Security Advisory 2000-015

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- NetBSD Security Advisory 2000-015 ================================= Topic: format-string bugs in passwd/libutil Version: all releases up to and including 1.4.2 Severity: local root compromise possible Fixed: 2000/10/03 in -current and netbsd-1-5 branches...

@stake Advisory: PHP3/PHP4 Logging Format String Vulnerability (A 101200-1)

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 We contacted the PHP team on 10/3/2000 concerning this problem. We wanted to hold off releasing our advisory until a fix was available for PHP3 since some users may not be able to easily upgrade to PHP4. Fixes for PHP3 and PHP4 are now available. We a...

PHP 3.0/4.0 - Error Logging Format String

// source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1786/info PHP is a scripting language designed for CGI applications that is used on many websites. There exists a remotely exploitable format string vulnerability in all versions of PHP below PHP 4.0.3. The vulnerability exists in the code that handles...

OpenBSD 2.x - 'fstat' Format String

// source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1746/info fstat is a program shipped with BSD unix variants that is used to list the open files on a system. It is installed sgid kmem so it can access information about open files from the kernel memory structures. A user definable environment variabl...

OpenBSD 2.x - fstat Format String

OpenBSD 2.x - fstat Format String // source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1746/info fstat is a program shipped with BSD unix variants that is used to list the open files on a system. It is installed sgid kmem so it can access information about open files from the kernel memory structures. A...

RedHat 6 GLIBC/locale - Subsystem Format String

/ source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1634/info Conectiva 4.x/5.x,Debian 2.x,IBM AIX 3.x/4.x,Mandrake 7,RedHat 5.x/6.x,IRIX 6.x, Solaris 2.x/7/8,Turbolinux 6.x,Wirex Immunix OS 6.2 Locale Subsystem Format String Many UNIX operating systems provide internationalization support according to t...

Screen-3.7.6 local compromise

Hi ppl, as mentioned in other postings the screen package is vulnerbale to the classic format string attack. I attached a simple exploit and as far as I could investigate on Suse 6.1 with screen 3.7.6: the vulnerable function is Msgint err, char fmt, ... which is invoked with the value of the...

Libc locale - Local Privilege Escalation (2)

Libc locale - Local Privilege Escalation 2 / source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1634/info ectiva 4.x/5.x,Debian 2.x,IBM AIX 3.x/4.x,Mandrake 7,RedHat 5.x/6.x,IRIX 6.x, Solaris 2.x/7/8,Turbolinux 6.x,Wirex Immunix OS 6.2 Locale Subsystem Format String Many UNIX operating systems provide...

Conectiva 4.x/5.x / Debian 2.x / RedHat 6.x / S.u.S.E 6.x/7.0 / Trustix 1.x - rpc.statd Remote Format String (3)

// source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1480/info A vulnerability exists in the 'rpc.statd' program, which is part of the 'nfs-utils' package that is shipped with a number of popular Linux distributions. Because of a format-string vulnerability when calling the 'syslog' function, a remote...

NAI Net Tools PKI Server 1.0 - Format String

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1538/info Certain versions of Network Associates Inc.'s Net Tools PKI Public Key Infrastructure server ship with a vulnerability which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands on the system which the PKI server resides. The problem lies withi...

Conectiva 4.x5.x Debian 2.x RedHat 6.x S.u.S.E 6.x7.0 Trustix 1.x - rpc.statd Remote Format String (1)

Conectiva 4.x5.x Debian 2.x RedHat 6.x S.u.S.E 6.x7.0 Trustix 1.x - rpc.statd Remote Format String 1 // source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1480/info A vulnerability exists in the 'rpc.statd' program, which is part of the 'nfs-utils' package that is shipped with a number of popular Linux...

ftpd: the advisory version

You might have seen the wuftpd exploit by tf8, he released it in his own lame way. But now I bring you the story behind it. The story begins inside the ftpcmd.y file. Which has the ftp commands in it. The bug is in the siteexecchar cmd function. There is calls lreply200,cmd; In ftpd.c we find voi...

ProFTPd 1.2 pre6 - snprintf Remote Root

ProFTPd 1.2 pre6 - snprintf Remote Root source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/650/info Lack of user input validation in ProFTPD can lead to a remote root vulnerability. On systems that support it ProFTPD will attempt to modify the name of the program being executed argv0 to display the comman...