UBUNTU-CVE-2013-6889

GNU Rush 1.7 does not properly drop privileges, which allows local users to read arbitrary files via the --lint option...

CVE-2013-6889

GNU Rush 1.7 is affected by a privilege handling flaw in which the process fails to drop privileges, allowing local users to read arbitrary files through the --lint option. The vulnerability stems from improper privilege separation in the affected binary, enabling a local attacker to access sensi...

RedHat Update for krb5-appl RHSA-2011:0920-01

Check for the Version of krb5-appl OpenVAS Vulnerability Test RedHat Update for krb5-appl RHSA-2011:0920-01 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2012 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under t...

DEBIAN-CVE-2010-3431

The privilege-dropping implementation in the 1 pamenv and 2 pammail modules in Linux-PAM aka pam 1.1.2 does not check the return value of the setfsuid system call, which might allow local users to obtain sensitive information by leveraging an unintended uid, as demonstrated by a symlink attack on...

DEBIAN-CVE-2010-3430

The privilege-dropping implementation in the 1 pamenv and 2 pammail modules in Linux-PAM aka pam 1.1.2 does not perform the required setfsgid and setgroups system calls, which might allow local users to obtain sensitive information by leveraging unintended group permissions, as demonstrated by a...

Fedora 9 : dnsmasq-2.45-1.fc9 (2009-1069)

Update to newer upstream version - 2.45. Version of dnsmasq previously shipped in Fedora 9 did not properly drop privileges, causing it to run as root instead of intended user nobody. Issue was caused by a bug in kernel-headers used in build environment of the original packages. 454415 New upstre...

Improper Input Validation

Overview Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Input Validation. The padroproot function in PulseAudio 0.9.8, and a certain 0.9.9 build, does not check return values from 1 setresuid, 2 setreuid, 3 setuid, and 4 seteuid calls when attempting to drop privileges, which might...

DEBIAN-CVE-2008-0008

The padroproot function in PulseAudio 0.9.8, and a certain 0.9.9 build, does not check return values from 1 setresuid, 2 setreuid, 3 setuid, and 4 seteuid calls when attempting to drop privileges, which might allow local users to gain privileges by causing those calls to fail via attacks such as...

tcpdump security and bug fix update

3.8.2-12.el4 - fix buffer overflow in BGP dissector 250293, CVE-2007-3798 3.8.2-11.el4 - fix buffer overflow in 802.11 printer 232519, CVE-2007-1218 - fix return codes in arpwatch init script 237780 - with -C option, drop root privileges before opening first savefile 214377...

DEBIAN-CVE-2005-0072

zhcon before 0.2 does not drop privileges before reading a user configuration file, which allows local users to read arbitrary files...

Cherokee Web Server Port Bind Privilege Drop Weakness

The remote host is running Cherokee - a fast and tiny web server. The remote version of this software is vulnerable to remote command execution due to a lack of web requests sanitization, especially shell metacharacters. Additionally, this version fails to drop root privileges after it binds to...

Debian DSA-056-1 : man-db - local file overwrite

Ethan Benson found a bug in man-db packages as distributed in Debian GNU/Linux 2.2. man-db includes a mandb tool which is used to build an index of the manual pages installed on a system. When the -u or -c option were given on the command-line to tell it to write its database to a different...

RHEL 2.1 : tcpdump (RHSA-2003:151)

Updated tcpdump packages that fix an infinite loop vulnerability and drop privileges on startup are now available. Tcpdump is a command-line tool for monitoring network traffic. A vulnerability exists in tcpdump before 3.7.2 and is related to an inability to handle unknown RADIUS attributes...

DEBIAN-CVE-2003-0489

tcptraceroute 1.4 and earlier does not fully drop privileges after obtaining a file descriptor for capturing packets, which may allow local users to gain access to the descriptor via a separate vulnerability in tcptraceroute...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: tcpdump security update

Updated tcpdump packages that fix an infinite loop vulnerability and drop privileges on startup are now available. Tcpdump is a command-line tool for monitoring network traffic. A vulnerability exists in tcpdump before 3.7.2 and is related to an inability to handle unknown RADIUS attributes...

DEBIAN-CVE-2002-1311

Courier sqwebmail before 0.40.0 does not quickly drop privileges after startup in certain cases, which could allow local users to read arbitrary files...

perl getpwuid problem

Getpwuid call doesn't clode /etc/shadow, it leaves the possibility to access file descriptor after privelege are dropped...

FreeBSD ktrace problem

It's possible to obtain sensitive data from suid process's memory after dropping privileges...

procmail heap overflow

hi, i found a heap overflow in procmail up until latest some time ago. flatline@intra:/usr/bin$ ls -la procmail -rwsr-xr-x 1 root mail 64344 Jun 3 2001 procmail flatline@intra:/usr/bin$ ./procmail perl -e 'print "A"x10240'=A procmail: Exceeded LINEBUF Segmentation fault flatline@intra:/usr/bin$ a...

CVE-1999-1326

wu-ftpd 2.4 FTP server does not properly drop privileges when an ABOR abort file transfer command is executed during a file transfer, which causes a signal to be handled incorrectly and allows local and possibly remote attackers to read arbitrary files...