Logcheck: Root privilege escalation

Background Logcheck mails anomalies in the system logfiles to the administrator. Description The pkgpostinst phase of the Logcheck ebuilds recursively chown the /etc/logcheck and /var/lib/logcheck directories. If the logcheck adds hardlinks to other files in these directories, the chown call will...

CVE-2016-20015

In the ebuild package through smokeping-2.7.3-r1 for SmokePing on Gentoo, the initscript allows the smokeping user to gain ownership of any file, allowing for the smokeping user to gain root privileges. There is a race condition involving /var/lib/smokeping and chown...

CVE-2017-20148

In the ebuild package through logcheck-1.3.23.ebuild for Logcheck on Gentoo, it is possible to achieve root privilege escalation from the logcheck user because of insecure recursive chown calls...

CVE-2017-20148

In the ebuild package through logcheck-1.3.23.ebuild for Logcheck on Gentoo, it is possible to achieve root privilege escalation from the logcheck user because of insecure recursive chown calls...

CVE-2017-20148

In the ebuild package through logcheck-1.3.23.ebuild for Logcheck on Gentoo, it is possible to achieve root privilege escalation from the logcheck user because of insecure recursive chown calls...

Race condition

In the ebuild package through smokeping-2.7.3-r1 for SmokePing on Gentoo, the initscript allows the smokeping user to gain ownership of any file, allowing for the smokeping user to gain root privileges. There is a race condition involving /var/lib/smokeping and chown...

CVE-2017-20148

In the ebuild package through logcheck-1.3.23.ebuild for Logcheck on Gentoo, it is possible to achieve root privilege escalation from the logcheck user because of insecure recursive chown calls...

UBUNTU-CVE-2017-20148

In the ebuild package through logcheck-1.3.23.ebuild for Logcheck on Gentoo, it is possible to achieve root privilege escalation from the logcheck user because of insecure recursive chown calls...

Privilege escalation

In the ebuild package through logcheck-1.3.23.ebuild for Logcheck on Gentoo, it is possible to achieve root privilege escalation from the logcheck user because of insecure recursive chown calls...

UBUNTU-CVE-2016-20015

In the ebuild package through smokeping-2.7.3-r1 for SmokePing on Gentoo, the initscript allows the smokeping user to gain ownership of any file, allowing for the smokeping user to gain root privileges. There is a race condition involving /var/lib/smokeping and chown...

CVE-2017-20148

In the ebuild package through logcheck-1.3.23.ebuild for Logcheck on Gentoo, it is possible to achieve root privilege escalation from the logcheck user because of insecure recursive chown calls...

PT-2022-8014 · Logcheck · Logcheck

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Logcheck versions through 1.3.23 Description: The issue allows for root privilege escalation from the logcheck user due to insecure recursive chown calls in the ebuild package for Logcheck on Gentoo. Recommendations: For versions through...

CVE-2017-18018: In GNU Coreutils through 8.29, chown-core.c in chown and chgrp does not prevent replacement of a plain file

In GNU Coreutils through 8.29, chown-core.c in chown and chgrp does not prevent replacement of a plain file with a symlink during use of the POSIX "-R -L" options, which allows local users to modify the ownership of arbitrary files by leveraging a race condition. Affected Products All versions of...

CVE-2017-18018: In GNU Coreutils through 8.29, chown-core.c in chown and chgrp does not prevent replacement of a plain file

Security Advisory ID : BSA-2022-2073 Component : GNU Coreutils Revision : 1.0 In GNU Coreutils through 8.29, chown-core.c in chown and chgrp does not prevent replacement of a plain file with a symlink during use of the POSIX "-R -L" options, which allows local users to modify the ownership of...

container-tools:rhel8 bug fix update

An update is available for fuse-overlayfs, container-selinux, udica, containers-common, runc, toolbox, podman, conmon, skopeo, crun, libslirp, oci-seccomp-bpf-hook, python-podman, slirp4netns, containernetworking-plugins, buildah, criu, cockpit-podman. This update affects Rocky Linux 8. A Common...

Phusion Passenger Race Condition Allows Privilege Escalation

A race condition in the nginx module in Phusion Passenger 3.x through 5.x before 5.3.2 allows local escalation of privileges when a non-standard passengerinstanceregistrydir with insufficiently strict permissions is configured. Replacing a file with a symlink after the file was created, but befor...

NewStart CGSL MAIN 6.02 : unbound Multiple Vulnerabilities (NS-SA-2022-0064)

The remote NewStart CGSL host, running version MAIN 6.02, has unbound packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities: - DISPUTED Unbound before 1.9.5 allows an integer overflow in the regional allocator via regionalalloc. NOTE: The vendor disputes that this is a vulnerability...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM : man-db vulnerability (USN-5334-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-5334-1 advisory. It was discovered that man-db incorrectly handled permission changing operations in its daily cron job, and was therefore affected by a race condition. An attacke...

Quagga <= 1.2.4 Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Quagga is prone to a privilege escalation vulnerability. Copyright C 2021 Greenbone Networks GmbH Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later This program is free software; you...

AZL-7336 CVE-2021-44038 affecting package quagga 1.2.4-15

An issue was discovered in Quagga through 1.2.4. Unsafe chown/chmod operations in the suggested spec file allow users with control of the non-root-owned directory /etc/quagga to escalate their privileges to root upon package installation or update...