CVE-2012-2123

The capbprmsetcreds function in security/commoncap.c in the Linux kernel before 3.3.3 does not properly handle the use of file system capabilities aka fcaps for implementing a privileged executable file, which allows local users to bypass intended personality restrictions via a crafted applicatio...

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...

Apache Httpd < 2.2.22 : scoreboard parent DoS

A flaw was found in the handling of the scoreboard. An unprivileged child process could cause the parent process to crash at shutdown rather than terminate cleanly...

Apache Httpd < 2.0.65 : scoreboard parent DoS

A flaw was found in the handling of the scoreboard. An unprivileged child process could cause the parent process to crash at shutdown rather than terminate cleanly...

CVE-2008-3067

sudo in SUSE openSUSE 10.3 does not clear the stdin buffer when password entry times out, which might allow local users to obtain a password by reading stdin from the parent process after a sudo child process exits...

CVE-2008-3067

sudo in SUSE openSUSE 10.3 does not clear the stdin buffer when password entry times out, which might allow local users to obtain a password by reading stdin from the parent process after a sudo child process exits...

openSUSE 10 Security Update : sudo (sudo-5349)

This update of sudo flushs the stdin buffer on password timeout. Unflushed buffers can lead to leaking the password via a parent process reading stdin after sudo exits. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from...

CVE-2007-6422

The balancerhandler function in modproxybalancer in the Apache HTTP Server 2.2.0 through 2.2.6, when a threaded Multi-Processing Module is used, allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service child process crash via an invalid bb variable...

CVE-2007-3848

Linux kernel 2.4.35 and other versions allows local users to send arbitrary signals to a child process that is running at higher privileges by causing a setuid-root parent process to die, which delivers an attacker-controlled parent process death signal PRSETPDEATHSIG...

security flaw

The shared memory scoreboard in the HTTP daemon for Apache 1.3.x before 1.3.27 allows any user running as the Apache UID to send a SIGUSR1 signal to any process as root, resulting in a denial of service process kill or possibly other behaviors that would not normally be allowed, by modifying the...