[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...