Date

Description

system

version

Risk

Application

Source

References

port

Patch

Patchref

12/31/98

OracleDenial of Service

Oracle

8.05

8.0.4

7.3

medium

Oracle

bugtraq

 

 

 

 

12/20/98

WindowsNT "Remote Explorer" Virus

Windows NT

3.51

4.0

5.0

medium

Windows NT

Microsoft

 

 

 

 

12/17/98

passwd

Solaris

2.6 2.6_x86, 2.5.1, 2.5.1_x86, 2.5, 2.5_x86, 2.4, 2.4_x86 2.3

medium

passwd

Sun

00182

 

 

SUNpatch

12/16/98

Attacking "protected" machines through MS-Proxy

MS-Proxy

 

high

Firewall

bugtraq

 

 

 

 

12/13/98

Exploitable buffer overflow in bootpd

UNIX

 

high

bootpd

 

 

 

 

 

12/10/98

Patch Availablefor Excel "CALL Vulnerability"

MS-Office

97

high

Excel

Microsoft

MS98-018

 

 

 

12/10/98

Vulnerabilityin IRIX fcagent daemon

IRIX

6.4 and higher

medium

fcagent, RPC

SGI

19981201-01-PX

 

 

 

12/10/98

ICMP RedirectsAgainst Embedded Controllers

OS-9

 

medium

Embedded Controllers

ISS

 

 

 

 

12/10/98

Built in password

BreezeCOM

 

high

password

bugtraq

 

 

 

 

11/16/98

Sendmail lame DoS attacks

Sendmail

8.8.6

medium

sendmail

Bugtraq

25

sendmail 8.9.1

11/5/98

Cisco IOS DFS Access List Leakage

cisco IOS

Cisco 7xxx family

11.1CC and 11.1CT releases

medium

CERT

VB-98.13.Cisco_IOS_DFS

all

11/2/98

Hidden SNMP community in HP OpenView

Open View

HP-UX Version 10.X

HP-UX Version 9.X

Solaris Version 2.X

high

Open View snmp

ISS

161

11/2/98

Hidden community string in SNMP implementation

Solaris

2.6 and earlier

high

snmp agent

ISS

161

10/16/98

Update available for "Untrusted Scripted Paste" Issue in

Windows All

Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.01 and 4.01 SP1 on Windows NT 4.0, Windows 95

 - Microsoft Windows 98, with integrated Internet Explorer

 - Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.01 for Windows 3.1 and Windows NT 3.51

high

Iexplorer 4.01

Microsoft

ms98-015.htm

80

10/14/98

Two independent vulnerabilities in ufsrestoreand ufsdump

SunOS

5.5.1

5.5.1_x86

5.5

5.5_x86.

5.4

5.4_x86

5.3

high

ufsrestore

ufsdump

CERT

http://sunsolve.Sun.COM/pub-cgi

/us/sec2html?secbull/169

 

 

 

10/14/98

Cisco IOS Command History Release at Login Prompt

cisco IOS

Cisco routers in the AGS/MGS/CGS/AGS+, IGS, RSM, 8xx, 1xxx, 25xx, 26xx, 30xx, 36xx,40xx, 45xx, 47xx, AS52xx, AS53xx, 70xx, 72xx (including the ubr72xx), 75xx, and 12xxxseries

Most recent versions of the LS1010 ATM switch, some version of te Catalyst 29

00XL

LAN s

witch.

The Cisco DistributedDirector 9.1 and laterhigh cisc

o

c

i

10/13/98

Security Vulnerabilities in "mscreen" Serial Multiscreens Utility

SCO

- SCO Open Desktop/Open Server 3.0 (all, also SCO UNIX 3.2v4)

- SCO OpenServer 5.0 (all, also SCO Internet FastStart)

- SCO CMW+ 3.0

high

mscreen

CERT

SCO Security Bulletin 98.05a

OS

sse016.tar.Z

10/12/98

RemotelyExploitable Buffer Overflow Vulnerability in mountd

Linux

 

high

NFS

CERT

ftp://ftp.cert.org/pub/

cert_advisories/CA-98.12.mountd

 

 

http://www.redhat.com/

support/docs/errata.html

ftp://ftp.caldera.com/pub/

OpenLinux/updates/1.2/013

9/29/98

Snork : Denial of service attack agiants windows NT RPC

Windows NT

4.0 including SP4

medium

RPC

ISS

135,7,9

ms98-014

9/3/98

Vulnerabilityin ToolTalk RPC Service

SunOS

5.6, 5.6_x86, 5.5.1, 5.5.1_x86, 5.4,5.4_x86, 5.3, 4.1,4.1.3_U1

HP-U

X release 10.3

0

     HP-UX release 1

1.00

SGI

     IRIX 5.3

     IRIX 5.4

     IRIX 6.2

     IRIX 6.3

     IRIX 6.4

IBM

     AIX 4.1.

X

     AIX 4.2.X

     AIX 4.3.X

TriTeal

     TriTeal CDE - TED versions 4.3 and previous.

Xi Graphics

     Xi Graphics Maximum CDE v1.2.3 highTooltalk (CDE)NAI

8/25/98

Steal anarbitrary number of Hotmail passwords

hotmail

 

high

free mail service

Bugtraq

 

 

 

 

8/20/98

Cisco PIXpossible DOS-attacks to static

IP-addresses on the inside

cisco PIX

 

medium

Firewall

Bugtraq

 

 

 

 

8/19/98

SecurityVulnerability in BIND on HP-UX

HP-UX

 9.0-11.0

high

BIND

HP

 

 

 

 

8/18/98

Updates available for Security Vulnerabilities in Microsoft PPTP

Windows NT

 

high

Dialup Networking 1.2x and earlier onWindows 95

-Remote Access Services, Routing and Remote Access Services on Windows NT 4.0

- Windows 98 Dialup Networking<br>

Microsoft

http://www.repsec.com/

advisories.html

 

 

Updates availablevulnerabilities in PPTP

8/18/98

Two vulnerabilities in rpc.pcnfsd

AIX

 4.0, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3

high

rpc.pcnfsd

RSI

 

 

 

 

8/18/98

"Window.External"

Windows NT

 

medium

IE 4.0, 4.01, 4.01 SP1

Microsoft

 

 

 

 

8/14/98

ICQ PasswordVerification Bug

Linux

 

high

ICQ servers

rootshell

Security bulletin

 

 

 

8/13/98

Cisco IOSRemote Router Crash

cisco IOS

 

medium

IOS

cisco

cisco

 

 

 

8/11/98

Buffer Overflow in MIME-aware Mail and News Clients

All

high

Openwindows versions 3.0, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5 and 3.6.

CDE versions 1.0.1, 1.0.2 and 1.2.

- - SCO CMW+

- - SCO Open Desktop / Open Server 3.0, SCO UNIX 3.2v4

- - SCO OpenServer 5, SCO Internet FastStart

- - SCO UnixWare 2.1

mutt and pine

CERT

CA-98.10-mime-buffer-overflows.html

25

8/8/98

Apache DoSattack

All

 

medium

Apache

Bugtraq

 

 

 

 

8/7/98

1.Descriptionof the Eudora Security Hole

2. Eudora Pro Security Alert

Windows All

 

high

Eudora Pro and CommCenter 4.0.1 and 4.0

Bugtraq

 

Pharlap

25,

110,

143

 

 

8/6/98

OBJECTvulnerability in IE 4.0

Windows NT

 

low

Internet Explorer 4.0

even with SP1

Bugtraq

TLAalert   procmail warning

80, 25, 110,

143

TLAalert

 

8/6/98

Universityof Washington imapd daemon Vulnerability

IRIX

 

high

Imapd

SGI

 

143

 

 

8/6/98

IRIXBIND DNS Vulnerabilities Update

IRIX

5.3

high

Bind DNS

SGI

CERT98-05

53

 

SUN00180

8/6/98

IRIX IPSpoofing/TCP Sequence Attack Update

IRIX

5.3 

6.2

medium

tcpip

SGI

 

 

 

ftp://sgigate.sgi.com/security/

19961202-01-PX

8/6/98

fingerforwarding  and finger DoS

Solaris

2.5.1

2.6

medium

finger

Bugtraq

 

 

 

 

8/6/98

Users can overwrite/create system files

All

 

high

Notes 4.6+ Client

l0pht

 

80

 

 

8/6/98

Insufficient bounds checking with SUN.LIBAUTH

Solaris

2.2

2.3

2.4

2.5

2.5.1

2.6

high

login

in.ftpd

in.uucpd

rpc.rexd

RSI

 

 

 

 

8/5/98

Denial ofService attack to NT boxes running OpenNT 2.1

Windows NT

 

high

OpenNT 2.1

Bugtraq

 

23

 

 

8/5/98

bug in the'faxsurvey' CGI-Script

 

high

HylaFAX package

Bugtraq

 

80

patch for bug in the 'faxsurvey'CGI-Script

 

8/4/98

Microsoft'sresponse to the Cult of the Dead Cow's "BackOrifice" tool

W95

95

98

high

Backorifice

Microsoft

http://www.microsoft.com/security/

bulletins/ms98-010.htm

31337

or

other

 

 

8/4/98

IBM AIX"sdrd" daemon Vulnerability

AIX

 

low

sdrd

CIAC

CIAC-I-079

 

 

ftp://aix.software.ibm.com/

aix/efixes/security/sdrd.tar.Z

7/31/98

Lotus NotesSMTP Mta 1.1 running on  crashes in

"imsgconv" task when receiving follwing Mime Fragment

Notes Server

4.5x

medium

SMTP Mta 1.1

Bugtraq

 

25

 

 

7/31/98

Vulnerabilityin ZEN Client 2.5

Windows NT

4.0

high

ZEN Client 2.5

access to Netware 4.11

NTbugtraq

 

 

Novel

http://www.novell.com/download/

7/29/98

SecurityVulnerability with Predictive on HP-UX

HP-UX

9.04

10.01

10.10

10.20 

10.30

11.00

high

Predictive

HP

 

 

 

 

7/28/98

A bufferoverrun has been detected in Outlook Express (v4.72.2106.4 &

v4.72.3110.1), and Netscape Mail (v4.05 & 4.5b1)

2. MS98-008

Windows NT

 

high

Outlook 98 Outlook Express (v4.72.2106.4&

v4.72.3110.1)

Netscape Mail (v4.05 & 4.5b1)

Eudora Pro 3.05

Bugtraq

1. http://ntbugtraq.ntadvice.com/

editorials/newworm.asp

2. MS98-008

3.CIAC-I-077

25

110

a) procmail kit

b) procmail

procmail warning

 

1. MS98-008

2.http://www.eu.microsoft.com/ie/

security/?/ie/security/oelong.htm

3. filter with procmailwhat is procmail

7/28/98

OpenVMS (VAX& ALPHA) V7.1 LOGINOUT Potential Security Vulnerability

OpenVMS

7.1

high

LOGINOUT

CERT

VB-98.07

 

 

http://www.service.digital.com/

public/vms

7/27/98

1.Windows NT Privilege Elevation attack

2. Read authors interview

Windows NT

 

high

NT4.0, 3.51

Microsoft

http://www.microsoft.com/security/

bulletins/ms98-009.htm

 

MS-98-009

 

7/27/98

Httpssecurity in Netscape 4.x when using Squid proxy server

UNIX

 

high

SSL,https, proxy

Bugtraq

 

443

 

 

7/25/98

A backdoorhas been found in mIRC

 

high

mIRC

Bugtraq

 

194

mIRC

 

7/24/98

Potential SMTP andNNTP Denial-of-Service Vulnerabilities in Exchange Server

Windows NT

 

medium

Exchange

Server 5.5 and 5.0

Microsoft

   http://www.microsoft.com/security/

bulletins/ms98-007.htm

25

119

MS98-007

ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/

bussys/exchange/

exchange-public/fixes/

7/23/98

Denial-of-Servicein IIS FTP Server with Passive Connections

Windows NT

 

medium

IIS 2.0, 3.0, 4.0

Microsoft

http://www.microsoft.com/security/

bulletins/ms98-006.htm

21

 

   ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/

iis/iis-public/fixes/usa/security/

7/23/98

SecurityVulnerability with ftp on HP-UX

HP-UX

10.0,

10.01

10.10

10.16

10.20

10.24        

11.00

medium

ftp

HP

 

21

 

 

7/22/98

SGI IRIXioconfig(1M) and disk_bandwidth(1M) Vulnerability

IRIX

6.4

high

ioconfig

disk_bandwidth

SGI

 

 

 

 

7/20/98

multiscan('mscan') Tool

All

 

low

statd

nfs

cgi-bin (eg: 'handler', 'phf' & 'cgi-test')

X

POP3

IMAP

DNS

finger

AusCERT

http://www.cert.org/incident_notes/

IN-98.02.html

53

80

110

143

6000

 

 

7/20/98

Unwanted DataIssue with Office 98 for the Macintosh

Macintosh

 

medium

Office 98

Microsoft

http://www.microsoft.com/security/

bulletins/ms98-005..htm

 

 

 

7/19/98

Javasecurity flaw

UNIX

 

high

ClassLoader in Netscape Navigator 4.0x

Bugtraq

http://www.cs.princeton.edu/sip

80

 

 

7/17/98

Unauthorized ODBCData Access with RDS and IIS

Windows NT

 

high

-IIS 4.0  -Remote Data Services  1.5 -VisualStudio 6.0

Microsoft

http://www.microsoft.com/security/

bulletins/ms98-004.htm

80

ms98-004.htm

ms98-004.htm

7/17/98

UW imapdserver

UNIX

 

high

imapd

Bugtraq

CERT Advisory CA-98.09

CIAC-I-074

older ref: 14.4.97 Cert Advisory CA-97.09 Vulnerabilityin IMAP and POP

143

SGI-19980802-01-I

CA-97.09

SGI-19980802-01-I

7/15/98

Pandorav3.0, a set of Novell Netware 4.x attack tools

Netware

4.x

high

pandora

nmrc

pandora

 

 

 

7/9/98

ePerl wasincorrectly

handling ISINDEX queries

http servers

 

high

eperl

Bugtraq

 

80

 

upgrade to ePerl 2.2.13

7/8/98

Vulnerabilitywith CSM Proxy 4.1

Windows NT

 

medium

ftpd

SAFER

 

21

 

 

7/7/98

Visibleuser list in Frontpage permissions

Windows NT

 

low

Frontpage

NTbugtraq

 

 

 

 

7/2/98

ASPvulnerability with Alternate Data Streams

Windows NT

 

high

IIS

Bugtraq

CERT

1. http://www.microsoft.com/security/

bulletins/ms98-003.htm

2.http://support.microsoft.com/support/

kb/articles/q188/8/06.asp

80

 

ms98-003.htm

6/30/98

Securityvulnerabilities in MetaInfo products

Windows NT

 

high

MetaIP

Sendmail

Bugtraq

 

25

 

 

6/29/98

DistributedDoS attack against NIS/NIS+ based networks

UNIX

 

medium

NIS, NIS+

finger

ISS

 

79

 

 

6/29/98

QPOPPER remote rootexploit

UNIX

 

high

Qpopper

Bugtraq

CERT* Advisory CA-98.08

110

 

QUALCOMM

SCO

SGI-19980801-01-I

6/27/98

at(1) allows any file tobe read

NetBSD

1.3.2

high

at

NetBSD

 

 

 

 

6/26/98

Vulnerabilityin Some Usages of PKCS

 

high

SSL

 

ftp://ftp.cert.org/pub/cert_advisories/

CA-98.07.PKCS

 

 

 

6/26/98

mailx(1)Buffer Overrun Vulnerability

IRIX

 

high

mailx

SGI

 

 

 

 

6/25/98

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered which could

HP-UX

9.x

10.x

high

RLPDAEMON

RSI

http://www.repsec.com/

advisories.html

515

 

 

6/18/98

Securityproblems on SCO's lp subsystem

SCO

 

high

lp

Bugtraq

 

 

 

 

6/18/98

IRIX BINDDNS Vulnerabilities

IRIX

3.X to 6.4

high

named

SGI

CERTCA-98.05

53

 

 

6/18/98

mail(1)/rmail(1M)/sendmail(1M)

IRIX

3.X to 6.4

high

mail(1)/

rmail(1M)/

sendmail(1M)

SGI

CERTCA-96.20

 

 

 

6/17/98

IRIXmediad(1M) Vulnerability

IRIX

5.1 to 6.4

high

mediad

SGI

 

 

 

 

6/17/98

A bufferoverflow  in rlogind

BSDI

2.0

2.1

3.0

3.1

high

rlogind

RSI

http://www.repsec.com/

bofs.html

 

 

 

6/16/98

OSF/DCEDenial of Service Attack

IRIX

5.3

6.2

6.3

6.4

medium

OSF/DCE

SGI

ftp://ftp.cert.org/pub/

cert_bulletins/

VB-97.12.opengroup

 

 

 

6/11/98

ufsrestore sparc exploit

Solaris

2.4

2.5

2.5.1

2.6

high

ufsrestore

Bugtraq

 

 

 

 

6/11/98

Ataque de insercion aSSH

 

high

SSH 1.x

CORE SDI S.A.

 

 

980703

Patch CORE

6/11/98

BIND, port 1/tcpmux,root compromise

UNIX

 

high

Summary

CERT

 

 

 

 

6/11/98

Ataque de insercion aSSH

 

high

SSH 1.x

CORE SDI S.A.

 

 

980703

Patch CORE

6/10/98

Vulnerability in 4.4BSDSecure Levels Implementation

4.4

medium

Secure levels

Bugtraq

 

 

 

 

6/10/98

Vulnerable ftpd

Solaris

2.3

2.5

2.5.1

2.6

medium

ftpd

SUN

 

 

 

 

6/9/98

Buffer Overflow inNIS+

UNIX

 

high

rpc.nisd

CERT

ftp://ftp.cert.org/pub/

cert_advisories/CA-98.06.nisd

 

 

 

6/5/98

Domain_Create_Aliasthreat 

Windows NT

 

medium

 

Infoworld

 

 

 

 

6/3/98

PIX Private Link KeyProcessing and Cryptography Issues

cisco PIX

 

high

PIX Private Link

CERT

ftp://ftp.cert.org/pub/cert_bulletins/

VB-98.05.cisco

 

 

 

6/2/98

Microsoft'sPPTP vulnerable

Windows NT

 

high

PPTP

Counterpane

http://www.counterpane.com/

pptp-faq.html

 

 

 

5/15/98

Remote users can sendcommands to your terminal via   escape sequences sent to the rlpdaemon

HP-UX

9.X

10.X

high

rlpdaemon

RSI

http://www.repsec.com/

advisories.html

 

 

 

5/14/98

libnslInsufficient bounds checking

Solaris

5.6, 5.6_x86,

5.5.1,

5.5.1_x86,

5.5,

5.5_x86,

5.4,

5.4_x86

5.3.

high

Sun Microsystem's libnsl

RSI

 

 

SUN-SB-00172

980709

SUN

5/10/98

Default user login

Bay-Wellfleet

 

high

login

Bugtraq

 

 

 

 

5/5/98

backdoor/undocumented"access level"

3COM

 

high

Debug

Bugtraq

 

 

 

 

4/30/98

potential vulnerability

DEC UNIX

 

high

ftp, advs, rpc.statd, ftpd 

V3.2g, V4.0, V4.0a, V4.0b, V4.0c

DEC

 

 

 

 

4/27/98

Vulnerabilitiesin xterm and Xaw

UNIX

 

high

xterm, xaw

CERT

ftp://ftp.cert.org/pub/cert_bulletins/

VB-98.04.xterm.Xaw

 

 

 

4/23/98

SUN Solaris 2.6 bufferoverflow

Solaris

2.6

medium

ufsdump

Bugtraq

 

 

 

 

4/16/98

Creating user accountsto become "hidden"

Netware

4.x

high

NWADMIN

Bugtraq

 

 

 

 

4/10/98

Bind 4.9.7 SIGINTSIGIOT

UNIX

 

medium

named

Bugtraq

 

53

 

 

4/8/98

MultipleVulnerabilities in BIND

UNIX

 

high

BIND 4.9 

BIND 8 

CERT

ftp://ftp.cert.org/pub/cert_advisories/

CA-98.05.bind_problems

53

 

 

4/6/98

Mailcapvulnerability

IRIX

6.3

6.4

high

runtask(1M) or runexec(1M)

CERT

ftp://ftp.cert.org/pub/cert_bulletins/

VB-98.03.sgi_mailcap

 

 

 

3/30/98

Improperly coded routines canresult in susceptability to   denial of service attacks.

HP-UX

9.X, and 10.X

medium

 

HP

HEWLETT-PACKARD SECURITY BULLETIN:

 

 

 

3/23/98

Security Issues in Sun NIS+

Solaris

 

low

NIS +

SNI

http://www.secnet.com/advisories/

 

 

 

3/16/98

Ascend Routing Hardware

Ascend

 

medium

 

SNI

http://www.secnet.com/advisories/

 

 

 

3/4/98

Denial of serviceattacks targeting Windows 95/NT machines

W95

 

medium

TCP/IP stack

CERT

 CERT* Summary CS-98.02 

http://www.microsoft.com/security/

newtear2.htm 

 

 

 

2/24/98

"land"

SCO

 

medium

 

Bugtraq

SCO(SSE) 010

 

 

 

2/14/98

Windows NT Logon Denial ofService

Windows NT

 

medium

SMB logon

SNI

SNI-25

 

 

 

2/13/98

Current activityrelating to rpc.statd

UNIX

 

high

.

CERT

Summary

 

 

 

2/12/98

New release of l0phtcrack v2.0

 

high

Windows NT, SAMBA running on Unix machines

L0pht

Advisory

 

 

 

2/11/98

Telnetdenial of service attack

AIX

4.1.x

4.2.x

4.3

medium

telnet

IBM

ERS-SVA-E01-1998:003.1

 

 

 

2/11/98

Insecure temporary files allow symbolic link attacks

AIX

3.2.5

4.1.x

4.2.x

4.3

medium

.

IBM

ERS-SVA-E01-1998:002.2

 

 

 

2/10/98

vulnerability in thevolrmmount program

SunOS

5.6

5.6_x86

medium

volrmmount

SUN

00162

 

 

 

2/9/98

Vulnerabilities in NetworkIntrusion Detection Software 

 

 

 

medium

Intrusion detection systems

SNI

SNI-24 technicalpaper

 

 

 

2/6/98

MicrosoftWindows-based Web Servers unauthorized access - long file names

Windows NT

 

high

IIS

CERT

Advisory CA-98.04

 

 

 

2/6/98

WindowsNT: Users can bind to any port and block NT services 

Windows NT

 

medium

.

L0pht

Advisory

 

 

 

1/21/98

Vulnerabilities in CDE

UNIX

 

medium

CDE

CERT

Advisory CA-98.02

 

 

 

1/20/98

Domino-write

Notes Server

4.6

high

Domino 4.6

L0pht

Advisory

 

 

 

1/20/98

Apache SecurityAdvisory

UNIX

 

medium

Apache

CERT vendor initiated

Bulletin 

VB-98.02

 

 

 

1/20/98

Vulnerability inssh-agent

UNIX

 

high

ssh

SNI

advisory 

SNI-23

 

 

 

1/19/98

CGI Security Hole inEWS1.1

UNIX

 

medium

EWS1.1

CERT vendor initiated

Bulletin 

VB-98.01

 

 

 

1/14/98

Viewing remote HTML contentcan execute arbitrary native code

 

high

Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0(1) Suite

L0pht

Advisory

 

 

 

1/14/98

linux-deliver

Linux Debian

 

high

deliver 

mail component

KSR

KSR[T] Advisory

 

 

 

1/8/98

IBM-routed

AIX

3.2.x

4.1.x

4.2.x

4.3.x

high

routed

IBM

ERS-SVA-E01-1998:001.1

 

 

 

1/5/98

.smurf:ping denial of service

All

 

medium

.

CERT

Advisory CA-98.01