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AIX 6.1 TL 7 : ftp (IV23331)
The root owned files can be read by non-root users only when the directory permissions are set allowed for non-root users. For example, a non-root user won't be able to read anything under /etc/security, but can read files like /etc/rc.wpars under ftp. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network...
AIX ftp vulnerability
IBM SECURITY ADVISORY First Issued: Thu Oct 18 09:50:27 CDT 2012 The most recent version of this document is available here: | Updated: Fri Feb 8 11:58:57 CDT 2013 | Update: Updated Sections I and V: Description and Workaround | Update: New ifixes for latest SP's | Updated: Thu Dec 12 12:55:11 CS...
CVE-2012-4442
Monkey HTTP Daemon 0.9.3 retains the supplementary group IDs of the root account during operations with a non-root effective UID, which might allow local users to bypass intended file-read restrictions by leveraging a race condition in a file-permission check...
Scientific Linux Security Update : fence on SL4.x i386/x86_64
Insecure temporary file use flaws were found in fenceegenera, fenceapc, and fenceapcsnmp. A local attacker could use these flaws to overwrite an arbitrary file writable by the victim running those utilities via a symbolic link attack. CVE-2008-4192, CVE-2008-4579 This update also fixes the...
RedHat Update for virt-v2v RHSA-2011:1615-03
Check for the Version of virt-v2v OpenVAS Vulnerability Test RedHat Update for virt-v2v RHSA-2011:1615-03 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2012 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the...
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...
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...
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-2011-1548
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...