Openlinux Security Vulnerabilities - February
Command execution via shell metachars in INN daemon (innd) 1.5 using "newgroup" and "rmgroup" control messages, and others.
9.8CVSS
7.2AI Score
0.008EPSS
Buffer overflows in wuarchive ftpd (wu-ftpd) and ProFTPD lead to remote root access, a.k.a. palmetto.
6.7AI Score
0.086EPSS
XFree86 xfs command is vulnerable to a symlink attack, allowing local users to create files in restricted directories, possibly allowing them to gain privileges or cause a denial of service.
7.1AI Score
0.003EPSS
Buffer overflow in procmail before version 3.12 allows remote or local attackers to execute commands via expansions in the procmailrc configuration file.
7.6AI Score
0.003EPSS
A vulnerability in Caldera Open Administration System (COAS) allows the /etc/shadow password file to be made world-readable.
7AI Score
0.0004EPSS
6.7AI Score
0.0004EPSS
Vixie Cron on Linux systems allows local users to set parameters of sendmail commands via the MAILTO environmental variable.
6.9AI Score
0.0004EPSS
Buffer overflow in Vixie cron allows local users to gain root access via a long MAILTO environment variable in a crontab file.
7.2AI Score
0.0004EPSS
Buffer overflow in WU-FTPD and related FTP servers allows remote attackers to gain root privileges via macro variables in a message file.
7.2AI Score
0.045EPSS
Denial of service in WU-FTPD via the SITE NEWER command, which does not free memory properly.
6.6AI Score
0.04EPSS
The default installation of Caldera OpenLinux 2.3 includes the CGI program rpm_query, which allows remote attackers to determine what packages are installed on the system.
6.7AI Score
0.02EPSS
Buffer overflow in Linux mount and umount allows local users to gain root privileges via a long relative pathname.
7.2AI Score
0.0004EPSS
The IDENT server in Caldera Linux 2.3 creates multiple threads for each IDENT request, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service.
7AI Score
0.003EPSS
The debug option in Caldera Linux smail allows remote attackers to execute commands via shell metacharacters in the -D option for the rmail command.
7.7AI Score
0.003EPSS
Vulnerability in Caldera rmt command in the dump package 0.4b4 allows a local user to gain root privileges.
7AI Score
0.0004EPSS
The default configuration of kdm in Caldera and Mandrake Linux, and possibly other distributions, allows XDMCP connections from any host, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information or bypass additional access restrictions.
6.5AI Score
0.009EPSS
Buffer overflow in fdmount on Linux systems allows local users in the "floppy" group to execute arbitrary commands via a long mountpoint parameter.
7.7AI Score
0.0004EPSS
Buffer overflow in the XDMCP parsing code of GNOME gdm, KDE kdm, and wdm allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands or cause a denial of service via a long FORWARD_QUERY request.
8AI Score
0.071EPSS
The KApplication class in the KDE 1.1.2 configuration file management capability allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files.
6.4AI Score
0.0004EPSS
Linux gpm program allows local users to cause a denial of service by flooding the /dev/gpmctl device with STREAM sockets.
6.6AI Score
0.0004EPSS
makewhatis in Linux man package allows local users to overwrite files via a symlink attack.
6.2AI Score
0.0004EPSS
Some functions that implement the locale subsystem on Unix do not properly cleanse user-injected format strings, which allows local attackers to execute arbitrary commands via functions such as gettext and catopen.
7.7AI Score
0.005EPSS
Some telnet clients allow remote telnet servers to request environment variables from the client that may contain sensitive information, or remote web servers to obtain the information via a telnet: URL.
6.2AI Score
0.002EPSS
Format string vulnerability in use_syslog() function in LPRng 3.6.24 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands.
7.4AI Score
0.957EPSS
Multiple shell programs on various Unix systems, including (1) tcsh, (2) csh, (3) sh, and (4) bash, follow symlinks when processing << redirects (aka here-documents or in-here documents), which allows local users to overwrite files of other users via a symlink attack.
6.2AI Score
0.0004EPSS
A configuration error in the libdb1 package in OpenLinux 3.1 uses insecure versions of the snprintf and vsnprintf functions, which could allow local or remote users to exploit those functions with a buffer overflow.
7AI Score
0.004EPSS
Linux kernel 2.0, 2.2 and 2.4 with syncookies enabled allows remote attackers to bypass firewall rules by brute force guessing the cookie.
6.6AI Score
0.001EPSS
The getdbm procedure in ypxfrd allows local users to read arbitrary files, and remote attackers to read databases outside /var/yp, via a directory traversal and symlink attack on the domain and map arguments.
6.5AI Score
0.004EPSS