Race condition

ProFTPD before 1.3.5rc1, when using the UserOwner directive, allows local users to modify the ownership of arbitrary files via a race condition and a symlink attack on the 1 MKD or 2 XMKD commands...

CVE-2012-6095

ProFTPD before 1.3.5rc1, when using the UserOwner directive, allows local users to modify the ownership of arbitrary files via a race condition and a symlink attack on the 1 MKD or 2 XMKD commands...

CVE-2012-6095

CVE-2012-6095 affects ProFTPD prior to 1.3.5rc1. When using the UserOwner directive, a race condition with a symlink attack on the MKD or XMKD commands lets a local user modify ownership of arbitrary files. The vulnerability arises from insecure handling of temporary files during directory creati...

AIX 5.3 TL 7 : swcons (IZ18338)

A file permission/ownership vulnerability exists in the 'bos.rte.console' fileset command listed below whereby a local attacker may create arbitrary contents within a file owned by root using the 'swcons' command. The local attacker must be a member of the 'system' group gid=0 to execute this...

Samba 3.x < 3.4.17 / 3.5.15 / 3.6.5 Security Bypass

According to its banner, the version of Samba 3.x running on the remote host is earlier than 3.4.17 / 3.5.15 / 3.6.5, and as such, is potentially affected by a security bypass vulnerability. Authenticated users are able to modify ownership of files and directories that the user does not own...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: samba and samba3x security update

Updated samba3x and samba packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6 respectively. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a...

CVE-2011-4105

LightDM before 1.0.6 allows local users to change ownership of arbitrary files via a symlink attack on /.Xauthority...

DEBIAN-CVE-2011-4105

LightDM before 1.0.6 allows local users to change ownership of arbitrary files via a symlink attack on /.Xauthority...

Code injection

LightDM before 1.0.6 allows local users to change ownership of arbitrary files via a symlink attack on /.Xauthority...

CVE-2011-4105: Improper Link Resolution Before File Access

LightDM before 1.0.6 allows local users to change ownership of arbitrary files via a symlink attack on /.Xauthority...

CVE-2011-4105

LightDM before 1.0.6 allows local users to change ownership of arbitrary files via a symlink attack on /.Xauthority...

FreeBSD : rsync -- incremental recursion memory corruption vulnerability (9a777c23-b310-11e0-832d-00215c6a37bb)

rsync development team reports : Fixed a data-corruption issue when preserving hard-links without preserving file ownership, and doing deletions either before or during the transfer CVE-2011-1097. This fixes some assert errors in the hard-linking code, and some potential failed checksums via -c...

CVE-2011-0727

GNOME Display Manager gdm 2.x before 2.32.1 allows local users to change the ownership of arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a 1 dmrc or 2 face icon file under /var/cache/gdm/...

CVE-2011-0727

GNOME Display Manager gdm 2.x before 2.32.1 allows local users to change the ownership of arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a 1 dmrc or 2 face icon file under /var/cache/gdm/...

Design/Logic Flaw

GNOME Display Manager gdm 2.x before 2.32.1 allows local users to change the ownership of arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a 1 dmrc or 2 face icon file under /var/cache/gdm/...

CVE-2011-0727

CVE-2011-0727 affects GNOME Display Manager (gdm) 2.x prior to 2.32.1. A local attacker can exploit a race condition in the cache handling of dmrc and face icon files under /var/cache/gdm/ via a symlink attack to change file ownership. The vulnerability is limited to local users and can lead to o...

CVE-2011-0727

GNOME Display Manager gdm 2.x before 2.32.1 allows local users to change the ownership of arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a 1 dmrc or 2 face icon file under /var/cache/gdm/...

CVE-2011-0727: Improper Link Resolution Before File Access

GNOME Display Manager gdm 2.x before 2.32.1 allows local users to change the ownership of arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a 1 dmrc or 2 face icon file under /var/cache/gdm/...

CVE-2011-0727

GNOME Display Manager gdm 2.x before 2.32.1 allows local users to change the ownership of arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a 1 dmrc or 2 face icon file under /var/cache/gdm/...

CVE-2010-0832

pammotd aka the MOTD module in libpam-modules before 1.1.0-2ubuntu1.1 in PAM on Ubuntu 9.10 and libpam-modules before 1.1.1-2ubuntu5 in PAM on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS allows local users to change the ownership of arbitrary files via a symlink attack on .cache in a user's home directory, related to "user...