VMware - Setuid VMware-mount Popen lsb_release Privilege Escalation

// Source: http://blog.cmpxchg8b.com/2013/08/security-debianisms.html On most modern Linux systems, /bin/sh is provided by bash, which detects that it's being invoked as sh, and attempts to mimic traditional sh. As everyone who works in security quickly learns, bash will drop privileges very earl...

Oracle Linux 4 : bash (ELSA-2011-0261)

From Red Hat Security Advisory 2011:0261 : Updated bash packages that fix one security issue and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having low security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base...

Oracle Linux 3 : bash (ELSA-2008-2005)

Description of changes: 2.05b-41.7.0.2 - Removed the dependency on libncurses.so %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2008-2005. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc';...

CVE-2013-1362

Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in nrpc.c in Nagios Remote Plug-In Executor NRPE before 2.14 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary shell commands via "$" shell metacharacters, which are processed by bash...

Input validation

Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in nrpc.c in Nagios Remote Plug-In Executor NRPE before 2.14 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary shell commands via "$" shell metacharacters, which are processed by bash...

UBUNTU-CVE-2013-1362

Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in nrpc.c in Nagios Remote Plug-In Executor NRPE before 2.14 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary shell commands via "$" shell metacharacters, which are processed by bash...

CVE-2013-1362

Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in nrpc.c in Nagios Remote Plug-In Executor NRPE before 2.14 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary shell commands via "$" shell metacharacters, which are processed by bash...

Important: nrpe

Issue Overview: Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in nrpc.c in Nagios Remote Plug-In Executor NRPE before 2.14 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary shell commands via "$" shell metacharacters, which are processed by bash. Affected Packages: nrpe Issue Correction: Run yum update nrpe...

[aidSQL] A tool that will aid you when trying to find vulnerable spots in your site

Is a PHP application provided for detecting security holes in your website/s. It's a modular application, meaning that you can develop your very own plugins for SQL injection detection & exploitation. 2013-05-27 NEW aidSQL Release which supports MS SQL SERVER 2000 Database injection and reverse...

Nagios Remote Plugin Executor Metacharacter Filtering Omission

Added: 05/13/2013 CVE: CVE-2013-1362 BID: 58142 OSVDB: 90582 Background Nagios is a network host and service monitoring and management system. Nagios Remote Plugin Executor NRPE is an addon for Nagios that allows remote execution of Nagios plugins on other Linux/Unix machines. Problem Nagios Remo...

Nagios Remote Plugin Executor Metacharacter Filtering Omission

Added: 05/13/2013 CVE: CVE-2013-1362 BID: 58142 OSVDB: 90582 Background Nagios is a network host and service monitoring and management system. Nagios Remote Plugin Executor NRPE is an addon for Nagios that allows remote execution of Nagios plugins on other Linux/Unix machines. Problem Nagios Remo...

[Open SCAP v0.9.5] Support of SCE - Script Check Engine

SCAP is a line of standards managed by NIST. It was created to provide a standardized approach to maintaining the security of enterprise systems, such as automatically verifying the presence of patches, checking system security configuration settings, and examining systems for signs of compromise...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : bash (MDVSA-2013:032)

A vulnerability was found and corrected in bash : A stack-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way bash, the GNU Bourne Again shell, expanded certain /dev/fd file names when checking file names 'test' command and evaluating /dev/fd file names in conditinal command expressions. A remote...

Nagios Remote Plugin Executor - Arbitrary Command Execution (Metasploit)

This file is part of the Metasploit Framework and may be subject to redistribution and commercial restrictions. Please see the Metasploit web site for more information on licensing and terms of use. http://metasploit.com/ require 'msf/core' require 'zlib' class Metasploit3 'Nagios Remote Plugin...

GNU bash buffer overflow

Buffer overflow in buil-in test command...

NRPE metacharacter filtering omission (important)

NRPE the Nagios Remote Plug-In Executor allows the passing of $ to plugins/scripts which, if run under bash, will execute that shell command under a subprocess and pass the output as a parameter to the called script. Using this, it is possible to get called scripts, such as checkhttp, to execute...

NRPE metacharacter filtering omission (important)

NRPE the Nagios Remote Plug-In Executor allows the passing of $ to plugins/scripts which, if run under bash, will execute that shell command under a subprocess and pass the output as a parameter to the called script. Using this, it is possible to get called scripts, such as checkhttp, to execute...

South Korea Cyber Attack, Wiper malware and Chinese IP Address

Yesterday we reported about a massive Cyber attack on South Korea that was responsible for shutting down networks of South Korean banks and TV broadcasters. Police are still investigating the cyber attack but the country's Communications Commission has revealed that the hacking originated from a...

Linux Manage Download and Execute

This module downloads and runs a file with bash. It first tries to uses curl as its HTTP client and then wget if it's not found. Bash found in the PATH is used to execute the file. This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source:...

Linux Kernel 3.0 3.3.5 - CLONE_NEWUSER|CLONE_FS Local Privilege Escalation

Linux Kernel 3.0 3.3.5 - CLONENEWUSER|CLONEFS Local Privilege Escalation / source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/58478/info Linux kernel is prone to a local privilege-escalation vulnerability. Local attackers can exploit this issue to gain kernel privileges, which will aid in further attacks....