ld.so bug - LD_DEBUG_OUTPUT follows symlinks

Hi, ld.so from glibc2 doesn't unset variables LDDEBUGOUTPUT and LDDEBUG when running suid. If program calls setuid0 and then fork, child process will follow prepared symlink $LDDEBUGOUTPUT.$pid and overwrites any file in system. Jakub Vlasek...

FreeBSD-SA-00:16.golddig

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- ============================================================================= 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...

SGI IRIX 6.2 - midikeyssoundplayer Local Privilege Escalation

SGI IRIX 6.2 - midikeyssoundplayer Local Privilege Escalation !/bin/sh source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/909/info SGI's Irix operating system ships with an X11 application called 'soundplayer' which is used to play .WAV files. It is not setuid root by itself, but can inherit root privileg...

oracle_intelligent_agent.txt

START OF BUGTRAQ POST Oracle installations with the 'Oracle Intelligent Agent' installed have a path related vulnerability. The problem lies in the dbsnmp program located in $ORACLEHOME/bin . This setuid root program calls a tcl script nmiconf.tcl located by default in...

Fred N. van Kempen dip 3.3.7 - Local Buffer Overflow (1)

// source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/86/info A buffer overflow resides in 'dip-3.3.7o' and derived programs. This is a problem only on systems where 'dip' is installed setuid. The culpable code is an 'sprintf' in line 192 in 'main.c': sprintfbuf, "%s/LCK..%s", PATHLOCKD, nam; -----...

SunOS 4.1.3 - LD_LIBRARY_PATH LD_OPTIONS

SunOS 4.1.3 - LDLIBRARYPATH LDOPTIONS source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/43/info There exists a vulnerability involving environment variables and setuid/setgid programs under SunOS 4.0 and higher. A dynamically-linked program that is invoked by a setuid/setgid program has access to the...