SUSE SLES12 Security Update : mariadb (SUSE-SU-2017:0411-1)

This mariadb version update to 10.0.29 fixes the following issues : - CVE-2017-3318: unspecified vulnerability affecting Error Handling bsc1020896 - CVE-2017-3317: unspecified vulnerability affecting Logging bsc1020894 - CVE-2017-3312: insecure error log file handling in mysqldsafe, incomplete...

SUSE-SU-2017:0411-1 Security update for mariadb

This mariadb version update to 10.0.29 fixes the following issues: - CVE-2017-3318: unspecified vulnerability affecting Error Handling bsc1020896 - CVE-2017-3317: unspecified vulnerability affecting Logging bsc1020894 - CVE-2017-3312: insecure error log file handling in mysqldsafe, incomplete...

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...

openSUSE Security Update : the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-2016-1426)

The openSUSE Leap 42.2 kernel was updated to 4.4.36 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : - 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...

Drupal 8 configuration file download vulnerability analysis-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Author: p0wd3r know Chong Yu 4 0 4 Security lab Date: 2016-09-22 0x00 vulnerability overview 1. Vulnerability description Drupal （ https://www.drupal.org is a free open source content management system, recent researchers have found in it 8. x 8.1.10 version found three security vulnerabilities,...

Wildpwn - Unix Wildcard Attack Tool

Wildpwn is a Python UNIX wildcard attack tool that helps you generate attacks, based on a paper by Leon Juranic. It’s considered a fairly old-skool attack vector, but it still works quite often. First things first! Read: https://www.exploit-db.com/papers/33930/ Basic usage It goes something like...

The vulnerability of Samba software allows a remote attacker to compromise the confidentiality and integrity of protected information.

A vulnerability exists in the ownerset function in smbcacls.c within smbcacls in Samba, due to the deletion of the access control list when the --chown or --chgrp parameter is used. Exploiting this vulnerability allows malicious actors to circumvent access restrictions by making unauthorized...

USN-2985-1 eglibc, glibc vulnerabilities

Martin Carpenter discovered that ptchown in the GNU C Library did not properly check permissions for tty files. A local attacker could use this to gain administrative privileges or expose sensitive information. CVE-2013-2207, CVE-2016-2856 Robin Hack discovered that the Name Service Switch NSS...

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...

DEBIAN-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...

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...

UBUNTU-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...

Ubuntu 15.10 - PT Chown Arbitrary PTs Access Via User Namespace Privilege Escalation

Ubuntu 15.10 - PT Chown Arbitrary PTs Access Via User Namespace 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...

Ubuntu < 15.10 - PT Chown Arbitrary PTs Access Via User Namespace 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...

kernel: race condition between chown() and execve()

A race condition flaw was found between the chown and execve system calls. When changing the owner of a setuid user binary to root, the race condition could momentarily make the binary setuid root. A local, unprivileged user could potentially use this flaw to escalate their privileges on the syst...

kernel: race condition between chown() and execve()

A race condition flaw was found between the chown and execve system calls. When changing the owner of a setuid user binary to root, the race condition could momentarily make the binary setuid root. A local, unprivileged user could potentially use this flaw to escalate their privileges on the syst...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2601-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 Greenbone AG 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-only ifdescription...

Apple Mac OSX Install.Framework - Arbitrary mkdir unlink and chown to Admin Group

Apple Mac OSX Install.Framework - Arbitrary mkdir unlink and chown to Admin Group Source: https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=477 Install.framework has a suid root binary here: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Install.framework/Resources/runner This binary vends t...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20150722)

A flaw was found in the way Linux kernel's Transparent Huge Pages THP implementation handled non-huge page migration. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to crash the kernel by migrating transparent hugepages. CVE-2014-3940, Moderate A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way the Linu...

RedHat Update for kernel RHSA-2015:1272-01

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 Greenbone AG 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-only ifdescription...