Sudo 1.3.1 - 1.6.8p Pathname Validation Local Root Exploit (openbsd)

No description provided by source. include stdio.h include stdlib.h include unistd.h include sysexits.h include sys/wait.h define SUDO "/usr/bin/sudo" ifdef BUFSIZ undef BUFSIZ define BUFSIZ 128 endif / ANY MODIFIED REPUBLISHING IS RESTRICTED OpenBSD sudo 1.3.1 - 1.6.8p local root exploit Tested...

Mac OS X DS_Store Arbitrary File Overwrite Exploit

No description provided by source. !/usr/bin/perl OSX Finder DSStore arbitrary file overwrite exploit. root version vade79 - [email protected] fakehalo/realhalo this will create a directory called "xfinder" in your home directory, once the root user has modified that directory using Finder in almost...

Debian DSA-870-1 : sudo - missing input sanitising

Tavis Ormandy noticed that sudo, a program that provides limited super user privileges to specific users, does not clean the environment sufficiently. The SHELLOPTS and PS4 variables are dangerous and are still passed through to the program running as privileged user. This can result in the...

Debian DSA-946-2 : sudo - missing input sanitising

The former correction to vulnerabilities in the sudo package worked fine but were too strict for some environments. Therefore we have reviewed the changes again and allowed some environment variables to go back into the privileged execution environment. Hence, this update. The configuration optio...

CentOS 3 : initscripts (CESA-2006:0015)

Updated initscripts packages that fix a privilege escalation issue and several bugs are now available. This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The initscripts package contains the basic system scripts used to boot your Red Hat system,...

CentOS 3 / 4 : sudo (CESA-2005:535)

An updated sudo package is available that fixes a race condition in sudo's pathname validation. This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The sudo superuser do utility allows system administrators to give certain users the ability to run...

FreeBSD : sudo -- arbitrary command execution (1b725079-9ef6-11da-b410-000e0c2e438a)

Tavis Ormandy reports : The bash shell uses the value of the PS4 environment variable after expansion as a prefix for commands run in execution trace mode. Execution trace mode xtrace is normally set via bash's -x command line option or interactively by running 'set -o xtrace'. However, it may al...

[SECURITY] [DSA 946-2] New sudo packages fix privilege escalation

-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 946-2 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze April 8th, 2006 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

[SECURITY] [DSA 946-2] New sudo packages fix privilege escalation

-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 946-2 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze April 8th, 2006 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

DSA-946-2 sudo - missing input sanitising

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initscripts security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2006:0015 Updated initscripts packages that fix a privilege escalation issue and several bugs are now available. This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The initscripts package contains the basic...

security flaw

initscripts in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 does not properly handle certain environment variables when /sbin/service is executed, which allows local users with sudo permissions for /sbin/service to gain root privileges via unknown vectors...

USN-262-1: Ubuntu 5.10 installer password disclosure

Karl Øie discovered that the Ubuntu 5.10 installer failed to clean passwords in the installer log files. Since these files were world-readable, any local user could see the password of the first user account, which has full sudo privileges by default. The updated packages remove the passwords and...

Ubuntu 5.10 : Ubuntu 5.10 installer vulnerability (USN-262-1)

Karl Oie discovered that the Ubuntu 5.10 installer failed to clean passwords in the installer log files. Since these files were world-readable, any local user could see the password of the first user account, which has full sudo privileges by default. The updated packages remove the passwords and...

CVE-2006-1079

htpasswd, as used in Acme thttpd 2.25b and possibly other products such as Apache, might allow local users to gain privileges via shell metacharacters in a command line argument, which is used in a call to the system function. NOTE: since htpasswd is normally installed as a non-setuid program, an...

CVE-2005-3629

CVE-2005-3629 affects initscripts in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. A bug in how environment variables are handled when /sbin/service is executed allows a local user with sudo access to /sbin/service to run commands with root privileges. Public advisories (RHSA-2006:0015, RHSA-2006:0016) and CentOS/...

security flaw

initscripts in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 does not properly handle certain environment variables when /sbin/service is executed, which allows local users with sudo permissions for /sbin/service to gain root privileges via unknown vectors...

[slackware-security] sudo

New sudo packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and -current to fix a security issue. More details about this issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE database: https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2006-0151 Here are the details from the Slackware...

Slackware 10.0 / 10.1 / 10.2 / 8.1 / 9.0 / 9.1 / current : sudo (SSA:2006-045-08)

New sudo packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and -current to fix a security issue. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Slackware Security Advisory 2006-045-08. The text...

CVE-2006-0576

Untrusted search path vulnerability in opcontrol in OProfile 0.9.1 and earlier allows local users to execute arbitrary commands via a modified PATH that references malicious 1 which or 2 dirname programs. NOTE: while opcontrol normally is not run setuid, a common configuration suggests accessing...