Security update for xawtv (moderate)

openSUSE Security Update: Security update for xawtv Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2020:0787-1 Rating: moderate References: 1171655 Cross-References: CVE-2020-13696 Affected Products: openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP1 An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available. Description: This update for...

CVE-2020-13696

An issue was discovered in LinuxTV xawtv before 3.107. The function devopen in v4l-conf.c does not perform sufficient checks to prevent an unprivileged caller of the program from opening unintended filesystem paths. This allows a local attacker with access to the v4l-conf setuid-root program to...

CVE-2020-13696

An issue was discovered in LinuxTV xawtv before 3.107. The function devopen in v4l-conf.c does not perform sufficient checks to prevent an unprivileged caller of the program from opening unintended filesystem paths. This allows a local attacker with access to the v4l-conf setuid-root program to...

CVE-1999-1406

The CVE-1999-1406 issue concerns the dumpreg utility in Red Hat Linux 5.1, which opens /dev/mem with O_RDWR. The underlying effect is that a local user can crash the kernel by redirecting stdout (fd 1) to the kernel, enabling a denial of service. The available documents confirm the affected compo...

CVE-1999-1406: Undefined Security Weakness

dumpreg in Red Hat Linux 5.1 opens /dev/mem with ORDWR access, which allows local users to cause a denial of service crash by redirecting fd 1 stdout to the kernel...