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aRts: Privilege escalation
Background aRts is a real time modular system for synthesizing audio used by KDE. artswrapper is a helper application used to start the aRts daemon. Description artswrapper fails to properly check whether it can drop privileges accordingly if setuid fails due to a user exceeding assigned resource...
CVE-2006-3005
The JPEG library in media-libs/jpeg before 6b-r7 on Gentoo Linux is built without the -maxmem feature, which could allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service memory exhaustion via a crafted JPEG file that exceeds the intended memory limits...
GLSA-200606-07 : Vixie Cron: Privilege Escalation
The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200606-07 Vixie Cron: Privilege Escalation Roman Veretelnikov discovered that Vixie Cron fails to properly check whether it can drop privileges accordingly if setuid in docommand.c fails due to a user exceeding assigned resource...
Vixie Cron: Privilege Escalation
Background Vixie Cron is a command scheduler with extended syntax over cron. Description Roman Veretelnikov discovered that Vixie Cron fails to properly check whether it can drop privileges accordingly if setuid in docommand.c fails due to a user exceeding assigned resource limits. Impact Local...
CVE-2006-2607
docommand.c in Vixie cron vixie-cron 4.1 does not check the return code of a setuid call, which might allow local users to gain root privileges if setuid fails in cases such as PAM failures or resource limits, as originally demonstrated by a program that exceeds the process limits as defined in...
CVE-2006-2607
docommand.c in Vixie cron vixie-cron 4.1 does not check the return code of a setuid call, which might allow local users to gain root privileges if setuid fails in cases such as PAM failures or resource limits, as originally demonstrated by a program that exceeds the process limits as defined in...
CVE-2006-2607
docommand.c in Vixie cron vixie-cron 4.1 does not check the return code of a setuid call, which might allow local users to gain root privileges if setuid fails in cases such as PAM failures or resource limits, as originally demonstrated by a program that exceeds the process limits as defined in...
Deserialization of untrusted data
docommand.c in Vixie cron vixie-cron 4.1 does not check the return code of a setuid call, which might allow local users to gain root privileges if setuid fails in cases such as PAM failures or resource limits, as originally demonstrated by a program that exceeds the process limits as defined in...
DEBIAN-CVE-2006-2607
docommand.c in Vixie cron vixie-cron 4.1 does not check the return code of a setuid call, which might allow local users to gain root privileges if setuid fails in cases such as PAM failures or resource limits, as originally demonstrated by a program that exceeds the process limits as defined in...
CVE-2006-2607
CVE-2006-2607 refers to a local privilege escalation in vixie-cron 4.1 where do_command.c does not check the return value of setuid(), potentially allowing a root gain if setuid() fails (e.g., PAM limits or resource limits). Connected advisories confirm this vulnerability and document patches/ups...
CVE-2006-2607
docommand.c in Vixie cron vixie-cron 4.1 does not check the return code of a setuid call, which might allow local users to gain root privileges if setuid fails in cases such as PAM failures or resource limits, as originally demonstrated by a program that exceeds the process limits as defined in...
CVE-2006-2607
docommand.c in Vixie cron vixie-cron 4.1 does not check the return code of a setuid call, which might allow local users to gain root privileges if setuid fails in cases such as PAM failures or resource limits, as originally demonstrated by a program that exceeds the process limits as defined in...
RHEL 4 : Updated kernel packages available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Update 3 (Moderate) (RHSA-2006:0132)
The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 4 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2006:0132 advisory. The Linux kernel handles the basic functions of the operating system. This is the third regular kernel update to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. New...
security flaw
Linux kernel 2.4.x and 2.6.x allows local users to cause a denial of service CPU and memory consumption and bypass RLIMMEMLOCK limits via the mlockall call...
rsh security update
CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2005:165 Updated rsh packages that fix various bugs and a theoretical security issue are now available. This update has been rated as having low security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team The rsh package contains a set of programs that allow use...
CVE-2001-1459
OpenSSH
CVE-2001-1459
OpenSSH 2.9 and earlier does not initiate a Pluggable Authentication Module PAM session if commands are executed with no pty, which allows local users to bypass resource limits rlimits set in pam.d...
CVE-2001-1459
OpenSSH 2.9 and earlier does not initiate a Pluggable Authentication Module PAM session if commands are executed with no pty, which allows local users to bypass resource limits rlimits set in pam.d...