Linux Dirty COW Local File Overwrite

Added: 10/27/2016 CVE: CVE-2016-5195 BID: 93793 Background This tool allows you to overwrite an arbitrary file on Linux systems. Problem A race condition exists in the way the Linux kernel's memory subsystem handles the copy-on-write COW breakage of private read-only memory mappings. An...

Linux Dirty COW Local File Overwrite

Added: 10/27/2016 CVE: CVE-2016-5195 BID: 93793 Background This tool allows you to overwrite an arbitrary file on Linux systems. Problem A race condition exists in the way the Linux kernel's memory subsystem handles the copy-on-write COW breakage of private read-only memory mappings. An...

Linux Dirty COW Local File Overwrite

Added: 10/27/2016 CVE: CVE-2016-5195 BID: 93793 Background This tool allows you to overwrite an arbitrary file on Linux systems. Problem A race condition exists in the way the Linux kernel's memory subsystem handles the copy-on-write COW breakage of private read-only memory mappings. An...

Unspecified vulnerability in wget

wget is a free and open source set of download tools that support automatic downloading of files from the web. A security vulnerability exists in wget, which stems from the program's failure to properly handle filenames when redirecting from an HTTP to an FTP URL. An attacker can exploit this...

USN-3012-1 wget vulnerability

Dawid Golunski discovered that Wget incorrectly handled filenames when being redirected from an HTTP to an FTP URL. A malicious server could possibly use this issue to overwrite local files...

Mozilla: Local file overwriting and potential privilege escalation through CSP reports (MFSA 2016-17)

The nsCSPContext::SendReports function in dom/security/nsCSPContext.cpp in Mozilla Firefox before 45.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.7 does not prevent use of a non-HTTP report-uri for a Content Security Policy CSP violation report, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service data...

MGASA-2014-0390 Updated perl-XML-DT package fix CVE-2014-5260

Updated perl-XML-DT package fixes security vulnerability: The mkxmltype and mkdtskel scripts provided in perl-XML-DT allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/xml temporary file CVE-2014-5260...

SGI IRIX 6.5.22 GR_OSView Local Arbitrary File Overwrite Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13058/info A local file overwrite vulnerability affects SGI IRIX. This issue is due to a failure of the affected utility to drop privileges prior to carrying out critical functionality. An attacker may leverage this issue...

CVE-2014-4038

ppc64-diag 2.6.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack related to 1 rtaserrd/diagsupport.c and /tmp/getdtfiles, 2 scripts/ppc64diagmkrsrc and /tmp/diagSEsnap/snapH.tar.gz, or 3 lpd/test/lpdelatest.sh and /var/tmp/ras...

CVE-2014-4038

ppc64-diag 2.6.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack related to 1 rtaserrd/diagsupport.c and /tmp/getdtfiles, 2 scripts/ppc64diagmkrsrc and /tmp/diagSEsnap/snapH.tar.gz, or 3 lpd/test/lpdelatest.sh and /var/tmp/ras...

CVE-2014-3977

libodm.a in IBM AIX 6.1 and 7.1, and VIOS 2.2.x, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2012-2179...

CVE-2014-3986

include/testswebservers in Lynis before 1.5.5 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/lynis..unsorted file with an easily determined name...

CVE-2014-3981

CVE-2014-3981 affects PHP 5.5.13 and earlier. The vulnerability arises from the acinclude.m4 usage in the configure script, enabling a local user to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/phpglibccheck file. Impact is local privilege-related, enabling file tampering. The provi...

CVE-2014-3986

include/testswebservers in Lynis before 1.5.5 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/lynis..unsorted file with an easily determined name...

CVE-2014-3421

lisp/gnus/gnus-fun.el in GNU Emacs 24.3 and earlier allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/gnus.face.ppm temporary file...

CVE-2014-3421

lisp/gnus/gnus-fun.el in GNU Emacs 24.3 and earlier allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/gnus.face.ppm temporary file...

CVE-2014-3421

lisp/gnus/gnus-fun.el in GNU Emacs 24.3 and earlier allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/gnus.face.ppm temporary file...

CVE-2014-3423

CVE-2014-3423 affects GNU Emacs 24.3 and earlier, where lisp/net/browse-url.el allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/Mosaic temporary file. The connected sources confirm this local-privilege issue and describe the exact path and file involved, but do not p...

CVE-2014-1838

The 1 extractkeysfrompdf and 2 fillpdf functions in pdfext.py in logilab-commons before 0.61.0 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files and possibly have other unspecified impact via a symlink attack on /tmp/toto.fdf...

SuSE 11.2 / 11.3 Security Update : hplip (SAT Patch Numbers 8775 / 8777)

hplip was updated to fix three security issues : - Some local file overwrite problems via predictable /tmp filenames were fixed. CVE-2013-0200 - hplip used an insecure polkit DBUS API polkit-process subject race condition which could lead to local privilege escalation. CVE-2013-4325 - hplip uses...