CVE-2006-3083

The 1 krshd and 2 v4rcp applications in a MIT Kerberos 5 krb5 up to 1.5, and 1.4.x before 1.4.4, when running on Linux and AIX, and b Heimdal 0.7.2 and earlier, do not check return codes for setuid calls, which allows local users to gain privileges by causing setuid to fail to drop privileges usi...

Serious vulnerability in glibc

PROBLEM DESCRIPTION A vulnerability exists in glibc versions up to version 2.1.3, ie. all released versions, allowing local users to get root access. Fix packages for most major Linux distributions have been released or will be released within a day or two. There's also a quick workaround describ...