Excite for Web Servers 1.1 - Administrative Password

Excite for Web Servers 1.1 - Administrative Password source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2665/info Excite for Web Servers 1.1 EWS is a search engine suite for web servers running under Windows NT and UNIX. By default the file containing the administrative password, architext.conf, is world...

Excite for Web Servers 1.1 - Administrative Password

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2665/info Excite for Web Servers 1.1 EWS is a search engine suite for web servers running under Windows NT and UNIX. By default the file containing the administrative password, architext.conf, is world readable and world writable. This allows an attacker...

[SECURITY] Debian not affected by samba problems

There have been reports that some Linux distributions are affected by a vulnerability in samba. There are two issues: the wsmbconf program which is still a prototype application not meant for general release is unsafe. Debian does not distribute this program. some distributions used a...

[SECURITY] Debian not affected by samba problems

There have been reports that some Linux distributions are affected by a vulnerability in samba. There are two issues: the wsmbconf program which is still a prototype application not meant for general release is unsafe. Debian does not distribute this program. some distributions used a...

CVE-1999-1027

Solaris 2.6 HW3/98 installs admintool with world-writable permissions, which allows local users to gain privileges by replacing it with a Trojan horse program...

CVE-1999-1429

DIT TransferPro installs devices with world-readable and world-writable permissions, which could allow local users to damage disks through the ff device driver...

CVE-1999-1274

iPass RoamServer 3.1 creates temporary files with world-writable permissions...

IBM AIX 4.2.1 - '/usr/bin/portmir' Local Buffer Overflow / Insecure Temporary File Creation

/ source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/385/info AIX version 4.2.1 introduced a new command titled 'portmir'. This new program had two notable vulnerabilites. First it contained a buffer overflow which allowed malicious users to obtain root privileges. Secondly it wrote it's log files to a...

SGI IRIX 6.2 - cgi-bin wrap

SGI IRIX 6.2 - cgi-bin wrap source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/373/info A vulnerability exists in the cgi-bin program 'wrap', as included with Irix 6.2 from SGI. A failure to validate input results in a vulnerability that allows any remote attacker to view the contents of any world readabl...

Solaris 7.0 - chkperm Local Privilege Escalation

Solaris 7.0 - chkperm Local Privilege Escalation source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/295/info Solaris 2.4, 2.5, and 2.5.1 possibly other versions have a package called FACE Framed Access Command Environment installed. Included in the package is a program called chkperm which checks a file t...

Solaris 7.0 - 'chkperm' Local Privilege Escalation

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/295/info Solaris 2.4, 2.5, and 2.5.1 possibly other versions have a package called FACE Framed Access Command Environment installed. Included in the package is a program called chkperm which checks a file to see if the user has permission to use the FACE...

CVE-1999-1138

SCO UNIX System V/386 Release 3.2, and other SCO products, installs the home directories 1 /tmp for the dos user, and 2 /usr/tmp for the asg user, which allows other users to gain access to those accounts since /tmp and /usr/tmp are world-writable...