QNX 6.x 'ptrace()' Arbitrary Process Modification Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4919/info The QNX implementation of 'ptrace' is reportedly insecure. An unprivileged process may attach to a setuid program without restriction. Since the attaching process may view or edit memory, an attacker may exploit...

OpenSSH privilege separation flaw

Unspecified vulnerability in the sshd Privilege Separation Monitor in OpenSSH before 4.5 causes weaker verification that authentication has been successful, which might allow attackers to bypass authentication. NOTE: as of 20061108, it is believed that this issue is only exploitable by leveraging...

CVE-2006-5794

Unspecified vulnerability in the sshd Privilege Separation Monitor in OpenSSH before 4.5 causes weaker verification that authentication has been successful, which might allow attackers to bypass authentication. NOTE: as of 20061108, it is believed that this issue is only exploitable by leveraging...

FreeBSD 5.5/6.x - Scheduler Policy Local Denial of Service

// source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20517/info FreeBSD is prone to a local denial-of-service vulnerability because the kernel fails to require superuser privileges to perform a sensitive operation. An attacker may leverage this issue to consume all CPU resources, denying service to...

Perl 5.6.0 (on Linux) getpwuid() leave /etc/shadow opened

I'm not sure how serious this issue is, but I think it may cause problems in some environments. The system is Linux, RedHat 7.0, Perl 5.6.0, glibc 2.2.4, latest updates. Recently I run 'lsof' on unprivileged Apache httpd process running modperl application and was pretty surprised to see...

Microsoft Windows Server 2000 - Debug Registers

// source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2764/info A vulnerability exists in the handling of debug registers in Windows 2000. It is possible for unprivileged processes to create breakpoints for arbitrary processes. This can be used to 'kill' arbitrary processes without administrative...