CVE-2019-11502

snap-confine in snapd before 2.38 incorrectly set the ownership of a snap application to the uid and gid of the first calling user. Consequently, that user had unintended access to a private /tmp directory...

CVE-2019-11502

snap-confine in snapd before 2.38 incorrectly set the ownership of a snap application to the uid and gid of the first calling user. Consequently, that user had unintended access to a private /tmp directory...

CVE-2019-11502

snap-confine in snapd before 2.38 incorrectly set the ownership of a snap application to the uid and gid of the first calling user. Consequently, that user had unintended access to a private /tmp directory...

[SECURITY] [DLA 1762-1] systemd security update

Package : systemd Version : 215-17+deb8u12 CVE ID : CVE-2017-18078 CVE-2019-3842 Two vulnerabilities have been addressed in the systemd components systemd-tmpfiles and pamsystemd.so. CVE-2017-18078 systemd-tmpfiles in systemd attempted to support ownership/permission changes on hardlinked files...

UBUNTU-CVE-2019-3882

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...

Malspam Campaigns Distribute HawkEye Keylogger, Post Ownership Change

The HawkEye malware kit and information-stealer has been spotted in a newfound slew of campaigns after a recent ownership change. While the keylogger has been in continuous development since 2013, in December a thread on a hacking site noted an ownership change, after which posts on hacking forum...

New HawkEye Reborn Variant Emerges Following Ownership Change

Edmund Brumaghin and Holger Unterbrink authored this blog post. Executive summary Malware designed to steal sensitive information has been a threat to organizations around the world for a long time. The emergence of the greyware market and the increased commercialization of keyloggers, stealers,...

Oracle Linux 6 : kernel (ELSA-2019-0717)

The remote Oracle Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2019-0717 advisory. - fs Fix up non-directory creation in SGID directories Miklos Szeredi 1600951 CVE-2018-13405 - fs hugetlbfs: switch to inodeinitowner Miklos Szeredi 1600951...

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 Virtualization 2.5.4 : systemd (EulerOS-SA-2019-1217)

According to the versions of the systemd packages installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - A flaw was found in the way systemd handled empty notification messages. A local attacker could use this flaw to make systemd...

EulerOS Virtualization 2.5.3 : systemd (EulerOS-SA-2019-1180)

According to the versions of the systemd packages installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - A flaw was found in the way systemd handled empty notification messages. A local attacker could use this flaw to make systemd...

[SECURITY] Fedora 29 Update: ntfs-3g-2017.3.23-11.fc29

NTFS-3G is a stable, open source, GPL licensed, POSIX, read/write NTFS driver for Linux and many other operating systems. It provides safe handling of the Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7 NTFS file systems. NTFS-3G can create, remove,...

Grindr Poses National Security Risk, U.S. Gov Says

UPDATE The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States CFIUS has named the ownership of popular gay dating app Grindr a national security risk, according to a report. Grindr describes itself as “the world’s largest social networking app for gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people.” A...

Linux: Duplicated UIDs

Duplicated UIDs can occur after modifying Copyright C 2019 Greenbone Networks GmbH 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-or-later This program is free software; you can redistribut...

Linux: Orphaned files or directories

If any unowned file or directory exist on the host and a new user is created, it could happen that the user gets the same UID as the unowned file or directory. This user automatically becomes the owner of such files or directories. This script tests if any orphaned file or directory exist on the...

Linux - kvm_ioctl_create_device() NULL Pointer Dereference

Linux - kvmioctlcreatedevice NULL Pointer Dereference kvmioctlcreatedevice contains the following code: dev = kzallocsizeofdev, GFPKERNEL; if !dev return -ENOMEM; dev-ops = ops; dev-kvm = kvm; mutexlock&kvm-lock; ret = ops-createdev, cd-type; if ret lock; kfreedev; return ret; listadd&dev-vmnode,...

Linux - 'kvm_ioctl_create_device()' NULL Pointer Dereference

kvmioctlcreatedevice contains the following code: dev = kzallocsizeofdev, GFPKERNEL; if !dev return -ENOMEM; dev-ops = ops; dev-kvm = kvm; mutexlock&kvm-lock; ret = ops-createdev, cd-type; if ret lock; kfreedev; return ret; listadd&dev-vmnode, &kvm-devices; mutexunlock&kvm-lock; if ops-init...

UBUNTU-CVE-2019-7304

Canonical snapd before version 2.37.1 incorrectly performed socket owner validation, allowing an attacker to run arbitrary commands as root. This issue affects: Canonical snapd versions prior to 2.37.1...

Denial Of Service (DoS)

wireshark is vulnerable to denial of service DoS attacks. The vulnerability exists as an use-after-free issue in the SDP dissector in Wireshark 1.10.x before 1.10.10 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service application crash via a crafted packet that leverages split memory ownership...

Arbitrary Code Execution

Lilibguestfs is vulnerable to arbitrary command execution. When --remote or --listen option is used for creating a temporary socket file in this directory, the ownership of /tmp/.guestfish-$UID/ is not validated properly, leading to write to the socket and execute arbitrary commands by creating...