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Sun Cobalt RaQ 4.0 - Predictable Temporary Filename Symbolic Link Attack
source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5529/info A vulnerability has been reported in Cobalt RaQ that may allow attackers to obtain elevated privileges. The vulnerability exists in the /usr/lib/authenticate utility which is used by Apache for authentication purposes. Reportedly, the utility...
CVE-1999-1080
rmmount in SunOS 5.7 may mount file systems without the nosuid flag set, contrary to the documentation and its use in previous versions of SunOS, which could allow local users with physical access to gain root privileges by mounting a floppy or CD-ROM that contains a setuid program and running...
SCO Openserver Xsco heap overflow.
====================================================================== Strategic Reconnaissance Team Security Advisory SRT2002-06-11-1037 Topic : SCO OpenServer Xsco heap overflow Date : June 11, 2002 Credit : KF dotslashatsnosoft.com Site : http://www.snosoft.com...
CVE-2002-0572
CVE-2002-0572 affects BSD-based systems (notably FreeBSD 4.5 and earlier); the issue arises when a local user closes standard input/output/error (FDs 0–2) and a subsequent setuid-invoked I/O operation reuses those descriptors, allowing read/write access to restricted files. Connected records corr...
CVE-2002-0572
FreeBSD 4.5 and earlier, and possibly other BSD-based operating systems, allows local users to write to or read from restricted files by closing the file descriptors 0 standard input, 1 standard output, or 2 standard error, which may then be reused by a called setuid process that intended to...
Ehud Gavron TrACESroute 6.1.1 - Terminator Function Format String
source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4956/info A format string vulnerability exists in TrACESroute. The problem exists in the terminator -T function of the program. Due to improper use of the fprintf function, an attacker may be able to supply a malicious format string to the program that...
QNX RTOS 4.25/6.1 - su Password Hash Disclosure
source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4914/info It has been reported that the 'su' utility for QNX RTOS accepts the SIGSEGV signal and dumps a world readable core file. An attacker is able to analyze the core file and obtain very sensitive information. It is very probable that this is a...
xandros-autorun.txt
There is a new debian based distro called Xandros making its way on to the market.I believe the developers from Corel Linux are on board with Xandros. It has at least one public beta and another on the way and I know of at least one OS that uses it as its backend. I got a chance to play on a coup...
QNX 6.x - 'ptrace()' Arbitrary Process Modification
source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4919/info The QNX implementation of 'ptrace' is reportedly insecure. An unprivileged process may attach to a setuid program without restriction. Since the attaching process may view or edit memory, an attacker may exploit this issue to escalate privileges...
QNX RTOS 4.25 - 'CRTTrap' File Disclosure
source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4901/info The QNX RTOS crttrap binary includes a command-line option for specifying a configuration file. crttrap is installed setuid by default. crttrap Local attackers may specify an arbitrary system file in place of the configuration file and crttrap...
QNX RTOS 4.25 - monitor Arbitrary File Modification
source: https://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 option may be used by a local attack...
QNX RTOS 4.25 - monitor Arbitrary File Modification
QNX RTOS 4.25 - monitor Arbitrary File Modification source: https://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 ...
IBM Informix SE 7.25 sqlexec - Local Buffer Overflow (1)
// source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4891/info Informix is an enterprise database distributed and maintained by IBM. A buffer overflow vulnerability has been reported for Informix-SE for Linux. The overflow is due to an unbounded string copy of the INFORMIXDIR environment variable to a...
OpenBSD kernel fails to properly check closed file descriptors "0-2" when running setuid program
Overview The OpenBSD kernel does not adequately check file descriptors 0-2 prior to execing setuid binaries. Other OS kernels may be vulnerable as well. Description The OpenBSD kernel does not adequately check file descriptors 0-2 prior to execing setuid binaries. As a result, an attacker may be...
Apple Mac OSX 10.x / FreeBSD 4.x / OpenBSD 2.x / Solaris 2.5/2.6/7.0/8 - 'exec C Library' Standard I/O File Descriptor Closure
/ source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4568/info It has been reported that BSD-based kernels do not check to ensure that the C library standard I/O file descriptors 0-2 are valid open files before execing setuid images. Consequently, I/O that are opened by a setuid process may be assigned fi...
Pine Internet Advisory: Setuid application execution may give local root in FreeBSD
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pine Internet Security Advisory ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Advisory ID : PINE-CERT-20020401 Authors : Joost Pol [email protected] Issue...
Security Update: [CSSA-2002-SCO.15] Open UNIX 8.0.0 UnixWare 7.1.1 : Buffer overflow in libX11 with -xrm
To: [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Caldera International, Inc. Security Advisory Subject: Open UNIX 8.0.0 UnixWare 7.1.1 : Buffer overflow in libX11 with -xrm Advisory number: CSSA-2002-SCO.15 Issue date: 2002 April 11 Cross reference: 1. Problem...
AZL-36938 CVE-2002-0130 affecting package efax 0.9a-34
Buffer overflow in efax 0.9 and earlier, when installed setuid root, allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a long -x argument...
AZL-36937 CVE-2002-0129 affecting package efax 0.9a-34
efax 0.9 and earlier, when installed setuid root, allows local users to read arbitrary files via the -d option, which prints the contents of the file in a warning message...
