Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : gdm (MDKSA-2007:169)

A vulnerability was discovered in how 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. Updated packages have been patched to prevent this issue. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The...

RHEL 5 : gdm (RHSA-2007:0777)

An updated gdm package that fixes a security issue is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Gdm the GNOME Display Manager is a highly configurable reimplementation of xdm, the X Display...

CentOS 5 : gdm (CESA-2007:0777)

An updated gdm package that fixes a security issue is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Gdm the GNOME Display Manager is a highly configurable reimplementation of xdm, the X Display...

gdm security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2007:0777 An updated gdm package that fixes a security issue is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Gdm the GNOME Display Manager is a highly...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: gdm security and bug fix update

An updated gdm package that fixes a security issue is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Gdm the GNOME Display Manager is a highly configurable reimplementation of xdm, the X Display...

CVE-2005-3070

HylaFax 4.2.1 and earlier does not create or verify ownership of the UNIX domain socket, which might allow local users to read faxes and cause a denial of service by creating the socket using the hyla.unix temporary file...

CVE-2005-3070

HylaFax 4.2.1 and earlier does not create or verify ownership of the UNIX domain socket, which might allow local users to read faxes and cause a denial of service by creating the socket using the hyla.unix temporary file...

CVE-2005-3070

HylaFax 4.2.1 and earlier does not create or verify ownership of the UNIX domain socket, which might allow local users to read faxes and cause a denial of service by creating the socket using the hyla.unix temporary file...

CVE-2005-3070

HylaFax 4.2.1 and earlier does not create or verify ownership of the UNIX domain socket, which might allow local users to read faxes and cause a denial of service by creating the socket using the hyla.unix temporary file...

CVE-1999-1402

Technical details about CVE-1999-1402 are not publicly available in the provided documents; monitor for updates.

CVE-2000-0864

Race condition in the creation of a Unix domain socket in GNOME esound 0.2.19 and earlier allows a local user to change the permissions of arbitrary files and directories, and gain additional privileges, via a symlink attack...

CVE-2000-0864

Race condition in the creation of a Unix domain socket in GNOME esound 0.2.19 and earlier allows a local user to change the permissions of arbitrary files and directories, and gain additional privileges, via a symlink attack...

CVE-1999-0787

The SSH authentication agent follows symlinks via a UNIX domain socket...

GNOME esound 0.2.19 - Unix Domain Socket Race Condition

GNOME esound 0.2.19 - Unix Domain Socket Race Condition source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1659/info EsounD, part of the GNOME desktop environment, is a server process allowing several applications to share the same sound hardware. Versions of esound up to and including 0.2.19 create a...

GNOME esound 0.2.19 - Unix Domain Socket Race Condition

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1659/info EsounD, part of the GNOME desktop environment, is a server process allowing several applications to share the same sound hardware. Versions of esound up to and including 0.2.19 create a world-writable directory /tmp/.esd which is also used to...

CVE-1999-0787

The SSH authentication agent follows symlinks via a UNIX domain socket...

SSH Communications Security SSH 1.2.27 - Authentication Socket File Creation

SSH Communications Security SSH 1.2.27 - Authentication Socket File Creation source: https://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...

FreeBSD 3.1 Solaris 2.6 - Domain Socket

FreeBSD 3.1 Solaris 2.6 - Domain Socket // source: https://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...

CVE-1999-1402

The access permissions for a UNIX domain socket are ignored in Solaris 2.x and SunOS 4.x, and other BSD-based operating systems before 4.4, which could allow local users to connect to the socket and possibly disrupt or control the operations of the program using that socket...