Arbitrary file deletion

The 1 pcmd and 2 pmlogger init scripts in Performance Co-Pilot PCP before 3.6.10 allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /var/tmp/ temporary file...

[SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: cloud-init-0.6.3-0.5.bzr532.fc16

Cloud-init is a set of init scripts for cloud instances. Cloud instances need special scripts to run during initialization to retrieve and install ssh keys and to let the user run various scripts...

Fedora 17 : trousers-0.3.9-1.fc17 (2012-12973)

This update closes a small security issue where a remote user could crash tscd if it were enabled for networking. This update also has improved init scripts which should make it load quicker. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora...

Fedora Update for systemd FEDORA-2012-4024

Check for the Version of systemd OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for systemd FEDORA-2012-4024 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2012 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the...

[SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: systemd-37-15.fc16

systemd is a system and service manager for Linux, compatible with SysV and LSB init scripts. systemd provides aggressive parallelization capabilities, uses socket and D-Bus activation for starting services, offers on-demand starting of daemons, keeps track of processes using Linux cgroups,...

Low: Red Hat Security Advisory: nfs-utils security, bug fix, and enhancement update

An updated nfs-utils package that fixes one security issue, various bugs, and adds one enhancement is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having low security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which...

Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200411-26 (GIMPS, SETI@home, ChessBrain)

The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory GLSA 200411-26. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2008 E-Soft Inc. Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

CVE-2004-1115

The init scripts in Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence SETI project 3.08-r3 and earlier execute user-owned programs with root privileges, which allows local users to gain privileges by modifying the programs...

CVE-2004-1115

The init scripts in Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence SETI project 3.08-r3 and earlier execute user-owned programs with root privileges, which allows local users to gain privileges by modifying the programs...

CVE-2004-1116

CVE-2004-1116 affects Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) 23.9 and earlier, where init scripts run user-owned binaries with root privileges. This enables local privilege escalation if a user can modify the programs, as described in NVD, CVE listings, and Gentoo GLSA 200411-26. The OpenVA...