[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,...

FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-13:13.nullfs

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-13:13.nullfs Security Advisory The FreeBSD Project Topic: Cross-mount links between nullfs5 mounts Category: core Module: nullfs Announced: 2013-09-10 Credits:...

FreeBSD -- Cross-mount links between nullfs(5) mounts

Problem Description: The nullfs5 implementation of the VOPLINK9 VFS operation does not check whether the source and target of the link are both in the same nullfs instance. It is therefore possible to create a hardlink from a location in one nullfs instance to a file in another, as long as the...

VMWare Setuid vmware-mount Unsafe popen(3)

VMWare Workstation up to and including 9.0.2 build-1031769 and Player have a setuid executable called vmware-mount that invokes lsbrelease in the PATH with popen3. Since PATH is user-controlled, and the default system shell on Debian-derived distributions does not drop privs, we can put an...

VMWare Setuid vmware-mount Unsafe popen(3)

This file is part of the Metasploit Framework and may be subject to redistribution and commercial restrictions. Please see the Metasploit web site for more information on licensing and terms of use. http://metasploit.com/ require 'msf/core' require 'rex' require 'msf/core/post/common' require...

VMware - Setuid VMware-mount Unsafe popen(3) (Metasploit)

This file is part of the Metasploit Framework and may be subject to redistribution and commercial restrictions. Please see the Metasploit web site for more information on licensing and terms of use. http://metasploit.com/ require 'msf/core' require 'rex' require 'msf/core/post/common' require...

VMWare privilege escalation

vmware-mount privilege escalation...

NEW VMSA-2013-0010 VMware Workstation host privilege escalation vulnerability

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - ----------------------------------------------------------------------- VMware Security Advisory Advisory ID: VMSA-2013-0010 Synopsis: VMware Workstation host privilege escalation vulnerability Issue date: 2013-08-22 Updated on: 2013-08-22 initial...

CVE-2013-4247

Off-by-one error in the builduncpathtoroot function in fs/cifs/connect.c in the Linux kernel before 3.9.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory corruption and system crash via a DFS share mount operation that triggers use of an unexpected DFS referral name length...

Design/Logic Flaw

vmware-mount in VMware Workstation 8.x and 9.x and VMware Player 4.x and 5.x, on systems based on Debian GNU/Linux, allows host OS users to gain host OS privileges via a crafted lsbrelease binary in a directory in the PATH, related to use of the popen library function...

VMWare Setuid vmware-mount Unsafe popen(3)

VMWare Workstation up to and including 9.0.2 build-1031769 and Player have a setuid executable called vmware-mount that invokes lsbrelease in the PATH with popen3. Since PATH is user-controlled, and the default system shell on Debian-derived distributions does not drop privs, we can put an...

PT-2013-4917 · Linux · Linux Kernel

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux kernel versions prior to 3.9.6 Description: The issue is caused by an off-by-one error in the build unc path to root function in fs/cifs/connect.c, allowing remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in memory corruption a...

Gather eCryptfs Metadata

This module will collect the contents of all users' .ecrypts directories on the targeted machine. Collected "wrapped-passphrase" files can be cracked with John the Ripper JtR to recover "mount passphrases". This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source:...

[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: kdf-4.10.5-1.fc18

KDiskFree displays the available file devices hard drive partitions, floppy and CD/DVD drives, etc. along with information on their capacity, free space, type and mount point...

Oracle Linux 5 : Important: / autofs (ELSA-2007-1128)

The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2007-1128 advisory. 5.0.1-0.rc2.55.el5.1 - Bug 410041: CVE-2007-5964 autofs defaults don't restrict suid in /net - use mount option nosuid for -hosts map unless suid is explicily...

Oracle Linux 4 : autofs5 (ELSA-2007-1177)

From Red Hat Security Advisory 2007:1177 : Updated autofs5 technology preview packages that fix a security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The autofs utility controls the...

Oracle Linux 5 : nfs-utils (ELSA-2012-0310)

The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2012-0310 advisory. - Mount fails to anticipate RLIMITFSIZE bz 697979,CVE-2011-1749 Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security...

kernel: VFAT slab-based buffer overflow

Buffer overflow in the VFAT filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.3 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service system crash via a VFAT write operation on a filesystem with the utf8 mount option, which is not properly handled during UTF-8 to UTF-16 conversi...

CentOS 4 : util-linux (CESA-2009:0981)

An updated util-linux package that fixes one security issue and several bugs is now available. This update has been rated as having low security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The util-linux package contains a collection of basic system utilities, such as fdisk and mount. A log...

[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: kdf-4.10.4-1.fc17

KDiskFree displays the available file devices hard drive partitions, floppy and CD/DVD drives, etc. along with information on their capacity, free space, type and mount point...