Vulnerabilities

DATE CVE VULNERABILITY TITLE RISK
1998-12-01 CVE-1999-0321 Unspecified vulnerability in SUN Solaris
Buffer overflow in Solaris kcms_configure command allows local users to gain root access.
local
low complexity
sun
7.2
1998-11-30 CVE-1999-1073 Unspecified vulnerability in Excite EWS 1.1
Excite for Web Servers (EWS) 1.1 records the first two characters of a plaintext password in the beginning of the encrypted password, which makes it easier for an attacker to guess passwords via a brute force or dictionary attack.
local
low complexity
excite
7.2
1998-11-30 CVE-1999-1072 Unspecified vulnerability in Excite EWS 1.1
Excite for Web Servers (EWS) 1.1 allows local users to gain privileges by obtaining the encrypted password from the world-readable Architext.conf authentication file and replaying the encrypted password in an HTTP request to AT-generated.cgi or AT-admin.cgi.
local
low complexity
excite
7.2
1998-11-30 CVE-1999-1071 Unspecified vulnerability in Excite EWS 1.1
Excite for Web Servers (EWS) 1.1 installs the Architext.conf authentication file with world-writeable permissions, which allows local users to gain access to Excite accounts by modifying the file.
local
low complexity
excite
7.2
1998-11-26 CVE-1999-1411 Unspecified vulnerability in Debian Linux 2.0
The installation of the fsp package 2.71-10 in Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 adds the anonymous FTP user without notifying the administrator, which could automatically enable anonymous FTP on some servers such as wu-ftp.
network
low complexity
debian
7.5
1998-11-19 CVE-1999-1288 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 write files and possibly gain privileges via bugs in the program.
local
low complexity
samba caldera redhat turbolinux
4.6
1998-11-18 CVE-1999-1107 Unspecified vulnerability in KDE 1.0
Buffer overflow in kppp in KDE allows local users to gain root access via a long PATH environmental variable.
local
low complexity
kde
7.2
1998-11-18 CVE-1999-0782 KDE kppp allows local users to create a directory in an arbitrary location via the HOME environmental variable.
local
low complexity
freebsd kde linux
2.1
1998-11-18 CVE-1999-0781 KDE allows local users to execute arbitrary commands by setting the KDEDIR environmental variable to modify the search path that KDE uses to locate its executables.
local
low complexity
freebsd kde linux
7.2
1998-11-18 CVE-1999-0780 KDE klock allows local users to kill arbitrary processes by specifying an arbitrary PID in the .kss.pid file.
local
low complexity
freebsd kde linux
4.6