MGASA-2019-0022 Updated coreutils packages fix security vulnerabilities

A flaw was found in GNU Coreutils through 8.29 in chown-core.c. The functions chown and chgrp do not prevent replacement of a plain file with a symlink during use of the POSIX "-R -L" options, which allows local users to modify the ownership of arbitrary files by leveraging a race condition...

Keybase: macOS privilege escalation via keybase install

Environment OS: macOS Mojave 10.14.1 Kernel: Darwin Kernel Version 18.2.0 keybase version 2.12.2-20181218171841+29273f4110 Steps to reproduce Note: All steps are executed as an unprivileged user unless otherwise noted. For this PoC the unprivileged user is defined as below $ id test2 uid=508test2...

F5 BIG-IP APM and BIG-IP APM Clients svpn elevation of privilege vulnerability

F5 BIG-IP APM and BIG-IP APM Clients are both products of F5 Corporation in the U.S. F5 BIG-IP APM is a suite of access and security solutions. the APM Client is a suite of APM client software. svpn is one of the private VPN components. An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in F5 BIG-IP...

CVE-2018-15332

The svpn component of the F5 BIG-IP APM client prior to version 7.1.7.2 for Linux and macOS runs as a privileged process and can allow an unprivileged user to get ownership of files owned by root on the local client host in a race condition...

mysql: Init script calling kill with root privileges using pid from pidfile owned by mysql user (CPU Oct 2018)

Vulnerability in the MySQL Server component of Oracle MySQL subcomponent: Client programs. Supported versions that are affected are 5.5.61 and prior, 5.6.41 and prior, 5.7.23 and prior and 8.0.12 and prior. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows high privileged attacker with logon to the...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : rpm (SUSE-SU-2018:3884-1)

This update for rpm fixes the following issues : These security issues were fixed : CVE-2017-7500: rpm did not properly handle RPM installations when a destination path was a symbolic link to a directory, possibly changing ownership and permissions of an arbitrary directory, and RPM files being...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3816-2)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 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...

Joomla! 1.7.x < 3.7.4 Multiple Vulnerabilities

According to its self-reported version number, the detected Joomla! application is affected by multiple vulnerabilities : - A security bypass vulnerability exists in the installer application due to a failure to properly check for ownership of a webspace. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can...

sssd security, bug fix, and enhancement update

1.16.2-13 - Resolves: rhbz1593756 - sssd needs to require a newer version of libtalloc and libtevent to avoid an issue in GPO processing 1.16.2-12 - Resolves: rhbz1610667 - sssdssh leaks file descriptors when more than one certificate is converted into an SSH key - Resolves: rhbz1583360 - The IPA...

F5 Networks BIG-IP : BIG-IP APM client for Linux and macOS vulnerability (K54431371)

The svpn and policyserver components of the F5 BIG-IP APM client prior to version 7.1.7.1 for Linux and macOS runs as a privileged process and can allow an unprivileged user to getownership of files owned by root on the local client host.CVE-2018-5546 Impact A malicious, local, unprivileged user...

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...

SUSE-SU-2018:3572-1 Security update for apache2-mod_nss

This update for apache2-modnss fixes the following issues: Due to the update of mozilla-nss apache2-modnss needs to be updated to change to the SQLite certificate database, which is now the default bsc1108771. Because of that this update is tagged as security, to reach customers that only install...

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...

systemd - chown_one() Dereference Symlinks

systemd - chownone Dereference Symlinks I am sending this bug report to Ubuntu, even though it's an upstream bug, as requested at https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/master/docs/CONTRIBUTING.mdsecurity-vulnerability-reports . When chownone in the recursive chown logic decides that it has to...

systemd - chown_one() can Dereference Symlinks Exploit

Exploit for linux platform in category dos / poc I am sending this bug report to Ubuntu, even though it's an upstream bug, as requested at https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/master/docs/CONTRIBUTING.mdsecurity-vulnerability-reports . When chownone in the recursive chown logic decides that it...

systemd - 'chown_one()' Dereference Symlinks

I am sending this bug report to Ubuntu, even though it's an upstream bug, as requested at https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/master/docs/CONTRIBUTING.mdsecurity-vulnerability-reports . When chownone in the recursive chown logic decides that it has to change ownership of a directory entry, it...

Linux systemd Symlink Dereference Via chown_one() Exploit

Linux suffers from an issue with systemd where chownone can dereference symlinks. systemd: chownone can dereference symlinks CVE-2018-15687 I am sending this bug report to Ubuntu, even though it's an upstream bug, as requested at...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : rpm (SUSE-SU-2018:3286-1)

This update for rpm fixes the following issues : These security issues were fixed : CVE-2017-7500: rpm did not properly handle RPM installations when a destination path was a symbolic link to a directory, possibly changing ownership and permissions of an arbitrary directory, and RPM files being...

GHSA-XX65-CC7G-9PFP Moderate severity vulnerability that affects org.springframework.boot:spring-boot

Spring Boot supports an embedded launch script that can be used to easily run the application as a systemd or init.d linux service. The script included with Spring Boot 1.5.9 and earlier and 2.0.0.M1 through 2.0.0.M7 is susceptible to a symlink attack which allows the "runuser" to overwrite and...

Moderate severity vulnerability that affects org.springframework.boot:spring-boot

Spring Boot supports an embedded launch script that can be used to easily run the application as a systemd or init.d linux service. The script included with Spring Boot 1.5.9 and earlier and 2.0.0.M1 through 2.0.0.M7 is susceptible to a symlink attack which allows the "runuser" to overwrite and...