CVE-2011-1549

Summary (CVE-2011-1549) : The issue concerns the default logrotate configuration on Gentoo Linux, which runs with root privileges to process files in directories that can be written by non-root users. This enables local attackers to perform symlink and hard-link attacks by exploiting logrotate’s ...

CVE-2011-1549

The default configuration of logrotate on Gentoo Linux uses root privileges to process files in directories that permit non-root write access, which allows local users to conduct symlink and hard link attacks by leveraging logrotate's lack of support for untrusted directories, as demonstrated by...

CVE-2011-1550

The default configuration of logrotate on SUSE openSUSE Factory uses root privileges to process files in directories that permit non-root write access, which allows local users to conduct symlink and hard link attacks by leveraging logrotate's lack of support for untrusted directories, as...

CVE-2011-1548

The default configuration of logrotate on Debian GNU/Linux uses root privileges to process files in directories that permit non-root write access, which allows local users to conduct symlink and hard link attacks by leveraging logrotate's lack of support for untrusted directories, as demonstrated...

CVE-2011-1548

The default configuration of logrotate on Debian GNU/Linux uses root privileges to process files in directories that permit non-root write access, which allows local users to conduct symlink and hard link attacks by leveraging logrotate's lack of support for untrusted directories, as demonstrated...

Exim < 4.74 Local Privilege Escalation

The remote host is running Exim, a message transfer agent. According to the version number in its banner, the installed version of Exim is earlier than 4.74 and thus potentially affected by a local privilege escalation vulnerability. If the remote host is running Linux, attackers can exploit this...

Altair Engineering PBS Pro 10.x - pbs_mom Insecure Temporary File Creation

Altair Engineering PBS Pro 10.x - pbsmom Insecure Temporary File Creation source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/41449/info Altair Engineering PBS Pro creates temporary files in an insecure manner. An attacker with local access could potentially exploit this issue to perform symbolic-link...

Altair Engineering PBS Pro 10.x - 'pbs_mom' Insecure Temporary File Creation

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/41449/info Altair Engineering PBS Pro creates temporary files in an insecure manner. An attacker with local access could potentially exploit this issue to perform symbolic-link attacks, overwriting arbitrary files in the context of the affected applicatio...

Sun Connection Update Manager for Solaris - Multiple Insecure Temporary File Creation Vulnerabilities

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38928/info Sun Connection Update Manager for Solaris creates temporary files in an insecure manner. An attacker with local access could potentially exploit these issues to perform symbolic-link attacks, overwriting arbitrary files in the context of the...

CVE-2009-4648

CVE-2009-4648 affects Accellion Secure File Transfer Appliance before 8_0_105. Root cause: access to sensitive commands run with extra sudo privileges is not properly restricted in /usr/local/bin/admin.pl, enabling local administrators to escalate privileges. Vulnerability vectors include (1) arb...

phpMyAdmin Insecure Temporary File and Directory Creation Vulnerabilities

phpMyAdmin creates temporary directories and files in an insecure way. An attacker with local access could potentially exploit this issue to perform symbolic-link attacks, overwriting arbitrary files in the context of the affected application. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2010 Greenbone AG Some text...

Sympa 'sympa.pl' Insecure Temporary File Creation Vulnerability

Sympa creates temporary files in an insecure manner. An attacker with local access could potentially exploit this issue to perform symbolic-link attacks, overwriting arbitrary files in the context of the affected application. Successfully mounting a symlink attack may allow the attacker to delete...

Sympa 'sympa.pl' Insecure Temporary File Creation Vulnerability

Sympa creates temporary files in an insecure manner. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2009 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 CPE = "cpe:/a:sympa:sympa"; if description...

DSA-1643-1 feta - denial of service

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Vim: Insecure Temporary File Creation During Build: Arbitrary Code Execution

Summary Product : Vim -- Vi IMproved Versions : 5.0--current, possibly older; 4.6 and 3.0 not vulnerable Impact : Arbitrary code execution Wherefrom: Local Original : http://www.rdancer.org/vulnerablevim-configure.in.html http://www.rdancer.org/vulnerablevim-configure.in.patch Insecure temporary...

Microsoft Windows Vista/2003/XP/2000 file management security issues

Title: Microsoft Windows Vista/2003/XP/2000 file management security issues Author: 3APA3A, http://securityvulns.com/ Vendor: Microsoft and potentially another vendors Products: Microsoft Windows Vista/2003/XP/2000, Microsoft resource kit for Windows 2000 and different utilities. Access Vector:...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : vim (MDKSA-2005:029)

Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pena discovered two vulnerabilities in scripts included with the vim editor. The two scripts, 'tcltags' and 'vimspell.sh' created temporary files in an insecure manner which could allow a malicious user to execute a symbolic link attack or to create, or overwrite,...

FireHOL: Insecure temporary file creation

Background FireHOL is an iptables rules generator. Description FireHOL insecurely creates temporary files with predictable names. Impact A local attacker could create malicious symbolic links to arbitrary system files. When FireHOL is executed, this could lead to these files being overwritten wit...

USN-61-1: vim vulnerabilities

Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña noticed that the auxillary scripts "tcltags" and "vimspell.sh" created temporary files in an insecure manner. This could allow a symbolic link attack to create or overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user invoking the script either by calling it...

UTempter 0.5.x - Multiple Local Vulnerabilities

UTempter 0.5.x - Multiple Local Vulnerabilities source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10178/info It has been reported that utempter is affected by multiple local vulnerabilities. The first issue is due to an input validation error that causes the application to exit improperly; facilitating...