CVE-2000-0270

The CVE affects Emacs 20’s make-temp-name Lisp function, which creates temporary files with predictable names, enabling a symlink attack. This is described by CVE-2000-0270 in NVD; connected sources note the same vulnerability. The available documents do not specify a patch version or workaround....

CVE-2000-0270: Undefined Security Weakness

The make-temp-name Lisp function in Emacs 20 creates temporary files with predictable names, which allows attackers to conduct a symlink attack...

CVE-1999-0458

The CVE-1999-0458 entry concerns L0phtcrack 2.5, which creates temporary files in the system TEMP directory. The underlying issue is that these temporary files could contain password information, exposing partial confidentiality of credentials. The available connected Red Hat and CVE listing refe...

Solaris 2.5.1 lp lpsched - Symlink

Solaris 2.5.1 lp lpsched - Symlink !/bin/sh lpNet & temp file exploit: break lp, then use lp priv to break root or bin, etc.... Written by: Chris Sheldon [email protected] Tested on Solaris-2.5.1: SunOS testhost 5.5.1 Generic sun4m sparc SUNW,SPARCstation-20 Caveat: This system is running...

Solaris 2.5.1 lp / lpsched - Symlink

!/bin/sh lpNet & temp file exploit: break lp, then use lp priv to break root or bin, etc.... Written by: Chris Sheldon [email protected] Tested on Solaris-2.5.1: SunOS testhost 5.5.1 Generic sun4m sparc SUNW,SPARCstation-20 Caveat: This system is running without patches. Sun released patch...