Unspecified Vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox and Firefox ESR for Windows

Mozilla Firefox for Windows is an open source web browser for the Windows platform from the Mozilla Foundation in the U.S. Firefox ESR for Windows is an extended support version of Firefox for the Windows platform. A security vulnerability exists in Windows-based versions of Mozilla Firefox prior...

CVE-2016-10374

perltidy through 20160302, as used by perlcritic, check-all-the-things, and other software, relies on the current working directory for certain output files and does not have a symlink-attack protection mechanism, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files by creating a symlink, as...

PT-2017-7889

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions perltidy versions prior to 20160302 perlcritic affected versions not specified check-all-the-things affected versions not specified Description The issue allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files by creating a symlink. This can be...

[SECURITY] [DLA 808-1] ruby-archive-tar-minitar security update

Package : ruby-archive-tar-minitar Version : 0.5.2-2+deb7u1 CVE ID : CVE-2016-10173 Debian Bug : 853249 It has been found that rubygem archive-tar-minitar allows attackers to overwrite arbitrary files during archive extraction via a .. dot dot in an extracted filename. For Debian 7 "Wheezy", thes...

libarchive: Archive Entry with type 1 (hardlink), but has a non-zero data size file overwrite

A flaw was found in the way libarchive handled hardlink archive entries of non-zero size. Combined with flaws in libarchive's file system sandboxing, this issue could cause an application using libarchive to overwrite arbitrary files with arbitrary data from the archive...

Debian Insecure Temporary File Handling Vulnerability

Debian is a free operating system. Debian uses an insecure way of handling temporary files, allowing a local attacker to exploit the vulnerability to overwrite arbitrary user files...

OpenJDK Insecure Temporary File Handling Vulnerability

OpenJDK is the Java Platform, Standard Edition and related projects of the open source implementation of the collaborative platform . OpenJDK suffers from an insecure hsperfdata temporary file handling issue, the exploitation of which could allow an attacker to conduct a symbolic link attack to...

jar: directory traversal vulnerability

A directory traversal flaw was found in the way the jar tool extracted JAR archive files. A specially crafted JAR archive could cause jar to overwrite arbitrary files writable by the user running jar when the archive was extracted...

GNU Coreutils Insecure Temporary File Creation Vulnerability

The GNU Coreutils are the basic file, shell and text manipulation tools used by the GNU operating system. An insecure temporary file creation vulnerability exists in GNU Coreutils that allows a local access attacker to potentially obtain sensitive information or perform a symbolic link attack to...

PT-2015-7643

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions NTP versions prior to 4.2.8p4 Description The issue allows remote authenticated users to overwrite arbitrary files due to a directory traversal vulnerability in the save config function in ntpd. This vulnerability is particularly relevant on...

PHP 5.4.x < 5.4.32 Multiple Vulnerabilities

According to its banner, the remote web server is running a version of PHP 5.4.x prior to 5.4.32. It is, therefore, affected by the following vulnerabilities : - LibGD contains a NULL pointer dereference flaw in its 'gdImageCreateFromXpm' function in the 'gdxpm.c' file. By using a specially craft...

CVE-2014-5260

The 1 mkxmltype and 2 mkdtskel scripts in XML-DT before 0.64 allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/xml temporary file...

PT-2014-6374

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions XML-DT versions prior to 0.64 Description The issue allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/ xml temporary file. This is possible due to vulnerabilities in the mkxmltype and mkdtskel scripts...

PT-2014-4761

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions GNU readline versions prior to 6.3 patch 3 Description The issue allows local users to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /var/tmp/rltrace.PID file. This is related to the rl tropen function in util.c. Recommendation...

CVE-2014-4507

Directory traversal vulnerability in Smart-Proxy in Foreman before 1.4.5 and 1.5.x before 1.5.1 allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a .. dot dot in the dst parameter to tftp/fetchbootfile...

CVE-2014-4507: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory

Directory traversal vulnerability in Smart-Proxy in Foreman before 1.4.5 and 1.5.x before 1.5.1 allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a .. dot dot in the dst parameter to tftp/fetchbootfile...

DEBIAN-CVE-2014-4038

ppc64-diag 2.6.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack related to 1 rtaserrd/diagsupport.c and /tmp/getdtfiles, 2 scripts/ppc64diagmkrsrc and /tmp/diagSEsnap/snapH.tar.gz, or 3 lpd/test/lpdelatest.sh and /var/tmp/ras...

CVE-2014-4038: Improper Link Resolution Before File Access

ppc64-diag 2.6.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack related to 1 rtaserrd/diagsupport.c and /tmp/getdtfiles, 2 scripts/ppc64diagmkrsrc and /tmp/diagSEsnap/snapH.tar.gz, or 3 lpd/test/lpdelatest.sh and /var/tmp/ras...

CVE-2014-3986: Improper Link Resolution Before File Access

include/testswebservers in Lynis before 1.5.5 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/lynis..unsorted file with an easily determined name...

CVE-2014-3981: Improper Link Resolution Before File Access

acinclude.m4, as used in the configure script in PHP 5.5.13 and earlier, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/phpglibccheck file...