Openlinux

This hub aggregates every CVE we track for Openlinux, a product in the operating systems space. Use it to gauge the current risk picture and drill into individual advisories.

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The 15 most recently published vulnerabilities affecting Openlinux.

• CVE-2002-1199The getdbm procedure in ypxfrd allows local users to read arbitrary files, and remote attackers to read databases outside /var/yp, via a directory traversal and symlink attack on the domain and map...5.0Sep 1, 2004
• CVE-2000-0892Some telnet clients allow remote telnet servers to request environment variables from the client that may contain sensitive information, or remote web servers to obtain the information via a telnet...2.6Mar 9, 2002
• CVE-2001-0850A configuration error in the libdb1 package in OpenLinux 3.1 uses insecure versions of the snprintf and vsnprintf functions, which could allow local or remote users to exploit those functions with ...10.0Mar 9, 2002
• CVE-2001-0851Linux kernel 2.0, 2.2 and 2.4 with syncookies enabled allows remote attackers to bypass firewall rules by brute force guessing the cookie.5.0Mar 9, 2002
• CVE-1999-1288Samba 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 write files and p...4.6Mar 9, 2002
• CVE-2000-0917Format string vulnerability in use_syslog() function in LPRng 3.6.24 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands.10.0Jan 22, 2001
• CVE-2000-0844Some functions that implement the locale subsystem on Unix do not properly cleanse user-injected format strings, which allows local attackers to execute arbitrary commands via functions such as ge...10.0Jan 22, 2001
• CVE-2000-1134Multiple shell programs on various Unix systems, including (1) tcsh, (2) csh, (3) sh, and (4) bash, follow symlinks when processing << redirects (aka here-documents or in-here documents), which all...7.2Dec 19, 2000
• CVE-2000-0530The KApplication class in the KDE 1.1.2 configuration file management capability allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files.7.2Oct 13, 2000
• CVE-2000-0566makewhatis in Linux man package allows local users to overwrite files via a symlink attack.7.2Oct 13, 2000
• CVE-2000-0369The IDENT server in Caldera Linux 2.3 creates multiple threads for each IDENT request, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service.5.0Oct 13, 2000
• CVE-2000-0374The default configuration of kdm in Caldera and Mandrake Linux, and possibly other distributions, allows XDMCP connections from any host, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive informati...10.0Oct 13, 2000
• CVE-2000-0491Buffer overflow in the XDMCP parsing code of GNOME gdm, KDE kdm, and wdm allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands or cause a denial of service via a long FORWARD_QUERY request.10.0Jul 12, 2000
• CVE-2000-0438Buffer overflow in fdmount on Linux systems allows local users in the "floppy" group to execute arbitrary commands via a long mountpoint parameter.7.2Jul 12, 2000
• CVE-2000-0372Vulnerability in Caldera rmt command in the dump package 0.4b4 allows a local user to gain root privileges.7.2Jul 12, 2000