Security Vulnerabilities, CVEs, Published In August 1999

The scriptlet.typelib ActiveX control is marked as "safe for scripting" for Internet Explorer, which allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands as demonstrated by Bubbleboy.

Buffer overflow in ToxSoft NextFTP client through CWD command.

Buffer overflow in Fujitsu Chocoa IRC client via IRC channel topics.

Buffer overflow in ALMail32 POP3 client via From: or To: headers.

The BSD profil system call allows a local user to modify the internal data space of a program via profiling and execve.

Check Point FireWall-1 can be subjected to a denial of service via UDP packets that are sent through VPN-1 to port 0 of a host.

sdtcm_convert in Solaris 2.6 allows a local user to overwrite sensitive files via a symlink attack.

The WebRamp web administration utility has a default password.

Buffer overflow in hybrid-6 IRC server commonly used on EFnet allows remote attackers to execute commands via m_invite invite option.

Windows NT Terminal Server performs extra work when a client opens a new connection but before it is authenticated, allowing for a denial of service.

Microsoft Exchange 5.5 allows a remote attacker to relay email (i.e. spam) using encapsulated SMTP addresses, even if the anti-relaying features are enabled.

Denial of service in AIX ptrace system call allows local users to crash the system.

OpenBSD, BSDI, and other Unix operating systems allow users to set chflags and fchflags on character and block devices.

The Guile plugin for the Gnumeric spreadsheet package allows attackers to execute arbitrary code.

The pt_chown command in Linux allows local users to modify TTY terminal devices that belong to other users.

The default configuration of Cobalt RaQ2 servers allows remote users to install arbitrary software packages.

Buffer overflow in OpenBSD procfs and fdescfs file systems via uio_offset in the readdir() function.

When IIS is run with a default language of Chinese, Korean, or Japanese, it allows a remote attacker to view the source code of certain files, a.k.a. "Double Byte Code Page".

A kernel leak in the OpenBSD kernel allows IPsec packets to be sent unencrypted.

The logging facility of the Debian smtp-refuser package allows local users to delete arbitrary files using symbolic links.

A default configuration of CiscoSecure Access Control Server (ACS) allows remote users to modify the server database without authentication.

Remote attackers can cause a denial of service on Linux in.telnetd telnet daemon through a malformed TERM environmental variable.

QMS CrownNet Unix Utilities for 2060 allows root to log on without a password.

Trn allows local users to overwrite other users' files via symlinks.

Buffer overflow in Source Code Browser Program Database Name Server Daemon (pdnsd) for the IBM AIX C Set ++ compiler.