GLSA-201711-13 : Adobe Flash Player: Multiple vulnerabilities

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201711-13 Adobe Flash Player: Multiple vulnerabilities Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Adobe Flash Player. Please review the referenced CVE identifiers and Adobe Security Bulletin for details. Impact : A remote...

Gentoo sci-mathematics/gimps package elevation of privilege vulnerability

The Gentoo sci-mathematics/gimps package is a Mersenne prime search package from the Gentoo Foundation. An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in versions of the Gentoo sci-mathematics/gimps package prior to 28.10-r1. A local attacker can exploit this vulnerability to gain privileges by...

GLSA-201711-09 : LXC: Remote security bypass

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201711-09 LXC: Remote security bypass Previous versions of lxc-attach ran a shell or the specified command without allocating a pseudo terminal making it vulnerable to input faking via a TIOCSTI ioctl call. Impact : Remote attacke...

GLSA-201711-05 : X.Org Server: Multiple vulnerabilities

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201711-05 X.Org Server: Multiple vulnerabilities Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in X.Org Server. Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Impact : Attackers could execute arbitrary code or cause a...

GLSA-201711-11 : VDE: Privilege escalation

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201711-11 VDE: Privilege escalation It was discovered that Gentoos default VDE installation suffered from a privilege escalation vulnerability in the init script. This script calls an unsafe chown command which gives members from...

GLSA-201711-06 : GNU Wget: Multiple vulnerabilities

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201711-06 GNU Wget: Multiple vulnerabilities Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Wget. Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Impact : A remote attacker, by enticing a user to connect to a malicious...

GLSA-201711-12 : eGroupWare: Remote code execution

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201711-12 eGroupWare: Remote code execution It was found that eGroupWare contains multiple code injection vulnerabilities in multiple parameters and routes because of improper input sanitization. Impact : A remote attacker could...

Gentoo dev-python/flower package denial of service vulnerability

Gentoo dev-python/flower is a distributed task queue real-time monitoring and management package from the Gentoo Foundation. A denial of service vulnerability exists in flower.initd in versions of the Gentoo dev-python/flower package prior to 0.9.1-r1. A local attacker can exploit this...

GLSA-201711-10 : Cacti: Multiple vulnerabilities

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201711-10 Cacti: Multiple vulnerabilities Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Cacti. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact : Remote attackers could execute arbitrary code or bypass...

GLSA-201711-04 : MariaDB, MySQL: Root privilege escalation

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201711-04 MariaDB, MySQL: Root privilege escalation The Gentoo installation scripts before 2017-09-29 have chown calls for user-writable directory trees, which allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging access to the mysq...

Linux BPF Sign Extension Local Privilege Escalation

Linux kernel prior to 4.14.8 contains a vulnerability in the Berkeley Packet Filter BPF verifier. The checkaluop function performs incorrect sign extension which allows the verifier to be bypassed, leading to arbitrary kernel read/write. The target system must be compiled with BPF support and...

VDE: Privilege escalation

Background VDE is an ethernet compliant virtual network that can be spawned over a set of physical computer over the Internet. Description It was discovered that Gentoo’s default VDE installation suffered from a privilege escalation vulnerability in the init script. This script calls an unsafe...

eGroupWare: Remote code execution

Background eGroupWare is a suite of web-based group applications including calendar, address book, messenger and email. Description It was found that eGroupWare contains multiple code injection vulnerabilities in multiple parameters and routes because of improper input sanitization. Impact A remo...

MariaDB, MySQL: Root privilege escalation

Background MySQL is a popular multi-threaded, multi-user SQL server. MariaDB is an enhanced, drop-in replacement for MySQL. Description The Gentoo installation scripts before 2017-09-29 have chown calls for user-writable directory trees, which allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging...

CVE-2017-16659

The Gentoo mail-filter/assp package 1.9.8.13030 and earlier allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging access to the assp user account to install a Trojan horse /usr/share/assp/assp.pl script...

CVE-2017-16659

The Gentoo mail-filter/assp package 1.9.8.13030 and earlier allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging access to the assp user account to install a Trojan horse /usr/share/assp/assp.pl script...

CVE-2017-16659

The Gentoo mail-filter/assp package 1.9.8.13030 and earlier allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging access to the assp user account to install a Trojan horse /usr/share/assp/assp.pl script...

Code injection

The Gentoo mail-filter/assp package 1.9.8.13030 and earlier allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging access to the assp user account to install a Trojan horse /usr/share/assp/assp.pl script...

CVE-2017-16659

The Gentoo mail-filter/assp package 1.9.8.13030 and earlier allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging access to the assp user account to install a Trojan horse /usr/share/assp/assp.pl script...

CVE-2017-16659

CVE-2017-16659 involves the Gentoo mail-filter/assp package (versions ≤ 1.9.8.13030). A local attacker who can access the assp user account can escalate privileges by installing a Trojan horse at /usr/share/assp/assp.pl, under the assp context. Connected documents also confirm this as a local-pri...