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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.

movemail in HP-UX 10.20 has insecure permissions, which allows local users to gain privileges.

netprint in SGI IRIX 6.4 and earlier trusts the PATH environmental variable for finding and executing the disable program, which allows local users to gain privileges.

An SNMP community name is the default (e.g. public), null, or missing.

Jolt ICMP attack causes a denial of service in Windows 95 and Windows NT systems.

Remote access in AIX innd 1.5.1, using control messages.

NFS allows users to use a "cd .." command to access other directories besides the exported file system.

In older versions of Sendmail, an attacker could use a pipe character to execute root commands.

FormMail CGI program can be used by web servers other than the host server that the program resides on.

A Windows NT local user or administrator account has a default, null, blank, or missing password.

NETBIOS share information may be published through SNMP registry keys in NT.

IP traceroute is allowed from arbitrary hosts.

A Windows NT account policy for passwords has inappropriate, security-critical settings, e.g. for password length, password age, or uniqueness.

A router's routing tables can be obtained from arbitrary hosts.