Unity Linux 20.1070e Security Update: kernel (UTSA-2025-987116)

The Unity Linux 20 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the UTSA-2025-987116 advisory. In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/nouveau: fix off by one in BIOS boundary checking Bounds checking when parsing init scripts...

EUVD-2024-25284

Malicious code in bioql PyPI...

[SECURITY] Fedora 42 Update: corosync-3.1.9-3.fc42

This package contains the Corosync Cluster Engine Executive, several default APIs and libraries, default configuration files, and an init script...

[SECURITY] Fedora 40 Update: corosync-3.1.9-2.fc40

This package contains the Corosync Cluster Engine Executive, several default APIs and libraries, default configuration files, and an init script...

[SECURITY] Fedora 41 Update: corosync-3.1.9-2.fc41

This package contains the Corosync Cluster Engine Executive, several default APIs and libraries, default configuration files, and an init script...

K000148351: PostgreSQL vulnerabilities CVE-2017-15098, CVE-2017-14798, CVE-2016-7048, CVE-2016-5424, and CVE-2016-5423

Security Advisory Description CVE-2017-15098 Invalid jsonpopulaterecordset or jsonbpopulaterecordset function calls in PostgreSQL 10.x before 10.1, 9.6.x before 9.6.6, 9.5.x before 9.5.10, 9.4.x before 9.4.15, and 9.3.x before 9.3.20 can crash the server or disclose a few bytes of server memory...

CVE-2024-28137

A local attacker with low privileges can perform a privilege escalation with an init script due to a TOCTOU vulnerability...

CVE-2024-28137 PHOENIX CONTACT: privilege escalation due to a TOCTOU vulnerability in the CHARX Series

A local attacker with low privileges can perform a privilege escalation with an init script due to a TOCTOU vulnerability...

PT-2024-22287 · Phoenix Contact · Charx Sec-3100

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Phoenix Contact CHARX SEC-3100 affected versions not specified Description: A local attacker with low privileges can perform a privilege escalation with an init script due to a Time-of-Check-to-Time-of-Use TOCTOU vulnerability. Recommendation...

RHEL 6 / 7 : rh-mysql57-mysql (RHSA-2018:3655)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2018:3655 advisory. MySQL is a multi-user, multi-threaded SQL database server. It consists of the MySQL server daemon, mysqld, and many client programs. The...

selinux-policy bug fix update

An update is available for selinux-policy. This update affects Rocky Linux 9. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE list The selinux-policy packages contain the rules that govern how confined...

The vulnerability of the /etc/init.d/openfire file in the PBX server of the corporate IP telephony management system CoreDial sipXcom sipXopenfire allows a attacker to escalate their privileges or execute arbitrary commands.

The vulnerability of the /etc/init.d/openfire file in the CoreDial sipXcom sipXopenfire server of the corporate IP-telephony management system is related to improper privilege assignment. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow an attacker to enhance their privileges or execute arbitrary comman...

corosync-qdevice bug fix and enhancement update

An update is available for corosync-qdevice. This update affects Rocky Linux 8. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE list The corosync-qdevice package contains the Corosync Cluster Engine...

SUSE CVE-2007-3852

The init script sysstat.in in sysstat 5.1.2 up to 7.1.6 creates /tmp/sysstat.run insecurely, which allows local users to execute arbitrary code...

SUSE CVE-2008-0732

The init script for Apache Geronimo on SUSE Linux follows symlinks when performing a chown operation, which might allow local users to obtain access to unspecified files or directories...

SUSE CVE-2016-10089

Nagios 4.3.2 and earlier allows local users to gain root privileges via a hard link attack on the Nagios init script file, related to CVE-2016-8641...

SUSE CVE-2017-14798

A race condition in the postgresql init script could be used by attackers able to access the postgresql account to escalate their privileges to root...

SUSE CVE-2020-12831

An issue was discovered in FRRouting FRR aka Free Range Routing through 7.3.1. When using the split-config feature, the init script creates an empty config file with world-readable default permissions, leading to a possible information leak via tools/frr.in and tools/frrcommon.sh.in. NOTE: some...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up

Taking a stroll down memory lane Tomcat Init Script Privilege Escalation Do you remember the issue with Tomcat init script that was originally discovered by Dawid Golunski back in 2016 that led to privilege escalation? This week's Metasploit release includes an exploit module for CVE-2016-1240 by...

Apache Tomcat On Ubuntu Log Init Privilege Escalation

This exploit sample shows how an exploit module could be written to exploit a bug in a command on a linux computer for priv esc. class MetasploitModule 'Apache Tomcat on Ubuntu Log Init Privilege Escalation', 'Description' = %q Tomcat 6, 7, 8 packages provided by default repositories on...