USN-2453-1 mime-support vulnerability

Timothy D. Morgan discovered that the run-mailcap tool incorrectly filtered certain shell metacharacters in filenames. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a file with a specially-crafted filename, a remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code...

mime-support Package 'run-mailcap' Command Injection Vulnerability

run-mailcap is a tool that executes a program from items in a mailcap file. run-mailcap fails to properly handle shell metacharacters in filenames, allowing an attacker to exploit a vulnerability for command injection attacks that can execute arbitrary shell commands...

Design/Logic Flaw

host-deny.sh in OSSEC before 2.8.1 writes to temporary files with predictable filenames without verifying ownership, which allows local users to modify access restrictions in hosts.deny and gain root privileges by creating the temporary files before automatic IP blocking is performed...

CVE-2014-5284

host-deny.sh in OSSEC before 2.8.1 writes to temporary files with predictable filenames without verifying ownership, which allows local users to modify access restrictions in hosts.deny and gain root privileges by creating the temporary files before automatic IP blocking is performed...

CVE-2014-5284

host-deny.sh in OSSEC before 2.8.1 writes to temporary files with predictable filenames without verifying ownership, which allows local users to modify access restrictions in hosts.deny and gain root privileges by creating the temporary files before automatic IP blocking is performed...

CVE-2014-5284: Undefined Security Weakness

host-deny.sh in OSSEC before 2.8.1 writes to temporary files with predictable filenames without verifying ownership, which allows local users to modify access restrictions in hosts.deny and gain root privileges by creating the temporary files before automatic IP blocking is performed...

PT-2014-6390

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions OSSEC versions prior to 2.8.1 Description The issue allows local users to modify access restrictions in hosts.deny and gain root privileges by creating temporary files before automatic IP blocking is performed. This is due to the host-deny.sh...

CVS 1.10.7 - Local Denial of Service Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1136/info CVS stands for Concurrent Versions Software and is an open-source package designed to allow multiple developers to work concurrently on a single source tree, recording changes and controlling versions. It is...

IBM Informix Dynamic Server 9.40/Informix Extended Parallel Server 8.40 Multiple Vulnerabilities (2)

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9512/info IBM Informix Dynamic Server and IBM Informix Extended Parallel Server have been reported prone to multiple vulnerabilities. The first issue exists in the onedcu binary. Specifically, when the binary is invoked a...

GNU a2ps 4.13 File Name Command Execution Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11025/info Reportedly GNU a2ps is affected by a filename command-execution vulnerability. This issue is due to the application's failure to properly sanitize filenames. An attacker might leverage this issue to execute...

Qualcomm Eudora 5.0/5.1/6.0 Long Attachment Filename Denial of Service Vulnerability (1)

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7026/info Eudora may crash when handling messages which contain attachments with excessively long filenames. This condition reportedly occurs when messages with malformed attachment filenames are stored in the user's...

IBM Network Station Manager 2.0 R1 Race Condition Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/900/info IBM's Network Station Manager is a client/server application which facilitates management for IBM Network Stations. It is possible to locally gain root priviliges on hosts running the NetStation daemon. NetStatio...

Cobalt RaQ 2.0/3.0/4.0 XTR MultiFileUpload.php Authentication Bypass Vulnerability (1)

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4252/info Cobalt RaQ is a server appliance for Internet-based services. It is distributed and maintained by Sun Microsystems. The 'MultiFileUpload.php' script is not sufficiently protected from outside access. While other...

MGASA-2014-0274 Updated ctdb package fixes CVE-2013-4159

Updated ctdb packages fix security vulnerability: ctdb before 2.5 is vulnerable to symlink attacks to due the use of predictable filenames in /tmp, such as /tmp/ctdb.socket CVE-2013-4159...

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...

CVE-2014-3127: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory

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,...