UBUNTU-CVE-2013-5653

The getenv and filenameforall functions in Ghostscript 9.10 ignore the "-dSAFER" argument, which allows remote attackers to read data via a crafted postscript file...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : libgssglue (MDVSA-2013:043)

This update fixes insecure getenv usage in libgssglue, which could be used under some circumstances by local attackers do gain root privileges CVE-2011-2709. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Mandriva...

[ MDVSA-2013:043 ] libgssglue

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDVSA-2013:043 http://www.mandriva.com/en/support/security/ Package : libgssglue Date : April 5, 2013 Affected: Business Server 1.0 Problem Description: This update fixes insecure getenv usage in libgssglue, which coul...

libgssapi / libgssglue privilege escalation

Insecure getenv usage...

openssl security update

1.0.0-27.2 - fix for CVE-2013-0169 - SSL/TLS CBC timing attack 907589 - fix for CVE-2013-0166 - DoS in OCSP signatures checking 908052 - enable compression only if explicitly asked for or OPENSSLDEFAULTZLIB environment variable is set fixes CVE-2012-4929 857051 - use securegetenv everywhere inste...

GLSA-201209-22 : libgssglue: Privilege escalation

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201209-22 libgssglue: Privilege escalation libgssglue does not securely use getenv when loading a library for a setuid application. Impact : A local attacker could gain escalated privileges. Workaround : There is no known workarou...

SuSE 10 Security Update : libgssapi (ZYPP Patch Number 7541)

This update fixes insecure getenv usage, which could be used under some circumstances by local attackers do gain root privileges. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc'; include'compat.inc'; if...

SuSE 10 Security Update : libgssapi (ZYPP Patch Number 7544)

This update fixes insecure getenv usage, which could be used under some circumstances by local attackers do gain root privileges. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc'; include'compat.inc'; if...

FreeBSD : sudo -- Secure path vulnerability (d42e5b66-6ea0-11df-9c8d-00e0815b8da8)

Todd Miller reports : Most versions of the C library function getenv return the first instance of an environment variable to the caller. However, some programs, notably the GNU Bourne Again SHell bash, do their own environment parsing and may choose the last instance of a variable rather than the...

sudo -- Secure path vulnerability

Todd Miller reports: Most versions of the C library function getenv return the first instance of an environment variable to the caller. However, some programs, notably the GNU Bourne Again SHell bash, do their own environment parsing and may choose the last instance of a variable rather than the...

CVE-2005-3346

Buffer overflow in the environment variable substitution code in main.c in OSH 1.7-14 allows local users to inject arbitrary environment variables, such as LDPRELOAD, via pathname arguments of the form "$VAR/EVAR=arg", which cause the EVAR portion to be appended to a buffer returned by a getenv...

CVE-2005-3346

Buffer overflow in the environment variable substitution code in main.c in OSH 1.7-14 allows local users to inject arbitrary environment variables, such as LDPRELOAD, via pathname arguments of the form "$VAR/EVAR=arg", which cause the EVAR portion to be appended to a buffer returned by a getenv...