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Shadow: Privilege escalation
Background Shadow is a set of tools to deal with user accounts. Description Paul Szabo reported a race condition in the "login" executable when setting up tty permissions. Impact A local attacker belonging to the "utmp" group could use symlink attacks to overwrite arbitrary files and possibly gai...
GLSA-200903-18 : Openswan: Insecure temporary file creation
The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200903-18 Openswan: Insecure temporary file creation Dmitry E. Oboukhov reported that the IPSEC livetest tool does not handle the ipseclive.conn and ipsec.olts.remote.log temporary files securely. Impact : A local attacker could...
Openswan: Insecure temporary file creation
Background Openswan is an implementation of IPsec for Linux. Description Dmitry E. Oboukhov reported that the IPSEC livetest tool does not handle the ipseclive.conn and ipsec.olts.remote.log temporary files securely. Impact A local attacker could perform symlink attacks to execute arbitrary code...
GLSA-200903-08 : gEDA: Insecure temporary file creation
The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200903-08 gEDA: Insecure temporary file creation Dmitry E. Oboukhov reported an insecure temporary file usage within the sch2eaglepos.sh script. Impact : A local attacker could perform symlink attacks to overwrite arbitrary files...
gEDA: Insecure temporary file creation
Background gEDA is an Electronic Design Automation tool used for electrical circuit design. Description Dmitry E. Oboukhov reported an insecure temporary file usage within the sch2eaglepos.sh script. Impact A local attacker could perform symlink attacks to overwrite arbitrary files with the...
PDFjam: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background PDFjam is a small collection of shell scripts to edit PDF documents, including pdfnup, pdfjoin and pdf90. Description Martin Vaeth reported multiple untrusted search path vulnerabilities CVE-2008-5843. Marcus Meissner of the SUSE Security Team reported that temporary files are created...
Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200901-14 (scilab)
The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory GLSA 200901-14. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2009 E-Soft Inc. 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 OR GPL-3.0-only...
Scilab: Insecure temporary file usage
Background Scilab is a scientific software package for numerical computations. Description Dmitry E. Oboukhov reported an insecure temporary file usage within the scilink, scidoc and scidem scripts. Impact A local attacker could perform symlink attacks to overwrite arbitrary files with the...
Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200812-22 (ampache)
The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory GLSA 200812-22. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2008 E-Soft Inc. 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...
Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200812-22 (ampache)
The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory GLSA 200812-22. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $ Description: Auto generated from Gentoo's XML based advisory Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2008 E-Soft Inc. http://www.securityspace.com Text descriptions are largely excerpted fr...
ampache -- insecure temporary file usage
Secunia reports: A security issue has been reported in Ampache, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions with escalated privileges. The security issue is caused due to the "gather-messages.sh" script handling temporary files in an insecure manner. This can be...
Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200812-12 (honeyd)
The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory GLSA 200812-12. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2008 E-Soft Inc. 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...
Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200812-14 (aview)
The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory GLSA 200812-14. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2008 E-Soft Inc. 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...
Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200812-14 (aview)
The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory GLSA 200812-14. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $ Description: Auto generated from Gentoo's XML based advisory Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2008 E-Soft Inc. http://www.securityspace.com Text descriptions are largely excerpted fr...
Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200812-12 (honeyd)
The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory GLSA 200812-12. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $ Description: Auto generated from Gentoo's XML based advisory Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2008 E-Soft Inc. http://www.securityspace.com Text descriptions are largely excerpted fr...
Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200812-13 (openoffice openoffice-bin)
The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory GLSA 200812-13. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2008 E-Soft Inc. 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...
MailScanner Multiple Insecure Temporary Files Vulnerabilities
MailScanner is prone to multiple vulnerabilities. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2008 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...
GLSA-200812-13 : OpenOffice.org: Multiple vulnerabilities
The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200812-13 OpenOffice.org: Multiple vulnerabilities Two heap-based buffer overflows when processing WMF files CVE-2008-2237 and EMF files CVE-2008-2238 were discovered. Dmitry E. Oboukhov also reported an insecure temporary file...
GLSA-200812-12 : Honeyd: Insecure temporary file creation
The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200812-12 Honeyd: Insecure temporary file creation Dmitry E. Oboukhov reported an insecure temporary file usage within the 'test.sh' script. Impact : A local attacker could perform symlink attacks and overwrite arbitrary files wit...
OpenOffice.org: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background OpenOffice.org is an open source office productivity suite, including word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, drawing, data charting, formula editing, and file conversion facilities. Description Two heap-based buffer overflows when processing WMF files CVE-2008-2237 and EMF files...