Linux: Read /etc/audit/audit.rules (KB)

audit.rules is a file containing audit rules that will be loaded by the audit daemons init script whenever the daemon is started. The auditctl program is used by the initscripts to perform this operation. The syntax for the rules is essentially the same as when typing in an auditctl command at a...

CVE-2010-0398

The init script in autokey before 0.61.3-2 allows local attackers to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack...

CVE-2010-0398

The init script in autokey before 0.61.3-2 allows local attackers to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack...

CVE-2010-0398

The CVE-2010-0398 entry concerns the autokey package: the init script before version 0.61.3-2 allows local attackers to write arbitrary files through a symlink attack. Documents consistently describe a local arbitrary-file-write vulnerability caused by the init script, but do not provide details ...

CVE-2019-2389

Incorrect scoping of kill operations in MongoDB Server's packaged SysV init scripts allow users with write access to the PID file to insert arbitrary PIDs to be killed when the root user stops the MongoDB process via SysV init. This issue affects MongoDB Server v4.0 versions prior to 4.0.11;...

wildfly: Race condition on PID file allows for termination of arbitrary processes by local users

A flaw was discovered in wildfly that would allow local users, who are able to execute init.d script, to terminate arbitrary processes on the system. An attacker could exploit this by modifying the PID file in /var/run/jboss-eap/ allowing the init.d script to terminate any process as root...

wildfly: Race condition on PID file allows for termination of arbitrary processes by local users

A flaw was discovered in wildfly that would allow local users, who are able to execute init.d script, to terminate arbitrary processes on the system. An attacker could exploit this by modifying the PID file in /var/run/jboss-eap/ allowing the init.d script to terminate any process as root...

wildfly: Race condition on PID file allows for termination of arbitrary processes by local users

A flaw was discovered in wildfly that would allow local users, who are able to execute init.d script, to terminate arbitrary processes on the system. An attacker could exploit this by modifying the PID file in /var/run/jboss-eap/ allowing the init.d script to terminate any process as root...

wildfly: Race condition on PID file allows for termination of arbitrary processes by local users

A flaw was discovered in wildfly that would allow local users, who are able to execute init.d script, to terminate arbitrary processes on the system. An attacker could exploit this by modifying the PID file in /var/run/jboss-eap/ allowing the init.d script to terminate any process as root...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: rh-mysql57-mysql security update

An update for rh-mysql57-mysql is now available for Red Hat Software Collections. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each...

mysql: Init script calling kill with root privileges using pid from pidfile owned by mysql user (CPU Oct 2018)

Vulnerability in the MySQL Server component of Oracle MySQL subcomponent: Client programs. Supported versions that are affected are 5.5.61 and prior, 5.6.41 and prior, 5.7.23 and prior and 8.0.12 and prior. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows high privileged attacker with logon to the...

CVE-2018-16145

The /etc/init.d/opsview-reporting-module script that runs at boot time in Opsview Monitor before 5.3.1 and 5.4.x before 5.4.2 invokes a file that can be edited by the nagios user, and would allow attackers to elevate their privileges to root after a system restart, hence obtaining full control of...

CVE-2016-8657

It was discovered that EAP packages in certain versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux use incorrect permissions for /etc/sysconfig/jbossas configuration files. The file is writable to jboss group root:jboss, 664. On systems using classic /etc/init.d init scripts i.e. on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 a...

[SECURITY] [DLA 1435-1] dnsmasq regression update

Package : dnsmasq Version : 2.72-3+deb8u3 Debian Bug : 860064 The dns-root-data update to 2017072601deb8u2 broke dnsmasqs init script, making dnsmasq no longer start when dns-root-data was installed. This update fixes dnsmasqs parsing of dns-root-data. For Debian 8 "Jessie", this problem has been...

PostgreSQL Backlink Vulnerability

PostgreSQL is a free object-relational database management system from the PostgreSQL organization. The system supports most of the SQL standards and provides many other features, such as foreign keys, triggers, views, and so on. A backlink vulnerability exists in the Red Hat initialization scrip...

CVE-2016-8656

Jboss jbossas before versions 5.2.0-23, 6.4.13, 7.0.5 is vulnerable to an unsafe file handling in the jboss init script which could result in local privilege escalation...

jboss: jbossas writable config files allow privilege escalation

It was discovered that EAP packages in certain versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux use incorrect permissions for /etc/sysconfig/jbossas configuration files. The file is writable to jboss group root:jboss, 664. On systems using classic /etc/init.d init scripts i.e. on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 a...

jboss: jbossas: unsafe chown of server.log in jboss init script allows privilege escalation

It was discovered that the jboss init script performed unsafe file handling which could result in local privilege escalation...

[SECURITY] Fedora 27 Update: corosync-2.4.4-1.fc27

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

mysql: unsafe chmod/chown use in init script (CPU Jan 2017)

Multiple flaws were found in the way the MySQL init script handled initialization of the database data directory and permission setting on the error log file. The mysql operating system user could use these flaws to escalate their privileges to root...