VMware vCenter Server Patch Reissue

VMware on Saturday reissued a patch from October that incompletely addressed a critically rated remote code execution vulnerability in vCenter Server. The original vulnerability, CVE-2015-2342, was a poorly configured JMX RMI service in vCenter Server that was remotely accessible. The flaw allowe...

CVE-2016-0006: Undefined Security Weakness

The sandbox implementation in Microsoft Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 Gold and R2, Windows RT Gold and 8.1, and Windows 10 Gold and 1511 mishandles reparse points, which allows local users to gain privileges via a...

Lenovo Solution Center 'LSCTaskService' Local Lift Vulnerability

Lenovo Solution Center is a suite of software from the Chinese company Lenovo that helps users quickly identify the state of system health, network connectivity and overall system security. A local elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Lenovo Solution Center. A local attacker can exploit...

PT-2015-2950

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Microsoft Windows versions 8 through 10, including Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 Gold and R2, Windows RT Gold and 8.1, and Windows 10 Gold and 1511 Description The issue is related to errors in loading libraries, which can be exploited by a...

USN-2782-1 apport vulnerability

Gabriel Campana discovered that Apport incorrectly handled Python module imports. A local attacker could use this issue to elevate privileges...

PT-2015-2279

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Mac OS X affected versions not specified Description The issue is caused by a buffer overflow in the IOGraphics component of the Mac OS X operating system. Exploitation of this issue may allow a local attacker to elevate privileges or cause a...

Lenovo Mouse Suite < 6.73 Local Privilege Elevation

The version of Lenovo Mouse Suite installed on the remote Windows host is prior to 6.73. It is, therefore, affected by a privilege elevation vulnerability that can allow a local attacker to gain administrative privileges on the system. Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instea...

IBM WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere Virtual Enterprise Local Privilege Vulnerability

IBM WebSphere Application Server WAS and WebSphere Virtual Enterprise WVE are both products of IBM Corporation, U.S.A. WAS is an application server product; WVE is a set of application server virtualization solutions. The IBM WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere Virtual Enterprise local...

Huawei Mate 7 Local Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Huawei Mate 7 is a smartphone developed by the domestic company Huawei. A security vulnerability exists on the Huawei Mate 7 TEEOS module that allows local attackers to exploit the vulnerability to elevate privileges...

McAfee ePO Deep Command Local Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

McAfee ePO Deep Command is an extension of McAfee's primary endpoint security management product. A security vulnerability in Client Management and Gateway handling of windows search paths in McAfee ePO Deep Command allows local users to exploit the vulnerability to elevate privileges...

Symantec Workspace Streaming Agent 'AppMgrService.exe' Local Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Symantec Workspace Streaming enables on-demand application setup, real-time software license management, and instant application upgrades. A local elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the Symantec Workspace Streaming Agent implementation of 'AppMgrService.exe'. An attacker could exploit...

Apport/Abrt Local Privilege Vulnerability

Apport is the crash report service on ubuntu, that is, when a program crashes the pop-up program that sends an error report. ABRT is an automated bug detection and reporting tool. Apport/Abrt is vulnerable to a local privilege exploit. An attacker can exploit the vulnerability to gain root...

Cisco Web Security Appliance Local Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

The Cisco Web Security Appliance is a secure Web gateway that integrates malware protection, application visualization control, policy control, and more in one platform. A local elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Cisco Web Security Appliance. This vulnerability allows attackers to...

FreeBSD Local Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability (CNVD-2015-00830)

FreeBSD is a BSD-based operating system. FreeBSD suffers from a local elevation of privilege vulnerability, which allows local attackers to exploit this vulnerability to gain elevated privileges...

CVE-2013-1253

Race condition in win32k.sys in the kernel-mode drivers in Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2, R2, and R2 SP1, and Windows 7 Gold and SP1 allows local users to gain privileges, and consequently read the contents of arbitrary kerne...

CVE-2012-0149: Improper Input Validation

afd.sys in the Ancillary Function Driver in Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP2 does not properly validate user-mode input passed to kernel mode, which allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka "Ancillary Function Driver Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability."...

CVE-2011-3408: Undefined Security Weakness

Csrsrv.dll in the Client/Server Run-time Subsystem aka CSRSS in the Win32 subsystem in Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2, R2, and R2 SP1, and Windows 7 Gold and SP1 does not properly check permissions for sending inter-process...

CVE-2011-2005: Undefined Security Weakness

afd.sys in the Ancillary Function Driver in Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and SP3 and Server 2003 SP2 does not properly validate user-mode input passed to kernel mode, which allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka "Ancillary Function Driver Elevation of Privilege...

CVE-2011-1984: Undefined Security Weakness

WINS in Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP2 and Server 2008 SP2, R2, and R2 SP1 allows local users to gain privileges by sending crafted packets over the loopback interface, aka "WINS Local Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability."...

SuSE 11 / 11.1 Security Update : glibc (SAT Patch Numbers 3392 / 3393)

This update of glibc fixes various bugs and security issues : - Decoding of the $ORIGIN special value in various LD environment variables allowed local attackers to execute code in context of e.g. setuid root programs, elevating privileges. This issue does not affect SUSE as an assertion triggers...