphics on QNX is prone to a buffer overflow. The vulnerability is due to insufficent bounds checking of the PHOTON2HOME...