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UBUNTU-CVE-2013-6889
GNU Rush 1.7 does not properly drop privileges, which allows local users to read arbitrary files via the --lint option...
CVE-2013-6889
GNU Rush 1.7 is affected by a privilege handling flaw in which the process fails to drop privileges, allowing local users to read arbitrary files through the --lint option. The vulnerability stems from improper privilege separation in the affected binary, enabling a local attacker to access sensi...
CVE-2011-2527
The changeprocessuid function in os-posix.c in Qemu 0.14.0 and earlier does not properly drop group privileges when the -runas option is used, which allows local guest users to access restricted files on the host...
RedHat Update for krb5-appl RHSA-2011:0920-01
Check for the Version of krb5-appl OpenVAS Vulnerability Test RedHat Update for krb5-appl RHSA-2011:0920-01 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 t...
DEBIAN-CVE-2010-3430
The privilege-dropping implementation in the 1 pamenv and 2 pammail modules in Linux-PAM aka pam 1.1.2 does not perform the required setfsgid and setgroups system calls, which might allow local users to obtain sensitive information by leveraging unintended group permissions, as demonstrated by a...
DEBIAN-CVE-2010-3431
The privilege-dropping implementation in the 1 pamenv and 2 pammail modules in Linux-PAM aka pam 1.1.2 does not check the return value of the setfsuid system call, which might allow local users to obtain sensitive information by leveraging an unintended uid, as demonstrated by a symlink attack on...
Fedora 9 : dnsmasq-2.45-1.fc9 (2009-1069)
Update to newer upstream version - 2.45. Version of dnsmasq previously shipped in Fedora 9 did not properly drop privileges, causing it to run as root instead of intended user nobody. Issue was caused by a bug in kernel-headers used in build environment of the original packages. 454415 New upstre...
DEBIAN-CVE-2008-0008
The padroproot function in PulseAudio 0.9.8, and a certain 0.9.9 build, does not check return values from 1 setresuid, 2 setreuid, 3 setuid, and 4 seteuid calls when attempting to drop privileges, which might allow local users to gain privileges by causing those calls to fail via attacks such as...
Improper Input Validation
Overview Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Input Validation. The padroproot function in PulseAudio 0.9.8, and a certain 0.9.9 build, does not check return values from 1 setresuid, 2 setreuid, 3 setuid, and 4 seteuid calls when attempting to drop privileges, which might...
tcpdump security and bug fix update
3.8.2-12.el4 - fix buffer overflow in BGP dissector 250293, CVE-2007-3798 3.8.2-11.el4 - fix buffer overflow in 802.11 printer 232519, CVE-2007-1218 - fix return codes in arpwatch init script 237780 - with -C option, drop root privileges before opening first savefile 214377...
CVE-2007-0557: Undefined Security Weakness
rMake before 1.0.4 drops root privileges in a way that retains the original supplemental groups, which might allow attackers to gain privileges via a crafted recipe file, a different vulnerability than CVE-2007-0536...
DEBIAN-CVE-2005-0072
zhcon before 0.2 does not drop privileges before reading a user configuration file, which allows local users to read arbitrary files...
Cherokee Web Server Port Bind Privilege Drop Weakness
The remote host is running Cherokee - a fast and tiny web server. The remote version of this software is vulnerable to remote command execution due to a lack of web requests sanitization, especially shell metacharacters. Additionally, this version fails to drop root privileges after it binds to...
Debian DSA-056-1 : man-db - local file overwrite
Ethan Benson found a bug in man-db packages as distributed in Debian GNU/Linux 2.2. man-db includes a mandb tool which is used to build an index of the manual pages installed on a system. When the -u or -c option were given on the command-line to tell it to write its database to a different...
CVE-2004-0015: Undefined Security Weakness
vbox3 0.1.8 and earlier does not properly drop privileges before executing a user-provided TCL script, which allows local users to gain privileges...
RHEL 2.1 : tcpdump (RHSA-2003:151)
Updated tcpdump packages that fix an infinite loop vulnerability and drop privileges on startup are now available. Tcpdump is a command-line tool for monitoring network traffic. A vulnerability exists in tcpdump before 3.7.2 and is related to an inability to handle unknown RADIUS attributes...
DEBIAN-CVE-2003-0489
tcptraceroute 1.4 and earlier does not fully drop privileges after obtaining a file descriptor for capturing packets, which may allow local users to gain access to the descriptor via a separate vulnerability in tcptraceroute...
Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: tcpdump security update
Updated tcpdump packages that fix an infinite loop vulnerability and drop privileges on startup are now available. Tcpdump is a command-line tool for monitoring network traffic. A vulnerability exists in tcpdump before 3.7.2 and is related to an inability to handle unknown RADIUS attributes...
