CVEs

OpenBSD, BSDI, and other Unix operating systems allow users to set chflags and fchflags on character and block devices.

Buffer overflow in Fujitsu Chocoa IRC client via IRC channel topics.

FTP client in Midnight Commander (mc) before 4.5.11 stores usernames and passwords for visited sites in plaintext in the world-readable history file, which allows other local users to gain privileges.

Denial of service in Gauntlet Firewall via a malformed ICMP packet.

Default configuration of the search engine in Netscape Enterprise Server 3.5.1, and possibly other versions, allows remote attackers to read the source of JHTML files by specifying a search command using the HTML-tocrec-demo1.pat pattern file.

Ethereal allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the packet capture file.

.sbstart startup script in AcuShop Salesbuilder is world writable, which allows local users to gain privileges by appending commands to the file.

Buffer overflow in Microsoft Phone Dialer (dialer.exe), via a malformed dialer entry in the dialer.ini file.

Firewall-1 sets a long timeout for connections that begin with ACK or other packets except SYN, allowing an attacker to conduct a denial of service via a large number of connection attempts to unresponsive systems.

WS_FTP Pro 6.0 uses weak encryption for passwords in its initialization files, which allows remote attackers to easily decrypt the passwords and gain privileges.

Seattle Labs Emurl 2.0, and possibly earlier versions, stores e-mail attachments in a specific directory with scripting enabled, which allows a malicious ASP file attachment to execute when the recipient opens the message.

The Microsoft Jet database engine allows an attacker to modify text files via a database query, aka the "Text I-ISAM" vulnerability.

IPChains in Linux kernels 2.2.10 and earlier does not reassemble IP fragments before checking the header information, which allows a remote attacker to bypass the filtering rules using several fragments with 0 offsets.

The Squid package in Red Hat Linux 5.2 and 6.0, and other distributions, installs cachemgr.cgi in a public web directory, which allows remote attackers to use it as an intermediary to connect to other systems.

Denial of service in Windows NT messenger service through a long username.

Denial of service in Samba NETBIOS name service daemon (nmbd).

Buffer overflow in Samba smbd program via a malformed message command.

GNU fingerd 1.37 does not properly drop privileges before accessing user information, which could allow local users to (1) gain root privileges via a malicious program in the .fingerrc file, or (2) read arbitrary files via symbolic links from .plan, .forward, or .project files.

Delegate proxy 5.9.3 and earlier creates files and directories in the DGROOT with world-writable permissions.

Denial of service in Windows NT Local Security Authority (LSA) through a malformed LSA request.

Buffer overflow in AspUpload.dll in Persits Software AspUpload before 1.4.0.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, and possibly execute arbitrary commands, via a long argument in the HTTP request.

Vulnerability in a script in Texas A&M University (TAMU) Tiger allows local users to execute arbitrary commands as the Tiger user, usually root.

The default configuration of the Array Services daemon (arrayd) disables authentication, allowing remote users to gain root privileges.

The Remote Data Service (RDS) DataFactory component of Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) in IIS 3.x and 4.x exposes unsafe methods, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands.

dbmlparser.exe CGI guestbook program does not perform a chroot operation properly, which allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files.

Novell 5 and earlier, when running over IPX with a packet signature level less than 3, allows remote attackers to gain administrator privileges by spoofing the MAC address in IPC fragmented packets that make NetWare Core Protocol (NCP) calls.

Operating systems with shared memory implementations based on BSD 4.4 code allow a user to conduct a denial of service and bypass memory limits (e.g., as specified with rlimits) using mmap or shmget to allocate memory and cause page faults.

Joe's Own Editor (joe) 2.8 sets the world-readable permission on its crash-save file, DEADJOE, which could allow local users to read files that were being edited by other users.

BMC PATROL SNMP Agent before 3.2.07 allows local users to create arbitrary world-writeable files as root by specifying the target file as the second argument to the snmpmagt program.

Linux 2.0.37 does not properly encode the Custom segment limit, which allows local users to gain root privileges by accessing and modifying kernel memory.

MacOS uses weak encryption for passwords that are stored in the Users & Groups Data File.

Netscape Communicator 4.x with Javascript enabled does not warn a user of cookie settings, even if they have selected the option to "Only accept cookies originating from the same server as the page being viewed".

IIS 3.x and 4.x does not distinguish between pages requiring encryption and those that do not, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) via SSL requests to the HTTPS port for normally unencrypted files, which will cause IIS to perform…

A Windows NT user can disable the keyboard or mouse by directly calling the IOCTLs which control them.

Denial of service in Netscape Enterprise Server via a buffer overflow in the SSL handshake.

The Sun HotSpot Performance Engine VM allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service on any server running HotSpot via a URL that includes the [ character.

Denial of service in various Windows systems via malformed, fragmented IGMP packets.

BSD 4.4 based operating systems, when running at security level 1, allow the root user to clear the immutable and append-only flags for files by unmounting the file system and using a file system editor such as fsdb to directly modify the file through a device.

Buffer overflows in HP Software Distributor (SD) for HPUX 10.x and 11.x.

HP CDE program includes the current directory in root's PATH variable.

Buffer overflow in CDE Calendar Manager Service Daemon (rpc.cmsd).

The default FTP configuration in HP Visualize Conference allows conference users to send a file to other participants without authorization.

Cisco 675 routers running CBOS allow remote attackers to establish telnet sessions if an exec or superuser password has not been set.

Denial of service in RAS/PPTP on NT systems.

An attacker can conduct a denial of service in Windows NT by executing a program with a malformed file image header.

Linuxconf on Red Hat Linux 6.0 and earlier does not properly disable PAM-based access to the shutdown command, which could allow local users to cause a denial of service.

WebTrends software stores account names and passwords in a file which does not have restricted access permissions.

MBone SDR Package allows remote attackers to execute commands via shell metacharacters in Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) messages.

Windows NT searches a user's home directory (%systemroot% by default) before other directories to find critical programs such as NDDEAGNT.EXE, EXPLORER.EXE, USERINIT.EXE or TASKMGR.EXE, which could allow local users to bypass access restrictions or gain privileges by placing a…

Pine 4.x allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands via an index.html file which executes lynx and obtains a uudecoded file from a malicious web server, which is then executed by Pine.