CVE-2013-1958

The scmcheckcreds function in net/core/scm.c in the Linux kernel before 3.8.6 does not properly enforce capability requirements for controlling the PID value associated with a UNIX domain socket, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions by leveraging the time interval durin...

SSH Communications Security SSH 1.2.27 Authentication Socket File Creation Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/660/info A vulnerability in SSH's creation of the authentication agent UNIX domain socket allows local users to create a UNIX domain socket with an arbitrary file name in the system. SSH has the concept of authentication...

FreeBSD <= 3.1,Solaris <= 2.6 Domain Socket Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/456/info Solaris 2.6 and many other unices/clones have a serious problem with their unix domain socket implementation that has it's origins in old BSD code. Any unix socket created by any application is set mode 4777. In...

Updated php packages fix CVE-2014-0185

Updated php packages fix security vulnerability: PHP FPM in PHP versions before 5.4.28 and 5.5.12 uses a UNIX domain socket with world-writable permissions by default, which allows any local user to connect to it and execute PHP scripts as the apache user CVE-2014-0185. Additionally updated...

ocaml xenstored mishandles oversized message replies

ISSUE DESCRIPTION The Ocaml xenstored implementation "oxenstored" cannot correctly handle a message reply larger than XENSTOREPAYLOADSIZE when communicating with a client domain via the shared ring mechanism. When this situation occurs the connection to the client domain will be shutdown and cann...

Oracle Linux 5 : Moderate: / gdm (ELSA-2007-0777)

The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2007-0777 advisory. 2.16.0-31.0.1 - CVE-2007-3381 Resolves: 247659 2.16.0-31 - change 200d character to 200c character in ml.po Tenable has extracted the preceding description bloc...

Updated qemu packages fix security vulnerability

It was found that QEMU Guest Agent the "qemu-ga" service created certain files with world-writable permissions when run in daemon mode the default mode. An unprivileged guest user could use this flaw to consume all free space on the partition containing the qemu-ga log file, or modify the content...

qemu security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2013:0896 Updated qemu-kvm packages that fix one security issue and two bugs 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 Syste...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: qemu-kvm security and bug fix update

Updated qemu-kvm packages that fix one security issue and two bugs 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...

CVE-2013-1958

The scmcheckcreds function in net/core/scm.c in the Linux kernel before 3.8.6 does not properly enforce capability requirements for controlling the PID value associated with a UNIX domain socket, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions by leveraging the time interval durin...

CVE-2013-1958

The scmcheckcreds function in net/core/scm.c in the Linux kernel before 3.8.6 does not properly enforce capability requirements for controlling the PID value associated with a UNIX domain socket, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions by leveraging the time interval durin...

CVE-2013-1958

The scmcheckcreds function in net/core/scm.c in the Linux kernel before 3.8.6 does not properly enforce capability requirements for controlling the PID value associated with a UNIX domain socket, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions by leveraging the time interval durin...

Design/Logic Flaw

The scmcheckcreds function in net/core/scm.c in the Linux kernel before 3.8.6 does not properly enforce capability requirements for controlling the PID value associated with a UNIX domain socket, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions by leveraging the time interval durin...

CVE-2013-1958

CVE-2013-1958 affects Linux kernels before 3.8.6 where scm_check_creds in net/core/scm.c fails to enforce capabilities for the PID value tied to a UNIX domain socket, allowing local users to bypass access controls during a window when a user namespace exists but a PID namespace is not yet created...

CVE-2013-1958

The scmcheckcreds function in net/core/scm.c in the Linux kernel before 3.8.6 does not properly enforce capability requirements for controlling the PID value associated with a UNIX domain socket, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions by leveraging the time interval durin...

CVE-2013-1958

The scmcheckcreds function in net/core/scm.c in the Linux kernel before 3.8.6 does not properly enforce capability requirements for controlling the PID value associated with a UNIX domain socket, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions by leveraging the time interval durin...

SuSE 11.2 Security Update : Linux kernel (SAT Patch Numbers 7370 / 7373 / 7374)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP2 kernel has been updated to fix two issues : One severe security issue : - A race condition in ptrace2 could be used by local attackers to crash the kernel and/or execute code in kernel context. One severe regression issue:. CVE-2013-0871 - A regression in UNIX...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : esound (MDKSA-2000:051)

A problem exists with the esound daemon, which is used in GNOME and responsible for multiplexing access to audio devices. Versions of esound prior to and including 0.2.19 create a world-writable directory in /tmp called .esd which is owned by the user running esound. This directory is used to sto...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL4.x i386/x86_64

This update fixes the following security issues : - a flaw was found in the Realtek r8169 Ethernet driver in the Linux kernel. pciunmapsingle presented a memory leak that could lead to IOMMU space exhaustion and a system crash. An attacker on the local network could trigger this flaw by using jum...

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

A flaw was found in the way Gdm listens on its unix domain socket. A local user could crash a running X session by writing malicious data to Gdm's unix domain socket. CVE-2007-3381 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text is C Scientific Linux...