AIX 5.2 TL 0 : swcons (IZ18335)

A file permission/ownership vulnerability exists in the 'bos.rte.console' fileset command listed below whereby a local attacker may create arbitrary contents within a file owned by root using the 'swcons' command. The local attacker must be a member of the 'system' group gid=0 to execute this...

AIX 5.3 TL 7 : swcons (IZ18338)

A file permission/ownership vulnerability exists in the 'bos.rte.console' fileset command listed below whereby a local attacker may create arbitrary contents within a file owned by root using the 'swcons' command. The local attacker must be a member of the 'system' group gid=0 to execute this...

AIX 5.3 TL 0 : swcons (IZ18339)

A file permission/ownership vulnerability exists in the 'bos.rte.console' fileset command listed below whereby a local attacker may create arbitrary contents within a file owned by root using the 'swcons' command. The local attacker must be a member of the 'system' group gid=0 to execute this...

Fedora 17 : inkscape-0.48.4-1.fc17 (2012-20620)

Fix XXE flaw, man page ownership. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 ...

Fedora 16 : inkscape-0.48.4-1.fc16 (2012-20621)

Fix XXE flaw, man page ownership. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 ...

Fedora 18 : inkscape-0.48.4-1.fc18 (2012-20643)

Fix XXE flaw, man page ownership. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 ...

Privacy Protests Cause Instagram to Rethink Changes

Instagram cofounder Kevin Systrom responded to a firestorm of protests from users of the photo-sharing social network’s proposed terms of service changes that could impact the privacy of its users. Systrom blamed confusing legal jargon for the misunderstanding and said Instagram would not be...

Fedora 18 : zabbix-2.0.3-7.fc18 (2012-19521)

The logrotate configuration file now uses the su directive to specify the user and group name for log rotation. /var/run/zabbix is no longer owned by the package, systemd takes care of that. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora...

CVE-2012-3317

IBM WebSphere Message Broker 6.1 before 6.1.0.11, 7.0 before 7.0.0.5, and 8.0 before 8.0.0.2 has incorrect ownership of certain uninstaller Java Runtime Environment JRE files, which might allow local users to gain privileges by leveraging access to uid 501 or gid 300...

Buffer overflow

IBM WebSphere Message Broker 6.1 before 6.1.0.11, 7.0 before 7.0.0.5, and 8.0 before 8.0.0.2 has incorrect ownership of certain uninstaller Java Runtime Environment JRE files, which might allow local users to gain privileges by leveraging access to uid 501 or gid 300...

CVE-2012-3317

IBM WebSphere Message Broker 6.1 before 6.1.0.11, 7.0 before 7.0.0.5, and 8.0 before 8.0.0.2 has incorrect ownership of certain uninstaller Java Runtime Environment JRE files, which might allow local users to gain privileges by leveraging access to uid 501 or gid 300...

CVE-2012-3484

Tunnelblick 3.3beta20 and earlier relies on a test for specific ownership and permissions to determine whether a program can be safely executed, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions and gain privileges via a 1 user-mountable image or 2 network share...

CVE-2012-3484

Tunnelblick 3.3beta20 and earlier relies on a test for specific ownership and permissions to determine whether a program can be safely executed, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions and gain privileges via a 1 user-mountable image or 2 network share...

Scientific Linux Security Update : xterm on SL4.x i386/x86_64

A bug was found in the way xterm packages were built that caused the pseudo-terminal device files of the xterm emulated terminals to be owned by the incorrect group. This flaw did not affect Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Update 4 and earlier. CVE-2007-2797 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network...

Scientific Linux Security Update : dovecot on SL5.x i386/x86_64

A flaw was found in Dovecot's ACL plug-in. The ACL plug-in treated negative access rights as positive rights, which could allow an attacker to bypass intended access restrictions. CVE-2008-4577 A password disclosure flaw was found with Dovecot's configuration file. If a system had the...

Scientific Linux Security Update : pam on SL4.x i386/x86_64

A flaw was found in the way pamconsole set console device permissions. It was possible for various console devices to retain ownership of the console user after logging out, possibly leaking information to another local user. CVE-2007-1716 A flaw was found in the way the PAM library wrote account...

Samba 3.x < 3.4.17 / 3.5.15 / 3.6.5 Security Bypass

According to its banner, the version of Samba 3.x running on the remote host is earlier than 3.4.17 / 3.5.15 / 3.6.5, and as such, is potentially affected by a security bypass vulnerability. Authenticated users are able to modify ownership of files and directories that the user does not own...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: samba and samba3x security update

Updated samba3x and samba packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6 respectively. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a...

samba: Incorrect permission checks when granting/removing privileges

The 1 CreateAccount, 2 OpenAccount, 3 AddAccountRights, and 4 RemoveAccountRights LSA RPC procedures in smbd in Samba 3.4.x before 3.4.17, 3.5.x before 3.5.15, and 3.6.x before 3.6.5 do not properly restrict modifications to the privileges database, which allows remote authenticated users to obta...

DEBIAN-CVE-2012-2111

The 1 CreateAccount, 2 OpenAccount, 3 AddAccountRights, and 4 RemoveAccountRights LSA RPC procedures in smbd in Samba 3.4.x before 3.4.17, 3.5.x before 3.5.15, and 3.6.x before 3.6.5 do not properly restrict modifications to the privileges database, which allows remote authenticated users to obta...