CVE-2003-1291

VMware ESX Server 1.5.2 before Patch 4 allows local users to execute arbitrary programs as root via certain modified VMware ESX Server environment variables...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security update

Updated kernel packages that fix a number of security issues as well as other bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 64 bit architectures. This security advisory has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The Linux kernel handles the...

CVE-2003-1291: Undefined Security Weakness

VMware ESX Server 1.5.2 before Patch 4 allows local users to execute arbitrary programs as root via certain modified VMware ESX Server environment variables...

JavaScript garbage-collection hazards — Mozilla

Garbage collection hazards have been found in the JavaScript engine where some routines used temporary variables that were not properly protected rooted. Specially crafted objects could contain a user-defined method that would be called during the lifetime of these temporaries. If this method...

CVE-2006-0479

pmwiki.php in PmWiki 2.1 beta 20, with registerglobals enabled, allows remote attackers to bypass protection mechanisms that deregister global variables by setting both a GPC variable and a GLOBALS variable with the same name, which causes PmWiki to unset the GLOBALS variable but not the GPC...

CVE-2006-0479

pmwiki.php in PmWiki 2.1 beta 20, with registerglobals enabled, allows remote attackers to bypass protection mechanisms that deregister global variables by setting both a GPC variable and a GLOBALS variable with the same name, which causes PmWiki to unset the GLOBALS variable but not the GPC...

[eVuln] Pixelpost Photoblog XSS Vulnerability

New eVuln Advisory: Pixelpost Photoblog XSS Vulnerability http://evuln.com/vulns/45/summary.html --------------------Summary---------------- Software: Pixelpost Photoblog Sowtware's Web Site: http://www.pixelpost.org/ Versions: 1.4.3 Critical Level: Moderate Type: Cross-Site Scripting Class: Remo...

Ubuntu 4.10 / 5.04 / 5.10 : sudo vulnerability (USN-235-1)

Charles Morris discovered a privilege escalation vulnerability in sudo. On executing Perl scripts with sudo, various environment variables that affect Perl's library search path were not cleaned properly. If sudo is set up to grant limited sudo execution of Perl scripts to normal users, this coul...

[SECURITY] [DSA 946-1] New sudo packages fix privilege escalation

-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 946-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze January 20th, 2006 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

[SECURITY] [DSA 946-1] New sudo packages fix privilege escalation

-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 946-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze January 20th, 2006 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : netpbm (MDKSA-2005:199)

Pnmtopng in netpbm 10.2X, when using the -trans option, uses uninitialized size and index variables when converting Portable Anymap PNM images to Portable Network Graphics PNG, which might allow attackers to execute arbitrary code by modifying the stack. Netpbm 9.2X is not affected by this...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : uim (MDKSA-2005:198)

Masanari Yamamoto discovered that Uim uses environment variables incorrectly. This bug causes a privilege escalation if setuid/setgid applications are linked to libuim. The updated packages have been patched to address this issue. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descripti...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : sudo (MDKSA-2005:234)

Charles Morris discovered a vulnerability in sudo versions prior to 1.6.8p12 where, when the perl taint flag is off, sudo does not clear the PERLLIB, PERL5LIB, and PERL5OPT environment variables, which could allow limited local users to cause a perl script to include and execute arbitrary library...

[Full-disclosure] Session data pollution vulnerabilities in web applications

In web applications I've tested recently I have stumbled upon something that seems to be new class of bugs. Quick googling did not turn up any reference to this kind of vulnerabilities, so I thought I should describe it. The problem boils down to the application reusing the same session variable...

EV0021.txt

New eVuln Advisory: Venom Board SQL Injection Vulnerability --------------------Summary---------------- Software: Venom Board Sowtware's Web Site: http://sourceforge.net/projects/venomboard/ Versions: 1.22 Critical Level: Moderate Type: Cross-Site Scripting Class: Remote Status: Unpatched Exploit...

USN-235-2: sudo vulnerability

USN-235-1 fixed a vulnerability in sudo's handling of environment variables. Tavis Ormandy noticed that sudo did not filter out the PYTHONINSPECT environment variable, so that users with the limited privilege of calling a python script with sudo could still escalate their privileges. For referenc...

Sudo 1.6.x - Environment Variable Handling Security Bypass (2)

Sudo 1.6.x - Environment Variable Handling Security Bypass 2 source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16184/info Sudo is prone to a security-bypass vulnerability that could lead to arbitrary code execution. This issue is due to an error in the application when handling environment variables. A...

Sudo 1.6.x - Environment Variable Handling Security Bypass (1)

Sudo 1.6.x - Environment Variable Handling Security Bypass 1 source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16184/info Sudo is prone to a security-bypass vulnerability that could lead to arbitrary code execution. This issue is due to an error in the application when handling environment variables. A...

sudo privilege escalation

few envoronment vaqriables used by bash perl and python are not cleaned...

Sudo 1.6.x - Environment Variable Handling Security Bypass (1)

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16184/info Sudo is prone to a security-bypass vulnerability that could lead to arbitrary code execution. This issue is due to an error in the application when handling environment variables. A local attacker with the ability to run Python scripts can...