Linux Security Vulnerabilities
traceroute in NetBSD 1.3.3 and Linux systems allows local users to flood other systems by providing traceroute with a large waittime (-w) option, which is not parsed properly and sets the time delay for sending packets to zero.
6.7AI Score
0.003EPSS
traceroute in NetBSD 1.3.3 and Linux systems allows local unprivileged users to modify the source address of the packets, which could be used in spoofing attacks.
6.6AI Score
0.003EPSS
The passwd.php3 CGI script in the Red Hat Piranha Virtual Server Package allows local users to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters.
7.2AI Score
0.237EPSS
Linux OpenLDAP server allows local users to modify arbitrary files via a symlink attack.
6.4AI Score
0.0004EPSS
6.9AI Score
0.011EPSS
Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) in Red Hat Linux 6.1 does not properly lock access to disabled NIS accounts.
7AI Score
0.0004EPSS
ORBit and esound in Red Hat Linux 6.1 do not use sufficiently random numbers, which allows local users to guess the authentication keys.
6.9AI Score
0.011EPSS
ORBit and gnome-session in Red Hat Linux 6.1 allows remote attackers to crash a program.
7.1AI Score
0.003EPSS
screen and rxvt in Red Hat Linux 6.0 do not properly set the modes of tty devices, which allows local users to write to other ttys.
6.7AI Score
0.0004EPSS
Red Hat Linux 6.0 installs the /dev/pts file system with insecure modes, which allows local users to write to other tty devices.
6.7AI Score
0.0004EPSS
The pam_console PAM module in Linux systems performs a chown on various devices upon a user login, but an open file descriptor for those devices can be maintained after the user logs out, which allows that user to sniff activity on these devices when subsequent users log in.
6.9AI Score
0.0004EPSS
Buffer overflow in krb_rd_req function in Kerberos 4 and 5 allows remote attackers to gain root privileges.
7.3AI Score
0.037EPSS
Buffer overflow in krb425_conv_principal function in Kerberos 5 allows remote attackers to gain root privileges.
7.6AI Score
0.019EPSS
Buffer overflow in krshd in Kerberos 5 allows remote attackers to gain root privileges.
7.6AI Score
0.019EPSS
6.8AI 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
gkermit in Red Hat Linux is improperly installed with setgid uucp, which allows local users to modify files owned by uucp.
6.6AI Score
0.0004EPSS
Buffer overflow in kon program in Kanji on Console (KON) package on Linux may allow local users to gain root privileges via a long -StartupMessage parameter.
7.2AI Score
0.0004EPSS
Buffer overflow in fld program in Kanji on Console (KON) package on Linux may allow local users to gain root privileges via an input file containing long CHARSET_REGISTRY or CHARSET_ENCODING settings.
7.3AI Score
0.0004EPSS
Vulnerability in Mandrake Linux usermode package allows local users to to reboot or halt the system.
6.6AI Score
0.0004EPSS
rpc.statd in the nfs-utils package in various Linux distributions does not properly cleanse untrusted format strings, which allows remote attackers to gain root privileges.
9.6AI Score
0.081EPSS
pam_console PAM module in Linux systems allows a user to access the system console and reboot the system when a display manager such as gdm or kdm has XDMCP enabled.
6.9AI Score
0.008EPSS
The wrapper program in mailman 2.0beta3 and 2.0beta4 does not properly cleanse untrusted format strings, which allows local users to gain privileges.
7AI Score
0.001EPSS
Buffer overflow in mopd (Maintenance Operations Protocol loader daemon) allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a long file name.
8.2AI Score
0.009EPSS
mopd (Maintenance Operations Protocol loader daemon) does not properly cleanse user-injected format strings, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands.
7.8AI Score
0.092EPSS
Linux tmpwatch --fuser option allows local users to execute arbitrary commands by creating files whose names contain shell metacharacters.
7.2AI Score
0.0004EPSS
The tmpwatch utility in Red Hat Linux forks a new process for each directory level, which allows local users to cause a denial of service by creating deeply nested directories in /tmp or /var/tmp/.
6.7AI 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
Kernel logging daemon (klogd) in Linux does not properly cleanse user-injected format strings, which allows local users to gain root privileges by triggering malformed kernel messages.
6.5AI 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
Glint in Red Hat Linux 5.2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files and cause a denial of service via a symlink attack.
6.8AI Score
0.0004EPSS
Buffer overflow in ncurses library allows local users to execute arbitrary commands via long environmental information such as TERM or TERMINFO_DIRS.
7.6AI Score
0.0004EPSS
dump in Red Hat Linux 6.2 trusts the pathname specified by the RSH environmental variable, which allows local users to obtain root privileges by modifying the RSH variable to point to a Trojan horse program.
6.2AI Score
0.0004EPSS
Format string vulnerability in talkd in OpenBSD and possibly other BSD-based OSes allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a user name that contains format characters.
7.6AI Score
0.005EPSS
modprobe in the modutils 2.3.x package on Linux systems allows a local user to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters.
7.2AI Score
0.0004EPSS
restore 0.4b15 and earlier in Red Hat Linux 6.2 trusts the pathname specified by the RSH environmental variable, which allows local users to obtain root privileges by modifying the RSH variable to point to a Trojan horse program.
6.2AI Score
0.0004EPSS
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
Buffer overflow in pam_localuser PAM module in Red Hat Linux 7.x and 6.x allows attackers to gain privileges.
7.5AI Score
0.001EPSS
userhelper in the usermode package on Red Hat Linux executes non-setuid programs as root, which does not activate the security measures in glibc and allows the programs to be exploited via format string vulnerabilities in glibc via the LANG or LC_ALL environment variables (CVE-2000-0844).
7.2AI Score
0.005EPSS
Format string vulnerability in startprinting() function of printjob.c in BSD-based lpr lpd package may allow local users to gain privileges via an improper syslog call that uses format strings from the checkremote() call.
6.5AI Score
0.001EPSS
ping in iputils before 20001010, as distributed on Red Hat Linux 6.2 through 7J and other operating systems, does not drop privileges after acquiring a raw socket, which increases ping's exposure to bugs that otherwise would occur at lower privileges.
7.1AI Score
0.013EPSS
Buffer overflows in the (1) outpack or (2) buf variables of ping in iputils before 20001010, as distributed on Red Hat Linux 6.2 through 7J and other operating systems, may allow local users to gain privileges.
7AI Score
0.0004EPSS
The line printer daemon (lpd) in the lpr package in multiple Linux operating systems allows local users to gain root privileges by causing sendmail to execute with arbitrary command line arguments, as demonstrated using the -C option to specify a configuration file.
7.1AI Score
0.011EPSS
The line printer daemon (lpd) in the lpr package in multiple Linux operating systems authenticates by comparing the reverse-resolved hostname of the local machine to the hostname of the print server as returned by gethostname, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access controls by modi...
6.7AI Score
0.021EPSS
6.4AI Score
0.0004EPSS
sdiff 2.7 in the diffutils package allows local users to overwrite files via a symlink attack.
6.2AI Score
0.001EPSS
6.8AI Score
0.0004EPSS
getty_ps 2.0.7j allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack.
6.4AI Score
0.0004EPSS
useradd program in shadow-utils program may allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack.
6.4AI Score
0.0004EPSS