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SGI MachineInfo CGI program, installed by default on some web servers, prints potentially sensitive system status information, which could be used by remote attackers for information gathering activities.

inpview in InPerson on IRIX 5.3 through IRIX 6.5.10 trusts the PATH environmental variable to find and execute the ttsession program, which allows local users to obtain root access by modifying the PATH to point to a Trojan horse ttsession program.

webdist CGI program (webdist.cgi) in SGI IRIX allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the distloc parameter.

KDE file manager (kfm) uses a TCP server for certain file operations, which allows remote attackers to modify arbitrary files by sending a copy command to the server.

Symantec Norton Utilities 2.0 for Windows 95 marks the TUNEOCX.OCX ActiveX control as safe for scripting, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via the run option through malicious web pages that are accessed by browsers such as Internet Explorer 3.0.

Vulnerability in runpriv in Indigo Magic System Administration subsystem of SGI IRIX 6.3 and 6.4 allows local users to gain root privileges.

Buffer overflow in AIX dtterm program for the CDE.

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

Buffer overflow in Kerberos IV compatibility libraries as used in Kerberos V allows local users to gain root privileges via a long line in a kerberos configuration file, which can be specified via the KRB_CONF environmental variable.

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

The wrap CGI program in IRIX allows remote attackers to view arbitrary directory listings via a .. (dot dot) attack.

Buffer overflow in PHP cgi program, php.cgi allows shell access.

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

Sysinstall in FreeBSD 2.2.1 and earlier, when configuring anonymous FTP, creates the ftp user without a password and with /bin/date as the shell, which could allow attackers to gain access to certain system resources.

Windows NT 4.0 SP2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash), possibly via malformed inputs or packets, such as those generated by a Linux smbmount command that was compiled on the Linux 2.0.29 kernel but executed on Linux 2.0.25.

Buffer overflow in Solaris fdformat command gives root access to local users.

Remote command execution in Microsoft Internet Explorer using .lnk and .url files.

Denial of service through Winpopup using large user names.

Macromedia Shockwave before 6.0 allows a malicious webmaster to read a user's mail box and possibly access internal web servers via the GetNextText command on a Shockwave movie.

Vulnerability in AIX 4.1.4 and HP-UX 10.01 and 9.05 allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) by using a socket to connect to a port on the localhost, calling shutdown to clear the socket, then using the same socket to connect to a different port on localhost.

Buffer overflow in FreeBSD lpd through long DNS hostnames.

Buffer overflow in TestChip function in XFree86 SuperProbe in Slackware Linux 3.1 allows local users to gain root privileges via a long -nopr argument.

Finger redirection allows finger bombs.

A version of finger is running that exposes valid user information to any entity on the network.

NFS cache poisoning.

Internet Explorer 3.01 on Windows 95 allows remote malicious web sites to execute arbitrary commands via a .isp file, which is automatically downloaded and executed without prompting the user.

Buffer overflow in xmcd 2.0p12 allows local users to gain access through an environmental variable.

finger allows recursive searches by using a long string of @ symbols.

ucbmail allows remote attackers to execute commands via shell metacharacters that are passed to it from INN.

Buffer overflow in NLS (Natural Language Service).

Buffer overflow in ffbconfig in Solaris 2.5.1.

Denial of service in RPCSS.EXE program (RPC Locator) in Windows NT.

Buffer overflow of rlogin program using TERM environmental variable.

ypbind with -ypset and -ypsetme options activated in Linux Slackware and SunOS allows local and remote attackers to overwrite files via a .. (dot dot) attack.

rcp on various Linux systems including Red Hat 4.0 allows a "nobody" user or other user with UID of 65535 to overwrite arbitrary files, since 65535 is interpreted as -1 by chown and other system calls, which causes the calls to fail to modify the ownership of the file.

Vulnerability in ftpd/kftpd in HP-UX 10.x and 9.x allows local and possibly remote users to gain root privileges.

The Sun sdtcm_convert calendar utility for OpenWindows has a buffer overflow which can gain root access.

IRIX startmidi program allows local users to modify arbitrary files via a symlink attack.

HP-UX vgdisplay program gives root access to local users.

The view-source CGI program allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) attack.

Certain files in MPower in HP-UX 10.x are installed with insecure permissions, which allows local users to gain privileges.

MIME conversion buffer overflow in sendmail versions 8.8.3 and 8.8.4.

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

Buffer overflow in Solaris getopt in libc allows local users to gain root privileges via a long argv[0].

wu-ftp allows files to be overwritten via the rnfr command.

Vulnerability in chsh command in HP-UX 9.X through 10.20 allows local users to gain privileges.

Csetup under IRIX allows arbitrary file creation or overwriting.

Vulnerability in dtlogin and dtsession in HP-UX 10.20 and 10.10 allows local users to bypass authentication and gain privileges.

Vulnerability in Glance programs in GlancePlus for HP-UX 10.20 and earlier allows local users to access arbitrary files and gain privileges.

Arbitrary file creation and program execution using FLEXlm LicenseManager, from versions 4.0 to 5.0, in IRIX.