The vulnerability of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system allows a remote attacker to compromise the confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of protected information.

The vulnerability of the system-config-printer-gui-0.6.116.10 package of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system can lead to violations of confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of protected information. This vulnerability can be exploited remotely...

MGASA-2015-0116 Updated setup package fixes security vulnerability

An issue has been identified in Mageia 4's setup package where the /etc/shadow and /etc/gshadow files containing password hashes were created with incorrect permissions, making them world-readable mga14516. This update fixes this issue by enforcing that those files are owned by the root user and...

Debian DSA-161-1 : mantis - privilege escalation

A problem with user privileges has been discovered in the Mantis package, a PHP based bug tracking system. The Mantis system didn't check whether a user is permitted to view a bug, but displays it right away if the user entered a valid bug id. Another bug in Mantis caused the 'View Bugs' page to...

CVE-2001-1277

makewhatis in the man package before 1.5i2 allows an attacker in group man to overwrite arbitrary files via a man page whose name contains shell metacharacters...

cdrdao insecure filehandling

-- Description -- There are several security-related Bugs in the distributed Debian SID Package of CDRDAO, a program to write audio or mixed mode CD-Rs in disk-at-once mode. /usr/bin/cdrdao is setuid-Root by default. -- Version -- Name: Cdrdao Version: 1.1.5 Autor: Andreas Mueller [email protected]...

Security Announcement - aaa_base

SuSE Security Announcement Package: aaabase 2000.1.3 Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2000 14:03:28 GMT Affected SuSE versions: all Vulnerability Type: remove any local files executing attacker supplied commands as non-root SuSE default package: yes Other affected systems: unknown A security hole was discovered...