PHP arbitrary class instantiation in "files_external" - ownCloud

A user may instantiate arbitrary ownCloud classes due to a lack of a proper check of the mount point options provided by a user via the web front end. These may include constructor arguments and could potentially lead to a remote code execution. Affected Software ownCloud Server 8.1.2 CVE-2015-76...

Windows 10^H^H Symbolic Link Mitigations

Posted by James Forshaw, abusing symbolic links like it’s 1999. For the past couple of years I’ve been researching Windows elevation of privilege attacks. This might be escaping sandboxing or gaining system privileges. One of the techniques I’ve used multiple times is abusing the symbolic link...

UBUNTU-CVE-2014-5045

The mountpointlast function in fs/namei.c in the Linux kernel before 3.15.8 does not properly maintain a certain reference count during attempts to use the umount system call in conjunction with a symlink, which allows local users to cause a denial of service memory consumption or use-after-free ...

openSUSE Security Update : fuse (openSUSE-SU-2011:0264-1)

Race conditions in fuse allowed unprivileged users to umount arbitrary mount points CVE-2011-0541,CVE-2010-3879,CVE-2011-0543. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from openSUSE Security Update fuse-4184. The te...

udisks2: stack-based buffer overflow when handling long path names

Stack-based buffer overflow in udisks before 1.0.5 and 2.x before 2.1.3 allows local users to cause a denial of service crash and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long mount point...

[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: systemd-204-15.fc19

systemd is a system and service manager for Linux, compatible with SysV and LSB init scripts. systemd provides aggressive parallelization capabilities, uses socket and D-Bus activation for starting services, offers on-demand starting of daemons, keeps track of processes using Linux cgroups,...

Scientific Linux Security Update : sysstat on SL5.x i386/x86_64

The sysstat package contains a set of utilities which enable system monitoring of disks, network, and other I/O activity. It was found that the sysstat initscript created a temporary file in an insecure way. A local attacker could use this flaw to create arbitrary files via a symbolic link attack...

[SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: systemd-37-15.fc16

systemd is a system and service manager for Linux, compatible with SysV and LSB init scripts. systemd provides aggressive parallelization capabilities, uses socket and D-Bus activation for starting services, offers on-demand starting of daemons, keeps track of processes using Linux cgroups,...

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS : linux-ec2 vulnerabilities (USN-1239-1)

Ryan Sweat discovered that the kernel incorrectly handled certain VLAN packets. On some systems, a remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. CVE-2011-1576 Vasiliy Kulikov and Dan Rosenberg discovered that ecryptfs did not correctly...

USN-1239-1: Linux kernel (EC2) vulnerabilities

Ryan Sweat discovered that the kernel incorrectly handled certain VLAN packets. On some systems, a remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. CVE-2011-1576 Vasiliy Kulikov and Dan Rosenberg discovered that ecryptfs did not correctly...

Ubuntu Update for linux USN-1227-1

Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-1227-1 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN12271.nasl 7964 2017-12-01 07:32:11Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for linux USN-1227-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2011 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This...

Ubuntu Update for linux-lts-backport-maverick USN-1219-1

Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-1219-1 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN12191.nasl 7964 2017-12-01 07:32:11Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for linux-lts-backport-maverick USN-1219-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2011 Greenbone Networks GmbH,...

Ubuntu 11.04 : linux vulnerabilities (USN-1211-1)

It was discovered that the /proc filesystem did not correctly handle permission changes when programs executed. A local attacker could hold open files to examine details about programs running with higher privileges, potentially increasing the chances of exploiting additional vulnerabilities...

RedHat Update for sysstat RHSA-2011:1005-01

Check for the Version of sysstat OpenVAS Vulnerability Test RedHat Update for sysstat RHSA-2011:1005-01 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2011 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the...

openSUSE Security Update : fuse (openSUSE-SU-2011:0265-1)

Race conditions in fuse allowed unprivileged users to umount arbitrary mount points CVE-2011-0541,CVE-2010-3879,CVE-2011-0543. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from openSUSE Security Update fuse-4183. The te...

Ubuntu Update for linux, linux-source-2.6.15/20/22 vulnerabilities USN-637-1

Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-637-1 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN6371.nasl 7969 2017-12-01 09:23:16Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for linux, linux-source-2.6.15/20/22 vulnerabilities USN-637-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2009 Greenbone Networ...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-637-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the 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 ifdescription...

USN-637-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that there were multiple NULL-pointer function dereferences in the Linux kernel terminal handling code. A local attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary code as root, or crash the system, leading to a denial of service. CVE-2008-2812 The dochangetype routine did not...

Design/Logic Flaw

ScramDisk 4 Linux before 1.0-1 does not perform permission checks on mount points, which allows local users to gain privileges by using a system directory as a mount point for a container...

CVE-2007-2075

ScramDisk 4 Linux before 1.0-1 does not perform permission checks on mount points, which allows local users to gain privileges by using a system directory as a mount point for a container...