CVE-2012-4845: Undefined Security Weakness

The FTP client in IBM AIX 6.1 and 7.1, and VIOS 2.2.1.4-FP-25 SP-02, does not properly manage privileges in an RBAC environment, which allows attackers to bypass intended file-read restrictions by leveraging the setuid installation of the ftp executable file...

[USN-1576-1] DBus vulnerability

========================================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1576-1 September 20, 2012 dbus vulnerability ========================================================================== A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: -...

libgssglue: Privilege escalation

Background libgssglue exports a GSSAPI interface which calls other random GSSAPI libraries. Description libgssglue does not securely use getenv when loading a library for a setuid application. Impact A local attacker could gain escalated privileges. Workaround There is no known workaround at this...

GLSA-201209-22 : libgssglue: Privilege escalation

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201209-22 libgssglue: Privilege escalation libgssglue does not securely use getenv when loading a library for a setuid application. Impact : A local attacker could gain escalated privileges. Workaround : There is no known workarou...

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS / 10.04 LTS / 11.04 / 11.10 / 12.04 LTS : dbus vulnerability (USN-1576-1)

Sebastian Krahmer discovered that DBus incorrectly handled environment variables when running with elevated privileges. A local attacker could possibly exploit this flaw with a setuid binary and gain root privileges. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block...

Code injection

libgio, when used in setuid or other privileged programs in spice-gtk and possibly other products, allows local users to gain privileges and execute arbitrary code via the DBUSSYSTEMBUSADDRESS environment variable. NOTE: it could be argued that this is a vulnerability in the applications that do...

CVE-2012-4425

libgio, when used in setuid or other privileged programs in spice-gtk and possibly other products, allows local users to gain privileges and execute arbitrary code via the DBUSSYSTEMBUSADDRESS environment variable. NOTE: it could be argued that this is a vulnerability in the applications that do...

DEBIAN-CVE-2012-3524

libdbus 1.5.x and earlier, when used in setuid or other privileged programs in X.org and possibly other products, allows local users to gain privileges and execute arbitrary code via the DBUSSYSTEMBUSADDRESS environment variable. NOTE: libdbus maintainers state that this is a vulnerability in the...

CVE-2012-4425

libgio, when used in setuid or other privileged programs in spice-gtk and possibly other products, allows local users to gain privileges and execute arbitrary code via the DBUSSYSTEMBUSADDRESS environment variable. NOTE: it could be argued that this is a vulnerability in the applications that do...

CVE-2012-4425

The CVE affects spice-gtk (and possibly other products) where libgio is used in setuid/privileged contexts. The root cause is inadequate sanitization of the DBUS_SYSTEM_BUS_ADDRESS environment variable, enabling a local attacker to gain escalated privileges and execute arbitrary code. Evidence in...

CVE-2012-3524

CVE-2012-3524 affects libdbus 1.5.x and earlier when used in setuid/privileged programs; it permits local privilege escalation via the DBUS_SYSTEM_BUS_ADDRESS environment variable. Mitigation per the advisories is that the vulnerability lies in applications that fail to cleanse environment variab...

Kloxo Local Privilege Escalation

Version 6.1.12 and earlier of Kloxo contain two setuid root binaries such as lxsuexec and lxrestart, allow local privilege escalation to root from uid 48, Apache by default on CentOS 5.8, the operating system supported by Kloxo. This module has been tested successfully with Kloxo 6.1.12 and 6.1.6...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: spice-gtk security update

Updated spice-gtk packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is...

CentOS Update for dbus CESA-2012:1261 centos6

Check for the Version of dbus OpenVAS Vulnerability Test CentOS Update for dbus CESA-2012:1261 centos6 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 the...

dbus: privilege escalation when libdbus is used in setuid/setgid application

libdbus 1.5.x and earlier, when used in setuid or other privileged programs in X.org and possibly other products, allows local users to gain privileges and execute arbitrary code via the DBUSSYSTEMBUSADDRESS environment variable. NOTE: libdbus maintainers state that this is a vulnerability in the...

Slackware: Security Advisory (SSA:2008-116-01)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2012 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...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : glibc (MDKSA-2000:045-1)

A bug was discovered in ld.so that could allow local users to obtain root privileges. The dynamic loader, ld.so, is responsible for making shared libraries available within a program at run-time. Normally, a user is allowed to load additional shared libraries when executing a program; they can be...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : glibc (MDKSA-2000:040)

A bug was discovered in ld.so that could allow local users to obtain root privileges. The dynamic loader, ld.so, is responsible for making shared libraries available within a program at run-time. Normally, a user is allowed to load additional shared libraries when executing a program; they can be...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL5.x i386/x86_64

This update fixes the following security issues : - a logic error was found in the dosetlk function of the Linux kernel Network File System NFS implementation. If a signal interrupted a lock request, the local POSIX lock was incorrectly created. This could cause a denial of service on the NFS...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL3.x i386/x86_64

CVE-2008-5029 kernel: Unix sockets kernel panic CVE-2008-5300 kernel: fix soft lockups/OOM issues with unix socket garbage collector CVE-2009-1337 kernel: exitnotify: kill the wrong capableCAPKILL check CVE-2009-1385 kernel: e1000cleanrxirq denial of service CVE-2009-1895 kernel: personality: fix...