UBUNTU-CVE-2015-1336

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...

DEBIAN-CVE-2015-1336

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...

CVE-2015-1336

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...

CVE-2015-1336

The CVE-2015-1336 entry concerns the man-db daily cleanup race in Mandb before 2.7.6.1-1 (Ubuntu/Debian packaging). A local user with access to the man account could escalate privileges via insecure chown usage in the mandb cleanup job. Affected software is the man-db package and the vulnerabilit...

CVE-2015-1336

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...

CVE-2017-14730

The init script in the Gentoo app-admin/logstash-bin package before 5.5.3 and 5.6.x before 5.6.1 has "chown -R" calls for user-writable directory trees, which allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging access to a $LSUSER account for creation of a hard link...

CVE-2017-14730: Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource

The init script in the Gentoo app-admin/logstash-bin package before 5.5.3 and 5.6.x before 5.6.1 has "chown -R" calls for user-writable directory trees, which allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging access to a $LSUSER account for creation of a hard link...

GLSA-201709-11 : GIMPS: Root privilege escalation

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201709-11 GIMPS: Root privilege escalation It was discovered that Gentoos default GIMPS installation suffered from a privilege escalation vulnerability in the init script. This script calls an unsafe chown -R command in checkconfi...

GIMPS: Root privilege escalation

Background GIMPS, the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search, is a software capable of find Mersenne Primes, which are used in cryptography. GIMPS is also used for hardware testing. Description It was discovered that Gentoo’s default GIMPS installation suffered from a privilege escalation...

CVE-2017-14484

The Gentoo sci-mathematics/gimps package before 28.10-r1 for Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search GIMPS allows local users to gain privileges by creating a hard link under /var/lib/gimps, because an unsafe "chown -R" command is executed...

CVE-2017-14484: Improper Privilege Management

The Gentoo sci-mathematics/gimps package before 28.10-r1 for Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search GIMPS allows local users to gain privileges by creating a hard link under /var/lib/gimps, because an unsafe "chown -R" command is executed...

The vulnerability of the scheduler daemon in UNIX-like operating systems, Cron, allows a intruder to expand their privileges.

The vulnerability of the Cron task scheduler in UNIX-like operating systems is related to the incorrect definition of references before accessing a file. Exploiting this vulnerability allows an attacker, operating remotely, to increase their privileges by using the postinst script, through symlin...

DEBIAN-CVE-2017-9525

In the cron package through 3.0pl1-128 on Debian, and through 3.0pl1-128ubuntu2 on Ubuntu, the postinst maintainer script allows for group-crontab-to-root privilege escalation via symlink attacks against unsafe usage of the chown and chmod programs...

CVE-2017-9525

In the cron package through 3.0pl1-128 on Debian, and through 3.0pl1-128ubuntu2 on Ubuntu, the postinst maintainer script allows for group-crontab-to-root privilege escalation via symlink attacks against unsafe usage of the chown and chmod programs...

Design/Logic Flaw

In the cron package through 3.0pl1-128 on Debian, and through 3.0pl1-128ubuntu2 on Ubuntu, the postinst maintainer script allows for group-crontab-to-root privilege escalation via symlink attacks against unsafe usage of the chown and chmod programs...

UBUNTU-CVE-2017-9525

In the cron package through 3.0pl1-128 on Debian, and through 3.0pl1-128ubuntu2 on Ubuntu, the postinst maintainer script allows for group-crontab-to-root privilege escalation via symlink attacks against unsafe usage of the chown and chmod programs...

CVE-2017-9525

In the cron package through 3.0pl1-128 on Debian, and through 3.0pl1-128ubuntu2 on Ubuntu, the postinst maintainer script allows for group-crontab-to-root privilege escalation via symlink attacks against unsafe usage of the chown and chmod programs...

CVE-2017-9525

CVE-2017-9525 affects the cron package (Debian: 3.0pl1-128; Ubuntu: 3.0pl1-128ubuntu2) where the postinst maintainer script allows group-crontab-to-root privilege escalation through unsafe usage of chown/chmod and symlink attacks. Multiple connected advisories reference Cron regressions and incom...

CVE-2017-9525

In the cron package through 3.0pl1-128 on Debian, and through 3.0pl1-128ubuntu2 on Ubuntu, the postinst maintainer script allows for group-crontab-to-root privilege escalation via symlink attacks against unsafe usage of the chown and chmod programs...

CVE-2017-9525

In the cron package through 3.0pl1-128 on Debian, and through 3.0pl1-128ubuntu2 on Ubuntu, the postinst maintainer script allows for group-crontab-to-root privilege escalation via symlink attacks against unsafe usage of the chown and chmod programs...