CVE-2020-10737

A race condition was found in the mkhomedir tool shipped with the oddjob package in versions before 0.34.5 and 0.34.6 wherein, during the home creation, mkhomedir copies the /etc/skel directory into the newly created home and changes its ownership to the home's user without properly checking the...

CVE-2020-10737

A race condition was found in the mkhomedir tool shipped with the oddjob package in versions before 0.34.5 and 0.34.6 wherein, during the home creation, mkhomedir copies the /etc/skel directory into the newly created home and changes its ownership to the home's user without properly checking the...

CVE-2020-10737

A race condition was found in the mkhomedir tool shipped with the oddjob package. During the home creation, mkhomedir copies the /etc/skel directory into the newly created home and changes its ownership to the home's user without properly checking the homedir path. This flaw allows an attacker to...

CVE-2020-8831

Apport creates a world writable lock file with root ownership in the world writable /var/lock/apport directory. If the apport/ directory does not exist this is not uncommon as /var/lock is a tmpfs, it will create the directory, otherwise it will simply continue execution using the existing...

Design/Logic Flaw

Apport creates a world writable lock file with root ownership in the world writable /var/lock/apport directory. If the apport/ directory does not exist this is not uncommon as /var/lock is a tmpfs, it will create the directory, otherwise it will simply continue execution using the existing...

CVE-2020-8831

CVE-2020-8831 : Apport creates a world-writable lock file with root ownership in /var/lock/apport. If the directory is missing (common on tmpfs), Apport creates it; otherwise it uses the existing directory. This enables a symlink attack by placing a link at /var/lock/apport to redirect Apport’s l...

CVE-2020-8831 World writable root owned lock file created in user controllable location

Apport creates a world writable lock file with root ownership in the world writable /var/lock/apport directory. If the apport/ directory does not exist this is not uncommon as /var/lock is a tmpfs, it will create the directory, otherwise it will simply continue execution using the existing...

EulerOS Virtualization 3.0.2.2 : python-pillow (EulerOS-SA-2020-1473)

According to the versions of the python-pillow package installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - Pillow before 3.3.2 allows context-dependent attackers to obtain sensitive information by using the 'crafted image file'...

Symlink Attack

php-pear is vulnerable to symlink attack. It was found that the "pear" command created temporary files in an insecure way when installing packages. A malicious, local user could use this flaw to conduct a symbolic link attack, allowing them to overwrite the contents of arbitrary files accessible ...

Symlink Attack

ruby is vulnerable to symlink attack. A race condition flaw was found in the remove system entries method in the FileUtils module. If a local user ran a Ruby script that uses this method, a local attacker could use this flaw to delete arbitrary files and directories accessible to that user via a...

Symlink Attack

Bash Bourne-again shell is the default shell for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. It was found that certain scripts bundled with the Bash documentation created temporary files in an insecure way. A malicious, local user could use this flaw to conduct a symbolic link attack, allowing them to overwrite th...

Symlink Attack

samba is vulnerable to symlink attack. Local users are able to mount a CIFS share on an arbitrary mountpoint using symlinks on the mountpoint directory file to gain additional privileges...

Arbitrary File Overwrite

fence is vulnerable to arbitrary file overwrite. The pservershutdown function in fenceegenera allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/eglog temporary file...

Symlink Attack

fence is vulnerable to symlink attack. Multiple insecure temporary file use flaws were found in fenceapcsnmp and ccstool. A local attacker could use these flaws to overwrite an arbitrary file writable by a victim running those utilities typically root with the output of the utilities via a symbol...

Arbitrary File Overwrite

xen is vulnerable to arbitrary file overwrite. The vulnerability exists as it was discovered that the qemu-dm.debug script created a temporary file in /tmp in an insecure way. A local attacker in Dom0 could, potentially, use this flaw to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack...

Arbitrary File Overwrite

coolkey is vulnerable to arbitrary file overwrite. A local attacker could perform a symlink attack and cause arbitrary files to be overwritten...

Apport Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Apport is a toolkit for collecting and giving feedback on error messages information that the operating system finds useful when an application crashes. An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Apport that stems from assigning secure permissions to a created lock file. A local attacker c...

USN-4315-1 apport vulnerabilities

Maximilien Bourgeteau discovered that the Apport lock file was created with insecure permissions. This could allow a local attacker to escalate their privileges via a symlink attack. CVE-2020-8831 Maximilien Bourgeteau discovered a race condition in Apport when setting crash report permissions...

USN-4315-1: Apport vulnerabilities

Maximilien Bourgeteau discovered that the Apport lock file was created with insecure permissions. This could allow a local attacker to escalate their privileges via a symlink attack. CVE-2020-8831 Maximilien Bourgeteau discovered a race condition in Apport when setting crash report permissions...

PT-2020-5173 · Canonical · Apport +1

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Apport versions prior to 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.23 Apport versions prior to 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.14 Apport versions prior to 2.20.11-0ubuntu8.8 Apport versions prior to 2.20.11-0ubuntu22 Description: The issue is related to Apport creating a world-writab...