[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: elfutils-0.158-3.fc20

Elfutils is a collection of utilities, including ld a linker, nm for listing symbols from object files, size for listing the section sizes of an object or archive file, strip for discarding symbols, readelf to see the raw ELF file structures, and elflint to check for well-formed ELF files...

ESXi 5.0 < Build 515841 Multiple Vulnerabilities (remote check)

The remote VMware ESXi 5.0 host is affected by the following security vulnerabilities : - A security bypass vulnerability exists in the e1000 driver in the Linux kernel due to improper handling of Ethernet frames that exceed the MTU. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this, via...

CentOS 4 : binutils (CESA-2005:673)

An updated binutils package that fixes several bugs and minor security issues is now available. This update has been rated as having low security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Binutils is a collection of utilities used for the creation of executable code. A number of bugs were fou...

Fedora 17 : slock-1.1-3.fc17 (2013-9170)

Use all the hardening compiler and linker flags correctly. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional...

SuSE Update for update openSUSE-SU-2012:0466-1 (update)

Check for the Version of update OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbsuse201204661.nasl 8257 2017-12-29 06:29:46Z teissa $ SuSE Update for update openSUSE-SU-2012:0466-1 update Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2012 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program ...

MDVA-2012:042 : libdc1394

It was discovered a linker namespace conflict caused Digikam to crash. This advisory resolves this problem. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 @DEPRECATED@ This script has been deprecated as the associated patch is not currently a security fix. Disabled on 2012/09/06. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. This scrip...

Analyzing ASLR in Android Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0

When I first saw the release notes for the new Android Ice Cream Sandwich ICS platform, I was excited to see that Google mentioned that “Android 4.0 now provides address space layout randomization”. For the uninitiated, ASLR randomizes where various areas of memory eg. stack, heap, libs, etc are...

glibc: ld.so d_tag signedness error in elf_get_dynamic_info

Integer signedness error in the elfgetdynamicinfo function in elf/dynamic-link.h in ld.so in the GNU C Library aka glibc or libc6 2.0.1 through 2.11.1, when the --verify option is used, allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted ELF program with a negative value...

glibc - LD_AUDIT Arbitrary DSO Load Privilege Escalation

glibc - LDAUDIT Arbitrary DSO Load Privilege Escalation !/bin/sh I Can't Read and I Won't Race You Either by zx2c4 This is an exploit for CVE-2010-3856. A while back, Tavis showed us three ways to exploit flaws in glibc's dynamic linker involving LDAUDIT. 1 2 The first way involved opening a file...

glibc - 'LD_AUDIT' Arbitrary DSO Load Privilege Escalation

!/bin/sh I Can't Read and I Won't Race You Either by zx2c4 This is an exploit for CVE-2010-3856. A while back, Tavis showed us three ways to exploit flaws in glibc's dynamic linker involving LDAUDIT. 1 2 The first way involved opening a file descriptor and using fexecve to easily win a race with...

CVE-2011-4060

The runtime linker in QNX Neutrino RTOS 6.5.0 before Service Pack 1 does not properly clear the LDDEBUGOUTPUT and LDDEBUG environment variables when a program is spawned from a setuid program, which allows local users to overwrite files via a symlink attack...

CVE-2011-1658

ld.so in the GNU C Library aka glibc or libc6 2.13 and earlier expands the $ORIGIN dynamic string token when RPATH is composed entirely of this token, which might allow local users to gain privileges by creating a hard link in an arbitrary directory to a 1 setuid or 2 setgid program with this RPA...

glibc: ld.so insecure handling of privileged programs' RPATHs with $ORIGIN

ld.so in the GNU C Library aka glibc or libc6 2.13 and earlier expands the $ORIGIN dynamic string token when RPATH is composed entirely of this token, which might allow local users to gain privileges by creating a hard link in an arbitrary directory to a 1 setuid or 2 setgid program with this RPA...

Medium severity flaw in QNX Neutrino RTOS

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Nth Dimension Security Advisory NDSA20110310 Date: 10th March 2011 Author: Tim Brown mailto:[email protected] URL: http://www.nth-dimension.org.uk/ / http://www.machine.org.uk/ Product: QNX Neutrino RTOS 6.5.0...

CentOS 5 : glibc (CESA-2010:0793)

Updated glibc packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is...

glibc: ld.so arbitrary DSO loading via LD_AUDIT in setuid/setgid programs

ld.so in the GNU C Library aka glibc or libc6 before 2.11.3, and 2.12.x before 2.12.2, does not properly restrict use of the LDAUDIT environment variable to reference dynamic shared objects DSOs as audit objects, which allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging an unsafe DSO located in a...

glibc: ld.so insecure handling of $ORIGIN in LD_AUDIT for setuid/setgid programs

elf/dl-load.c in ld.so in the GNU C Library aka glibc or libc6 through 2.11.2, and 2.12.x through 2.12.1, does not properly handle a value of $ORIGIN for the LDAUDIT environment variable, which allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted dynamic shared object DSO located in an arbitrary...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: glibc security and bug fix update

Updated glibc packages that fix two security issues and two bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity...

GNU C dynamic linker privilege escalation

Invalid $ORIGIN processing allows to load user library into suid application...

The GNU C library dynamic linker will dlopen arbitrary DSOs during setuid loads.

The GNU C library dynamic linker will dlopen arbitrary DSOs during setuid loads ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Czesc, This advisory describes CVE-2010-3856, an addendum to CVE-2010-3847. Please see http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2010/Oct/257 fo...