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Severity
10
Buffer Overflow
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Buffer overflow in WU-FTPD and related FTP servers allows remote attackers to gain root privileges via macro variables in a message file.

First published (updated )
Severity
10
Buffer Overflow
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Buffer overflow in bootpd on OpenBSD, FreeBSD, and Linux systems via a malformed header type.

First published (updated )
Severity
10
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

NFS cache poisoning.

First published (updated )
Severity
10
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

FreeBSD mmap function allows users to modify append-only or immutable files.

First published (updated )
Severity
10
Buffer Overflow
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

MIME conversion buffer overflow in sendmail versions 8.8.3 and 8.8.4.

First published (updated )
Severity
10
Buffer Overflow
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Buffer overflow in University of Washington's implementation of IMAP and POP servers.

First published (updated )
Severity
10
Buffer Overflow
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Buffer overflow of rlogin program using TERM environmental variable.

First published (updated )
Severity
10
Buffer Overflow
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Buffer overflow in NFS mountd gives root access to remote attackers, mostly in Linux systems.

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Severity
10
Buffer Overflow
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Buffer overflow in syslog utility allows local or remote attackers to gain root privileges.

First published (updated )
Severity
10
Buffer Overflow
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Inverse query buffer overflow in BIND 4.9 and BIND 8 Releases.

First published (updated )
Severity
9.8
OS Command Injection
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Command execution via shell metachars in INN daemon (innd) 1.5 using "newgroup" and "rmgroup" control messages, and others.

First published (updated )
Severity
9.3
Buffer Overflow
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Buffer overflow in Berkeley automounter daemon (amd) logging facility provided in the Linux am-utils package and others.

First published (updated )
Severity
8.4
Buffer Overflow
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Buffer overflow in xlock program allows local users to execute commands as root.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.8
Buffer Overflow
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Local user gains root privileges via buffer overflow in rdist, via expstr() function.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
Null Pointer Dereference
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

IP fragmentation denial of service in FreeBSD allows a remote attacker to cause a crash.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.2
Buffer Overflow
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.2
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.2
Buffer Overflow
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Buffer overflow in Vixie Cron library up to version 3.0 allows local users to obtain root access via a long environmental variable.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.2
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

mmap function in BSD allows local attackers in the kmem group to modify memory through devices.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.2
Buffer Overflow
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Buffer overflow in suidperl (sperl), Perl 4.x and 5.x.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.2
Buffer Overflow
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.2
Buffer Overflow
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Buffer overflow in Xt library of X Windowing System allows local users to execute commands with root privileges.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.2
Buffer Overflow
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Local user gains root privileges via buffer overflow in rdist, via lookup() function.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.2
Buffer Overflow
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Buffer overflow and denial of service in Sendmail 8.7.5 and earlier through GECOS field gives root access to local users.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.2
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Local users can start Sendmail in daemon mode and gain root privileges.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.1
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

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.

First published (updated )
Severity
5.1
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

File creation and deletion, and remote execution, in the BSD line printer daemon (lpd).

First published (updated )
Severity
5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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.

First published (updated )
Severity
5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Denial of service in WU-FTPD via the SITE NEWER command, which does not free memory properly.

First published (updated )

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