Solaris 2.6/7.0/8 netpr Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (1)

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1200/info A buffer overrun exists in the 'netpr' program, part of the SUNWpcu LP package included with Solaris, from Sun Microsystems. Versions of netpr on Solaris 2.6 and 7, on both Sparc and x86 have been confirmed as...

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 6.5.0 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...

QNX 6.x Photon Denial Of Service / File Overwrite

QNX 6.x Photon denial of service vulnerability by cenobyte 2013 - vulnerability description: QNX setuid root /usr/photon/bin/Photon allows users to create new servers with arbitrary filenames registered with the -N parameter. Photon does not check whether files exist and/or the owner of the ile i...

QNX 6.5.0 x86 phfont - Local Privilege Escalation

/ QNX 6.5.0 x86 phfont local root exploit by cenobyte 2013 - vulnerability description: Setuid root /usr/photon/bin/phfont on QNX is prone to a buffer overflow. The vulnerability is due to insufficent bounds checking of the PHOTONHOME environment variable. - vulnerable platforms: QNX 6.5.0SP1 QNX...

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 6.4.x6.5.x pppoectl - Information Disclosure

QNX 6.4.x6.5.x pppoectl - Information Disclosure QNX 6.4.x/6.5.x pppoectl disclose /etc/shadow by cenobyte 2013 - vulnerability description: QNX setuid root /sbin/pppoectl allows any user to gain access to privileged information such as the root password hash. The vulnerability exists because of ...

QNX 6.5.0 x86 io-graphics - Local Privilege Escalation

/ 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 environment variable. - vulnerable platforms: QNX...

[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: pmount-0.9.23-4.fc18

pmount "policy mount" is a wrapper around the standard mount program which permits normal users to mount removable devices without a matching /etc/fstab entry. Be warned that pmount is installed setuid root...

[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: pmount-0.9.23-4.fc17

pmount "policy mount" is a wrapper around the standard mount program which permits normal users to mount removable devices without a matching /etc/fstab entry. Be warned that pmount is installed setuid root...

Kloxo 6.1.12 Privilege Escalation

This file is part of the Metasploit Framework and may be subject to redistribution and commercial restrictions. Please see the Metasploit web site for more information on licensing and terms of use. http://metasploit.com/ require 'msf/core' require 'rex' require 'msf/core/post/common' require...

HP System Management Homepage Local Privilege Escalation

This file is part of the Metasploit Framework and may be subject to redistribution and commercial restrictions. Please see the Metasploit web site for more information on licensing and terms of use. http://metasploit.com/ require 'msf/core' require 'rex' require 'msf/core/post/common' require...

HP System Management Homepage Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

HP System Management Homepage versions 7.1.2 and below include a setuid root smhstart which is vulnerable to a local buffer overflow in the SSLSHAREBASEDIR env variable. This file is part of the Metasploit Framework and may be subject to redistribution and commercial restrictions. Please see the...

NVIDIA UNIX driver -- ARGB cursor buffer overflow in "NoScanout" mode

NVIDIA Unix security team reports: When the NVIDIA driver for the X Window System is operated in "NoScanout" mode, and an X client installs an ARGB cursor that is larger than the expected size 64x64 or 256x256, depending on the driver version, the driver will overflow a buffer. This can cause a...

AIX 6.1 TL 0 : libc (IZ50139)

There is a race condition in the MALLOCDEBUG debugging component of the malloc subsystem in the library libc.a. A local user can exploit this race condition when executing setuid root programs and thereby overwrite any file in the system. The successful exploitation of this vulnerability allows a...

AIX 5.3 TL 7 : at (IZ43454)

The at command does not drop permissions when reading certain files. A local attacker may exploit this error to read any file on the system because the command is setuid root. The following file is vulnerable : /usr/bin/at. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text in the...