Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security update

Updated kernel packages that fix two security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. 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 detailed severity rating, is...

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

Updated kernel-rt packages that fix several security issues and three bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2.3. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed...

Installer: Generated auto-install xml is world readable

The GUI installer in JBoss Enterprise Application Platform EAP and Enterprise Web Platform EWP 5.2.0 and possibly 5.1.2 uses world-readable permissions for the auto-install XML file, which allows local users to obtain the administrator password and the sucker password by reading this file...

AIX 6.1 TL 1 : swcons (IZ28943)

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...

AIX 6.1 TL 0 : swcons (IZ18341)

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...

AIX 5.3 TL 8 : swcons (IZ18334)

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...

AIX 5.2 TL 0 : swcons (IZ18335)

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...

AIX 5.3 TL 0 : swcons (IZ18339)

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...

OpenIPMI: IPMI event daemon creates PID file with world writeable permissions

ipmievd aka the IPMI event daemon in OpenIPMI, as used in the ipmitool package 1.8.11 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux RHEL 6, Debian GNU/Linux, Fedora 16, and other products uses 0666 permissions for its ipmievd.pid PID file, which allows local users to kill arbitrary processes by writing to this fil...

MySQL FILE privilege elevation

Added: 12/21/2012 CVE: CVE-2012-5613 BID: 56771 OSVDB: 88118 Background MySQL is an open-source database software package available for multiple platforms. Problem A database user who has FILE permission can write arbitrary files to the file system, leading to privilege elevation. Resolution Revo...

MySQL FILE privilege elevation

Added: 12/21/2012 CVE: CVE-2012-5613 BID: 56771 OSVDB: 88118 Background MySQL is an open-source database software package available for multiple platforms. Problem A database user who has FILE permission can write arbitrary files to the file system, leading to privilege elevation. Resolution Revo...

CVE-2012-5519

CUPS 1.4.4, when running in certain Linux distributions such as Debian GNU/Linux, stores the web interface administrator key in /var/run/cups/certs/0 using certain permissions, which allows local users in the lpadmin group to read or write arbitrary files as root by leveraging the web interface...

OpenJDK: java.io.FilePermission information leak (Libraries, 6631398)

Unspecified vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment JRE component in Oracle Java SE 7 Update 7 and earlier, 6 Update 35 and earlier, 5.0 Update 36 and earlier, and 1.4.238 and earlier allows remote attackers to affect confidentiality via unknown vectors related to Libraries...

OpenJDK: java.io.FilePermission information leak (Libraries, 6631398)

Unspecified vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment JRE component in Oracle Java SE 7 Update 7 and earlier, 6 Update 35 and earlier, 5.0 Update 36 and earlier, and 1.4.238 and earlier allows remote attackers to affect confidentiality via unknown vectors related to Libraries...

OpenJDK: java.io.FilePermission information leak (Libraries, 6631398)

Unspecified vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment JRE component in Oracle Java SE 7 Update 7 and earlier, 6 Update 35 and earlier, 5.0 Update 36 and earlier, and 1.4.238 and earlier allows remote attackers to affect confidentiality via unknown vectors related to Libraries...

OpenJDK: java.io.FilePermission information leak (Libraries, 6631398)

Unspecified vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment JRE component in Oracle Java SE 7 Update 7 and earlier, 6 Update 35 and earlier, 5.0 Update 36 and earlier, and 1.4.238 and earlier allows remote attackers to affect confidentiality via unknown vectors related to Libraries...

CVE-2012-4442

Monkey HTTP Daemon 0.9.3 retains the supplementary group IDs of the root account during operations with a non-root effective UID, which might allow local users to bypass intended file-read restrictions by leveraging a race condition in a file-permission check...

CVE-2012-4442

Monkey HTTP Daemon 0.9.3 retains the supplementary group IDs of the root account during operations with a non-root effective UID, which might allow local users to bypass intended file-read restrictions by leveraging a race condition in a file-permission check...

Race condition

Monkey HTTP Daemon 0.9.3 retains the supplementary group IDs of the root account during operations with a non-root effective UID, which might allow local users to bypass intended file-read restrictions by leveraging a race condition in a file-permission check...

CVE-2012-4442

Monkey HTTP Daemon 0.9.3 retains the supplementary group IDs of the root account during operations with a non-root effective UID, which might allow local users to bypass intended file-read restrictions by leveraging a race condition in a file-permission check...