CVE-2018-20681

mate-screensaver before 1.20.2 in MATE Desktop Environment allows physically proximate attackers to view screen content and possibly control applications. By unplugging and re-plugging or power-cycling external output devices such as additionally attached graphical outputs via HDMI, VGA, DVI, etc...

Solaris EXTREMEPARR dtappgather Privilege Escalation

This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework class MetasploitModule "Solaris 'EXTREMEPARR' dtappgather Privilege Escalation", 'Description' = %q This module exploits a directory traversal vulnerability in the...

Solaris - 'EXTREMEPARR' dtappgather Privilege Escalation (Metasploit)

This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework class MetasploitModule "Solaris 'EXTREMEPARR' dtappgather Privilege Escalation", 'Description' = %q This module exploits a directory traversal vulnerability in the...

[SECURITY] Fedora 28 Update: xdg-utils-1.1.3-1.fc28

The xdg-utils package is a set of simple scripts that provide basic desktop integration functions for any Free Desktop, such as Linux. They are intended to provide a set of defacto standards. This means that: Third party software developers can rely on these xdg-utils for all of their simple...

Workspace Control - Connect and Disconnect button in Receiver for Web are not visible

Consider the following scenario. You have enabled Workspace Control for Receiver for Webin your Xen Desktop environment. Additionally, you have enabled the setting to display Reconnect/Disconnect button for Receiver for Web asshown in the screenshot below: However, when user logs on toReceiver fo...

Debian DSA-3994-1 : nautilus - security update

Christian Boxdorfer discovered a vulnerability in the handling of FreeDesktop.org .desktop files in Nautilus, a file manager for the GNOME desktop environment. An attacker can craft a .desktop file intended to run malicious commands but displayed as a innocuous document file in Nautilus. An user...

VirtualBox GuestAdditions for Linux Guest OS

I often work with VirtualBox virtual machines and need to install GuestAdditions to use GUI applications comfortably. So, I decided to collect here some configuration scripts. CentOS 7 In the configuration a new VirtualBox machine I add 2 network adapters: Host Only Network NAT Installing clean...

[SECURITY] Fedora 25 Update: WindowMaker-0.95.7-3.fc25.1

Window Maker is an X11 window manager designed to give additional integration support to the GNUstep Desktop Environment. In every way possible, it reproduces the elegant look and feel of the NEXTSTEP GUI. It is fast, feature rich, easy to configure, and easy to use. In addition, Window Maker wor...

[SECURITY] Fedora 26 Update: WindowMaker-0.95.8-3.fc26

Window Maker is an X11 window manager designed to give additional integration support to the GNUstep Desktop Environment. In every way possible, it reproduces the elegant look and feel of the NEXTSTEP GUI. It is fast, feature rich, easy to configure, and easy to use. In addition, Window Maker wor...

The vulnerability of the CDE Calendar component of the Solaris operating system, which allows a hacker to gain control over the operating system

The vulnerability of the CDE Calendar component of the Solaris operating system is related to deficiencies in access control. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow a malicious actor, operating remotely, to gain control over the Solaris operating system via TCP...

[SECURITY] Fedora 25 Update: torbrowser-launcher-0.2.8-1.fc25

Tor Browser Launcher is intended to make Tor Browser easier to install and use for GNU/Linux users. You install torbrowser-launcher from your distribution's package manager and it handles everything else: Downloads and installs the most recent version of Tor Browser in your lan guage and for your...

The vulnerability of the Common Desktop Environment component of the Solaris operating system allows a hacker to gain privileged access to the infrastructure.

The vulnerability of the Common Desktop Environment component of the Solaris operating system is related to deficiencies in access control. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow a malicious individual to gain privileged access to the infrastructure...

DEBIAN-CVE-2017-8422

KDE kdelibs before 4.14.32 and KAuth before 5.34 allow local users to gain root privileges by spoofing a callerID and leveraging a privileged helper app...

[SECURITY] Fedora 25 Update: menu-cache-1.0.2-4.D20170514git56f6668459.fc25

Menu-cache is a caching mechanism for freedesktop.org compliant menus to speed up parsing of the menu entries. It is currently used by some of components of the LXDE desktop environment such as LXPanel or LXLauncher...

UBUNTU-CVE-2017-8422

KDE kdelibs before 4.14.32 and KAuth before 5.34 allow local users to gain root privileges by spoofing a callerID and leveraging a privileged helper app...

mimipenguin - A Tool To Dump The Login Password From The Current Linux User

A tool to dump the login password from the current linux desktop user. Adapted from the idea behind the popular Windows tool mimikatz. Details Takes advantage of cleartext credentials in memory by dumping the process and extracting lines that have a high probability of containing cleartext...

CVE-2017-3622

Vulnerability in the Solaris component of Oracle Sun Systems Products Suite subcomponent: Common Desktop Environment CDE. The supported version that is affected is 10. Easily "exploitable" vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Solaris executes to...

CVE-2017-3622

Vulnerability in the Solaris component of Oracle Sun Systems Products Suite subcomponent: Common Desktop Environment CDE. The supported version that is affected is 10. Easily "exploitable" vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Solaris executes to...

dde-daemon elevation of privilege vulnerability

DDE Deepin Desktop Environment is a set of desktop environments based on Ubuntu. A security vulnerability exists in DDE versions 15.0 through 15.3. An attacker can exploit the vulnerability to create a backdoor or gain elevated privileges by calling the 'DoWriteGrubSettings' function provided by...

CVE-2017-7622

dde-daemon, the daemon process of DDE Deepin Desktop Environment 15.0 through 15.3, runs with root privileges and hardly does anything to identify the user who calls the function through D-Bus. Anybody can change the grub config, even to append some arguments to make a backdoor or privilege...