RHEL 5 : kernel (RHSA-2009:0326)

Updated kernel packages that fix several security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux...

kernel: fix inotify watch removal/umount races

The inotify functionality in Linux kernel 2.6 before 2.6.28-rc5 might allow local users to gain privileges via unknown vectors related to race conditions in inotify watch removal and umount...

kernel: fix inotify watch removal/umount races

The inotify functionality in Linux kernel 2.6 before 2.6.28-rc5 might allow local users to gain privileges via unknown vectors related to race conditions in inotify watch removal and umount...

FreeBSD Security Advisory (FreeBSD-SA-07:01.jail.asc)

The remote host is missing an update to the system as announced in the referenced advisory FreeBSD-SA-07:01.jail.asc ADV FreeBSD-SA-07:01.jail.asc OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $ Description: Auto generated from vuxml or freebsd advisories Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2008 E-Soft In...

SafeGuard PrivateDisk 2.02.3 - privatediskm.sys Multiple Local Security Bypass Vulnerabilities

SafeGuard PrivateDisk 2.02.3 - privatediskm.sys Multiple Local Security Bypass Vulnerabilities // source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45749/info SafeGuard PrivateDisk is prone to multiple local security-bypass vulnerabilities. Attackers with physical access to a computer with the affected...

SafeGuard PrivateDisk 2.0/2.3 - 'privatediskm.sys' Multiple Local Security Bypass Vulnerabilities

// source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45749/info SafeGuard PrivateDisk is prone to multiple local security-bypass vulnerabilities. Attackers with physical access to a computer with the affected application installed can exploit these issues to bypass certain security restrictions and perfo...

CVE-2007-0166

The jail rc.d script in FreeBSD 5.3 up to 6.2 does not verify pathnames when writing to /var/log/console.log during a jail start-up, or when file systems are mounted or unmounted, which allows local root users to overwrite arbitrary files, or mount/unmount files, outside of the jail via a symlink...

DMA[2007-0109a] - 'Apple Finder Disk Image Volume Label Overflow / DoS'

DMA2007-0109a - 'Apple Finder Disk Image Volume Label Overflow / DoS' Author: Kevin Finisterre Vendors: http://www.apple.com Product: '= OSX 10.4 ?' References: http://www.digitalmunition.com/DMA2007-0109a.txt http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/finder/...

CVE-2007-0166: Undefined Security Weakness

The jail rc.d script in FreeBSD 5.3 up to 6.2 does not verify pathnames when writing to /var/log/console.log during a jail start-up, or when file systems are mounted or unmounted, which allows local root users to overwrite arbitrary files, or mount/unmount files, outside of the jail via a symlink...

DEBIAN-CVE-2005-2876

umount in util-linux 2.8 to 2.12q, 2.13-pre1, and 2.13-pre2, and other packages such as loop-aes-utils, allows local users with unmount permissions to gain privileges via the -r remount option, which causes the file system to be remounted with just the read-only flag, which effectively clears the...

CVE-2001-0759: Undefined Security Weakness

Buffer overflow in bctool in Jetico BestCrypt 0.8.1 and earlier allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a file or directory with a long pathname, which is processed during an unmount...