Buffer overflow in Dosemu Slang library in Linux

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

Samba 1.9.18 inadvertently includes a prototype application, wsmbconf, which is installed with incorrect permissions including the setgid bit, which allows local users to read and…

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

Buffer overflow in bash 2.0.0, 1.4.17, and other versions allows local attackers to gain privileges by creating an extremely large directory name, which is inserted into the…

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

xosview 1.5.1 in Red Hat 5.1 allows local users to gain root access via a long HOME environmental variable

Denial of Service vulnerability in BIND 8 Releases via maliciously formatted DNS messages

Inverse query buffer overflow in BIND 4.9 and BIND 8 Releases

ifdhcpc-done script for configuring DHCP on Red Hat Linux 5 allows local users to append text to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the dhcplog file

A Unix account has a default, null, blank, or missing password

Buffer overflow in SGI IRIX mailx program

Buffer overflow in telnet daemon tgetent routing allows remote attackers to gain root access via the TERMCAP environmental variable

sort creates temporary files and follows symbolic links, which allows local users to modify arbitrary files that are writable by the user running sort, as observed in updatedb and…

Buffer overflow in run-time linkers (1) ld.so or (2) ld-linux.so for Linux systems allows local users to gain privileges by calling a setuid program with a long program name…

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

Arbitrary command execution via metamail package using message headers, when user processes attacker's message using metamail

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

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

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

Buffer overflow in NLS (Natural Language Service)

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…

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

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

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

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

abuse.console in Red Hat 2.1 uses relative pathnames to find and execute the undrv program, which allows local users to execute arbitrary commands via a path that points to a…

rxvt, when compiled with the PRINT_PIPE option in various Linux operating systems including Linux Slackware 3.0 and RedHat 2.1, allows local users to gain root privileges by…

rpc.lockd in Red Hat Linux 6.1 and 6.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a malformed request