High severity CVEs

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

DHCP clients with ICMP Router Discovery Protocol (IRDP) enabled allow remote attackers to modify their default routes.

Cfingerd with ALLOW_EXECUTION enabled does not properly drop privileges when it executes a program on behalf of the user, allowing local users to gain root privileges.

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

The WebRamp web administration utility has a default password.

Ethereal allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the packet capture file.

.sbstart startup script in AcuShop Salesbuilder is world writable, which allows local users to gain privileges by appending commands to the file.

WS_FTP Pro 6.0 uses weak encryption for passwords in its initialization files, which allows remote attackers to easily decrypt the passwords and gain privileges.

Seattle Labs Emurl 2.0, and possibly earlier versions, stores e-mail attachments in a specific directory with scripting enabled, which allows a malicious ASP file attachment to ex…

The Microsoft Jet database engine allows an attacker to modify text files via a database query, aka the "Text I-ISAM" vulnerability.

IPChains in Linux kernels 2.2.10 and earlier does not reassemble IP fragments before checking the header information, which allows a remote attacker to bypass the filtering rules…

The Squid package in Red Hat Linux 5.2 and 6.0, and other distributions, installs cachemgr.cgi in a public web directory, which allows remote attackers to use it as an intermediar…

GNU fingerd 1.37 does not properly drop privileges before accessing user information, which could allow local users to (1) gain root privileges via a malicious program in the .fin…

Denial of service in Windows NT Local Security Authority (LSA) through a malformed LSA request.

Vulnerability in a script in Texas A&M University (TAMU) Tiger allows local users to execute arbitrary commands as the Tiger user, usually root.

BMC PATROL SNMP Agent before 3.2.07 allows local users to create arbitrary world-writeable files as root by specifying the target file as the second argument to the snmpmagt progr…

Linux 2.0.37 does not properly encode the Custom segment limit, which allows local users to gain root privileges by accessing and modifying kernel memory.

A Windows NT user can disable the keyboard or mouse by directly calling the IOCTLs which control them.

Denial of service in various Windows systems via malformed, fragmented IGMP packets.

HP CDE program includes the current directory in root's PATH variable.

The default FTP configuration in HP Visualize Conference allows conference users to send a file to other participants without authorization.

Cisco 675 routers running CBOS allow remote attackers to establish telnet sessions if an exec or superuser password has not been set.

An attacker can conduct a denial of service in Windows NT by executing a program with a malformed file image header.

MBone SDR Package allows remote attackers to execute commands via shell metacharacters in Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) messages.

Windows NT searches a user's home directory (%systemroot% by default) before other directories to find critical programs such as NDDEAGNT.EXE, EXPLORER.EXE, USERINIT.EXE or TASKMG…