Logcheck: Root privilege escalation

Background Logcheck mails anomalies in the system logfiles to the administrator. Description The pkgpostinst phase of the Logcheck ebuilds recursively chown the /etc/logcheck and /var/lib/logcheck directories. If the logcheck adds hardlinks to other files in these directories, the chown call will...

CVE-2019-19191

Shibboleth Service Provider SP 3.x before 3.1.0 shipped a spec file that calls chown on files in a directory controlled by the service user the shibd account after installation. This allows the user to escalate to root by pointing symlinks to files such as /etc/shadow...

CVE-2019-19191

Shibboleth Service Provider SP 3.x before 3.1.0 shipped a spec file that calls chown on files in a directory controlled by the service user the shibd account after installation. This allows the user to escalate to root by pointing symlinks to files such as /etc/shadow...

GNU Coreutils Arbitrary File Modification Vulnerability

GNU Coreutils GNU Core Utilities, GNU Core Utilities is a package developed by the GNU Project that contains several basic tools required for Unix-like applications, such as textutils textutils, shellutils shell utilities, fileutils file utilities, and so on. A security vulnerability exists in GN...

CVE-2017-16933

etc/initsystem/prepare-dirs in Icinga 2.x through 2.8.1 has a chown call for a filename in a user-writable directory, which allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging access to the $ICINGA2USER account for creation of a link...

Design/Logic Flaw

The daily mandb cleanup job in Man-db before 2.7.6.1-1 as packaged in Ubuntu and Debian allows local users with access to the man account to gain privileges via vectors involving insecure chown use...

Design/Logic Flaw

kiwi before 4.98.08, as used in SUSE Studio Onsite 1.2 before 1.2.1 and SUSE Studio Extension for System z 1.2 before 1.2.1, allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the path of an overlay file, related to chown...

SuSE 10 Security Update : Geronimo (ZYPP Patch Number 4967)

A chown in the geronimo init script could change ownership of directories it did not own, due to following symlinks. The default setup would corrupt /var/tmp on start. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc...