[BSA-032] Security update for tmux

Daniel Danner discovered that tmux, a terminal multiplexer, is not properly dropping group privileges. Due to a patch introduced by Debian, when invoked with the -S option, tmux is not dropping permissions obtained through its setgid installation CVE-2011-1496. For the lenny-backports distributio...

pam security update

1.1.1-4.1 - fix insecure dropping of priviledges in pamxauth, pamenv, and pammail - CVE-2010-3316 637898, CVE-2010-3435 641335 - fix insecure executing of scripts with user supplied environment variables in pamnamespace - CVE-2010-3853 643043...

CVE-2010-3430

The privilege-dropping implementation in the 1 pamenv and 2 pammail modules in Linux-PAM aka pam 1.1.2 does not perform the required setfsgid and setgroups system calls, which might allow local users to obtain sensitive information by leveraging unintended group permissions, as demonstrated by a...

CVE-2010-3430

The privilege-dropping implementation in the 1 pamenv and 2 pammail modules in Linux-PAM aka pam 1.1.2 does not perform the required setfsgid and setgroups system calls, which might allow local users to obtain sensitive information by leveraging unintended group permissions, as demonstrated by a...

CVE-2010-3431

The privilege-dropping implementation in the 1 pamenv and 2 pammail modules in Linux-PAM aka pam 1.1.2 does not check the return value of the setfsuid system call, which might allow local users to obtain sensitive information by leveraging an unintended uid, as demonstrated by a symlink attack on...

CVE-2010-3431

The privilege-dropping implementation in the 1 pamenv and 2 pammail modules in Linux-PAM aka pam 1.1.2 does not check the return value of the setfsuid system call, which might allow local users to obtain sensitive information by leveraging an unintended uid, as demonstrated by a symlink attack on...

CVE-2010-3430

CVE-2010-3430 documents a privilege drop flaw in Linux-PAM (pam_env and pam_mail) where setfsgid/setgroups aren’t called, enabling local users to glean sensitive info via a symlink attack on ~/.pam_environment. The issue stems from Linux-PAM before version 1.1.2 pam_env/pam_mail reading files wit...

CVE-2010-3430

The privilege-dropping implementation in the 1 pamenv and 2 pammail modules in Linux-PAM aka pam 1.1.2 does not perform the required setfsgid and setgroups system calls, which might allow local users to obtain sensitive information by leveraging unintended group permissions, as demonstrated by a...

CVE-2010-3431

The CVE-2010-3431 entry concerns Linux-PAM (pam) privilege elevation via pam_env/pam_mail. Affected if using pam before 1.1.2 where setfsuid return values are not checked, enabling local users to obtain sensitive information through root-privilege filesystem activity (notably a symlink attack on ...

CVE-2010-3430

The privilege-dropping implementation in the 1 pamenv and 2 pammail modules in Linux-PAM aka pam 1.1.2 does not perform the required setfsgid and setgroups system calls, which might allow local users to obtain sensitive information by leveraging unintended group permissions, as demonstrated by a...

CVE-2010-3431

The privilege-dropping implementation in the 1 pamenv and 2 pammail modules in Linux-PAM aka pam 1.1.2 does not check the return value of the setfsuid system call, which might allow local users to obtain sensitive information by leveraging an unintended uid, as demonstrated by a symlink attack on...

CVE-2010-3430

The privilege-dropping implementation in the 1 pamenv and 2 pammail modules in Linux-PAM aka pam 1.1.2 does not perform the required setfsgid and setgroups system calls, which might allow local users to obtain sensitive information by leveraging unintended group permissions, as demonstrated by a...

CVE-2010-3431

The privilege-dropping implementation in the 1 pamenv and 2 pammail modules in Linux-PAM aka pam 1.1.2 does not check the return value of the setfsuid system call, which might allow local users to obtain sensitive information by leveraging an unintended uid, as demonstrated by a symlink attack on...

pam security update

0.99.6.2-6.2 - fix insecure dropping of priviledges in pamxauth and pammail - CVE-2010-3316 637898, CVE-2010-3435 641335 - fix insecure executing of scripts with user supplied environment variables in pamnamespace - CVE-2010-3853 643043...

Internet Explorer Drag and Drop Code Execution (CVE-2005-0053)

Microsoft Internet Explorer provides a number of ways to represent remote or local content. One of its more powerful features is the Web folder view. The Web folder provides easy access to files located on a web server. A vulnerability exists in the Microsoft Internet Explorer security restrictio...

Google Joins The 'Kill-IE6' Campaign

Google has announced that Google Docs will drop support for Microsoft’s nearly nine-year-old Internet Explorer 6 IE6 browser starting on March 1. Ironically, if Google had taken its anti-IE6 advice to heart before hackers broke into its corporate network last year, it might not now be mulling...

CVE-2008-0008

The padroproot function in PulseAudio 0.9.8, and a certain 0.9.9 build, does not check return values from 1 setresuid, 2 setreuid, 3 setuid, and 4 seteuid calls when attempting to drop privileges, which might allow local users to gain privileges by causing those calls to fail via attacks such as...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 108-1 (wmtv)

The remote host is missing an update to wmtv announced via advisory DSA 108-1. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: deb1081.nasl 6616 2017-07-07 12:10:49Z cfischer $ Description: Auto-generated from advisory DSA 108-1 Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2007 E-Soft Inc...

DEBIAN-CVE-2006-4447

X.Org and XFree86, including libX11, xdm, xf86dga, xinit, xload, xtrans, and xterm, does not check the return values for setuid and seteuid calls when attempting to drop privileges, which might allow local users to gain privileges by causing those calls to fail, such as by exceeding a ulimit...

Ubuntu 4.10 : ntp vulnerability (USN-175-1)

Thomas Biege discovered a flaw in the privilege dropping of the NTP server. When ntpd was configured to drop root privileges, and the group to run under was specified as a name as opposed to a numeric group ID, ntpd changed to the wrong group. Depending on the actual group it changed to, this cou...