LPRng lpd should not be SETUID root

Well, even in spite of all of my efforts, care, and paranoia, I finally dropped the hammer on my foot. Luckily it appears that I spotted this loophole before somebody on the LPRng mailing list did. Or worse yet, got a call from CERT about this problem :- SUMMARY: Versions of...

KDE 1.1.2 KApplication configfile - Local Privilege Escalation (1)

source: https://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 files when running setuid root...

KDE 1.1.2 KApplication configfile - Local Privilege Escalation (1)

KDE 1.1.2 KApplication configfile - Local Privilege Escalation 1 source: https://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...

xsoldier (FreeBSD 3.3/Linux Mandrake 7.0) - Local Buffer Overflow (1)

// source: https://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 an X windows console. The binar...

xsoldier (FreeBSD 3.3/Linux Mandrake 7.0) - Local Buffer Overflow (2)

/ source: https://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 an X windows console. The binary...

Security Advisory: FreeBSD-SA-00:16.golddig

============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-00:16 Security Advisory FreeBSD, Inc. Topic: golddig port allows users to overwrite local files Category: ports Module: golddig Announced: 2000-05-09 Credits: Discovered during internal ports collection...

Potential security problem with mtr

Hi. One of my users asked me to install mtr, most adequately described as a GUI:ed combination of traceroute and ping. I thought it looked cool, and had a closer look. In this mail follows a warning about a potential security problem with this program if installed as suggested. No exploit has bee...

minor issue with IBM HTTPD and /usr/bin/ikeyman

Summary: /usr/bin/ikeyman is a shell script installed with setuid root permissions by the IBMHSSSB package on Solaris. The script does not seem to work very well in a Solaris 2.6 environment because of dynamic linker issues; if they are resolved, however, an unprivileged user may then be able to...

Halloween Linux 4.0 SuSE Linux 6.06.16.26.3 - kreatecd Local Privilege Escalation

Halloween Linux 4.0 SuSE Linux 6.06.16.26.3 - kreatecd Local Privilege Escalation source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1061/info A vulnerability exists in the kreatecd program for Linux. This program is a graphical front end to the cdrecord program, and is installed setuid root. This program...

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...

Halloween Linux 4.0 RedHat Linux 6.16.2 - imwheel (2)

Halloween Linux 4.0 RedHat Linux 6.16.2 - imwheel 2 // source: https://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...

Sam Hawker wmcdplay 1.0 beta1-2 - Local Buffer Overflow (2)

Sam Hawker wmcdplay 1.0 beta1-2 - Local Buffer Overflow 2 source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1047/info wmcdplay is cdplayer generally used with the WindowMaker X11 window-manager on unix systems. While wmcdplay is rarely installed at all by default, when it is installed it is typically set...

Halloween Linux 4.0 / RedHat Linux 6.1/6.2 - 'imwheel' (1)

// source: https://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 containing machine executable code...

Sam Hawker wmcdplay 1.0 beta1-2 - Local Buffer Overflow (2)

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1047/info wmcdplay is cdplayer generally used with the WindowMaker X11 window-manager on unix systems. While wmcdplay is rarely installed at all by default, when it is installed it is typically set setuid root. wmcdplay is vulnerable to a buffer overflow...

AT Computing atsar_linux 1.4 - File Manipulation

AT Computing atsarlinux 1.4 - File Manipulation source: https://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...

Majordomo 1.94.4/1.94.5 - Local -C Parameter (1)

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/903/info It is possible for a local user to gain majordomo privileges through a vulnerability which allows privileged arbitrary commands to be executed. If the -C parameter is passed to majordomo or one of several other scripts when run with the setuid ro...

Great Circle Associates Majordomo 1.94.4 - Local resend

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/902/info It is possible to execute arbitrary commands with elevated privileges through exploiting the majordomo binary, "resend". A setuid root wrapper program calls resend after setuiding and setgiding to lowered but still elevated privileges which it ru...

SunOS 4.1.1 - usrreleasebinwinstall Local Privilege Escalation

SunOS 4.1.1 - usrreleasebinwinstall Local Privilege Escalation source: https://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...

dtsession_vuln.txt

Subject: Vulnerability in dtsession To: [email protected] Hello, I discovered the following security problem in dtsession actually in libtt.so, part of CDE: Description ----------- The session manager dtsession contains an overflow vulnerability when parsing the environment variable...

Martin Stover Mars NWE 0.99 - Local Buffer Overflow

Martin Stover Mars NWE 0.99 - Local Buffer Overflow // source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/617/info There are several buffer overflows in the setuid root components of the Mars Netware Emulator package. They allow for a local root compromise through the overflowing of buffers without bounds...