SUSE CVE-2011-3180

kiwi before 4.98.08, as used in SUSE Studio Onsite 1.2 before 1.2.1 and SUSE Studio Extension for System z 1.2 before 1.2.1, allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the path of an overlay file, related to chown...

SUSE CVE-2013-6442

The ownerset function in smbcacls.c in smbcacls in Samba 4.0.x before 4.0.16 and 4.1.x before 4.1.6 removes an ACL during use of a --chown or --chgrp option, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions in opportunistic circumstances by leveraging an unintended...

SUSE CVE-2015-1336

The daily mandb cleanup job in Man-db before 2.7.6.1-1 as packaged in Ubuntu and Debian allows local users with access to the man account to gain privileges via vectors involving insecure chown use...

SUSE CVE-2015-1350

The VFS subsystem in the Linux kernel 3.x provides an incomplete set of requirements for setattr operations that underspecifies removing extended privilege attributes, which allows local users to cause a denial of service capability stripping via a failed invocation of a system call, as...

SUSE CVE-2015-3339

Race condition in the preparebinprm function in fs/exec.c in the Linux kernel before 3.19.6 allows local users to gain privileges by executing a setuid program at a time instant when a chown to root is in progress, and the ownership is changed but the setuid bit is not yet stripped...

SUSE CVE-2017-9525

In the cron package through 3.0pl1-128 on Debian, and through 3.0pl1-128ubuntu2 on Ubuntu, the postinst maintainer script allows for group-crontab-to-root privilege escalation via symlink attacks against unsafe usage of the chown and chmod programs...

SUSE CVE-2017-18018

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...

SUSE CVE-2018-12029

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...

SUSE CVE-2021-44038

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...

CVE-2020-36657

uptimed before 0.4.6-r1 on Gentoo allows local users with access to the uptimed user account to gain root privileges by creating a hard link within the /var/spool/uptimed directory, because there is an unsafe chown -R call...

UBUNTU-CVE-2020-36657

uptimed before 0.4.6-r1 on Gentoo allows local users with access to the uptimed user account to gain root privileges by creating a hard link within the /var/spool/uptimed directory, because there is an unsafe chown -R call...

Hardcoded credentials

uptimed before 0.4.6-r1 on Gentoo allows local users with access to the uptimed user account to gain root privileges by creating a hard link within the /var/spool/uptimed directory, because there is an unsafe chown -R call...

CVE-2020-36657

uptimed before 0.4.6-r1 on Gentoo allows local users with access to the uptimed user account to gain root privileges by creating a hard link within the /var/spool/uptimed directory, because there is an unsafe chown -R call...

CVE-2020-36657

uptimed before 0.4.6-r1 on Gentoo allows local users with access to the uptimed user account to gain root privileges by creating a hard link within the /var/spool/uptimed directory, because there is an unsafe chown -R call...

PT-2023-11825 · Uptime · Uptimed

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: uptimed versions prior to 0.4.6-r1 Description: The issue allows local users with access to the uptimed user account to gain root privileges. This is achieved by creating a hard link within the /var/spool/uptimed directory, taking advantage o...

CVE-2020-36657: Improper Link Resolution Before File Access

uptimed before 0.4.6-r1 on Gentoo allows local users with access to the uptimed user account to gain root privileges by creating a hard link within the /var/spool/uptimed directory, because there is an unsafe chown -R call...

CVE-2020-36657

uptimed before 0.4.6-r1 on Gentoo allows local users with access to the uptimed user account to gain root privileges by creating a hard link within the /var/spool/uptimed directory, because there is an unsafe chown -R call...

CVE-2020-36657

uptimed before 0.4.6-r1 on Gentoo allows local users with access to the uptimed user account to gain root privileges by creating a hard link within the /var/spool/uptimed directory, because there is an unsafe chown -R call...

CLSA-2022-1670260858 Fix CVE(s): CVE-2013-4235

SECURITY UPDATE: Race condition when copying and removing directory trees - debian/patches/CVE-2013-4235.patch: fix races in chowntree, removetree and copytree - CVE-2013-4235...

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...