The Live CD in SUSE LINUX 9.1 Personal edition is configured without a password for root, which allows remote attackers to gain privileges via SSH.
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Security Vulnerability Index
Page 6 / 35The SuSEconfig.gnome-filesystem script for YaST in SuSE 9.0 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on files within the tmp.SuSEconfig.gnome-filesystem.$RANDOM temporary directory.
Unspecified vulnerability in xscreensaver 4.12, and possibly other versions, allows attackers to cause xscreensaver to crash via unspecified vectors "while verifying the user-password."
SuSEconfig.susewm in the susewm package on SuSE Linux 8.2Pro allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the susewm.$$ temporary file.
SuSEconfig.javarunt in the javarunt package on SuSE Linux 7.3Pro allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the .java_wrapper temporary file.
The Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) allows local users to cause a denial of service via an IGMP membership report to a target's Ethernet address instead of the Multicast group address, which causes the target to stop sending reports to the router and effectively disconnect the group from the network.
runlpr in the LPRng package allows the local lp user to gain root privileges via certain command line arguments.
Buffer overflows in ISDN Point to Point Protocol (PPP) daemon (ipppd) in the i4l package on SuSE 7.3, 8.0, and possibly other operating systems, may allow local users to gain privileges.
ifup-dhcp script in the sysconfig package for SuSE 8.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via spoofed DHCP responses, which are stored and executed in a file.
shadow package in SuSE 8.0 allows local users to destroy the /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow files or assign extra group privileges to some users by changing filesize limits before calling programs that modify the files.