Debian

dialog before 0.9a-20000118-3bis in Debian GNU/Linux allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack.

elvis-tiny before 1.4-10 in Debian GNU/Linux, and possibly other Linux operating systems, allows local users to overwrite files of other users via a symlink attack.

fshd (fsh daemon) in Debian GNU/Linux allows local users to overwrite files of other users via a symlink attack.

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.

CUPS (Common Unix Printing System) 1.04 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a CGI POST request.

CUPS (Common Unix Printing System) 1.04 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by authenticating with a user name that does not exist or does not have a shadow password.

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.

CUPS (Common Unix Printing System) 1.04 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a malformed IPP request.

CUPS (Common Unix Printing System) 1.04 and earlier does not properly delete request files, which allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service.

IP masquerading in Linux 2.2.x allows remote attackers to route UDP packets through the internal interface by modifying the external source IP address and port number to match those of an established connection.

The libguile.so library file used by gnucash in Debian GNU/Linux is installed with world-writable permissions.

The default installation of Debian GNU/Linux uses an insecure Master Boot Record (MBR) which allows a local user to boot from a floppy disk during the installation.

The snprintf function in the db library 1.85.4 ignores the size parameter, which could allow attackers to exploit buffer overflows that would be prevented by a properly implemented snprintf.

nviboot boot script in the Debian nvi package allows local users to delete files via malformed entries in vi.recover.

htdig allows remote attackers to execute commands via filenames with shell metacharacters.

dump in Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 does not properly restore symlinks, which allows a local user to modify the ownership of arbitrary files.

Denial of service in Linux syslogd via a large number of connections.

Buffer overflow in NFS server on Linux allows attackers to execute commands via a long pathname.

Denial of service in Debian IRC Epic/epic4 client via a long string.

Buffer overflow in Vixie cron allows local users to gain root access via a long MAILTO environment variable in a crontab file.

Man2html 2.1 and earlier allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file.

Trn allows local users to overwrite other users' files via symlinks.

The logging facility of the Debian smtp-refuser package allows local users to delete arbitrary files using symbolic links.

The Debian mailman package uses weak authentication, which allows attackers to gain privileges.

Sudo 1.5 in Debian Linux 2.1 and Red Hat 6.0 allows local users to determine the existence of arbitrary files by attempting to execute the target filename as a program, which generates a different error message when the file does not exist.

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.

Vulnerability in eterm 0.8.8 in Debian GNU/Linux allows an attacker to gain root privileges.

Debian GNU/Linux cfengine package is susceptible to a symlink attack.

Buffer overflow in the "Super" utility in Debian GNU/Linux, and other operating systems, allows local users to execute commands as root.

Linux ftpwatch program allows local users to gain root privileges.

Buffer overflow in the bootp server in the Debian Linux netstd package.

fte-console in the fte package before 0.46b-4.1 does not drop root privileges, which allows local users to gain root access via the virtual console device.

The installation of the fsp package 2.71-10 in Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 adds the anonymous FTP user without notifying the administrator, which could automatically enable anonymous FTP on some servers such as wu-ftp.

Buffer overflow in bash 2.0.0, 1.4.17, and other versions allows local attackers to gain privileges by creating an extremely large directory name, which is inserted into the password prompt via the \w option in the PS1 environmental variable when another user changes into that…

Buffer overflow in the Linux mail program "deliver" allows local users to gain root access.

Buffer overflow in run-time linkers (1) ld.so or (2) ld-linux.so for Linux systems allows local users to gain privileges by calling a setuid program with a long program name (argv[0]) and forcing ld.so/ld-linux.so to report an error.

Talkd, when given corrupt DNS information, can be used to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges.

cpio on FreeBSD 2.1.0, Debian GNU/Linux 3.0, and possibly other operating systems, uses a 0 umask when creating files using the -O (archive) or -F options, which creates the files with mode 0666 and allows local users to read or overwrite those files.