FreeBSD 4.x,NetBSD 1.4.x/1.5.x/1.6,OpenBSD 3 pppd Arbitrary File Permission Modification Race Condition

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5355/info A vulnerability has been reported in some versions of the pppd daemon included with multiple BSD distributions. A race condition error in the code may result in the pppd process changing the file permissions on ...

CVE-2011-3870: Improper Link Resolution Before File Access

Puppet 2.7.x before 2.7.5, 2.6.x before 2.6.11, and 0.25.x allows local users to modify the permissions of arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the SSH authorizedkeys file...

CVE-2009-3289

The gfilecopy function in glib 2.0 sets the permissions of a target file to the permissions of a symbolic link 777, which allows user-assisted local users to modify files of other users, as demonstrated by using Nautilus to modify the permissions of the user home directory...

CVE-2009-0806: Undefined Security Weakness

Unspecified vulnerability in OpenGoo before 1.2.1 allows remote authenticated users to modify their own permissions via unknown attack vectors...

DEBIAN-CVE-2008-2827

The rmtree function in lib/File/Path.pm in Perl 5.10 does not properly check permissions before performing a chmod, which allows local users to modify the permissions of arbitrary files via a symlink attack, a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-0448 and CVE-2004-0452...

CVE-2008-2827: Undefined Security Weakness

The rmtree function in lib/File/Path.pm in Perl 5.10 does not properly check permissions before performing a chmod, which allows local users to modify the permissions of arbitrary files via a symlink attack, a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-0448 and CVE-2004-0452...

CentOS 3 / 4 : cpio (CESA-2005:378)

An updated cpio package that fixes multiple issues is now available. This update has been rated as having low security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. GNU cpio copies files into or out of a cpio or tar archive. A race condition bug was found in cpio. It is possible for a local...

CVE-2006-1892

CVE-2006-1892 affects Avast! 4 Linux Home Edition 1.0.5. A local attacker can exploit a symlink in the temporary directory /tmp/avast4 to modify permissions of arbitrary files. The root cause is a symlink-attack vulnerability in the handling of the /tmp/avast4 directory, enabling local privilege ...

CVE-2005-3321: Undefined Security Weakness

chkstat in SuSE Linux 9.0 through 10.0 allows local users to modify permissions of files by creating a hardlink to a file from a world-writable directory, which can cause the link count to drop to 1 when the file is deleted or replaced, which is then modified by chkstat to use weaker permissions...

Low: Red Hat Security Advisory: cpio security update

An updated cpio package that fixes multiple issues is now available. This update has been rated as having low security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. GNU cpio copies files into or out of a cpio or tar archive. A race condition bug was found in cpio. It is possible for a local...

CVE-2005-1111

Race condition in cpio 2.6 and earlier allows local users to modify permissions of arbitrary files via a hard link attack on a file while it is being decompressed, whose permissions are changed by cpio after the decompression is complete...

CVE-2005-1039

Race condition in Core Utilities coreutils 5.2.1, when 1 mkdir, 2 mknod, or 3 mkfifo is running with the -m switch, allows local users to modify permissions of other files...

CVE-2005-1111: Improper Link Resolution Before File Access

Race condition in cpio 2.6 and earlier allows local users to modify permissions of arbitrary files via a hard link attack on a file while it is being decompressed, whose permissions are changed by cpio after the decompression is complete...

CVE-2005-1039

CVE-2005-1039 describes a race condition in Core Utilities (coreutils) 5.2.1. When running mkdir, mknod, or mkfifo with the -m switch, local users can modify permissions of other files. Connected sources (Red Hat, Ubuntu, Debian, OSV, NVD, etc.) reiterate the same description. The provided docume...

CVE-2005-1039: Undefined Security Weakness

Race condition in Core Utilities coreutils 5.2.1, when 1 mkdir, 2 mknod, or 3 mkfifo is running with the -m switch, allows local users to modify permissions of other files...

CVE-2005-0988: Undefined Security Weakness

Race condition in gzip 1.2.4, 1.3.3, and earlier, when decompressing a gzipped file, allows local users to modify permissions of arbitrary files via a hard link attack on a file while it is being decompressed, whose permissions are changed by gzip after the decompression is complete...

CVE-2005-0953: Undefined Security Weakness

Race condition in bzip2 1.0.2 and earlier allows local users to modify permissions of arbitrary files via a hard link attack on a file while it is being decompressed, whose permissions are changed by bzip2 after the decompression is complete...