Buffer Overflow in Lotus Domino Mail Server

Overview Lotus Domino R5 SMTP Server Contains a Buffer Overflow Description The Lotus Domino R5 SMTP server allows an administrator to restrict the domains from which the server will accept mail. In versions of Domino R5 prior to version 5.0.6 with domain restrictions enabled an intruder may be...

SSH authentication agent follows symlinks via a UNIX domain socket

Overview Older versions of SSH allow local attackers to to establish ssh sessions as the victim user without authentication. Description The text of this document was originally released on January 20, 1998, as SNI-23, developed by Secure Networks, Inc. SNI. To more widely broadcast this...

Microsoft Windows NT 4.0/TSE Winsock2ProtocolCatalogMutex has insecure permissions (MS01-003)

Overview A mutex controlling access to resources required for networking on Windows NTMicrosoft Windows NT 4.0 and Microsoft Windows NT 4.0, Terminal Server Edition, has inappropriate permissions. Description In general terms, a mutex is an object used to control access to a resource e.g. a...

HP-UX Support Tools Manager vulnerable to denial of service

Overview There is a vulnerability in the Hewlett-Packard Support Tools Manager that allows a local user to create a denial-of-service condition. Description The Hewlett-Packard Support Tools is a collection of diagnostic tools that allow operators of HP-UX systems to test and diagnose hardware...

ISC BIND 4 contains input validation error in nslookupComplain()

Overview The Berkeley Internet Name Domain BIND is an implementation of the Domain Name System DNS by the Internet Software Consortium ISC. There is a format string vulnerability in BIND 4.9.4 that may allow remote intruders to gain access to systems running BIND. Although BIND 4.9.x is no longer...

ISC BIND 4 contains buffer overflow in nslookupComplain()

Overview The Berkeley Internet Name Domain BIND is an implementation of the Domain Name System DNS by the Internet Software Consortium ISC. There is a buffer overflow vulnerability in BIND 4.9.x, which may allow remote intruders to gain access to systems running BIND. Although BIND 4.9.x is no...

ISC BIND 8 contains buffer overflow in transaction signature (TSIG) handling code

Overview The Berkeley Internet Name Domain BIND is an implementation of the Domain Name System DNS by the Internet Software Consortium ISC. There is a buffer overflow vulnerability in BIND 8.2.x, which may allow remote intruders to gain access to systems running BIND. DNS servers running BIND 8 a...

Queries to ISC BIND servers may disclose environment variables

Overview The Berkeley Internet Name Domain BIND is an implementation of the Domain Name System DNS by the Internet Software Consortium ISC. There is an information leakage vulnerability in BIND 4.9.x and 8.2.x, which may allow remote intruders to obtain information from systems running BIND...

phf CGI Script fails to guard against newline characters

Overview This document describes a vulnerability in a CGI script known as phf which was widely exploited in 1996 and 1997. Description The phf CGI script constructs a partial command line consisting of the ph command and appropriate arguments, and completes the command line based on the input fro...

BIND T_NXT record processing may cause buffer overflow

Overview A vulnerability in BIND, repaired in verison 8.2.2p5, allows remote attackers to execute code with the privileges of the process running named. This vulnerability was widely exploited from November 1999 to December 2000. Description There is a buffer overflow in the processing of NXT...

Older SSH clients do not allow users to disable X11 forwarding

Overview This vulnerability may allow an attacker to make unauthorized connections to affected client machines. Description Older versions of the SSH client do not allow the user to disable X11 forwarding. As a result, if the client connects to a malicious server, the server can open an X11...

Weak CRC allows last block of IDEA-encrypted SSH packet to be changed without notice

Overview There is an information integrity vulnerability in the SSH1 protocol that allows the last block of an IDEA-encrypted session to be modified without notice. Description Preconditions: Session is encrypted using IDEA cipher. Compression is disabled. SSH clients configured to use the IDEA...

HP-UX kermit contains local buffer overflow that allows denial-of-service

Overview The HP-UX version of kermit contains a buffer overflow that allows local users to prevent other users from running kermit. Description Kermit is a file transfer protocol that has been implemented by Hewlett-Packard for use on their systems. On December 21, 2000, HP released a security...

Seagate Crystal Reports exposes cleartext username/password pairs when embedded in URL or HTTP request

Overview The Seagate Crystal Reports product exposes passwords to back-end databases in certain configurations. In particular, the username and password are transmitted in plaintext from the client browser to the server as part of the URL when using technologies other than Active Server Pages ASP...

Lotus Domino vulnerable to directory traversal, aka "Domino Server Directory Transversal Vulnerability"

Overview Lotus Domino web server may allow malformed URL requests to access files outside the document root of a vulnerable system. Description A Lotus Domino server running the HTTP task may permit an intruder to read files on file systems or drives that house Lotus Notes databases. By using a...

Borland/Inprise Interbase SQL database server contains backdoor superuser account with known password

Overview Description Interbase is an open source database package that is distributed by Borland/Inprise. The server contains a compiled-in backdoor account with a known password.In the following interbase code, references are made about a LOCKSMITH user: ./jrd/dyn.e ./jrd/isc.c ./jrd/jrd.c...

Check Point FireWall-1 allows fragmented packets through firewall if Fast Mode is enabled

Overview If any rules include the "Fast Mode" option, Check Point Firewall-1 and VPN-1 will incorrectly allow unauthorized connection attempts to hosts that should be restricted. Description A feature called "Fast Mode" or "FASTPATH", included in Check Point FireWall-1 and VPN-1 is designed to...

Input validation error in quikstore.cgi allows attackers to execute commands

Overview The quikstore shopping cart script contains an input validation error that allows attackers to execute commands on affected web servers. Description The quikstore.cgi script is written in Perl and provides its users with shopping cart software for e-commerce transactions. In November 200...

BSD-derived ftpd replydirname() in ftpd.c contains one-byte overflow

Overview There is a off-by-one vulnerability in several BSD-derived ftpd servers. Description The ftp server in several BSD distributions contains a defect which allows one byte of the program memory allocated within a stack frame to be overwritten with a NUL byte '\0'. The byte in question is...

KTH Kerberos filesystem race condition on tickets stored in /tmp

Overview There may be a race condition during the creation of Kerberos ticket files in the /tmp directory. This race condition may allow intruders with local access to the system to gain root privileges. Description During the creation of ticket files in the /tmp directory, a sequence of calls...

Kerberos client code buffer overflow in kdc_reply_cipher()

Overview There is a buffer overflow is the kdcreplycipher function of KTH Kerberos. This buffer overflow may be exploitable to allow an attacker to gain root privileges, and can be used to deny service. Description The buffer overflow occurs in the parsing of an authentication reply in the...

KTH Kerberos environment variables krb4proxy and KRBCONFDIR may be used insecurely

Overview The environment variables krb4proxy and KRBCONFDIR may be respected by client programs such as login or su, in such a way that local or remote intruders can cause the client program to accept authentication requests from a malicious KDC. The vulnerabilites may be exploited remotely by...

SGI IRIX df buffer overflow in directory argument

Overview Description The df program is used to display statistics about the amount of used and free disc space on a set of mounted file systems. Alternately, it can be used to check on the amount of space available on unmounted block devices which may be specified by some path. Due to insufficien...

Filemaker Pro 5.0v3 and below does not adequately protect web-enabled databases

Overview FileMaker may expose data inadvertently. Description FileMaker Web Companion prior to version 5.0v4 permits unauthorized access to data even if the database manager believes that data is protected by Field Level Security. --- Impact Attackers can read information, including items such as...

Microsoft Internet Explorer vulnerable to file disclosure via code containing GetObject() function

Overview Internet Explorer may disclose files on your computer if you visit a malicious web site or read a mail message with Active Scripting enabled. Description By design, Microsoft Internet Explorer prevents programs on web sites from reading files on your computer without authorization...

Cenroll ActiveX Control allows creation of arbitrary files.

Overview The ActiveX control Cenroll permits unauthorized users to create files on the local system. Description The ActiveX control "Cenroll" clsid: 43F8F289-7A20-11D0-8F06-00C04FC295E1, which is ordinarily marked safe-for-scripting allows callers to create files and write to the registry with t...

Sun Microsystems Keys exposed and revoked

Overview Sun Microsystems uses a variety of X.509 keys signed by VeriSign to securevarious web sites. Among these certificates are two that were revoked on October 19, 2000. The certificate IDs for these revoked certificates are 3181 B12D C422 5DAC A340 CF86 2710 ABE6 and 1705 FB13 A22F 9AF3 C130...

sysback makes call to hostname without a fully qualified path specification

Overview sysback , shipped with AIX systems, allows local users to gain root access because of a failure to use a fully qualified path for a call to hostname. Description sysback includes a call to hostname but does not include a full path specification. Because sysback is set uid root, intruders...

LPRng can pass user-supplied input as a format string parameter to syslog() calls

Overview A popular replacement software package to the BSD lpd printing service called LPRng contains at least one software defect known as a "format string vulnerability" which may allow remote users to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable systems. The privileges of such code will probably be...

Microsoft IIS 4.0 / 5.0 vulnerable to directory traversal via extended unicode in url

Overview A vulnerability exists in Microsoft IIS 4 and 5 such that an attacker visiting an IIS web site can execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the IUSRmachinename account. This vulnerability is referred to as the "Web Server Folder Directory Traversal" vulnerability. This vulnerability...

MS ActiveMovieControl Object downloads arbitrary files

Overview Description This vulnerability is actually the same as the Cache Bypass issue described in VU38950. This document is provided for people looking for information based on publicly available exploits using the Active Movie control. The flaw is not in the Active Movie control per se, but...

Race condition in periodic

Overview A race condition in the 'periodic' script allows local files to be overwritten. We believe that 'periodic' is typically used only with FreeBSD systems, though it may be installed on other systems. Description 'periodic' is a script used in conjunction with cron to execute jobs at specifi...

ISC BIND 8.2.2-P6 vulnerable to DoS via compressed zone transfer, aka the "zxfr bug"

Overview There is a denial-of-service vulnerability in several versions of the Internet Software Consortium's ISC BIND software. This vulnerability is referred to by the ISC as the "zxfr bug." It affects ISC BIND version 8.2.2, patch levels 1 through 6. Description Using this vulnerability,...

Cisco IOS software vulnerable to DoS via HTTP request containing "%%"

Overview There is a denial-of-service vulnerability in several Cisco switch and router products which allows an attacker to force affected devices to crash and reboot. Description A vulnerability exists in multiple versions of Cisco's Internetworking Operating System IOS software which allows an...

Cisco IOS software vulnerable to DoS via HTTP request containing "?/"

Overview A vulnerability exists in multiple versions of Cisco's Internetworking Operating System IOS software that allows an attacker to force affected switches and routers to crash and reboot. Description To exploit this vulnerability, the IOS HTTP interface must be enabled and the attacker must...

Format string vulnerability in libutil pw_error(3) function

Overview There is an input validation vulnerability in the OpenBSD libutil system library that allows local users to gain superuser access via the chpass utility. Description On June 30, 2000, the OpenBSD development team repaired an input validation vulnerability in the pwerror function of the...

SSH-1 allows client authentication to be forwarded by a malicious server to another server

Overview A design flaw in the SSH-1 protocol allows a malicious server to establish two concurrent sessions with the same session ID, allowing a man-in-the-middle attack. The client must accept unknown host keys from the malicious server to enable exploitation of this vulnerability. Description...

Passwords sent via SSH encrypted with RC4 can be easily cracked

Overview Passwords sent using SSH with RC4 encryption can be easily cracked by an attacker who is able to capture and replay the session. This problem occurs for three reasons: SSH sessions can be replayed, the RC4 encryption algorithm has some specific weaknesses, and the SSH daemon provides too...

SystemWizard Launch ActiveX Control lacks authentication

Overview Description The SystemWizard "Launch" ActiveX Control may allow attackers to execute arbitrary commands on systems where the control is installed. This control was shipped on HP Pavilion computers running Windows 98, as part of a diagnostic application named "SystemWizard" produced by...

Adobe Acrobat products have buffer overflow in the CIDFont /Registry and /Ordering entries

Overview By embedding malicious code in a Portable Document Format PDF file, an attacker can cause arbitrary code to execute on the victim's system. Description The Adobe Acrobat PDF file format facility for specifying fonts contains buffer overflows in the /Registry and /Ordering entries. Each o...

Adobe Acrobat ActiveX Control buffer overflow in setview method

Overview Description The Adobe Acrobat ActiveX control has a buffer overflow in the setview method. Because the control is marked safe-for-scripting, this vulnerability can be exploited via a web page if the user has the vulnerable control installed.This control is implemtned in the file pdf.ocx...

SystemWizard Registry Object ActiveX Control lacks authentication

Overview Description The SystemWizard "Registry Object" ActiveX Control may allow attackers to modify the registry on systems where the control is installed. This control was shipped on HP Pavilion computers running Windows 98, as part of a diagnostic application named "SystemWizard" produced by...

Wang/Kodak Image Thumbnail ActiveX Control

Overview Description The Image Thumbnail control is incorrectly marked safe for scripting. This control is sometimes identified as from "Kodak" and other times as from "Wang". The Image Thumbnail control is one of several controls used to provide image editting services through a web site. Becaus...

Wang/Kodak Image Admin ActiveX Control

Overview Description The Image Admin control is incorrectly marked safe for scripting. This control is sometimes identified as from "Kodak" and other times as from "Wang". The Image Admin control is one of several controls used to provide image editting services through a web site. Because the...

Wang/Kodak Image Edit ActiveX control

Overview Description The Image Edit control is incorrectly marked safe for scripting. This control is sometimes identified as from "Kodak" and other times as from "Wang". The Image Edit control is one of several controls used to provide image editting services through a web site. Because the...

HHOpen ActiveX Control buffer overflow in OpenHelp method

Overview Description The HHOpen ActiveX control hhopen.ocx has a buffer overflow in the OpenHelp method. Because the control is marked safe-for-scripting, an attacker may be able to script this control and exploit the vulnerability when you visit a web page.The classID for the vulnerable control...

Office 2000 UA Control incorrectly marked safe for scripting

Overview The Microsoft Office 2000 UA ActiveX control is incorrectly marked as "safe for scripting". This vulnerability may allow an intruder to disable macro warnings in Office products and, subsequently, execute arbitrary code. This vulnerability may be exploited by viewing an HTML document via...

Netscape Java Security Manager fails to prevent URLConnections through netscape.net.URLConnection Class

Overview Netscape Communicator and Navigator ship with Java classes that allow an unsigned Java applet to access local and remote resources in violation of the security policies for applets. Description Failures in the netscape.net package permit a Java applet to read files from the local file...

Wang/Kodak Image Scan ActiveX Control

Overview Description The Image Admin control is incorrectly marked safe for scripting. This control is sometimes identified as from "Kodak" and other times as from "Wang". The Image Admin control is one of several controls used to provide image editting services through a web site. Because the...

Wang/Kodak Image Annotation ActiveX Control

Overview Description The Image Annotation control is incorrectly marked safe for scripting. This control is sometimes identified as from "Kodak" and other times as from "Wang". The Image Annotation control is one of several controls used to provide image editting services through a web site...