RFPolicy 2.0 - rain forest puppy's policy on notifying vendors and releasing security vulnerabilities.
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rain forest puppy's investigation of the recent Microsoft IIS remote command execution vulnerability which was first mentioned in a ms00-078. UNICODE character translation on foreign IIS 4.0 and 5.0 servers allows additional ways of encoding '/' and '\', allowing commands to be executed under the IUSR_machine context.
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Microsoft Security Bulletin (MS00-078) - Microsoft has released a patch that eliminates the "Web Server Folder Traversal" vulnerability in IIS 4.0 and 5.0 which allows malicious users to add and remove content or execute code remotely with a malformed URL. Microsoft FAQ on this issue available here.
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PHP/3.0.12, 3.0.15, and 3.0.16 with apache 1.3.12 remote format string exploit for FreeBSD 3.4, Slackware Linux 4.0, and 7.0.
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Linux/x86 shellcode which drops a shell in /tmp.
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NetBSD shellcode which execve's /bin/sh.
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BSDI shellcode which execve's /bin/sh.
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SCO shellcode which breaks out of a chrooted environment.
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Windows NT/2k remote shellcode.
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wwwhack - Automates the process of trying to crack logins/passwds for www sites that use basic HTTP authentication.
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Weekly Newsletter from Help Net Security - Covers weekly roundups of security events that were in the news the past week. In this issue: PHP 3 and 4 remote format string vulnerabilities, Internet Explorer authentication data retrieval, IE cached web credentials vulerability, Master index directory transversal vulnerability, BOA vulnerabilities, tmpwatch local dos, Extropoa Webstore directory transversal vulnerability, Interactive's web shopper directory transversal vulnerability, Microsoft share level password vulnerability, Mandrake openssh/scp update, HP Jetdirect dos, WebTV dos, Apache mod_rewrite, Debian curl update, Winu 1.0-5.1 backdoor password, debian ypbind local vulnerability, and Netmeeting denial of service. Articles include SUID programs, getting to the root of the problem, Testing for Trojans, How to detect virus hoaxes, and more.
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SuSE Security Advisory - SuSE's traceroute (nanog) has a completely different local root vulnerability than the one reported last week. A format string bug was discovered in a routine that can be used to terminate a line in traceroute's output to easily embed the program in cgi scripts.
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SuSE Security Advisory - Gnorpm, a graphical user interface to the rpm subsystem for the gnome desktop, handles tempfiles insecurely and can overwrite arbitrary files on the system.
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11logger is a small kernel patch, a module and some userspace tools to add SIGSEGV logging and history capabilities to Linux 2.2.x. 11logger is very useful in security auditing and general debugging.
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Wu-Ftpd is a portable FTP server.
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Wingate 4.1 Beta A and below allows users with access to read the logs to read any file on the filesystem by encoding the URL with escape codes, bypassing input validation. Includes wgate41a.c, proof of concept code. Fix available here.
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Crypto-gram for October 15, 2000. In this issue: Semantic Attacks: The Third Wave of Network Attacks, News, Council of Europe Cybercrime Treaty -- Draft, The Doghouse: HSBC, NSA on Security, AES Announced, NSA on AES, and the Privacy Tools Handbook.
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Tcpdump allows you to dump the traffic on a network. It can be used to print out the headers and/or contents of packets on a network interface that matches a given expression. You can use this tool to track down network problems, to detect many attacks, or to monitor the network activities. Requires Libpcap.
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Libpcap is a portable packet capture library which is used in many packet sniffers, including Tcpdump.
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