Chmod Race Condition

github.com/lxc/lxd contains a chmod Time-of-Check-Time-of-Use TOCTOU race condition. The vulnerability exists as the file descriptor to the entry that was processed was not validated...

OS X 10.x, FreeBSD 4.x,OpenBSD 2.x,Solaris 2.5/2.6/7.0/8 exec C Library Standard I/O File Descriptor Closure

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4568/info It has been reported that BSD-based kernels do not check to ensure that the C library standard I/O file descriptors 0-2 are valid open files before execing setuid images. Consequently, I/O that are opened by a...

kernel: xfs swapext ioctl minor security issue

The xfsswapext function in fs/xfs/xfsdfrag.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.35 does not properly check the file descriptors passed to the SWAPEXT ioctl, which allows local users to leverage write access and obtain read access by swapping one file into another file...