openSUSE Security Update : samba (openSUSE-SU-2013:1787-1)

"the following security issues were fixed in samba : - ACLs are not checked on opening an alternate data stream on a file or directory; CVE-2013-4475; bso10229 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from openSUSE...

DEBIAN-CVE-2014-3227

dpkg 1.15.9, 1.16.x before 1.16.14, and 1.17.x before 1.17.9 expect the patch program to be compliant with a need for the "C-style encoded filenames" feature, but is supported in environments with noncompliant patch programs, which triggers an interaction error that allows remote attackers to...

DEBIAN-CVE-2014-3127

dpkg 1.15.9 on Debian squeeze introduces support for the "C-style encoded filenames" feature without recognizing that the squeeze patch program lacks this feature, which triggers an interaction error that allows remote attackers to conduct directory traversal attacks and modify files outside of t...

UBUNTU-CVE-2014-3127

dpkg 1.15.9 on Debian squeeze introduces support for the "C-style encoded filenames" feature without recognizing that the squeeze patch program lacks this feature, which triggers an interaction error that allows remote attackers to conduct directory traversal attacks and modify files outside of t...

[oss-security] CVE Request - Predictable temporary filenames in GNU Emacs

I reported these bugs on the Debian tracker on Monday: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=747100 In brief some of the bundled Emacs Lisp uses predictable /tmpfile names insecurely: lisp/gnus/gnus-fun.el: In the function gnus-grab-cam-face the file "/tmp/gnus.face.ppm" is used,...

Debian dpkg directory traversal

Directory traversal via C-style quoted filenames on some distributions...

CVE-2013-1807

PHP-Fusion before 7.02.06 stores backup files with predictable filenames in an unrestricted directory under the web document root, which might allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a direct request to the backup file in administration/dbbackups/...

CVE-2013-1807

PHP-Fusion before 7.02.06 stores backup files with predictable filenames in an unrestricted directory under the web document root, which might allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a direct request to the backup file in administration/dbbackups/...

MGASA-2014-0167 Updated perl-Authen-Captcha package uses randomly generated filenames

An issue in previous versions of perl-Authen-Captcha is that the generated public string file name of the picture for the captcha is merely a checksum of the secret string. It is trivial to break such short strings even using google instead of a rainbow table. This new version of...

Updated perl-Authen-Captcha package uses randomly generated filenames

An issue in previous versions of perl-Authen-Captcha is that the generated public string file name of the picture for the captcha is merely a checksum of the secret string. It is trivial to break such short strings even using google instead of a rainbow table. This new version of...

QNX 6.x Photon Denial Of Service / File Overwrite

QNX 6.x Photon denial of service vulnerability by cenobyte 2013 - vulnerability description: QNX setuid root /usr/photon/bin/Photon allows users to create new servers with arbitrary filenames registered with the -N parameter. Photon does not check whether files exist and/or the owner of the ile i...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 2863-1 (libtar - directory traversal)

A directory traversal attack was reported against libtar, a C library for manipulating tar archives. The application does not validate the filenames inside the tar archive, allowing to extract files in arbitrary path. An attacker can craft a tar file to override files beyond the tarextractglob an...

Updated python-jinja2 package fixes two security vulnerabilities

Updated python-jinja2 packages fix security vulnerability: Jinja2, a template engine written in pure python, was found to use /tmp as a default directory for jinja2.bccache.FileSystemBytecodeCache, which is insecure because the /tmp directory is world-writable and the filenames used like...

SimZip (Simple Zip Viewer) vulnerable to directory traversal

Overview SimZip Simple Zip Viewer provided by Gapless Player contains an issue in processing file names, which may result in a directory traversal CWE-22 vulnerability. Ryohei Koike of Sakura Information Systems Co., Ltd. reported this vulnerability to IPA. JPCERT/CC coordinated with the develope...

Code injection

IBM Security AppScan Enterprise 5.6 through 8.7.0.1 allows remote authenticated users to read arbitrary report files by leveraging knowledge of filenames that cannot be easily predicted...

http-iis-short-name-brute NSE Script

Attempts to brute force the 8.3 filenames commonly known as short names of files and directories in the root folder of vulnerable IIS servers. This script is an implementation of the PoC "iis shortname scanner". The script uses ,? and to bruteforce the short name of files present in the IIS...

Design/Logic Flaw

LaunchServices in Apple Mac OS X before 10.9 does not properly restrict Unicode characters in filenames, which allows context-dependent attackers to spoof file extensions via a crafted character sequence...

CVE-2013-5178

CVE-2013-5178 : In Apple Mac OS X prior to 10.9, LaunchServices does not properly restrict Unicode characters in filenames, allowing context-dependent attackers to spoof file extensions via crafted character sequences. The underlying issue is the handling/filtering of Unicode characters in displa...

CVE-2013-5178

LaunchServices in Apple Mac OS X before 10.9 does not properly restrict Unicode characters in filenames, which allows context-dependent attackers to spoof file extensions via a crafted character sequence...

VulnCheck KEV: CVE-2013-5576

administrator/components/commedia/helpers/media.php in the media manager in Joomla! 2.5.x before 2.5.14 and 3.x before 3.1.5 allows remote authenticated users or remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions and upload files with dangerous extensions via a filename with a trailing...