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Buffer overflow in WU-FTPD and related FTP servers allows remote attackers to gain root privileges via macro variables in a message file.
Buffer overflow in bootpd on OpenBSD, FreeBSD, and Linux systems via a malformed header type.
NFS cache poisoning.
FreeBSD mmap function allows users to modify append-only or immutable files.
MIME conversion buffer overflow in sendmail versions 8.8.3 and 8.8.4.
Buffer overflow in University of Washington's implementation of IMAP and POP servers.
Buffer overflow of rlogin program using TERM environmental variable.
Buffer overflow in NFS mountd gives root access to remote attackers, mostly in Linux systems.
Buffer overflow in syslog utility allows local or remote attackers to gain root privileges.
Inverse query buffer overflow in BIND 4.9 and BIND 8 Releases.
Command execution via shell metachars in INN daemon (innd) 1.5 using "newgroup" and "rmgroup" control messages, and others.
Buffer overflow in Berkeley automounter daemon (amd) logging facility provided in the Linux am-utils package and others.
Buffer overflow in xlock program allows local users to execute commands as root.
Local user gains root privileges via buffer overflow in rdist, via expstr() function.
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.
IP fragmentation denial of service in FreeBSD allows a remote attacker to cause a crash.
Buffer overflow in Unix-to-Unix Copy Protocol (UUCP) in BSDI BSD/OS 3.0 through 4.2 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a long command line argument.
rcvtty in BSD 3.0 and 4.0 does not properly drop privileges before executing a script, which allows local attackers to gain privileges by specifying an alternate Trojan horse script on the command line.
Buffer overflow in Vixie Cron library up to version 3.0 allows local users to obtain root access via a long environmental variable.
mmap function in BSD allows local attackers in the kmem group to modify memory through devices.
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.
Buffer overflow in Xt library of X Windowing System allows local users to execute commands with root privileges.
Local user gains root privileges via buffer overflow in rdist, via lookup() function.
Buffer overflow and denial of service in Sendmail 8.7.5 and earlier through GECOS field gives root access to local users.
Local users can start Sendmail in daemon mode and gain root privileges.
The TCP implementation in (1) Linux, (2) platforms based on BSD Unix, (3) Microsoft Windows, (4) Cisco products, and probably other operating systems allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (connection queue exhaustion) via multiple vectors that manipulate information in the TCP state table, as demonstrated by sockstress.
File creation and deletion, and remote execution, in the BSD line printer daemon (lpd).
Cyrus 2.0.15, 2.0.16, and 1.6.24 on BSDi 4.2, with IMAP enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (hang) using PHP IMAP clients.
Denial of service in WU-FTPD via the SITE NEWER command, which does not free memory properly.