CVE-2011-3871

Puppet 2.7.x before 2.7.5, 2.6.x before 2.6.11, and 0.25.x, when running in --edit mode, uses a predictable file name, which allows local users to run arbitrary Puppet code or trick a user into editing arbitrary files...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 2147-1 (pimd)

The remote host is missing an update to pimd announced via advisory DSA 2147-1. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: deb21471.nasl 6613 2017-07-07 12:08:40Z cfischer $ Description: Auto-generated from advisory DSA 2147-1 pimd Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2011 E-Soft Inc...

CVE-2010-3764

Affected software/versions: Bugzilla 2.12–3.2.8, 3.4.8, 3.6.2, 3.7.3, 4.1.** Root cause / vulnerability:** Old Charts implementation creates graph files in graphs/ with predictable names, enabling remote attackers to retrieve sensitive information via a modified URL.** Impact:** Unauthorized disc...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : firefox (MDVSA-2009:294)

Security issues were identified and fixed in firefox 3.5.x : Security researcher Alin Rad Pop of Secunia Research reported a heap-based buffer overflow in Mozilla's string to floating point number conversion routines. Using this vulnerability an attacker could craft some malicious JavaScript code...

CVE-2010-0123

The database backup implementation in Employee Timeclock Software 0.99 stores sensitive information under the web root with insufficient access control, which allows remote attackers to download a database via a direct request for a "semi-predictable file name."...

Unsafe handling of temporary files

PMASA-2010-2 Announcement-ID: PMASA-2010-2 Date: 2010-01-15 Summary Unsafe handling of temporary files Description phpMyAdmin created temporary files with predictable file name. Severity We consider these vulnerabilities to be not critical. Affected Versions For 2.11.x: versions before 2.11.10 ar...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : firefox (MDVSA-2009:290-1)

Security issues were identified and fixed in firefox 3.0.x : Security researcher Alin Rad Pop of Secunia Research reported a heap-based buffer overflow in Mozilla's string to floating point number conversion routines. Using this vulnerability an attacker could craft some malicious JavaScript code...

Mozilla Firefox < 3.0.15 / 3.5.4 Multiple Vulnerabilities

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Local downloaded file tampering — Mozilla

Security researcher Jeremy Brown reported that the file naming scheme used for downloading a file which already exists in the downloads folder is predictable. If an attacker had local access to a victim's computer and knew the name of a file the victim intended to open through the Download Manage...

openSUSE Security Update : open-iscsi (open-iscsi-1238)

The iscsidiscovery tool created predictable temporary files which potentially allowed attackers to overwrite system files CVE-2009-1297 . %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from openSUSE Security Update...

Code injection

Java Runtime Environment JRE for Sun JDK and JRE 6 Update 10 and earlier; JDK and JRE 5.0 Update 16 and earlier; SDK and JRE 1.4.218 and earlier; and SDK and JRE 1.3.123 and earlier creates temporary files with predictable file names, which allows attackers to write malicious JAR files via unknow...

CVE-2008-5360

Java Runtime Environment JRE for Sun JDK and JRE 6 Update 10 and earlier; JDK and JRE 5.0 Update 16 and earlier; SDK and JRE 1.4.218 and earlier; and SDK and JRE 1.3.123 and earlier creates temporary files with predictable file names, which allows attackers to write malicious JAR files via unknow...

FreeBSD Security Advisory (FreeBSD-SA-06:02.ee.asc)

The remote host is missing an update to the system as announced in the referenced advisory FreeBSD-SA-06:02.ee.asc SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2008 E-Soft Inc. Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders...

FreeBSD Security Advisory (FreeBSD-SA-06:01.texindex.asc)

The remote host is missing an update to the system as announced in the referenced advisory FreeBSD-SA-06:01.texindex.asc SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2008 E-Soft Inc. Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 159-1 (python)

The remote host is missing an update to python announced via advisory DSA 159-1. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: deb1591.nasl 6616 2017-07-07 12:10:49Z cfischer $ Description: Auto-generated from advisory DSA 159-1 Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2007 E-Soft Inc...

GLSA-200712-14 : CUPS: Multiple vulnerabilities

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200712-14 CUPS: Multiple vulnerabilities Wei Wang McAfee AVERT Research discovered an integer underflow in the asn1getstring function of the SNMP backend, leading to a stack-based buffer overflow when handling SNMP responses...

FreeBSD-SA-06:02.ee

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-06:02.ee Security Advisory The FreeBSD Project Topic: ee temporary file privilege escalation Category: core Module: ee Announced: 2006-01-11 Credits: Christian...

ee -- temporary file privilege escalation

Problem description The ispellop function used by ee1 while executing spell check operations employs an insecure method of temporary file generation. This method produces predictable file names based on the process ID and fails to confirm which path will be over written with the user. It should b...

texindex -- temporary file privilege escalation

Problem description The "sortoffline" function used by texindex1 employs the "maketempname" function, which produces predictable file names and fails to validate that the paths do not exist. Impact These predictable temporary file names are problematic because they allow an attacker to take...

security flaw

mysqlinstalldb in MySQL 4.1.x before 4.1.12 and 5.x up to 5.0.4 creates the mysqlinstalldb.X file with a predictable filename and insecure permissions, which allows local users to execute arbitrary SQL commands by modifying the file's contents...