[SECURITY] Fedora 12 Update: bltk-1.0.9-7.fc12

This tool kit is used to measure battery life and performance under different workloads on Linux. Test can be used with various workloads to simulate different types of laptop usage. The following workloads are currently implemented: a Idle workload - collect statistics only b Developer workload ...

Battery Life Toolkit 1.0.9 - 'bltk_sudo' Local Privilege Escalation

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37996/info Battery Life Toolkit BLTK is prone to a local privilege-escalation vulnerability. A local attacker can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code with superuser privileges, resulting in the complete compromise of the affected computer. This...

Gnome Panel 2.28.0 Denial Of Service

Exploit Title: Gnome panel After executing this poc a backup file will be created You can restore it by typing ./paneldos restore Using option restart gnome-panel will restart continuously Using option totalblock you will need to remove the battery After execution click application in the panel,...

Gnome Panel 2.28.0 - Denial of Service (PoC)

Gnome Panel 2.28.0 - Denial of Service PoC Tested on: ubuntu 9.10 CVE : Code : / Gnome panel http://olivapietro.altervista.org After executing this poc a backup file will be created You can restore it by typing ./paneldos restore Using option restart gnome-panel will restart continuously Using...

[Full-Disclosure] Nokia 3560 Remote DOS

Hello list, I have found a vulnerability with Nokia's 3560 cellular phone, in which anyone may remotely crash the phone's OS, requiring the user to disconnect the battery to restore normal functionality. The attack only requires sending the person a specially crafted text message. This can be don...

DSR-wmapm.sh

/bin/sh Pretty useless, we can mess up /etc/dumpdates or run shutdown on FreeBSD systems with wmapm from ports. If wmapm is installed from source we get root instead, so I suppose this might be worth somethinguid 0 on linux. kokanin@dtors pkginfo | grep -i wmapm wmapm-3.1 Laptop battery status...

Symlink attack with apmd of RH 7.2

UnAffected Systems: --------------------- - Red Hat 7.2 "Enigma" with installed apmd-3.0final-34 package - previous Red Hat distributions are not affected - because vulnerability was introduced by a script being not in the official apmd package, most other GNU/Linux distributions are not affected...