Privilege escalation

An exploitable buffer overflow exists in the Joyent SmartOS 20161110T013148Z Hyprlofs file system. The vulnerability is present in the Ioctl system call with the command HYPRLOFSADDENTRIES when dealing with native file systems. An attacker can craft an input that can cause a buffer overflow in th...

CVE-2016-8733

An exploitable integer overflow exists in the Joyent SmartOS 20161110T013148Z Hyprlofs file system. The vulnerability is present in the Ioctl system call with the command HYPRLOFSADDENTRIES when dealing with native file systems. An attacker can craft an input that can cause a kernel panic and...

PT-2016-7625 · Joyent · Smartos

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Joyent SmartOS version 20161110T013148Z Description: A buffer overflow issue exists in the Hyprlofs file system, specifically in the Ioctl system call with the HYPRLOFS ADD ENTRIES command when handling native file systems. An attacker can...

PowerShell Digital Forensics: PowerForensics

PowerShell Digital Forensics The purpose of PowerForensics is to provide an all inclusive framework for hard drive forensic analysis. PowerForensics currently supports NTFS and FAT file systems, and work has begun on Extended File System and HFS+ support. PowerForensics is built on a C Class...

winfsp - Windows File System Proxy

WinFsp is a set of software components for Windows computers that allows the creation of user mode file systems. In this sense it is similar to FUSE Filesystem in Userspace, which provides the same functionality on UNIX-like computers. Some of the benefits and features of using WinFsp are listed...

grub2 security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2015:2653 Updated grub2 packages that fix one security issue and one bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base...

Oracle Linux 7 : autofs (ELSA-2015-2417)

The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2015-2417 advisory. 5.0.7-54.0.1 - add autofs-5.0.5-lookup-mounts.patch Orabug:12658280 Bert Barbe 1:5.0.7-54 - bz1263508 - Heavy program map usage can lead to a hang - fix out of...

Low: Red Hat Security Advisory: grub2 security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Updated grub2 packages that fix one security issue, several bugs, and add one enhancement are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Low security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed...

SUSE-SU-2015:1637-1 Security update for coreutils

This update for coreutils provides the following fixes: - Fix memory handling error with case insensitive sort using UTF-8. CVE-2015-4041, CVE-2015-4042 - Ensure 'df -a' shows all remote file system entries. - Only suppress remote mounts of separate exports with 'df --total'. - Document that 'df...

Apple OS X NTFS Compression Block Information Disclosure Vulnerability

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Apple OS X. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists within the handling of NTFS file systems. The issue li...

[SECURITY] Fedora 22 Update: ntfs-3g-2015.3.14-2.fc22

NTFS-3G is a stable, open source, GPL licensed, POSIX, read/write NTFS driver for Linux and many other operating systems. It provides safe handling of the Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7 NTFS file systems. NTFS-3G can create, remove,...

Debian DLA-162-1 : e2fsprogs security update

Jose Duart of the Google Security Team discovered a buffer overflow in in e2fsprogs, a set of utilities for the ext2, ext3, and ext4 file systems. This issue can possibly lead to arbitrary code execution if a malicious device is plugged in, the system is configured to automatically mount it, and...

kernel: splice: lack of generic write checks

A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's splice system call validated its parameters. On certain file systems, a local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to write past the maximum file size, and thus crash the system...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

Updated kernel packages that fix multiple security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

Updated kernel packages that fix one security issue and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, ...

Malicious Git and Mercurial HTTP Server For CVE-2014-9390

This module exploits CVE-2014-9390, which affects Git versions less than 1.8.5.6, 1.9.5, 2.0.5, 2.1.4 and 2.2.1 and Mercurial versions less than 3.2.3 and describes three vulnerabilities. On operating systems which have case-insensitive file systems, like Windows and OS X, Git clients can be...

[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: lsyncd-2.1.4-4.fc20.1

Lsyncd watches a local directory trees event monitor interface inotify. It aggregates and combines events for a few seconds and then spawns one or more processes to synchronize the changes. By default this is rsync. Lsyncd is thus a light-weight live mirror solution that is comparatively easy to...

NSA-Approved Samsung Knox Stores PIN in Cleartext

A security researcher has tossed a giant bucket of ice water on Samsung’s thumbs up from the NSA approving use of certain Galaxy devices within in the agency. The NSA’s blessing, given under the agency’s Commercial Solutions for Classified Program, meant that the Samsung Galaxy 4, 5 and Galaxy No...

Unrestricted file upload

FileUploadsFilter.php in X2Engine 4.1.7 and earlier, when running on case-insensitive file systems, allows remote attackers to bypass the upload blacklist and conduct unrestricted file upload attacks by uploading a file with an executable extension that contains uppercase letters, as demonstrated...

CVE-2012-5619

The Sleuth Kit TSK 4.0.1 does not properly handle "." dotfile file system entries in FAT file systems and other file systems for which . is not a reserved name, which allows local users to hide activities it more difficult to conduct forensics activities, as demonstrated by Flame...