mailx 8.1.1-10 (BSDSlackware) - Local Buffer Overflow (2)

mailx 8.1.1-10 BSDSlackware - Local Buffer Overflow 2 / source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1305/info Some Linux distributions ship with BSD mailx 8.1.1-10 On Slackware 7.x it can be found as /usr/bin/Mail. A vulnerability exists in the 'mail' program, part of the Berkeley mailx package. Th...

CVE-1999-0421

During a reboot after an installation of Linux Slackware 3.6, a remote attacker can obtain root access by logging in to the root account without a password...

RedHat Linux 5.05.15.2 Slackware Linux 3.5 - klogd Local Buffer Overflow (2)

RedHat Linux 5.05.15.2 Slackware Linux 3.5 - klogd Local Buffer Overflow 2 // source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/398/info It is possible to cause a denial of service remote and local through generating old, obscure kernel messages not terminated with \n in klogd. The problem exists because...

RedHat Linux 5.05.15.2 Slackware Linux 3.5 - klogd Local Buffer Overflow (1)

RedHat Linux 5.05.15.2 Slackware Linux 3.5 - klogd Local Buffer Overflow 1 // source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/398/info It is possible to cause a denial of service remote and local through generating old, obscure kernel messages not terminated with \n in klogd. The problem exists because...

RedHat Linux 5.0/5.1/5.2 / Slackware Linux 3.5 - 'klogd' Local Buffer Overflow (2)

// source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/398/info It is possible to cause a denial of service remote and local through generating old, obscure kernel messages not terminated with \n in klogd. The problem exists because of a buffer overflow in the klogd handling of kernel messages. It is...

RedHat Linux 5.0/5.1/5.2 / Slackware Linux 3.5 - 'klogd' Local Buffer Overflow (1)

// source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/398/info It is possible to cause a denial of service remote and local through generating old, obscure kernel messages not terminated with \n in klogd. The problem exists because of a buffer overflow in the klogd handling of kernel messages. It is...

CVE-1999-1422

The default configuration of Slackware 3.4, and possibly other versions, includes . dot, the current directory in the PATH environmental variable, which could allow local users to create Trojan horse programs that are inadvertently executed by other users...

CVE-1999-1434

login in Slackware Linux 3.2 through 3.5 does not properly check for an error when the /etc/group file is missing, which prevents it from dropping privileges, causing it to assign root privileges to any local user who logs on to the server...

Slackware Linux 3.5 - etcgroup Local Privilege Escalation

Slackware Linux 3.5 - etcgroup Local Privilege Escalation source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/155/info Due to the way /bin/login behaves when a /etc/group file is not present under Slackware's version of the password shadowing suite, users who log in while this file is not present will be...

Slackware Linux 3.5 - '/etc/group' Local Privilege Escalation

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/155/info Due to the way /bin/login behaves when a /etc/group file is not present under Slackware's version of the password shadowing suite, users who log in while this file is not present will be given uid and gid 0. This will allow them unrestricted acce...

CVE-1999-1498

Slackware Linux 3.4 pkgtool allows local attacker to read and write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the reply file...

Slackware Linux 3.4 - pkgtool Temporary File

Slackware Linux 3.4 - pkgtool Temporary File source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/82/info pkgtool creates the file /tmp/reply insecurely and follows symbolic links. An attacker can create a symbolic link from /tmp/reply to any file and wait for root to run the program. This will clober the...

Slackware Linux 3.4 - 'makebootdisk' Temporary File

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/78/info makebootdisk creates the file /tmp/return insecurely and follows symbolic links. An attacker can create a symbolic link from /tmp/return to any file and wait for root to run the program. This will clober the target file. The file created has...

Slackware Linux 3.4 - 'pkgtool' Temporary File

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/82/info pkgtool creates the file /tmp/reply insecurely and follows symbolic links. An attacker can create a symbolic link from /tmp/reply to any file and wait for root to run the program. This will clober the target file. The file created has permissions...

Slackware Linux 3.4 - 'netconfig' Temporary File

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/81/info netconfig creates the file /tmp/tmpmsg insecurely and follows symbolic links. An attacker can create a symbolic link from /tmp/tmpmsg to any file and wait for root to run the program. This will clober the target file. The file created has...

Slackware Linux 3.4 liloconfig-color temporary file Vulnerability

Exploit for linux platform in category dos / poc $ ln -s /tmp/reply /etc/passwd 0day.today 2017-12-31...

CVE-1999-1445

Vulnerability in imapd and ipop3d in Slackware 3.4 and 3.3 with shadowing enabled, and possibly other operating systems, allows remote attackers to cause a core dump via a short sequence of USER and PASS commands that do not provide valid usernames or passwords...

CVE-1999-0340

Buffer overflow in Linux Slackware crond program allows local users to gain root access...

PT-1997-1136 · Slackware Linux · Crond

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux Slackware crond affected versions not specified Description: A buffer overflow issue in the crond program of Linux Slackware allows local users to gain root access. Recommendations: At the moment, there is no information about a newer...

Slackware Linux 3.13.2 - color_xterm Local Buffer Overflow (2)

Slackware Linux 3.13.2 - colorxterm Local Buffer Overflow 2 / source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/369/info In Slackware Linux 3.1 and 3.2, the version of color xterm included is vulnerable to a buffer overflow attack that allows for a local user to gain root access. / / colorxterm buffer...