David Bagley xlock 4.16 User Supplied Format String Vulnerability (1)

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1585/info A vulnerability exists in versions of the xlockmore program, originally written by David Bagley. It is believed to affect all versions of xlock derived from xlockmore. This includes the xlock shipped with a numb...

CDRTools CDRecord 1.11/2.0 Devname Format String Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7565/info CDRecord has been reported prone to a format string vulnerability. The issue presents itself due to a programming error that occurs when calling a printf-like function. It has been reported that by harnessing an...

HP-UX 9.x/10.x/11.x cu Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1886/info cu is a unix utility that is used for communication between two hosts usually over phone lines. It is typically isntalled setuid root so that it can access communications hardware when executed by a regular user...

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...

Linuxconf 1.1.x/1.2.x Local Environment Variable Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (3)

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5585/info Linuxconf is a Linux configuration utility from Solucorp. It is typically installed as a setuid root utility for the management and configuration of Linux operating systems. A buffer overflow vulnerability has...

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...

Oracle9i Database Default Library Directory Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10829/info Oracle database implementations are reportedly prone to a default library directory privilege escalation vulnerability. This issue arises due to a default configuration error that will permit the attacker to...

QNX RTOS 4.25 monitor Arbitrary File Modification Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4902/info The QNX RTOS monitor utility is prone to an issue which may allow local attackers to modify arbitrary system files such as /etc/passwd. monitor is installed setuid root by default. The monitor -f command line...

IBM UniVerse 10.0 .0.9 uvadmsh Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/8203/info A vulnerability has been reported in the IBM U2 UniVerse uvadmsh program that could permit the uvadm user to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges. The -uv.install option of the vulnerable program allo...

ISDN4Linux 3.1 IPPPD Device String SysLog Format String Vulnerability (2)

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5437/info isdn4linux is a freely available, open source package of isdn compatibility tools. It is available for Linux operating systems. isdn4linux contains a format string vulnerability in the ipppd utility. In some...

QNX RTOS 6.2 Application Packager Non-Explicit Path Execution Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6146/info A vulnerability has been discovered in an application packager shipped with QNX RTOS. It should be noted that the vulnerable packager is installed setuid root by default. It has been reported that the packager...

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 ...