CVE-2015-1336

The CVE-2015-1336 entry concerns the man-db daily cleanup race in Mandb before 2.7.6.1-1 (Ubuntu/Debian packaging). A local user with access to the man account could escalate privileges via insecure chown usage in the mandb cleanup job. Affected software is the man-db package and the vulnerabilit...

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...

CVE-2017-14730

The init script in the Gentoo app-admin/logstash-bin package before 5.5.3 and 5.6.x before 5.6.1 has "chown -R" calls for user-writable directory trees, which allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging access to a $LSUSER account for creation of a hard link...

GLSA-201709-11 : GIMPS: Root privilege escalation

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201709-11 GIMPS: Root privilege escalation It was discovered that Gentoos default GIMPS installation suffered from a privilege escalation vulnerability in the init script. This script calls an unsafe chown -R command in checkconfi...

GIMPS: Root privilege escalation

Background GIMPS, the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search, is a software capable of find Mersenne Primes, which are used in cryptography. GIMPS is also used for hardware testing. Description It was discovered that Gentoo’s default GIMPS installation suffered from a privilege escalation...

CVE-2017-14484

The Gentoo sci-mathematics/gimps package before 28.10-r1 for Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search GIMPS allows local users to gain privileges by creating a hard link under /var/lib/gimps, because an unsafe "chown -R" command is executed...

The vulnerability of the scheduler daemon in UNIX-like operating systems, Cron, allows a intruder to expand their privileges.

The vulnerability of the Cron task scheduler in UNIX-like operating systems is related to the incorrect definition of references before accessing a file. Exploiting this vulnerability allows an attacker, operating remotely, to increase their privileges by using the postinst script, through symlin...

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...

DEBIAN-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...

Design/Logic Flaw

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...

UBUNTU-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...

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...

CVE-2017-9525

CVE-2017-9525 affects the cron package (Debian: 3.0pl1-128; Ubuntu: 3.0pl1-128ubuntu2) where the postinst maintainer script allows group-crontab-to-root privilege escalation through unsafe usage of chown/chmod and symlink attacks. Multiple connected advisories reference Cron regressions and incom...

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...

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...

MUNGE: Privilege escalation

Background An authentication service for creating and validating credentials. Description It was discovered that Gentoo’s default MUNGE installation suffered from a privilege escalation vulnerability munge user to root due to improper permissions and a runscript which called chown on a user...

GLSA-201706-01 : MUNGE: Privilege escalation

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201706-01 MUNGE: Privilege escalation It was discovered that Gentoos default MUNGE installation suffered from a privilege escalation vulnerability munge user to root due to improper permissions and a runscript which called chown o...

Symlink Race Attacks

github.com/rfjakob/gocryptfs is vulnerable to symlink race attacks. It is possible because it adopts chown instead of Lchown in creating and setting the ownership of file system and directory...

Ubuntu PT Chown Privilege Escalation

Source: http://www.halfdog.net/Security/2015/PtChownArbitraryPtsAccessViaUserNamespace/ Introduction Problem description: With Ubuntu Wily and earlier, /usr/lib/ptchown was used to change ownership of slave pts devices in /dev/pts to the same uid holding the master file descriptor for the slave...

jboss: jbossas: unsafe chown of server.log in jboss init script allows privilege escalation

It was discovered that the jboss init script performed unsafe file handling which could result in local privilege escalation...