CVE-2011-1784

The pidfilewrite function in core/pidfile.c in keepalived 1.2.2 and earlier uses 0666 permissions for the 1 keepalived.pid, 2 checkers.pid, and 3 vrrp.pid files in /var/run/, which allows local users to kill arbitrary processes by writing a PID to one of these files...

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...

CVE-2011-0017

The openlog function in log.c in Exim 4.72 and earlier does not check the return value from 1 setuid or 2 setgid system calls, which allows local users to append log data to arbitrary files via a symlink attack...

CVE-2010-1160

GNU nano before 2.2.4 does not verify whether a file has been changed before it is overwritten in a file-save operation, which allows local user-assisted attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on an attacker-owned file that is being edited by the victim...

DEBIAN-CVE-2010-0156

Puppet 0.24.x before 0.24.9 and 0.25.x before 0.25.2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the 1 /tmp/daemonout, 2 /tmp/puppetdoc.txt, 3 /tmp/puppetdoc.tex, or 4 /tmp/puppetdoc.aux temporary file...

CVE-2009-4029

The 1 dist or 2 distcheck rules in GNU Automake 1.11.1, 1.10.3, and release branches branch-1-4 through branch-1-9, when producing a distribution tarball for a package that uses Automake, assign insecure permissions 777 to directories in the build tree, which introduces a race condition that allo...

CVE-2009-2516

The kernel in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP2 and SP3, Server 2003 SP2, Vista Gold and SP1, and Server 2008 Gold does not properly validate data sent from user mode, which allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted PE .exe file that triggers a NULL pointer dereference during chain...

CVE-2008-5152

inmail-show in mh-book 200605 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a 1 /tmp/inmail.log or 2 /tmp/inmail.stdin temporary file...

CVE-2006-6743

CVE-2006-6743 affects phpProfiles prior to 2.1.1. The vulnerability arises from world-writable permissions on certain profile files and directories, enabling local users to modify or delete files. Affected elements include (1) users/include/do_makeprofile.inc.php and (2) users/include/copy.inc.ph...

CVE-2006-5215

The Xsession script, as used by X Display Manager xdm in NetBSD before 20060212, X.Org before 20060317, and Solaris 8 through 10 before 20061006, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files, or read another user's Xsession errors file, via a symlink attack on a /tmp/xses-$USER file...

CVE-2005-4077

Multiple off-by-one errors in the cURL library libcurl 7.11.2 through 7.15.0 allow local users to trigger a buffer overflow and cause a denial of service or bypass PHP security restrictions via certain URLs that 1 are malformed in a way that prevents a terminating null byte from being added to...

CVE-2005-3885

The ps2epsi extension shell script ps2epsi.sh in Inkscape before 0.41 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the tmpepsifile.epsi temporary file...

CVE-2005-3531

fusermount in FUSE before 2.4.1, if installed setuid root, allows local users to corrupt /etc/mtab and possibly modify mount options by performing a mount over a directory whose name contains certain special characters...

CVE-2005-0023

gnome-pty-helper in GNOME libzvt2 and libvte4 allows local users to spoof the logon hostname via a modified DISPLAY environment variable. NOTE: the severity of this issue has been disputed...

security flaw

fixproc in Net-snmp 5.x before 5.2.1-r1 creates temporary files insecurely, which allows local users to modify the contents of those files to execute arbitrary commands, or overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack...

CVE-2005-2672

pwmconfig in LMsensors before 2.9.1 creates temporary files insecurely, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the fancontrol temporary file...

CVE-2005-1993

Race condition in sudo 1.3.1 up to 1.6.8p8, when the ALL pseudo-command is used after a user entry in the sudoers file, allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack...

CVE-2005-1111

Race condition in cpio 2.6 and earlier allows local users to modify permissions of arbitrary files via a hard link attack on a file while it is being decompressed, whose permissions are changed by cpio after the decompression is complete...

CVE-2005-0988

Race condition in gzip 1.2.4, 1.3.3, and earlier, when decompressing a gzipped file, allows local users to modify permissions of arbitrary files via a hard link attack on a file while it is being decompressed, whose permissions are changed by gzip after the decompression is complete...

CVE-2005-0180

Multiple integer signedness errors in the sgscsiioctl function in scsiioctl.c for Linux 2.6.x allow local users to read or modify kernel memory via negative integers in arguments to the scsi ioctl, which bypass a maximum length check before calling the copyfromuser and copytouser functions...