sos: Usage of predictable temporary files allows privilege escalation

An insecure temporary file use flaw was found in the way sos created certain sosreport files. A local attacker could possibly use this flaw to perform a symbolic link attack to reveal the contents of sosreport files, or in some cases modify arbitrary files and escalate their privileges on the...

sos security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2016:0152 An updated sos package that fixes one security issue and one bug is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base...

Scientific Linux Security Update : sos on SL6.x (noarch) (20160209)

An insecure temporary file use flaw was found in the way sos created certain sosreport files. A local attacker could possibly use this flaw to perform a symbolic link attack to reveal the contents of sosreport files, or in some cases modify arbitrary files and escalate their privileges on the...

RHEL 6 : sos (RHSA-2016:0152)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2016:0152 advisory. The sos package contains a set of tools that gather information from system hardware, logs and configuration files. The information can then be used...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: sos security and bug fix update

An updated sos package that fixes one security issue and one bug is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is...

sos: Usage of predictable temporary files allows privilege escalation

An insecure temporary file use flaw was found in the way sos created certain sosreport files. A local attacker could possibly use this flaw to perform a symbolic link attack to reveal the contents of sosreport files, or in some cases modify arbitrary files and escalate their privileges on the...

Zarafa Collaboration Platform zarafa-autorespond Privilege Gain Vulnerability

Zarafa Collaboration Platform ZCP is a suite of open source email and calendar software from Zarafa, Netherlands. A security vulnerability exists in zarafa-autorespond in versions of ZCP prior to 7.2.1. A local attacker can exploit this vulnerability to gain privileges by performing a symbolic li...

IPTables-Parse 'IPTables/Parse.pm' Insecure Temporary File Creation Vulnerability

IPTables-Parse is a Perl extension for parsing iptables and ip6tables firewall rules. An insecure temporary file creation vulnerability exists in IPTables-Parse versions prior to 1.6. A local attacker can exploit this vulnerability to perform a symbolic link attack to overwrite arbitrary files in...

Sudo sudoedit Unauthorized Access Vulnerability

Sudo is a program developed by software developer Todd C. Miller for use on Unix-like operating systems that allows users to execute commands in a secure manner with special privileges. A security vulnerability exists in sudoedit in versions of Sudo prior to 1.8.15. Due to the program failing to...

Apple OS X Symbolic Link Attack Vulnerability

Apple OS X is the operating system used by the Apple family of machines. A symbolic link attack vulnerability exists in Apple OS X versions prior to 10.11.1. The vulnerability allows an attacker to perform an unspecified symbolic link attack via a crafted application to perform arbitrary write to...

Apport Denial of Service Vulnerability

Apport is a toolkit for Ubuntu that collects and gives feedback on error messages information that the operating system finds useful when an application crashes. A denial-of-service vulnerability exists in versions prior to Apport 2.19, which allows local users to cause a denial of service or...

CVE-2015-1338

kernelcrashdump in Apport before 2.19 allows local users to cause a denial of service disk consumption or possibly gain privileges via a 1 symlink or 2 hard link attack on /var/crash/vmcore.log...

Hardcoded credentials

kernelcrashdump in Apport before 2.19 allows local users to cause a denial of service disk consumption or possibly gain privileges via a 1 symlink or 2 hard link attack on /var/crash/vmcore.log...

CVE-2015-1338

CVE-2015-1338 affects the Apport crash-dump handling in Linux environments (kernel_crashdump) prior to version 2.19. A local attacker could exploit insecure crash dump file handling to cause a denial of service via disk consumption or potentially elevate privileges through symlink or hard link at...

Mozilla Firefox and Firefox ESR updater.exe Privilege Bypass Vulnerability

Mozilla Firefox is an open source web browser. A security vulnerability exists in the Mozilla Firefox updater.exe file that allows local attackers to perform a symbolic link attack to write arbitrary files at program startup...

CVE-2015-1338

kernelcrashdump in Apport before 2.19 allows local users to cause a denial of service disk consumption or possibly gain privileges via a 1 symlink or 2 hard link attack on /var/crash/vmcore.log...

UBUNTU-CVE-2015-1338

kernelcrashdump in Apport before 2.19 allows local users to cause a denial of service disk consumption or possibly gain privileges via a 1 symlink or 2 hard link attack on /var/crash/vmcore.log...

Amazon Linux: Security Advisory (ALAS-2014-358)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 Greenbone AG 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...

Amazon Linux: Security Advisory (ALAS-2014-356)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 Greenbone AG 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...

Ansible Bypass Security Restrictions Vulnerability

Ansible is a newly emerged operation and maintenance tool that is based on Python and combines the advantages of many old operation and maintenance tools to achieve batch operating system configuration, batch program deployment, batch running commands and other functions. A security vulnerability...