CVE-2007-0469

The CVE-2007-0469 issue affects RubyGems before 0.9.1. The extract_files function in installer.rb can overwrite existing files without checking for their existence, allowing user-assisted remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files, cause a denial of service, or execute arbitrary code via craft...

CVE-2007-0469: Undefined Security Weakness

The extractfiles function in installer.rb in RubyGems before 0.9.1 does not check whether files exist before overwriting them, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files, cause a denial of service, or execute arbitrary code via crafted GEM packages...

CVE-2006-6939

GNU ed before 0.3 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files, possibly in the opensbuf function...

CVE-2006-6939

GNU ed before 0.3 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files, possibly in the opensbuf function...

CVE-2007-0166: Undefined Security Weakness

The jail rc.d script in FreeBSD 5.3 up to 6.2 does not verify pathnames when writing to /var/log/console.log during a jail start-up, or when file systems are mounted or unmounted, which allows local root users to overwrite arbitrary files, or mount/unmount files, outside of the jail via a symlink...

DEBIAN-CVE-2007-0159

Directory traversal vulnerability in the GeoIPupdatedatabasegeneral function in libGeoIP/GeoIPUpdate.c in GeoIP 1.4.0 allows remote malicious update servers possibly only update.maxmind.com to overwrite arbitrary files via a .. dot dot in the database filename, which is returned by a request to...

CVE-2007-0159

Directory traversal vulnerability in the GeoIPupdatedatabasegeneral function in libGeoIP/GeoIPUpdate.c in GeoIP 1.4.0 allows remote malicious update servers possibly only update.maxmind.com to overwrite arbitrary files via a .. dot dot in the database filename, which is returned by a request to...

CVE-2007-0100

The CVE-2007-0100 entry describes a vulnerability in the Perforce client where the client does not restrict the set of files it overwrites after receiving a server request. The root cause is that the client can overwrite arbitrary files if the server or a malicious server is used, by modifying th...

CVE-2007-0100: Undefined Security Weakness

The Perforce client does not restrict the set of files that it overwrites upon receiving a request from the server, which allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files by modifying the client config file on the server, or by operating a malicious server...

security flaw

GNU tar 1.16 and 1.15.1, and possibly other versions, allows user-assisted attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a tar file that contains a GNUTYPENAMES record with a symbolic link, which is not properly handled by the extractarchive function in extract.c and extractmangle function in...

CVE-2006-5584: Undefined Security Weakness

The Remote Installation Service RIS in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4 uses a TFTP server that allows anonymous access, which allows remote attackers to upload and overwrite arbitrary files to gain privileges on systems that use RIS...

CVE-2006-6328

Directory traversal vulnerability in index.php for TorrentFlux 2.2 allows remote attackers to create or overwrite arbitrary files via sequences in the aliasfile parameter...

[SECURITY] [DSA 1223-1] New tar packages fix arbitrary file overwrite

------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Security Advisory DSA-1223-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Noah Meyerhans December 01, 2006 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Package : tar Vulnerability...

DSA-1223-1 tar

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GLSA-200611-23 : Mono: Insecure temporary file creation

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200611-23 Mono: Insecure temporary file creation Sebastian Krahmer of the SuSE Security Team discovered that the System.CodeDom.Compiler classes of Mono create temporary files with insecure permissions. Impact : A local attacker...

DSA-1219 texinfo

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DEBIAN-CVE-2006-6097

GNU tar 1.16 and 1.15.1, and possibly other versions, allows user-assisted attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a tar file that contains a GNUTYPENAMES record with a symbolic link, which is not properly handled by the extractarchive function in extract.c and extractmangle function in...

CVE-2006-6097

GNU tar 1.16 and 1.15.1, and possibly other versions, allows user-assisted attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a tar file that contains a GNUTYPENAMES record with a symbolic link, which is not properly handled by the extractarchive function in extract.c and extractmangle function in...

CVE-2006-6097

Summary: CVE-2006-6097 affects GNU tar (notably v1.15.1 and v1.16) due to improper handling of GNUTYPE_NAMES symlink records during extraction, enabling a user-assisted attacker to overwrite arbitrary files. Multiple advisories report the issue as a path-traversal vulnerability in tar extraction,...

CVE-2006-6097

GNU tar 1.16 and 1.15.1, and possibly other versions, allows user-assisted attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a tar file that contains a GNUTYPENAMES record with a symbolic link, which is not properly handled by the extractarchive function in extract.c and extractmangle function in...