Fedora 16 : grub2-1.99-13.fc16.3 (2012-7579)

Don't allow non-root users to view contents of /etc/grub.d CVE-2012-2314 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing...

xorg-x11-server (important)

The X server had two security issues and one bug that is fixed by this update. CVE-2011-4028: It is possible for a local attacker to deduce if a file exists or not by exploiting the way that Xorg creates its lock files. CVE-2011-4029: It is possible for a non-root local user to set the read...

Apache 2.2 - Scoreboard Invalid Free On Shutdown

Source: http://www.halfdog.net/Security/2011/ApacheScoreboardInvalidFreeOnShutdown/ Introduction Apache 2.2 webservers may use a shared memory segment to share child process status information scoreboard between the child processes and the parent process running as root. A child running with lowe...

Low: Red Hat Security Advisory: virt-v2v security and bug fix update

An updated virt-v2v package that fixes one security issue and several bugs is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having low security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severit...

FreeBSD : Xorg server -- two vulnerabilities in X server lock handling code (8441957c-f9b4-11e0-a78a-bcaec565249c)

Matthieu Herrb reports : It is possible to deduce if a file exists or not by exploiting the way that Xorg creates its lock files. This is caused by the fact that the X server is behaving differently if the lock file already exists as a symbolic link pointing to an existing or non-existing file. I...

RedHat Update for rsync RHSA-2011:0999-01

Check for the Version of rsync OpenVAS Vulnerability Test RedHat Update for rsync RHSA-2011:0999-01 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 terms...

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...

Default configuration

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-2011-1549

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-2011-1549

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-2011-1548

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...

Low: Red Hat Security Advisory: fence security, bug fix, and enhancement update

An updated fence package that fixes multiple security issues, several bugs, and adds two enhancements is now available for Red Hat Cluster Suite 4. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having low security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which...

Fedora 12 : lvm2-2.02.72-4.fc12 (2010-12250)

This update addresses a security problem when using the clustered LVM daemon clvmd from the package lvm2-cluster on systems where you have non-root users. The lvm2 package on its own is not vulnerable to this problem but if you are using lvm2-cluster you must update both together. Further details...

Fedora 13 : lvm2-2.02.73-2.fc13 / udisks-1.0.1-4.fc13 (2010-13708)

This update addresses a security problem when using the clustered LVM daemon clvmd from the package lvm2-cluster on systems where you have non-root users. The lvm2 package on its own is not vulnerable to this problem but if you are using lvm2-cluster you must update both together. Further details...

Fedora Update for mod_auth_shadow FEDORA-2010-6359

Check for the Version of modauthshadow OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for modauthshadow FEDORA-2010-6359 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2010 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it...

[SECURITY] Fedora 12 Update: mod_auth_shadow-2.2-8.fc12

When performing this task one encounters one fundamental difficulty: The /etc/shadow file is supposed to be read/writeable only by root. However, the webserver is supposed to run under a non-root user, such as "nobody". modauthshadow addresses this difficulty by opening a pipe to an suid root...

[SECURITY] Fedora 11 Update: mod_auth_shadow-2.2-8.fc11

When performing this task one encounters one fundamental difficulty: The /etc/shadow file is supposed to be read/writeable only by root. However, the webserver is supposed to run under a non-root user, such as "nobody". modauthshadow addresses this difficulty by opening a pipe to an suid root...

Mandriva Update for xfig MDVA-2010:061 (xfig)

Check for the Version of xfig OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Mandriva Update for xfig MDVA-2010:061 xfig Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2010 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the term...

kernel: non-root can trigger cpu_idle soft lockup

Integer overflow in the hrtimerstart function in kernel/hrtimer.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.23.10 allows local users to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service panic via a large relative timeout value. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information...