SUSE CVE-2011-4028

The LockServer function in os/utils.c in X.Org xserver before 1.11.2 allows local users to determine the existence of arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary lock file, which is handled differently if the file exists...

SUSE CVE-2012-4455

openCryptoki 2.4.1 allows local users to create or set world-writable permissions on arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the 1 LCK..opencryptoki or 2 LCK..opencryptokistdll file in /var/lock/...

SUSE CVE-2015-1331

lxclock.c in LXC 1.1.2 and earlier allows local users to create arbitrary files via a symlink attack on /run/lock/lxc/...

SUSE CVE-2017-12847

Nagios Core before 4.3.3 creates a nagios.lock PID file after dropping privileges to a non-root account, which might allow local users to kill arbitrary processes by leveraging access to this non-root account for nagios.lock modification before a root script executes a "kill cat...

SUSE CVE-2019-11485

Sander Bos discovered Apport's lock file was in a world-writable directory which allowed all users to prevent crash handling...

Low: Red Hat Security Advisory: podman security, bug fix, and enhancement update

An update for podman is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE...

Low: podman security, bug fix, and enhancement update

The podman tool manages pods, container images, and containers. It is part of the libpod library, which is for applications that use container pods. Container pods is a concept in Kubernetes. Security Fixes: podman: possible information disclosure and modification CVE-2022-2989 buildah: possible...

Low: Red Hat Security Advisory: container-tools:rhel8 security, bug fix, and enhancement update

An update for the container-tools:rhel8 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each...

npm: npm ci succeeds when package-lock.json doesn't match package.json

A flaw was found in npm. The npm ci command proceeds with an installation even if dependency information in package-lock.json differs from package.json. This behavior is inconsistent with the documentation and makes it easier for attackers to install malware that was supposed to have been blocked...

nodejs:16 security update

nodejs 1:16.14.0-4 - Apply lock file validation fixes - Resolves CVE-2021-43616 - Resolves: RHBZ2070012...

CVE-2021-43616

The npm ci command in npm 7.x and 8.x through 8.1.3 proceeds with an installation even if dependency information in package-lock.json differs from package.json. This behavior is inconsistent with the documentation, and makes it easier for attackers to install malware that was supposed to have bee...

CyberArk Credential Provider Race Condition And Authorization Bypass

Vulnerability Details Affected Vendor: CyberArk Affected Product: Application Access Manager/Credential Provider Affected Version: Prior to 12.1 Platform: Linux/Windows/zOS CWE Classification: CWE-326: Inadequate Encryption Strength, CWE-362: Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with...

SUSE: Security Advisory (SUSE-SU-2012:1705-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

USN-4171-6 apport regression

USN-4171-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Apport. The update caused a regression when handling configuration files. This update fixes the problem, and also introduces further hardening measures. Original advisory details: Kevin Backhouse discovered Apport would read its user-controlled settings file as...

USN-4315-2 apport vulnerabilities

USN-4315-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in Apport. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM. Original advisory details: Maximilien Bourgeteau discovered that the Apport lock file was created with insecure permissions. This could allow a local attacker to escalate their...

CVE-2020-8831

Apport creates a world writable lock file with root ownership in the world writable /var/lock/apport directory. If the apport/ directory does not exist this is not uncommon as /var/lock is a tmpfs, it will create the directory, otherwise it will simply continue execution using the existing...

CVE-2020-8831

Apport creates a world writable lock file with root ownership in the world writable /var/lock/apport directory. If the apport/ directory does not exist this is not uncommon as /var/lock is a tmpfs, it will create the directory, otherwise it will simply continue execution using the existing...

CVE-2020-8831

CVE-2020-8831 : Apport creates a world-writable lock file with root ownership in /var/lock/apport. If the directory is missing (common on tmpfs), Apport creates it; otherwise it uses the existing directory. This enables a symlink attack by placing a link at /var/lock/apport to redirect Apport’s l...

CVE-2020-8831 World writable root owned lock file created in user controllable location

Apport creates a world writable lock file with root ownership in the world writable /var/lock/apport directory. If the apport/ directory does not exist this is not uncommon as /var/lock is a tmpfs, it will create the directory, otherwise it will simply continue execution using the existing...

Privilege Escalation

util-linux is vulnerable to privilege escalation. A local, unprivileged user allowed to mount or unmount file systems could use these flaws to corrupt the mtab file and create a stale lock file, preventing other users from mounting and unmounting file systems...