CVE-2008-4018

swcons in bos.rte.console in IBM AIX 5.2.0 through 6.1.1 allows local users in the system group to create or overwrite an arbitrary file, and establish weak permissions and root ownership for this file, via unspecified vectors. NOTE: this can be leveraged to gain privileges. NOTE: this issue exis...

DEBIAN-CVE-2008-3970

pammount 0.10 through 0.45, when luserconf is enabled, does not verify mountpoint and source ownership before mounting a user-defined volume, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions via a local mount...

Design/Logic Flaw

swcons in bos.rte.console in IBM AIX 5.2.0 through 6.1.1 allows local users in the system group to create or overwrite an arbitrary file, and establish weak permissions and root ownership for this file, via unspecified vectors. NOTE: this can be leveraged to gain privileges. NOTE: this issue exis...

Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-1629-2)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2008 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...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 1629-1 (postfix)

The remote host is missing an update to postfix announced via advisory DSA 1629-1. This VT has been deprecated and merged into the VT SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2008 E-Soft Inc. Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders...

CVE-2008-3856

The routine infrastructure component in IBM DB2 8 before FP17, 9.1 before FP5, and 9.5 before FP1 on Unix and Linux does not change the ownership of the db2fmp process, which has unknown impact and attack vectors...

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 7.04 / 7.10 / 8.04 LTS : postfix vulnerability (USN-636-1)

Sebastian Krahmer discovered that Postfix was not correctly handling mailbox ownership when dealing with Linux's implementation of hardlinking to symlinks. In certain mail spool configurations, a local attacker could exploit this to append data to arbitrary files as the root user. The default...

openSUSE 10 Security Update : postfix (postfix-5501)

A local privilege escalation vulnerability as well as a mailbox ownership problem has been fixed in postfix. CVE-2008-2936 and CVE-2008-2937 have been assigned to this problem. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extract...

SuSE 10 Security Update : Postfix (ZYPP Patch Number 5500)

A local privilege escalation vulnerability as well as a mailbox ownership problem has been fixed in postfix. CVE-2008-2936 / CVE-2008-2937 have been assigned to this problem. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc...

Code injection

verifydb in Ingres 2.6, Ingres 2006 release 1 aka 9.0.4, and Ingres 2006 release 2 aka 9.1.0 on Linux and other Unix platforms sets the ownership or permissions of an iivdb.log file without verifying that it is the application's own log file, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files ...

CVE-2008-3356

CVE-2008-3356 affects Ingres products (notably verifydb in Ingres 2.6 and Ingres 2006 Release 1/2) on Linux/Unix. The issue arises when verifydb sets ownership/permissions of iivdb.log without confirming it is the application log, allowing a local attacker to overwrite arbitrary files by creating...

CVE-2008-3294

src/configure.in in Vim 5.0 through 7.1, when used for a build with Python support, does not ensure that the Makefile-conf temporary file has the intended ownership and permissions, which allows local users to execute arbitrary code by modifying this file during a time window, or by creating it...

Linux Kernel 2.6.x chown() Group Ownership Alteration Exploit

No description provided by source. / $Id: raptorchown.c,v 1.1 2004/12/04 14:44:38 raptor Exp $ raptorchown.c - syschown missing DAC controls on Linux Copyright c 2004 Marco Ivaldi [email protected] Unknown vulnerability in Linux kernel 2.x may allow local users to modify the group ID of file...

Issue with core dump owner

The docoredump function in fs/exec.c in Linux kernel 2.4.x and 2.6.x up to 2.6.24-rc3, and possibly other versions, does not change the UID of a core dump file if it exists before a root process creates a core dump in the same location, which might allow local users to obtain sensitive informatio...

Race condition

suPHP before 0.6.3 allows local users to gain privileges via 1 a race condition that involves multiple symlink changes to point a file owned by a different user, or 2 a symlink to the directory of a different user, which is used to determine privileges...

postfix-policyd-weight -- working directory symlink vulnerability

postfix-policyd-weight does not check for symlink for its working directory. If the working directory is not already setup by the super root, an unprivileged user can link it to another directories in the system. This results in ownership/permission changes on the target directory...

Fedora 8 : kronolith-2.1.7-1.fc8 (2008-2221)

Fix privilege escalation in Horde API. Fix missing ownership validation on share changes. 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...

Fedora 7 : kronolith-2.1.7-1.fc7 (2008-2212)

Fix privilege escalation in Horde API. Fix missing ownership validation on share changes. 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...

USN-578-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

The minix filesystem did not properly validate certain filesystem values. If a local attacker could trick the system into attempting to mount a corrupted minix filesystem, the kernel could be made to hang for long periods of time, resulting in a denial of service. CVE-2006-6058 Alexander Schulze...

SuSE 10 Security Update : Geronimo (ZYPP Patch Number 4967)

A chown in the geronimo init script could change ownership of directories it did not own, due to following symlinks. The default setup would corrupt /var/tmp on start. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc...