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Buffer overflow in mscreen on SCO OpenServer 5.0 and SCO UNIX 3.2v4 allows a local user to gain root access via (1) a long TERM environmental variable and (2) a long entry in the .mscreenrc file.

Format string vulnerability in AnswerBook2 (AB2) web server dwhttpd 3.1a4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary commands via encoded % characters in an HTTP request, which is improperly logged.

AnswerBook2 (AB2) web server dwhttpd 3.1a4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) via an HTTP POST request with a large content-length.

Cisco PIX firewall and CBAC IP fragmentation attack results in a denial of service.

Opera 3.2.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a URL that contains an extra / in the http:// tag.

Attackers can crash a Cisco IOS router or device, provided they can get to an interactive prompt (such as a login). This applies to some IOS 9.x, 10.x, and 11.x releases.

Apache WWW server 1.3.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) via a large number of MIME headers with the same name, aka the "sioux" vulnerability.

Hylafax faxsurvey CGI script on Linux allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the query string.

The chpass command in OpenBSD allows a local user to gain root access through file descriptor leakage.

Netscape Enterprise servers may list files through the PageServices query.

The WINS server in Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 before SP4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (process termination) via invalid UDP frames to port 137 (NETBIOS Name Service), as demonstrated via a flood of random packets.

HP OpenView Omniback allows remote execution of commands as root via spoofing, and local users can gain root access via a symlink attack.

NT users can gain debug-level access on a system process using the Sechole exploit.

Buffer overflow in the libauth library in Solaris allows local users to gain additional privileges, possibly root access.

An SNMP community name is guessable.

Vulnerability in Predictive on HP-UX 11.0 and earlier, and MPE/iX 5.5 and earlier, allows attackers to compromise data transfer for Predictive messages (using e-mail or modem) between customer and Response Center Predictive systems.

dumpreg in Red Hat Linux 5.1 opens /dev/mem with O_RDWR access, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) by redirecting fd 1 (stdout) to the kernel.

Eudora and Eudora Light before 3.05 allows remote attackers to cause a crash and corrupt the user's mailbox via an e-mail message with certain dates, such as (1) dates before 1970, which cause a Divide By Zero error, or (2) dates that are 100 years after the current date, which causes a segmentation fault.

Internet Explorer 4.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via HTML code that contains a long CLASSID parameter in an OBJECT tag.

Mutt mail client allows a remote attacker to execute commands via shell metacharacters.

Buffer overflow in ping CGI program in Xylogics Annex terminal service allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a long query parameter.

NBase switches NH2012, NH2012R, NH2015, and NH2048 have a back door password that cannot be disabled, which allows remote attackers to modify the switch's configuration.

Arbitrary command execution via IMAP buffer overflow in authenticate command.

Vintra SMTP MailServer allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a malformed "EXPN *@" command.

NBase switches NH208 and NH215 run a TFTP server which allows remote attackers to send software updates to modify the switch or cause a denial of service (crash) by guessing the target filenames, which have default names.

Buffer overflow in CSM Proxy 4.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long string to the FTP port.

Solaris SUNWadmap can be exploited to obtain root access.

Power management (Powermanagement) on Solaris 2.4 through 2.6 does not start the xlock process until after the sys-suspend has completed, which allows an attacker with physical access to input characters to the last active application from the keyboard for a short period after the system is restoring, which could lead to increased privileges.

Vulnerability in loginout in Digital OpenVMS 7.1 and earlier allows unauthorized access when external authentication is enabled.

cmdtool in OpenWindows 3.0 and XView 3.0 in SunOS 4.1.4 and earlier allows attackers with physical access to the system to display unechoed characters (such as those from password prompts) via the L2/AGAIN key.

libnsl in Solaris allowed an attacker to perform a denial of service of rpcbind.

By design, the "established" command on the Cisco PIX firewall allows connections from one host to arbitrary ports of a target host if an alternative conduit has already been allowed, which can cause administrators to configure less restrictive access controls than intended if they do not understand this functionality.

HP JetAdmin D.01.09 on Solaris allows local users to change the permissions of arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/jetadmin.log file.

Buffer overflow in POP servers based on BSD/Qualcomm's qpopper allows remote attackers to gain root access using a long PASS command.

login in Slackware Linux 3.2 through 3.5 does not properly check for an error when the /etc/group file is missing, which prevents it from dropping privileges, causing it to assign root privileges to any local user who logs on to the server.

KMail in KDE 1.0 provides a PGP passphrase as a command line argument to other programs, which could allow local users to obtain the passphrase and compromise the PGP keys of other users by viewing the arguments via programs that list process information, such as ps.

Buffer overflow in libsocks5 library of Socks 5 (socks5) 1.0r5 allows local users to gain privileges via long environmental variables.

Buffer overflow in SLmail 3.x allows attackers to execute commands using a large FROM line.

Ray Chan WWW Authorization Gateway 0.1 CGI program allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the "user" parameter.

ePerl 2.2.12 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files and possibly execute certain commands by specifying a full pathname of the target file as an argument to bar.phtml.

Buffer overflow in the lex routines of nslookup for AIX 4.3 may allow attackers to cause a core dump and possibly execute arbitrary code via "long input strings."

The at program in IRIX 6.2 and NetBSD 1.3.2 and earlier allows local users to read portions of arbitrary files by submitting the file to at with the -f argument, which generates error messages that at sends to the user via e-mail.

StarTech (1) POP3 proxy server and (2) telnet server allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a long USER command.

disk_bandwidth on SGI IRIX 6.4 S2MP for Origin/Onyx2 allows local users to gain root access using relative pathnames.

ioconfig on SGI IRIX 6.4 S2MP for Origin/Onyx2 allows local users to gain root access using relative pathnames.

Denial of service in WinGate proxy through a buffer overflow in POP3.

Linux 2.0.34 does not properly prevent users from sending SIGIO signals to arbitrary processes, which allows local users to cause a denial of service by sending SIGIO to processes that do not catch it.

Livingston Portmaster routers running ComOS use the same initial sequence number (ISN) for TCP connections, which allows remote attackers to conduct spoofing and hijack TCP sessions.

Microsoft SQL Server 6.5 uses weak encryption for the password for the SQLExecutiveCmdExec account and stores it in an accessible portion of the registry, which could allow local users to gain privileges by reading and decrypting the CmdExecAccount value.

NIS finger allows an attacker to conduct a denial of service via a large number of finger requests, resulting in a large number of NIS queries.