VirtualBox - Guest-to-Host Privilege Escalation via Broken Length Handling in slirp Copy Exploit

Exploit for windows platform in category local exploits Source: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1086 There is a vulnerability in VirtualBox that permits an attacker with root privileges in a virtual machine with a NAT network interface to corrupt the memory of the...

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 12.04 LTS : eglibc vulnerability (USN-2485-1) (GHOST)

It was discovered that a buffer overflow existed in the gethostbyname and gethostbyname2 functions in the GNU C Library. An attacker could use this issue to execute arbitrary code or cause an application crash, resulting in a denial of service. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the...

Ubuntu 4.10 : Standard C library script vulnerabilities (USN-4-1)

Recently, Trustix Secure Linux discovered some vulnerabilities in the libc6 package. The utilities 'catchsegv' and 'glibcbug' created temporary files in an insecure way, which allowed a symlink attack to create or overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user invoking the program. Not...

Debian DSA-636-1 : glibc - insecure temporary files

Several insecure uses of temporary files have been discovered in support scripts in the libc6 package which provides the c library for a GNU/Linux system. Trustix developers found that the catchsegv script uses temporary files insecurely. Openwall developers discovered insecure temporary files in...

[SECURITY] [DSA 636-1] New libc6 packages fix insecure temporary files

-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 636-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze January 12th, 2005 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

DSA-636-1 glibc - insecure temporary files

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Debian DSA-149-1 : glibc - integer overflow

An integer overflow bug has been discovered in the RPC library used by GNU libc, which is derived from the SunRPC library. This bug could be exploited to gain unauthorized root access to software linking to this code. The packages below also fix integer overflows in the malloc code. They also...