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An NIS domain name is easily guessable.

A NETBIOS/SMB share password is the default, null, or missing.

The registry in Windows NT can be accessed remotely by users who are not administrators.

Denial of service in syslog by sending it a large number of superfluous messages.

Denial of service in Windows NT DNS servers through malicious packet which contains a response to a query that wasn't made.

A Windows NT local user or administrator account has a guessable password.

A Windows NT account policy has inappropriate, security-critical settings for lockout, e.g. lockout duration, lockout after bad logon attempts, etc.

Denial of service in talk program allows remote attackers to disrupt a user's display.

Buffer overflow in listserv allows arbitrary command execution.

Remote attackers can mount an NFS file system in Ultrix or OSF, even if it is denied on the access list.

Buffer overflow in the win-c-sample program (win-c-sample.exe) in the WebSite web server 1.1e allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long query string.

IIS 3.0 with the iis-fix hotfix installed allows remote intruders to read source code for ASP programs by using a %2e instead of a . (dot) in the URL.

A Windows NT 4.0 user can gain administrative rights by forcing NtOpenProcessToken to succeed regardless of the user's permissions, aka GetAdmin.

IP forwarding is enabled on a machine which is not a router or firewall.

Sendmail 8.6.9 allows remote attackers to execute root commands, using ident.

Windows NT crashes or locks up when a Samba client executes a "cd .." command on a file share.

Vulnerability in direct audio user space code on HP-UX 10.20 and 10.10 allows local users to cause a denial of service.

The jj CGI program allows command execution via shell metacharacters.

aspppd on Solaris 2.5 x86 allows local users to modify arbitrary files and gain root privileges via a symlink attack on the /tmp/.asppp.fifo file.

Buffer overflow in ppp program in FreeBSD 2.1 and earlier allows local users to gain privileges via a long HOME environment variable.

swinstall and swmodify commands in SD-UX package in HP-UX systems allow local users to create or overwrite arbitrary files to gain root access.

Oversized ICMP ping packets can result in a denial of service, aka Ping o' Death.

Buffer overflow in chfn command in HP-UX 9.X through 10.20 allows local users to gain privileges via a long command line argument.

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

List of arbitrary files on Web host via nph-test-cgi script.

Sendmail decode alias can be used to overwrite sensitive files.

Buffer overflow in AIX and Solaris "gethostbyname" library call allows root access through corrupt DNS host names.

Vulnerability in Desktop searchbook program in IRIX 5.0.x through 6.2 sets insecure permissions for certain user files (iconbook and searchbook).

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

fsdump command in IRIX allows local users to obtain root access by modifying sensitive files.

Sendmail allows local users to write to a file and gain group permissions via a .forward or :include: file.

Buffer overflow in HP-UX newgrp program.

Buffer overflow in cddbd CD database server allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a long log message.

Kerberos 4 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a malformed UDP packet that generates an error string that inadvertently includes the realm name and the last user.

dxchpwd in Digital Unix (OSF/1) 3.x allows local users to modify arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the dxchpwd.log file.

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

Vulnerability in ppl in HP-UX 10.x and earlier allows local users to gain root privileges by forcing ppl to core dump.

fpkg2swpk in HP-UX allows local users to gain root access.

Buffer overflow in mstm in HP-UX allows local users to gain root access.

Indigo Magic System Tour in the SGI system tour package (systour) for IRIX 5.x through 6.3 allows local users to gain root privileges via a Trojan horse .exitops program, which is called by the inst command that is executed by the RemoveSystemTour program.

The WorkMan program can be used to overwrite any file to get root access.

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.

PASV core dump in wu-ftpd daemon when attacker uses a QUOTE PASV command after specifying a username and password.

Bash treats any character with a value of 255 as a command separator.

HP-UX gwind program allows users to modify arbitrary files.

Buffer overflow in xmcd 2.1 allows local users to gain access through a user resource setting.

MIME buffer overflow in Sendmail 8.8.0 and 8.8.1 gives root access.

HP Remote Watch allows a remote user to gain root access.

HPUX sysdiag allows local users to gain root privileges via a symlink attack during log file creation.

Denial of service when an attacker sends many SYN packets to create multiple connections without ever sending an ACK to complete the connection, aka SYN flood.