UBUNTU-CVE-2019-13272

In the Linux kernel before 5.1.17, ptracelink in kernel/ptrace.c mishandles the recording of the credentials of a process that wants to create a ptrace relationship, which allows local users to obtain root access by leveraging certain scenarios with a parent-child process relationship, where a...

Linux Polkit pkexec helper PTRACE_TRACEME local root exploit

This module exploits an issue in ptracelink in kernel/ptrace.c before Linux kernel 5.1.17. This issue can be exploited from a Linux desktop terminal, but not over an SSH session, as it requires execution from within the context of a user with an active Polkit agent. In the Linux kernel before...

DEBIAN-CVE-2019-11675

The groonga-httpd package 6.1.5-1 for Debian sets the /var/log/groonga ownership to the groonga account, which might let local users obtain root access because of unsafe interaction with logrotate. For example, an attacker can exploit a race condition to insert a symlink from /var/log/groonga/htt...

UBUNTU-CVE-2019-11675

The groonga-httpd package 6.1.5-1 for Debian sets the /var/log/groonga ownership to the groonga account, which might let local users obtain root access because of unsafe interaction with logrotate. For example, an attacker can exploit a race condition to insert a symlink from /var/log/groonga/htt...

openSUSE Security Update : dovecot22 (openSUSE-2019-1220)

This update for dovecot22 fixes the following issues : Security issues fixed : - CVE-2019-7524: Fixed an improper file handling which could result in stack overflow allowing local root escalation bsc1130116. - CVE-2019-3814: Fixed a vulnerability related to SSL client certificate authentication...

openSUSE: Security Advisory for dovecot23 (openSUSE-SU-2019:1212-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Copyright C 2019 Greenbone Networks GmbH 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-or-later This program is free software; you can...

openSUSE Security Update : dovecot23 (openSUSE-2019-1212)

This update for dovecot23 fixes the following issue : Security issue fixed : - CVE-2019-7524: Fixed an improper file handling which could result in stack oveflow allowing local root escalation bsc1130116. This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C...

OPENSUSE-SU-2019:1212-1 Security update for dovecot23

This update for dovecot23 fixes the following issue: Security issue fixed: - CVE-2019-7524: Fixed an improper file handling which could result in stack oveflow allowing local root escalation bsc1130116. This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project...

Security update for dovecot23 (moderate)

openSUSE Security Update: Security update for dovecot23 Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2019:1212-1 Rating: moderate References: 1130116 Cross-References: CVE-2019-7524 Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.0 An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available. Description: This update for dovecot...

SUSE SLES15 Security Update : dovecot23 (SUSE-SU-2019:0876-1)

This update for dovecot23 fixes the following issue : Security issue fixed : CVE-2019-7524: Fixed an improper file handling which could result in stack oveflow allowing local root escalation bsc1130116. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from...

SUSE-SU-2019:0876-1 Security update for dovecot23

This update for dovecot23 fixes the following issue: Security issue fixed: - CVE-2019-7524: Fixed an improper file handling which could result in stack oveflow allowing local root escalation bsc1130116...

Internet Bug Bounty: Apache HTTP [2.4.17-2.4.38] Local Root Privilege Escalation

Hello, I reported a Local Root privilege escalation vulnerability on Apache HTTPd at the beginning of the year. Apache has now patched it, as you can see here. The vulnerability affects modprefork, modevent, and modworker, the most used mods on Linux. Basically, this is an arbitrary function call...

OPENSUSE-SU-2019:0009-1 Security update for singularity

This update for singularity to version 2.6.1 fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed: - CVE-2018-19295: Fixed a local root exploit, related to joining arbitrary mount namespaces boo1111411...

SUSE-SU-2019:13976-1 Security update for supportutils

This update for supportutils fixes the following issues: Security vulnerabilities fixed: - CVE-2018-19636: Local root exploit via inclusion of attacker controlled shell script bsc1117751 - CVE-2018-19640: Users can kill arbitrary processes bsc1118463 - CVE-2018-19638: User can overwrite arbitrary...

IBM DB2 Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (CNVD-2019-07256)

IBM DB2 is a set of relational database management system from IBM in the United States. The main execution environments for this system are UNIX, Linux, IBMi, z/OS, and Windows server versions. A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in IBM DB2 including: DB2 Connect Server based on Linux, UNIX a...

CVE-2018-1998

IBM WebSphere MQ 8.0.0.0 through 9.1.1 could allow a local user to inject code that could be executed with root privileges. This is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2018-1792. IBM X-ForceID: 154887...

Linux kernel infinite loop vulnerability

The Linux kernel is a computer operating system kernel written in C and assembly language, compliant with the POSIX standard, and distributed under the GNU General Public License. An infinite loop vulnerability exists in Linux kernel 4.18 and later. A local privileged user "root" can exploit the...

systemd-journald Memory Corruption / Information Leak Vulnerability

This is a thorough analysis of how Qualys approached exploiting three vulnerabilities in systemd-journald. Although they have not released formal exploits yet, they detail in here is useful in understanding the flaws. Qualys Security Advisory System Down: A systemd-journald exploit...

openSUSE Security Update : singularity (openSUSE-2019-9)

This update for singularity to version 2.6.1 fixes the following issues : Security issues fixed : - CVE-2018-19295: Fixed a local root exploit, related to joining arbitrary mount namespaces boo1111411. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in...

New Systemd Privilege Escalation Flaws Affect Most Linux Distributions

Security researchers have discovered three vulnerabilities in Systemd, a popular init system and service manager for most Linux operating systems, that could allow unprivileged local attackers or malicious programs to gain root access on the targeted systems. The vulnerabilities, assigned as...