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When BSDI patches for Gauntlet 5.0 BSDI are installed in a particular order, Gauntlet allows remote attackers to bypass firewall access restrictions, and does not log the activities.
Buffer overflow in WU-FTPD and related FTP servers allows remote attackers to gain root privileges via macro variables in a message file.
Denial of service in WU-FTPD via the SITE NEWER command, which does not free memory properly.
Buffer overflow in bootpd on OpenBSD, FreeBSD, and Linux systems via a malformed header type.
Denial of service in BSDi Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP) when an fstat call is made when the system has a high CPU load.
Buffer overflow in Berkeley automounter daemon (amd) logging facility provided in the Linux am-utils package and others.
OpenBSD, BSDI, and other Unix operating systems allow users to set chflags and fchflags on character and block devices.
FreeBSD mmap function allows users to modify append-only or immutable files.
The system configuration control (sysctl) facility in BSD based operating systems OpenBSD 2.2 and earlier, and FreeBSD 2.2.5 and earlier, does not properly restrict source routed packets even when the (1) dosourceroute or (2) forwarding variables are set, which allows remote attackers to spoof TCP connections.
mmap function in BSD allows local attackers in the kmem group to modify memory through devices.
Buffer overflow in Vixie Cron library up to version 3.0 allows local users to obtain root access via a long environmental variable.
NFS cache poisoning.
Buffer overflow and denial of service in Sendmail 8.7.5 and earlier through GECOS field gives root access to local users.
Sendmail allows local users to write to a file and gain group permissions via a .forward or :include: file.
Local users can start Sendmail in daemon mode and gain root privileges.
Buffer overflow in syslog utility allows local or remote attackers to gain root privileges.
Sendmail decode alias can be used to overwrite sensitive files.
pcnfsd (aka rpc.pcnfsd) allows local users to change file permissions, or execute arbitrary commands through arguments in the RPC call.
File creation and deletion, and remote execution, in the BSD line printer daemon (lpd).
MIME conversion buffer overflow in sendmail versions 8.8.3 and 8.8.4.
IP fragmentation denial of service in FreeBSD allows a remote attacker to cause a crash.
Buffer overflow in University of Washington's implementation of IMAP and POP servers.
Command execution via shell metachars in INN daemon (innd) 1.5 using "newgroup" and "rmgroup" control messages, and others.
Buffer overflow of rlogin program using TERM environmental variable.
Buffer overflow in xlock program allows local users to execute commands as root.
Buffer overflow in Xt library of X Windowing System allows local users to execute commands with root privileges.
Buffer overflow in suidperl (sperl), Perl 4.x and 5.x.
Buffer overflow in lpr, as used in BSD-based systems including Linux, allows local users to execute arbitrary code as root via a long -C (classification) command line option.
Local user gains root privileges via buffer overflow in rdist, via expstr() function.
Local user gains root privileges via buffer overflow in rdist, via lookup() function.