Online privacy in 2019: a legislative review

For decades, the United States treated data privacy like an aging home, patching individual leaks and drafts only when a new storm hit. The country passed a law protecting healthcare-related information, and not much else. It then passed a law protecting video rental information, and not much els...

SUSE-SU-2019:3386-1 Security update for shibboleth-sp

This update for shibboleth-sp fixes the following issues: Security issue fixed: - CVE-2019-19191: Fixed escalation to root by fixing ownership of log files bsc1157471...

SUSE-SU-2019:3385-1 Security update for slurm

This update for slurm fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed: - CVE-2019-6438: Fixed SchedMD Slurm that mishandles 32-bit systems bnc1123304. - Fix permissions of slurmdbd.conf bsc1155784. Bug fixes: - Fix ownership of /var/spool/slurm on new installations and upgrade bsc1158696. - Fix...

OPENSUSE-SU-2019:2672-1 Security update for permissions

This update for permissions fixes the following issues: - CVE-2019-3688: Changed wrong ownership in /usr/sbin/pinger to root:squid which could have allowed a squid user to gain persistence by changing the binary bsc1093414. - CVE-2019-3690: Fixed a privilege escalation through untrusted symbolic...

kernel: Missing check in fs/inode.c:inode_init_owner() does not clear SGID bit on non-directories for non-members

A vulnerability was found in the fs/inode.c:inodeinitowner function logic of the LInux kernel that allows local users to create files with an unintended group ownership and with group execution and SGID permission bits set, in a scenario where a directory is SGID and belongs to a certain group an...

kernel: Missing check in fs/inode.c:inode_init_owner() does not clear SGID bit on non-directories for non-members

A vulnerability was found in the fs/inode.c:inodeinitowner function logic of the LInux kernel that allows local users to create files with an unintended group ownership and with group execution and SGID permission bits set, in a scenario where a directory is SGID and belongs to a certain group an...

EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : vim (EulerOS-SA-2019-2462)

According to the version of the vim packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability : - fileio.c in Vim prior to 8.0.1263 sets the group ownership of a .swp file to the editor's primary group which may be different from the group ownershi...

SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : permissions (SUSE-SU-2019:3182-1)

This update for permissions fixes the following issues : CVE-2019-3688: Changed wrong ownership in /usr/sbin/pinger to root:squid which could have allowed a squid user to gain persistence by changing the binary bsc1093414. CVE-2019-3690: Fixed a privilege escalation through untrusted symbolic lin...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : permissions (SUSE-SU-2019:3180-1)

This update for permissions fixes the following issues : CVE-2019-3688: Changed wrong ownership in /usr/sbin/pinger to root:squid which could have allowed a squid user to gain persistence by changing the binary bsc1093414. CVE-2019-3690: Fixed a privilege escalation through untrusted symbolic lin...

UBUNTU-CVE-2019-19602

fpregsstatevalid in arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/internal.h in the Linux kernel before 5.4.2, when GCC 9 is used, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service memory corruption or possibly have unspecified other impact because of incorrect fpufpregsownerctx caching, as demonstrated...

SUSE-SU-2019:3182-1 Security update for permissions

This update for permissions fixes the following issues: - CVE-2019-3688: Changed wrong ownership in /usr/sbin/pinger to root:squid which could have allowed a squid user to gain persistence by changing the binary bsc1093414. - CVE-2019-3690: Fixed a privilege escalation through untrusted symbolic...

SUSE-SU-2019:3180-1 Security update for permissions

This update for permissions fixes the following issues: - CVE-2019-3688: Changed wrong ownership in /usr/sbin/pinger to root:squid which could have allowed a squid user to gain persistence by changing the binary bsc1093414. - CVE-2019-3690: Fixed a privilege escalation through untrusted symbolic...

Default configuration

OpenBSD 6.6, in a non-default configuration where S/Key or YubiKey authentication is enabled, allows local users to become root by leveraging membership in the auth group. This occurs because root's file can be written to /etc/skey or /var/db/yubikey, and need not be owned by root...

DRUPAL-CONTRIB-2019-078

The security team is marking this project unsupported. There is a known security issue with the project that has not been fixed by the maintainer. If you would like to maintain this project, please read:...

How Do We Bring Equality to Data Ownership and Usage?

Computational biologist Laura Boykin says scientists are “asleep at the wheel”; activist Malkia Devich-Cyril says citizens also need to pressure technology companies to change...

kernel: denial of service vector through vfio DMA mappings

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's vfio interface implementation that permits violation of the user's locked memory limit. If a device is bound to a vfio driver, such as vfio-pci, and the local attacker is administratively granted ownership of the device, it may cause a system memory exhausti...

kernel: denial of service vector through vfio DMA mappings

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's vfio interface implementation that permits violation of the user's locked memory limit. If a device is bound to a vfio driver, such as vfio-pci, and the local attacker is administratively granted ownership of the device, it may cause a system memory exhausti...

Debian DLA-1965-1 : nfs-utils security update

In the nfs-utils package, providing support files for Network File System NFS including the rpc.statd daemon, the directory /var/lib/nfs is owned by statd:nogroup. This directory contains files owned and managed by root. If statd is compromised, it can therefore trick processes running with root...

CVE-2018-13405

A vulnerability was found in the fs/inode.c:inodeinitowner function logic of the LInux kernel that allows local users to create files with an unintended group ownership and with group execution and SGID permission bits set, in a scenario where a directory is SGID and belongs to a certain group an...

[SECURITY] [DLA 1965-1] nfs-utils security update

Package : nfs-utils Version : 1.2.8-9+deb8u1 CVE ID : CVE-2019-3689 Debian Bug : 940848 In the nfs-utils package, providing support files for Network File System NFS including the rpc.statd daemon, the directory /var/lib/nfs is owned by statd:nogroup. This directory contains files owned and manag...