CVE-2013-4259

runner/connectionplugins/ssh.py in Ansible before 1.2.3, when using ControlPersist, allows local users to redirect a ssh session via a symlink attack on a socket file with a predictable name in /tmp/...

CVE-2013-4277

Svnserve in Apache Subversion 1.4.0 through 1.7.12 and 1.8.0 through 1.8.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files or kill arbitrary processes via a symlink attack on the file specified by the --pid-file option...

[slackware-security] subversion (SSA:2013-251-01)

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 slackware-security subversion SSA:2013-251-01 New subversion packages are available for Slackware 14.0 and -current to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.0 ChangeLog: +--------------------------+...

CVE-2013-4169

GNOME Display Manager gdm before 2.21.1 allows local users to change permissions of arbitrary directories via a symlink attack on /tmp/.X11-unix/...

Code injection

GNOME Display Manager gdm before 2.21.1 allows local users to change permissions of arbitrary directories via a symlink attack on /tmp/.X11-unix/...

CVE-2013-4169

The CVE-2013-4169 issue affects GNOME Display Manager (gdm) up to version 2.21.0, with a local attacker able to exploit a symlink on /tmp/.X11-unix to change permissions of arbitrary directories. Root cause: improper handling of symlinks in the /tmp/.X11-unix path leads to a privilege escalation....

CVE-2013-4169

GNOME Display Manager gdm before 2.21.1 allows local users to change permissions of arbitrary directories via a symlink attack on /tmp/.X11-unix/...

CVE-2013-4169

GNOME Display Manager gdm before 2.21.1 allows local users to change permissions of arbitrary directories via a symlink attack on /tmp/.X11-unix/...

[slackware-security] subversion

New subversion packages are available for Slackware 14.0 and -current to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/subversion-1.7.13-i486-1slack14.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a local privilege escalation vulnerability via symlink attack...

gdm: TOCTTOU race condition on /tmp/.X11-unix

GNOME Display Manager gdm before 2.21.1 allows local users to change permissions of arbitrary directories via a symlink attack on /tmp/.X11-unix/...

2.0: appliance-base / redhat-storage-server /tmp file creation vuln

Red Hat Storage 2.0 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the 1 e, 2 local-bricks.list, 3 bricks.err, or 4 limits.conf files in /tmp...

Amazon Linux AMI : puppet (ALAS-2012-53)

Puppet 2.6.x before 2.6.14 and 2.7.x before 2.7.11, and Puppet Enterprise PE Users 1.0, 1.1, 1.2.x, 2.0.x before 2.0.3, when managing a user login file with the k5login resource type, allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack on .k5login. The changeuser method in the SUIDManager...

Amazon Linux AMI : puppet (ALAS-2012-75)

Puppet 2.6.x before 2.6.15 and 2.7.x before 2.7.13, and Puppet Enterprise PE Users 1.0, 1.1, 1.2.x, 2.0.x, and 2.5.x before 2.5.1 allows remote authenticated users with an authorized SSL key and certain permissions on the puppet master to read arbitrary files via a symlink attack in conjunction...

Amazon Linux AMI : puppet (ALAS-2011-11)

Puppet 2.7.x before 2.7.5, 2.6.x before 2.6.11, and 0.25.x, when running in --edit mode, uses a predictable file name, which allows local users to run arbitrary Puppet code or trick a user into editing arbitrary files. Puppet 2.7.x before 2.7.5, 2.6.x before 2.6.11, and 0.25.x allows local users ...

Amazon Linux AMI : tomcat6 (ALAS-2013-196)

The 1 tomcat5, 2 tomcat6, and 3 tomcat7 init scripts, as used in the RPM distribution of Tomcat for JBoss Enterprise Web Server 1.0.2 and 2.0.0, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6, allow local users to change the ownership of arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a tomcat5-initd.log, b...

Amazon Linux AMI : iproute (ALAS-2012-64)

iproute2 before 3.3.0 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file used by 1 configure or 2 examples/dhcp-client-script. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Amazon Linux AMI Securit...

svnserve is vulnerable to a local privilege escalation vulnerability via symlink attack.

Subversion Project reports: svnserve takes a --pid-file option which creates a file containing the process id it is running as. It does not take steps to ensure that the file it has been directed at is not a symlink. If the pid file is in a directory writeable by unprivileged users, the destinati...

CVE-2013-4262

svnwcsub.py in Subversion 1.8.0 before 1.8.3, when using the --pidfile option and running in foreground mode, allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack on the pid file. NOTE: this issue was SPLIT due to different affected versions ADT3. The irkerbridge.py issue is covered by...

[ MDVSA-2013:216 ] perl-Proc-ProcessTable

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDVSA-2013:216 http://www.mandriva.com/en/support/security/ Package : perl-Proc-ProcessTable Date : August 23, 2013 Affected: Business Server 1.0, Enterprise Server 5.0 Problem Description: Updated perl-Proc-ProcessTab...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : perl-Proc-ProcessTable (MDVSA-2013:216)

Updated perl-Proc-ProcessTable package fixes security vulnerability : ProcessTable.pm in the Proc::ProcessTable module 0.45 for Perl, when TTY information caching is enabled, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on /tmp/TTYDEVS CVE-2011-4363. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C...