mysql: unsafe chmod/chown use in init script (CPU Jan 2017)

Multiple flaws were found in the way the MySQL init script handled initialization of the database data directory and permission setting on the error log file. The mysql operating system user could use these flaws to escalate their privileges to root...

kernel security and bug fix update

2.6.32-696.20.1.OL6 - Update genkey bug 25599697 2.6.32-696.20.1 - x86 kaiser/efi: unbreak tboot Waiman Long 1519799 1519802 CVE-2017-5754 - x86 pti/mm: Fix trampoline stack problem with XEN PV Waiman Long 1519799 1519802 CVE-2017-5754 - x86 pti/mm: Fix XEN PV boot failure Waiman Long 1519799...

CVE-2017-12189

It was discovered that the jboss init script as used in Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0.7.GA performed unsafe file handling which could result in local privilege escalation. This issue is a result of an incomplete fix for CVE-2016-8656...

CVE-2017-12189

It was discovered that the jboss init script as used in Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0.7.GA performed unsafe file handling which could result in local privilege escalation. This issue is a result of an incomplete fix for CVE-2016-8656...

Oracle Linux 6 : kernel (ELSA-2018-0008)

The remote Oracle Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2018-0008 advisory. - x86 specctrl: svm: specctrl at vmexit needs per-cpu areas functional Waiman Long 1519797 1519796 CVE-2017-5715 - x86 specctrl: Eliminate redundnat...

jboss: unsafe chown of server.log in jboss init script allows privilege escalation (Incomplete fix for CVE-2016-8656)

It was discovered that the jboss init script performed unsafe file handling which could result in local privilege escalation...

jboss: unsafe chown of server.log in jboss init script allows privilege escalation (Incomplete fix for CVE-2016-8656)

It was discovered that the jboss init script performed unsafe file handling which could result in local privilege escalation...

jboss: unsafe chown of server.log in jboss init script allows privilege escalation (Incomplete fix for CVE-2016-8656)

It was discovered that the jboss init script performed unsafe file handling which could result in local privilege escalation...

jboss: unsafe chown of server.log in jboss init script allows privilege escalation (Incomplete fix for CVE-2016-8656)

It was discovered that the jboss init script performed unsafe file handling which could result in local privilege escalation...

libreoffice/htmlfuzzer: Stack-use-after-return in SwIndex::Init

Project: git://anongit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core Detailed report: https://oss-fuzz.com/testcase?key=6725564527280128 Project: libreoffice Fuzzer: libFuzzerlibreofficehtmlfuzzer Fuzz target binary: htmlfuzzer Job Type: libfuzzerasanlibreoffice Platform Id: linux Crash Type:...

jboss: jbossas: unsafe chown of server.log in jboss init script allows privilege escalation

It was discovered that the jboss init script performed unsafe file handling which could result in local privilege escalation...

jboss: jbossas: unsafe chown of server.log in jboss init script allows privilege escalation

It was discovered that the jboss init script performed unsafe file handling which could result in local privilege escalation...

jboss: jbossas: unsafe chown of server.log in jboss init script allows privilege escalation

It was discovered that the jboss init script performed unsafe file handling which could result in local privilege escalation...

CVE-2017-17128

The h264sliceinit function in libavcodec/h264slice.c in Libav 12.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service segmentation fault and application crash via a crafted file...

Linux kernel memory corruption vulnerability (CNVD-2017-36609)

Linux kernel is the kernel used by Linux, the open source operating system released by the Linux Foundation in the United States. A memory corruption vulnerability exists in the 'initnewcontext' function of the arch/x86/include/asm/mmucontext.h file in versions of Linux kernel prior to 4.12.10,...

SUSE-SU-2017:3107-1 Security update for postgresql-init

This update for postgresql-init fixes the following issues: - CVE-2017-14798: A race condition in the init script could be used by attackers able to access the postgresql account to escalate their privileges to root bsc1062722...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3480-2)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

GLSA-201711-11 : VDE: Privilege escalation

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201711-11 VDE: Privilege escalation It was discovered that Gentoos default VDE installation suffered from a privilege escalation vulnerability in the init script. This script calls an unsafe chown command which gives members from...

CVE-2016-10089

A vulnerability was found in Nagios 4.2.4, and earlier, which allows local users to gain root privileges via a hard link attack on the Nagios init script file, related to CVE-2016-8641. Mitigation This flaw, and others like it, are mitigated by enabling hardlink and symlink protections. These...

[SECURITY] Fedora 26 Update: systemd-233-7.fc26

systemd is a system and service manager that runs as PID 1 and starts the rest of the system. It provides aggressive parallelization capabilities, uses socket and D-Bus activation for starting services, offers on-demand starting of daemons, keeps track of processes using Linux control groups,...