SUSE CVE-2020-35766

The test suite in libopendkim in OpenDKIM through 2.10.3 allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack against the /tmp/testkeys file related to t-testdata.h, t-setup.c, and t-cleanup.c. NOTE: this is applicable to persons who choose to engage in the "A number of self-test programs a...

SUSE CVE-2021-23240

selinuxeditcopytfiles in sudoedit in Sudo before 1.9.5 allows a local unprivileged user to gain file ownership and escalate privileges by replacing a temporary file with a symlink to an arbitrary file target. This affects SELinux RBAC support in permissive mode. Machines without SELinux are not...

SUSE CVE-2021-26720

avahi-daemon-check-dns.sh in the Debian avahi package through 0.8-4 is executed as root via /etc/network/if-up.d/avahi-daemon, and allows a local attacker to cause a denial of service or create arbitrary empty files via a symlink attack on files under /run/avahi-daemon. NOTE: this only affects th...

SUSE CVE-2021-31154

pleaseedit in please before 0.4 uses predictable temporary filenames in /tmp and the target directory. This allows a local attacker to gain full root privileges by staging a symlink attack...

SUSE CVE-2021-36983

replay-sorcery-kms in Replay Sorcery 0.6.0 allows a local attacker to gain root privileges via a symlink attack on /tmp/replay-sorcery or /tmp/replay-sorcery/device.sock...

Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in Node.js affects IBM Process Mining (CVE-2019-5484)

Summary There is a vulnerability in Node.js that could allow a local attacker to launch a symlink attack. The code is used by IBM Process Mining. This bulletin identifies the security fixes to apply to address the vulnerability. Vulnerability Details CVEID:CVE-2019-5484 DESCRIPTION: Node.js bower...

Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in jackson-databind affects IBM Process Mining (Multiple CVEs)

Summary There is a vulnerability in jackson-databind that could allow a local attacker to launch a symlink attack. The code is used by IBM Process Mining. This bulletin identifies the security fixes to apply to address the vulnerability. Vulnerability Details CVEID:CVE-2020-36182 DESCRIPTION:...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-5261-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 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...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-5169-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 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...

USN-5745-2: shadow regression | Cloud Foundry

usn-5745-2 Severity Unknown Vendor Canonical Ubuntu Versions Affected Canonical Ubuntu 16.04 Canonical Ubuntu 18.04 Description USN-5745-1 fixed vulnerabilities in shadow. Unfortunately that update introduced a regression that caused useradd to behave incorrectly in Ubuntu 14.04 ESM, Ubuntu 16.04...

Experts Detail Chromium Browser Security Flaw Putting Confidential Data at Risk

Details have emerged about a now-patched vulnerability in Google Chrome and Chromium-based browsers that, if successfully exploited, could have made it possible to siphon files containing confidential data. "The issue arose from the way the browser interacted with symlinks when processing files a...

Fedora 36 : binwalk (2022-3727f00e4b)

The remote Fedora 36 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2022-3727f00e4b advisory. Security fix for CVE-2021-4287 Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Note that Nessus ha...

CVE-2009-1143

A vulnerability was found in open-vm-tools. This flaw allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions on mounting shares via a symlink attack that leverages a realpath race condition in mount.vmhgfs aka hgfsmounter...

CVE-2009-1142

A vulnerability was found in open-vm-tools. This flaw allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack on /tmp files if the vmware-user-suid-wrapper is the setuid root and the ChmodChownDirectory function is enabled...

curl: curl file writing susceptible to symlink attacks

Summary: If curl command is used to download a file with predictable file name to a world writable directory such as /tmp, a local attacker is able to mount a symlink attack to either A redirect the target file writing to another file writable by the user or B replace the downloaded file contents...

Ubuntu Server snap-confine must_mkdir_and_open_with_perms() Race Condition Vulnerability

Qualys discovered a race condition CVE-2022-3328 in snap-confine, a SUID-root program installed by default on Ubuntu. In this advisory,they tell the story of this vulnerability which was introduced in February 2022 by the patch for CVE-2021-44731 and detail how they exploited it in Ubuntu Server ...

Linux flaws could be chained together to achieve root access

Threat Level Vulnerability Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary Two vulnerabilities CVE-2022-41974 and CVE-2022-41973 can either be exploited individually or in combination to lead to local privilege escalation, the first potentially causing a symlink attack a...

USN-5745-1: shadow vulnerability | Cloud Foundry

Severity Low Vendor Canonical Ubuntu Versions Affected Canonical Ubuntu 16.04 Canonical Ubuntu 18.04 Canonical Ubuntu 22.04 Description Florian Weimer discovered that shadow was not properly copying and removing user directory trees, which could lead to a race condition. A local attacker could...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-5745-2)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 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...

USN-5745-2: shadow regression

USN-5745-1 fixed vulnerabilities in shadow. Unfortunately that update introduced a regression that caused useradd to behave incorrectly in Ubuntu 14.04 ESM, Ubuntu 16.04 ESM, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. This update reverts the security fix pending further investigation. We apologize fo...