DEBIAN-CVE-2018-7441

Leptonica through 1.75.3 uses hardcoded /tmp pathnames, which might allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files or have unspecified other impact by creating files in advance or winning a race condition, as demonstrated by /tmp/junksplitimage.ps in prog/splitimage2pdf.c...

RubyGems Local Arbitrary File Rewrite Vulnerability

RubyGems is a Ruby package manager from the RubyGems organization, which is used to distribute and manage Ruby packages. A security vulnerability exists in RubyGems 2.6.12 and earlier versions that stems from the program not validating specification names. An attacker can exploit the vulnerabilit...

Linux Dirty COW Local File Overwrite

Added: 10/27/2016 CVE: CVE-2016-5195 BID: 93793 Background This tool allows you to overwrite an arbitrary file on Linux systems. Problem A race condition exists in the way the Linux kernel's memory subsystem handles the copy-on-write COW breakage of private read-only memory mappings. An...

Linux Dirty COW Local File Overwrite

Added: 10/27/2016 CVE: CVE-2016-5195 BID: 93793 Background This tool allows you to overwrite an arbitrary file on Linux systems. Problem A race condition exists in the way the Linux kernel's memory subsystem handles the copy-on-write COW breakage of private read-only memory mappings. An...

Linux Dirty COW Local File Overwrite

Added: 10/27/2016 CVE: CVE-2016-5195 BID: 93793 Background This tool allows you to overwrite an arbitrary file on Linux systems. Problem A race condition exists in the way the Linux kernel's memory subsystem handles the copy-on-write COW breakage of private read-only memory mappings. An...

Unspecified vulnerability in wget

wget is a free and open source set of download tools that support automatic downloading of files from the web. A security vulnerability exists in wget, which stems from the program's failure to properly handle filenames when redirecting from an HTTP to an FTP URL. An attacker can exploit this...

USN-3012-1 wget vulnerability

Dawid Golunski discovered that Wget incorrectly handled filenames when being redirected from an HTTP to an FTP URL. A malicious server could possibly use this issue to overwrite local files...

Mozilla: Local file overwriting and potential privilege escalation through CSP reports (MFSA 2016-17)

The nsCSPContext::SendReports function in dom/security/nsCSPContext.cpp in Mozilla Firefox before 45.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.7 does not prevent use of a non-HTTP report-uri for a Content Security Policy CSP violation report, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service data...

MGASA-2014-0390 Updated perl-XML-DT package fix CVE-2014-5260

Updated perl-XML-DT package fixes security vulnerability: The mkxmltype and mkdtskel scripts provided in perl-XML-DT allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/xml temporary file CVE-2014-5260...

SGI IRIX 6.5.22 GR_OSView Local Arbitrary File Overwrite Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13058/info A local file overwrite vulnerability affects SGI IRIX. This issue is due to a failure of the affected utility to drop privileges prior to carrying out critical functionality. An attacker may leverage this issue...

CVE-2014-4038

ppc64-diag 2.6.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack related to 1 rtaserrd/diagsupport.c and /tmp/getdtfiles, 2 scripts/ppc64diagmkrsrc and /tmp/diagSEsnap/snapH.tar.gz, or 3 lpd/test/lpdelatest.sh and /var/tmp/ras...

CVE-2014-4038

ppc64-diag 2.6.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack related to 1 rtaserrd/diagsupport.c and /tmp/getdtfiles, 2 scripts/ppc64diagmkrsrc and /tmp/diagSEsnap/snapH.tar.gz, or 3 lpd/test/lpdelatest.sh and /var/tmp/ras...

CVE-2014-3977

libodm.a in IBM AIX 6.1 and 7.1, and VIOS 2.2.x, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2012-2179...

CVE-2014-3986

include/testswebservers in Lynis before 1.5.5 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/lynis..unsorted file with an easily determined name...

CVE-2014-3981

CVE-2014-3981 affects PHP 5.5.13 and earlier. The vulnerability arises from the acinclude.m4 usage in the configure script, enabling a local user to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/phpglibccheck file. Impact is local privilege-related, enabling file tampering. The provi...

CVE-2014-3986

include/testswebservers in Lynis before 1.5.5 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/lynis..unsorted file with an easily determined name...

CVE-2014-3421

lisp/gnus/gnus-fun.el in GNU Emacs 24.3 and earlier allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/gnus.face.ppm temporary file...

CVE-2014-3421

lisp/gnus/gnus-fun.el in GNU Emacs 24.3 and earlier allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/gnus.face.ppm temporary file...

CVE-2014-3421

lisp/gnus/gnus-fun.el in GNU Emacs 24.3 and earlier allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/gnus.face.ppm temporary file...

CVE-2014-3423

CVE-2014-3423 affects GNU Emacs 24.3 and earlier, where lisp/net/browse-url.el allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/Mosaic temporary file. The connected sources confirm this local-privilege issue and describe the exact path and file involved, but do not p...