USN-316-1: installer vulnerability

Iwan Pieterse discovered that, if you select "Go Back" at the final message displayed by the alternate or server CD installer "Installation complete" and then continue with the installation from the installer's main menu, the root password is left blank rather than locked. This was due to an erro...

CVE-2006-2221

A third-party installer generation tool, possibly BitRock InstallBuilder, as used in products including Process-one ejabberd 1.1.11 and earlier, generates an installer that allows local users to cause a denial of service via a symlink attack on the bitrockinstaller.log temporary file. NOTE: it is...

Ubuntu 5.10 : Ubuntu 5.10 installer vulnerability (USN-262-1)

Karl Oie discovered that the Ubuntu 5.10 installer failed to clean passwords in the installer log files. Since these files were world-readable, any local user could see the password of the first user account, which has full sudo privileges by default. The updated packages remove the passwords and...

remedy.txt

Security Holes in Remedy Client Installer Summary ------- Due to improper handling of temporary files, the installer program for Remedy Software's Action Request System client for unix can allow local users to gain root privileges. Details ------- The installer script for the unix AR clients...

CVE-2024-31954

An issue was discovered in the installer in Samsung Portable SSD for T5 1.6.10 on Windows. Because it is possible to tamper with the directory and DLL files used during the installation process, an attacker can escalate privileges through arbitrary code execution. An attacker must already have us...