PT-2001-2370 · Microsoft · Windows 2000

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Windows 2000 Description: The issue concerns the Task Manager in Windows 2000, which does not allow local users to end certain processes via the Process tab. Specifically, processes with uppercase letters in their names, such as winlogon.exe,...

CVE-2001-1080

diagrpt in AIX 4.3.x and 5.1 uses the DIAGDATADIR environment variable to find and execute certain programs, which allows local users to gain privileges by modifying the variable to point to a Trojan horse program...

CVE-2001-1359

Volution clients 1.0.7 and earlier attempt to contact the computer creation daemon CCD when an LDAP authentication failure occurs, which allows remote attackers to fully control clients via a Trojan horse Volution server...

CVE-2001-0289

The CVE-2001-0289 entry concerns the joe text editor (version 2.8). It vulnerably searches for a .joerc configuration file in the current working directory, the user’s home directory, and then /etc/joe. This enables a local attacker to place a Trojan Horse .joerc in a directory and cause other us...

CVE-2000-0854

CVE-2000-0854 affects Microsoft Office 2000 documents. The vulnerability arises because the document’s directory is used to locate DLLs (e.g., riched20.dll, msi.dll); an attacker could place a Trojan Horse DLL in the same directory to execute arbitrary commands. The connected sources confirm the ...

CVE-2001-0289

Joe text editor 2.8 searches the current working directory CWD for the .joerc configuration file, which could allow local users to gain privileges of other users by placing a Trojan Horse .joerc file into a directory, then waiting for users to execute joe from that directory...

CVE-2000-0854

When a Microsoft Office 2000 document is launched, the directory of that document is first used to locate DLL's such as riched20.dll and msi.dll, which could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary commands by inserting a Trojan Horse DLL into the same directory as the document...

CVE-2000-0650

The default installation of VirusScan 4.5 and NetShield 4.5 has insecure permissions for the registry key that identifies the AutoUpgrade directory, which allows local users to execute arbitrary commands by replacing SETUP.EXE in that directory with a Trojan Horse...

CVE-2001-0289: Undefined Security Weakness

Joe text editor 2.8 searches the current working directory CWD for the .joerc configuration file, which could allow local users to gain privileges of other users by placing a Trojan Horse .joerc file into a directory, then waiting for users to execute joe from that directory...

CVE-2001-0289

Joe text editor 2.8 searches the current working directory CWD for the .joerc configuration file, which could allow local users to gain privileges of other users by placing a Trojan Horse .joerc file into a directory, then waiting for users to execute joe from that directory...

CVE-2000-1074

CVE-2000-1074 affects the csstart program in iCal 2.1 Patch 2. It uses relative pathnames to install libsocket and libnsl, enabling the icsuser account to gain root privileges by placing a Trojan Horse library in the current or parent directory. The available documents state the vulnerability and...

CVE-2000-1072

iCal 2.1 Patch 2 installs many files with world-writeable permissions, which allows local users to modify the iCal configuration and execute arbitrary commands by replacing the iplncal.sh program with a Trojan horse...

CVE-2000-1073

csstart program in iCal 2.1 Patch 2 searches for the cshttpd program in the current working directory, which allows local users to gain root privileges by creating a Trojan Horse cshttpd program in a directory and calling csstart from that directory...

CVE-2000-1073

CVE-2000-1073 affects the iCal 2.1 Patch 2 environment through the csstart program. The root cause is that csstart searches for the cshttpd executable in the current working directory; a local user can place a Trojan Horse cshttpd in a directory and run csstart from there, enabling local privileg...

CVE-2000-1074

csstart program in iCal 2.1 Patch 2 uses relative pathnames to install the libsocket and libnsl libraries, which could allow the icsuser account to gain root privileges by creating a Trojan Horse library in the current or parent directory...

CVE-2000-1163

ghostscript before 5.10-16 uses an empty LDRUNPATH environmental variable to find libraries in the current directory, which could allow local users to execute commands as other users by placing a Trojan horse library into a directory from which another user executes ghostscript...

CVE-2000-1073: Undefined Security Weakness

csstart program in iCal 2.1 Patch 2 searches for the cshttpd program in the current working directory, which allows local users to gain root privileges by creating a Trojan Horse cshttpd program in a directory and calling csstart from that directory...

CVE-2000-1163: Undefined Security Weakness

ghostscript before 5.10-16 uses an empty LDRUNPATH environmental variable to find libraries in the current directory, which could allow local users to execute commands as other users by placing a Trojan horse library into a directory from which another user executes ghostscript...

CVE-2000-1128

The default configuration of McAfee VirusScan 4.5 does not quote the ImagePath variable, which improperly sets the search path and allows local users to place a Trojan horse "common.exe" program in the C:\Program Files directory...

CVE-2000-1163

ghostscript before 5.10-16 uses an empty LDRUNPATH environmental variable to find libraries in the current directory, which could allow local users to execute commands as other users by placing a Trojan horse library into a directory from which another user executes ghostscript...