mrtg security update

An update is available for mrtg. This update affects Rocky Linux 8. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE list The Multi Router Traffic Grapher MRTG monitors the traffic load on network...

wildpwn

First things first! Read: https://www.exploit-db.com/papers/33930/ Basic usage It goes something like this: root@kitploit: usage: wildpwn.py -h --file FILE payload folder Tool to generate unix wildcard attacks positional arguments: payload Payload to use: combined | tar | rsync folder Where to...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: mrtg security update

An update for mrtg is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the...

mrtg: MRTG daemon symlink-following chown allows local privilege escalation via PID file path manipulation

A flaw was found in MRTG. When the MRTG daemon is started as a root user and subsequently drops privileges, a local, low-privileged attacker can exploit a symbolic link symlink following vulnerability. By influencing or pre-placing a symlink in the process ID PID file path, the attacker can trick...

Important: mrtg security update

The Multi Router Traffic Grapher MRTG monitors the traffic load on network connections. MRTG generates HTML pages containing PNG images which provide a live visual representation of this traffic. Security Fixes: mrtg: MRTG daemon symlink-following chown allows local privilege escalation via PID...

ALSA-2026:65832 Important: mrtg security update

The Multi Router Traffic Grapher MRTG monitors the traffic load on network connections. MRTG generates HTML pages containing PNG images which provide a live visual representation of this traffic. Security Fixes: mrtg: MRTG daemon symlink-following chown allows local privilege escalation via PID...

cve-2026-11837-ansible-posix-authorized-key

CVE-2026-11837: ansible.posix authorizedkey local privilege escalation Local privilege escalation in the ansible.posix.authorizedkey Ansible module via symlink-following chown and symlink-following file creation on a user's /.ssh directory and authorizedkeys file. This is a writeup of a...

Unity Linux 20.1050a Security Update: kernel (UTSA-2026-098921)

The Unity Linux 20 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the UTSA-2026-098921 advisory. In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: smb/client: fix chown/chgrp with SMB3 POSIX Extensions Ownership chown and group chgrp...

mrtg security update

An update is available for mrtg. This update affects Rocky Linux 10. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE list The Multi Router Traffic Grapher MRTG monitors the traffic load on network...

mrtg security update

An update is available for mrtg. This update affects Rocky Linux 9. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE list The Multi Router Traffic Grapher MRTG monitors the traffic load on network...

mrtg: MRTG daemon symlink-following chown allows local privilege escalation via PID file path manipulation

A flaw was found in MRTG. When the MRTG daemon is started as a root user and subsequently drops privileges, a local, low-privileged attacker can exploit a symbolic link symlink following vulnerability. By influencing or pre-placing a symlink in the process ID PID file path, the attacker can trick...

mrtg: MRTG daemon symlink-following chown allows local privilege escalation via PID file path manipulation

A flaw was found in MRTG. When the MRTG daemon is started as a root user and subsequently drops privileges, a local, low-privileged attacker can exploit a symbolic link symlink following vulnerability. By influencing or pre-placing a symlink in the process ID PID file path, the attacker can trick...

mrtg security update

2.17.7-12.0.1.el98.1 - Create mrtg lock file before running restorecon on it Orabug: 39096845 2.17.7-12.1 - Fix CVE-2026-72694: symlink-following chown of pid file in daemon mode Resolves: RHEL-236047...

CVE-2026-72694

CVE-2026-72694 describes a local privilege escalation in MRTG. When MRTG runs as root and then drops privileges, a low-privileged attacker can exploit a symlink-following vulnerability in the PID file path to trick the root process into changing ownership of an arbitrary existing file to the daem...

CVE-2026-72694 Mrtg: mrtg daemon symlink-following chown allows local privilege escalation via pid file path manipulation

A flaw was found in MRTG. When the MRTG daemon is started as a root user and subsequently drops privileges, a local, low-privileged attacker can exploit a symbolic link symlink following vulnerability. By influencing or pre-placing a symlink in the process ID PID file path, the attacker can trick...

CVE-2026-72694 Mrtg: mrtg daemon symlink-following chown allows local privilege escalation via pid file path manipulation

A flaw was found in MRTG. When the MRTG daemon is started as a root user and subsequently drops privileges, a local, low-privileged attacker can exploit a symbolic link symlink following vulnerability. By influencing or pre-placing a symlink in the process ID PID file path, the attacker can trick...

CVE-2026-63622

A flaw was found in libvirt. A local attacker, specifically a process running as the confined swtpm user, could exploit a symlink-following vulnerability in the virFileChownFiles function. By planting a symbolic link within the swtpm state directory, the attacker could trick the root-level libvir...

abrt: ChownProblemDir succeeds during active post-create event processing due to inadequate locking

A race condition was found in the abrt-dbus D-Bus service's ChownProblemDir method. ChownProblemDir opens the dump directory with DDOPENREADONLY and calls ddchown to change ownership of all files to the caller's uid, succeeding even while post-create event handlers hold a write lock. This allows ...

abrt: ChownProblemDir succeeds during active post-create event processing due to inadequate locking

A race condition was found in the abrt-dbus D-Bus service's ChownProblemDir method. ChownProblemDir opens the dump directory with DDOPENREADONLY and calls ddchown to change ownership of all files to the caller's uid, succeeding even while post-create event handlers hold a write lock. This allows ...

SUSE-SU-2026:3366-1 Security update for samba

This update for samba fixes the following issues - CVE-2026-6949: TSIG packet with crafted name compression can crash internal DNS server bsc1271672. - CVE-2026-15779: pamwinbind module with mkhomedir set allows chown of critical system paths without validation bsc1271469. - CVE-2026-58216: 6-byt...