SUSE-SU-2019:0438-1 Security update for gvfs

This update for gvfs fixes the following issues: Security vulnerability fixed: - CVE-2019-3827: Fixed an issue whereby an unprivileged user was not prompted to give a password when acessing root owned files. bsc1125084...

postgresql: Start scripts permit database administrator to modify root-owned files

Privilege escalation flaws were found in the Red Hat initialization scripts of PostgreSQL. An attacker with access to the postgres user account could use these flaws to obtain root access on the server machine...

CVE-2017-16882

Icinga Core through 1.14.0 initially executes bin/icinga as root but supports configuration options in which this file is owned by a non-root account and similarly can have etc/icinga.cfg owned by a non-root account, which allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging access to this non-roo...

Vulnerability in contrib module (CVE-2017-12172)

Start scripts permit database administrator to modify root-owned files...

SGI IRIX <= 6.4 startmidi Vulnerabilty

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/469/info A vulnerability exists in the startmidi program from Silicon Graphics. This utility is included with Irix versions 5.x and 6.x with the Iris Digital Media Execution Environment. startmidi is setuid root, and...

OpenFabrics ibutils 1.5.7 /tmp clobbering vulnerability

OpenFabrics ibutils 1.5.7 /tmp clobbering vulnerability 3/6/2013 Larry W. Cashdollar @larry0 The infiniband diagnostic utiltiy handles files in /tmp insecurely. A malicious user can clobber root owned files with common symlink attacks. http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/ibutils/ nobody@exdb01...

OpenFabrics ibutils 1.5.7 /tmp File Clobber

OpenFabrics ibutils 1.5.7 /tmp clobbering vulnerability 3/6/2013 Larry W. Cashdollar @larry0 The infiniband diagnostic utiltiy handles files in /tmp insecurely. A malicious user can clobber root owned files with common symlink attacks. http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/ibutils/ nobody@exdb01...

Oracle Auto Service Request File Clobber

Oracle Auto Service Request software package creates files insecurely in /tmp using time stamps instead of mkstemp. You can clobber root owned files if you know when around the time the root administrator will be using this utility. larry@oracle-os-lab01 tmp$ for x in seq 500 999; do ln -s...

Another Solaris 10 Patch Cluster Symlink Attack

Larry W. Cashdollar 8/6/2012 Here is another symlink attack with temp file creation using process id in Solaris 10 patch cluster. You can over write the contents of root owned files with the contents of inetd.conf. In patches/137097-01/SUNWcsr/reloc/lib/svc/method/inetd-upgrade lines : 72...

Solaris 10 Patch 137097-01 Symlink Attack Privilege Escalation

Exploit for solaris platform in category local exploits Larry W. Cashdollar 8/6/2012 Here is another symlink attack with temp file creation using process id in Solaris 10 patch cluster. You can over write the contents of root owned files with the contents of inetd.conf. In...

jakarta-commons-daemon: jsvc does not drop capabilities allowing access to files and directories owned by the superuser

native/unix/native/jsvc-unix.c in jsvc in the Daemon component 1.0.3 through 1.0.6 in Apache Commons, as used in Apache Tomcat 5.5.32 through 5.5.33, 6.0.30 through 6.0.32, and 7.0.x before 7.0.20 on Linux, does not drop capabilities, which allows remote attackers to bypass read permissions for...

Prismstumbler 0.7.3 File Overwrite

I found a symlink vuln in this older program. Prismstumbler 0.7.3 is most often ran as root to utilize all of capabilities. Prismstumbler pst creates /tmp/.psintercom and /tmp/spotkoord.txt as default. Can be changed within preferences. srw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 2009-04-02 00:44 .psintercom...

[UNIX] Liblesstif Local Root &#40;Exploit&#41;

The following security advisory is sent to the securiteam mailing list, and can be found at the SecuriTeam web site: http://www.securiteam.com - - promotion The SecuriTeam alerts list - Free, Accurate, Independent. Get your security news from a reliable source...

Weak permissions in Etnus TotalView 5

write access to files and directories owned by root...

sol2.51-6.lockfiles.txt

Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 20:22:38 +0200 From: Joel Eriksson To: [email protected] Subject: License Manager's lockfiles Solaris 2.5.1 License Manager on Solaris 2.5.1 tends to make stupid lockfiles owned by root and mode 666 worldwrite'able. That is not good, since anyone could create rootowned...

Digital UNIX 4.04.0 B4.0 D - SUIDSGID Core File

Digital UNIX 4.04.0 B4.0 D - SUIDSGID Core File source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74/info Digital UNIX 4.0 will follow symlinks while writting core files if two setuid programs dump core in sucession. The core file is owned by root but with the user's groud id. The core file permissions a...