GLSA-201406-01 : D-Bus, GLib: Privilege escalation

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201406-01 D-Bus, GLib: Privilege escalation When libdbus is used in a setuid program, a user can gain escalated privileges by leveraging the DBUSSYSTEMBUSADDRESS variable. GLib can be used in a setuid context with D-Bus, and so ca...

D-Bus, GLib: Privilege escalation

Background D-Bus is a daemon providing a framework for applications to communicate with one another. GLib is a library providing a number of GNOME’s core objects and functions. Description When libdbus is used in a setuid program, a user can gain escalated privileges by leveraging the...

Linux Kernel 3.2.0-23/3.5.0-23 (Ubuntu 12.04/12.04.1/12.04.2 x64) - 'perf_swevent_init' Local Privilege Escalation (3)

/ Ubuntu 12.04 3.x x8664 perfsweventinit Local root exploit by Vitaly Nikolenko [email protected] based on semtex.c by sd Supported targets: 0 Ubuntu 12.04.0 - 3.2.0-23-generic 1 Ubuntu 12.04.1 - 3.2.0-29-generic 2 Ubuntu 12.04.2 - 3.5.0-23-generic $ gcc vnik.c -O2 -o vnik $ uname -r...

DEBIAN-CVE-2014-0240

The modwsgi module before 3.5 for Apache, when daemon mode is enabled, does not properly handle error codes returned by setuid when run on certain Linux kernels, which allows local users to gain privileges via vectors related to the number of running processes...

USN-2222-1 mod-wsgi vulnerabilities

Róbert Kisteleki discovered modwsgi incorrectly checked setuid return values. A malicious application could use this issue to cause a local privilege escalation when using daemon mode. CVE-2014-0240 Buck Golemon discovered that modwsgi used memory that had been freed. A remote attacker could use...

CVE-2014-0240

The modwsgi module before 3.5 for Apache, when daemon mode is enabled, does not properly handle error codes returned by setuid when run on certain Linux kernels, which allows local users to gain privileges via vectors related to the number of running processes...

FreeBSD : libXfont -- X Font Service Protocol and Font metadata file handling issues (b060ee50-daba-11e3-99f2-bcaec565249c)

Alan Coopersmith reports : Ilja van Sprundel, a security researcher with IOActive, has discovered several issues in the way the libXfont library handles the responses it receives from xfs servers, and has worked with X.Org's security team to analyze, confirm, and fix these issues. Most of these...

libXfont -- X Font Service Protocol and Font metadata file handling issues

Alan Coopersmith reports: Ilja van Sprundel, a security researcher with IOActive, has discovered several issues in the way the libXfont library handles the responses it receives from xfs servers, and has worked with X.Org's security team to analyze, confirm, and fix these issues. Most of these...

CVE-2014-3215

seunshare in policycoreutils 2.2.5 is owned by root with 4755 permissions, and executes programs in a way that changes the relationship between the setuid system call and the getresuid saved set-user-ID value, which makes it easier for local users to gain privileges by leveraging a program that...

CVE-2014-3215

seunshare in policycoreutils 2.2.5 is owned by root with 4755 permissions, and executes programs in a way that changes the relationship between the setuid system call and the getresuid saved set-user-ID value, which makes it easier for local users to gain privileges by leveraging a program that...

CVE-2014-3215

seunshare in policycoreutils 2.2.5 is owned by root with 4755 permissions, and executes programs in a way that changes the relationship between the setuid system call and the getresuid saved set-user-ID value, which makes it easier for local users to gain privileges by leveraging a program that...

Privilege escalation via Super

setuid return value is not checked...

CVE-2014-0470

super.c in Super 3.30.0 does not check the return value of the setuid function when the -F flag is set, which allows local users to gain privileges via unspecified vectors, aka an RLIMITNPROC attack...

CVE-2014-0470

super.c in Super 3.30.0 does not check the return value of the setuid function when the -F flag is set, which allows local users to gain privileges via unspecified vectors, aka an RLIMITNPROC attack...

DEBIAN-CVE-2014-0470

super.c in Super 3.30.0 does not check the return value of the setuid function when the -F flag is set, which allows local users to gain privileges via unspecified vectors, aka an RLIMITNPROC attack...

UBUNTU-CVE-2014-0470

super.c in Super 3.30.0 does not check the return value of the setuid function when the -F flag is set, which allows local users to gain privileges via unspecified vectors, aka an RLIMITNPROC attack...

Code injection

super.c in Super 3.30.0 does not check the return value of the setuid function when the -F flag is set, which allows local users to gain privileges via unspecified vectors, aka an RLIMITNPROC attack...

CVE-2014-0470

super.c in Super 3.30.0 does not check the return value of the setuid function when the -F flag is set, which allows local users to gain privileges via unspecified vectors, aka an RLIMITNPROC attack...

CVE-2014-0470

CVE-2014-0470 affects the Super package (version 3.30.0) where the setuid() return value is not checked when the -F flag is used, enabling local privilege escalation via an RLIMIT_NPROC scenario. Root cause: failure to verify setuid() result. Public references (e.g., Debian security advisory DSA-...

CVE-2014-0470

super.c in Super 3.30.0 does not check the return value of the setuid function when the -F flag is set, which allows local users to gain privileges via unspecified vectors, aka an RLIMITNPROC attack...