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...

USN-3371-1 linux-hwe vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the Linux kernel did not properly initialize a Wake- on-Lan data structure. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information kernel memory. CVE-2014-9900 Alexander Potapenko discovered a race condition in the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ALSA subsystem i...

4: ovirt-engine exposes cloud-init root password via REST API

It is reported that the RHV 4 REST API exposes data used in cloud-init which can include the root password used when creating a system...

SQL injection vulnerability in the init function of iCMS latest version V7admincp.class.php page

iCMS is a free, clean, efficient, and useful PHP content management system. The latest version of iCMS V7admincp.class.php page init function has a SQL injection vulnerability that can be exploited by attackers to bypass the backend and directly log into the system to obtain sensitive information...

DEBIAN-CVE-2017-11565

debian/tor.init in the Debian tor0.2.9.11-1deb9u1 package for Tor was designed to execute aa-exec from the standard system pathname if the apparmor package is installed, but implements this incorrectly with a wrong assumption that the specific pathname would remain the same forever, which allows...

Fedora 26 : cloud-init (2017-83671c0fa0)

This update fixes several issues with systemd service ordering and network configuration. It also backports a fix for a security issue in which instances run in EC2 write IAM instance profile credentials to disk. To work around the security issue without updating cloud-init, wait at least six hou...

ubuntu-image Unauthorized Operation Vulnerability

ubuntu-image is an image package used in Ubuntu systems. A security vulnerability exists in ubuntu-image. A local attacker can exploit this vulnerability to gain access to the cloud-init and snapd directories...

CVE-2017-10600

ubuntu-image 1.0 before 2017-07-07, when invoked as non-root, creates files in the resulting image with the uid of the invoking user. When the resulting image is booted, a local attacker with the same uid as the image creator has unintended access to cloud-init and snapd directories...

Design/Logic Flaw

ubuntu-image 1.0 before 2017-07-07, when invoked as non-root, creates files in the resulting image with the uid of the invoking user. When the resulting image is booted, a local attacker with the same uid as the image creator has unintended access to cloud-init and snapd directories...

CVE-2017-10600

ubuntu-image 1.0 before 2017-07-07, when invoked as non-root, creates files in the resulting image with the uid of the invoking user. When the resulting image is booted, a local attacker with the same uid as the image creator has unintended access to cloud-init and snapd directories...

CVE-2017-10600

ubuntu-image 1.0 before 2017-07-07, when invoked as non-root, creates files in the resulting image with the uid of the invoking user. When the resulting image is booted, a local attacker with the same uid as the image creator has unintended access to cloud-init and snapd directories...

UBUNTU-CVE-2017-10600

ubuntu-image 1.0 before 2017-07-07, when invoked as non-root, creates files in the resulting image with the uid of the invoking user. When the resulting image is booted, a local attacker with the same uid as the image creator has unintended access to cloud-init and snapd directories...

CVE-2017-10600

ubuntu-image 1.0 before 2017-07-07, when invoked as non-root, creates files in the resulting image with the uid of the invoking user. When the resulting image is booted, a local attacker with the same uid as the image creator has unintended access to cloud-init and snapd directories...

CVE-2017-10600

CVE-2017-10600 affects ubuntu-image 1.0 (before 2017-07-07). When run as non-root, it creates files in the resulting image with the UID of the invoking user, enabling a local attacker who shares that UID to access cloud-init and snapd directories after boot. This is a local vulnerability with pot...

Expat XML External Entity Denial of Service Vulnerability

Expat is a C language written in a stream-oriented XML parser library . Expat XML External Entity Denial of Service Vulnerability. The vulnerability stems from the presence of malformed XML in external entities in Expat's entityValueInitProcessor function, which can be exploited by an attacker to...

LAME lame_init_params function denial of service vulnerability

LAME is LAME team developed a set of open source MP3 audio compression software . A security vulnerability exists in the 'lameinitparams' function in the lame.c file of the libmp3lame.a file in LAME version 3.99.5. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service...

[SECURITY] Fedora 26 Update: systemd-233-4.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,...

kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update

3.10.0-514.21.1.OL7 - Oracle Linux certificates Alexey Petrenko - Oracle Linux RHCK Module Signing Key was compiled into kernel [email protected] - Update x509.genkey bug 24817676 3.10.0-514.21.1 - kernel sched/core: Fix an SMP ordering race in trytowakeup vs...

Linux kernel local denial of service vulnerability (CNVD-2017-10572)

The Linux kernel is the kernel used by the operating system Linux, released by the Linux Foundation in the United States. A security vulnerability exists in the 'cryptoskcipherinittfm' function in the crypto/skcipher.c file in Linux kernel versions 4.11.2 and earlier. This vulnerability can be...

Null pointer dereference

The cryptoskcipherinittfm function in crypto/skcipher.c in the Linux kernel through 4.11.2 relies on a setkey function that lacks a key-size check, which allows local users to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference via a crafted application...