SGI IRIX 6.4 - 'startmidi' Local Privilege Escalation

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/469/info A vulnerability exists in the startmidi program from Silicon Graphics. This utility is included with Irix versions 5.x and 6.x with the Iris Digital Media Execution Environment. startmidi is setuid root, and creates a temporary file called...

Solaris 7.0 - aspppd Insecure Temporary File Creation

Solaris 7.0 - aspppd Insecure Temporary File Creation source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/292/info Aspppd is a tool shipped with Solaris for dial up PPP access. This tool creates files in the /tmp directory insecurely in particular /tmp/.asppp.fifo allowing other users to link to these file...