Linux Kernel 2.2/2.4 - procfs Stream redirection to Process Memory Privilege Escalation

/ source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2937/info The Linux /proc filesystem is a virtual filesystem provided by the Linux Kernel as an interface to some process and system information and parameters. Under certain circumstances, an access validation error may exist in the handling of...

CVE-2000-0959

glibc2 does not properly clear the LDDEBUGOUTPUT and LDDEBUG environmental variables when a program is spawned from a setuid program, which could allow local users to overwrite files via a symlink attack...

itetris[v1.6.2] local root exploit (system()+../ protection)

i was auditing some svgalibsuid root programs and noticed itetris had a possibly exploitable system; call... which has since obviously proven exploitable or i wouldn't be posting this message. : ORIGINAL exploit url belowun-wrapped: http://realhalo.org/xitetris.c xitetris.c: / itetrisv1.6.2 local...

CVE-1999-1382

NetWare NFS mode 1 and 2 implements the "Read Only" flag in Unix by changing the ownership of a file to root, which allows local users to gain root privileges by creating a setuid program and setting it to "Read Only," which NetWare-NFS changes to a setuid root program...

qmail-DoS.txt

Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 00:04:09 -0500 From: Wietse Venema To: [email protected] Subject: Anonymous Qmail Denial of Service In recent postings, Daniel Bernstein expands on the insecurity of the Postfix world-writable directory for local mail submission. Of all the attacks possible with such a...

CVE-1999-1182

Buffer overflow in run-time linkers 1 ld.so or 2 ld-linux.so for Linux systems allows local users to gain privileges by calling a setuid program with a long program name argv0 and forcing ld.so/ld-linux.so to report an error...