DEBIAN-CVE-2008-4640

The DoCommand function in jhead.c in Matthias Wandel jhead 2.84 and earlier allows local users to delete arbitrary files via vectors involving a modified input filename in which 1 a final "z" character is replaced by a "t" character or 2 a final "t" character is replaced by a "z" character...

CVE-2008-1946

The default configuration of su in /etc/pam.d/su in GNU coreutils 5.2.1 allows local users to gain the privileges of a 1 locked or 2 expired account by entering the account name on the command line, related to improper use of the pamsucceedif.so module...

kernel: insufficient range checks in fault handlers with mremap

Linux kernel before 2.6.22.17, when using certain drivers that register a fault handler that does not perform range checks, allows local users to access kernel memory via an out-of-range offset...

CVE-2008-0732

The init script for Apache Geronimo on SUSE Linux follows symlinks when performing a chown operation, which might allow local users to obtain access to unspecified files or directories...

Xorg / XFree86 file existence disclosure vulnerability

X.Org Xserver before 1.4.1 allows local users to determine the existence of arbitrary files via a filename argument in the -sp option to the X program, which produces different error messages depending on whether the filename exists...

CVE-2008-0216

CVE-2008-0216 describes a local-privilege/snooping flaw in FreeBSD where the ptsname and openpty handling could let a non-privileged user read or own a pty belonging to another user. The issue arises because ptsname(3) could extract two characters from a /dev name without ensuring ownership, and ...

CVE-2003-1428

Gallery 1.3.3 creates directories with insecure permissions, which allows local users to read, modify, or delete photos...

Unauthenticated SMB Access Permitted (Arbitrary Credential Acceptance)

The remote host is running one of the Microsoft Windows operating systems or the SAMBA daemon. It was possible to log into it as a guest user, or a guest-like user, using a random account. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include'compat.inc'; if description scriptid26919; scriptversion"1.21";...

CVE-2007-2835

Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in 1 CCEpinyin.c and 2 xlpinyin.c in ImmModules/cce/ in unicon-imc2 3.0.4, as used by zhcon and other applications, allow local users to gain privileges via a long HOME environment variable...

security flaw

Unknown vulnerability in the SGIO functionality in ide-cd allows local users to bypass read-only access and perform unauthorized write and erase operations...

CVE-2007-2766

lib/backup-methods.sh in Backup Manager before 0.7.6 provides the MySQL password as a plaintext command line argument, which allows local users to obtain this password by listing the process and its arguments, related to lib/backup-methods.sh...

security flaw

The ipv6getsockoptsticky function in net/ipv6/ipv6sockglue.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.20.2 allows local users to read arbitrary kernel memory via certain getsockopt calls that trigger a NULL dereference...

PT-2007-3107 · Apache · Apache Http Server

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Apache HTTP Server httpd version 2.2.3 Description: The issue in suexec allows local users to potentially perform unauthorized operations on incorrect directories due to a partial comparison for verifying the current directory within the...

MySQL improper permission revocation

MySQL 4.1 before 4.1.21 and 5.0 before 5.0.24 allows a local user to access a table through a previously created MERGE table, even after the user's privileges are revoked for the original table, which might violate intended security policy...

security flaw

The blockpreparewrite function in fs/buffer.c for Linux kernel 2.6.x before 2.6.13 does not properly clear buffers during certain error conditions, which allows local users to read portions of files that have been unlinked...

CVE-2006-6085

Kile before 1.9.3 does not assign a backup file the same permissions as the original file, which might allow local users to obtain sensitive information...

PT-2006-5148 · Red Hat · Red Hat

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 3 Description: The issue allows local users to cause a denial of service, resulting in a deadlock. This occurs when the shmat function is run on a shared memory segment at the same time that the shmctl functio...

security flaw

Unspecified vulnerability in the sctpmakeabortuser function in the SCTP implementation in Linux 2.6.x before 2.6.17.10 and 2.4.23 up to 2.4.33 allows local users to cause a denial of service panic and possibly gain root privileges via unknown attack vectors...

CVE-2006-4031

CVE-2006-4031 affects MySQL 4.1 before 4.1.21 and 5.0 before 5.0.24, enabling a local user to access a table via a previously created MERGE table even after privileges are revoked from the original table. The root cause is the MERGE storage engine not enforcing revocation in this scenario. Remedi...

[Full-disclosure] Re: rPSA-2006-0122-1 kernel

Justin M. Forbes wrote: Description: Previous versions of the kernel package are vulnerable to two denial of service attacks. The first allows any local user to fill up file systems by causing core dumps to write to directories to which they do not have write access permissions. The second applie...