pam security update

0.99.6.2-6.2 - fix insecure dropping of priviledges in pamxauth and pammail - CVE-2010-3316 637898, CVE-2010-3435 641335 - fix insecure executing of scripts with user supplied environment variables in pamnamespace - CVE-2010-3853 643043...

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...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 108-1 (wmtv)

The remote host is missing an update to wmtv announced via advisory DSA 108-1. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: deb1081.nasl 6616 2017-07-07 12:10:49Z cfischer $ Description: Auto-generated from advisory DSA 108-1 Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2007 E-Soft Inc...

Ubuntu 4.10 : ntp vulnerability (USN-175-1)

Thomas Biege discovered a flaw in the privilege dropping of the NTP server. When ntpd was configured to drop root privileges, and the group to run under was specified as a name as opposed to a numeric group ID, ntpd changed to the wrong group. Depending on the actual group it changed to, this cou...

[SA17922] Mac OS X Perl "$<" Privilege Dropping Security Issue

TITLE: Mac OS X Perl "$" Privilege Dropping Security Issue SECUNIA ADVISORY ID: SA17922 VERIFY ADVISORY: http://secunia.com/advisories/17922/ CRITICAL: Less critical IMPACT: Security Bypass WHERE: From remote OPERATING SYSTEM: Apple Macintosh OS X http://secunia.com/product/96/ DESCRIPTION: Jason...

USN-175-1: ntp server vulnerability

Thomas Biege discovered a flaw in the privilege dropping of the NTP server. When ntpd was configured to drop root privileges, and the group to run under was specified as a name as opposed to a numeric group ID, ntpd changed to the wrong group. Depending on the actual group it changed to, this cou...

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...

[SECURITY] [DSA 557-1] New rp-pppoe packages fix potential root compromise

-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 557-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze October 4th, 2004 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

Debian DSA-050-1 : sendfile - broken privileges dropping, broken tempfile

Colin Phipps and Daniel Kobras discovered and fixed several serious bugs in the saft daemon sendfiled' which caused it to drop privileges incorrectly. Exploiting this a local user can easily make it execute arbitrary code under root privileges. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc...

CVE-2002-1311

Courier sqwebmail before 0.40.0 does not quickly drop privileges after startup in certain cases, which could allow local users to read arbitrary files...

GLSA-200401-02 : Honeyd remote detection vulnerability via a probe packet

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200401-02 Honeyd remote detection vulnerability via a probe packet A bug in handling NMAP fingerprints caused Honeyd to reply to TCP packets with both the SYN and RST flags set. Watching for replies, it is possible to detect IP...

CVE-2003-0949

xsok 1.02 does not properly drop privileges before finding and executing the "gunzip" program, which allows local users to execute arbitrary commands...

CVE-2003-0949

xsok 1.02 does not properly drop privileges before finding and executing the "gunzip" program, which allows local users to execute arbitrary commands...

ProFTPd 1.2.71.2.8 - .ASCII File Transfer Buffer Overrun

ProFTPd 1.2.71.2.8 - .ASCII File Transfer Buffer Overrun // source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/8679/info A remotely exploitable buffer overrun vulnerability has been reported in ProFTPD. This issue could be triggered if an attacker uploads a malformed file and then that file is downloaded ...

ProFTPd 1.2.7/1.2.8 - '.ASCII' File Transfer Buffer Overrun

// source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/8679/info A remotely exploitable buffer overrun vulnerability has been reported in ProFTPD. This issue could be triggered if an attacker uploads a malformed file and then that file is downloaded in ASCII mode. Successful exploitation will permit a...

CVE-2002-0469

Ecartis formerly Listar 1.0.0 in snapshot 20020125 and earlier does not properly drop privileges when Ecartis is installed setuid-root, "lock-to-user" is not set, and ecartis is called by certain MTA's, which could allow local users to gain privileges...

Ecartis/Listar multiple vulnerabilities

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Name: Ecartis / Listar Version: read the details Vendor: The Ecartis Project. http://www.ecartis.org/ Author: Janusz Niewiadomski [email protected], Wojciech Purczynski [email protected] Date: March 10, 2002 Issue: ====== Multiple buffer overflow...

CVE-2001-0623

CVE-2001-0623 affects the sendfiled component of SAFT on Linux, where privileges are not properly dropped when sending notification emails, enabling a local user to gain privileges (local privilege escalation). The issue is documented in Debian security advisories DSA-050-1 and DSA-052-1, which d...

[SECURITY] [DSA 052-1] New sendfile packages fix root exploit

---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 052-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze April 23, 2001 - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package : sendfile...

[SECURITY] [DSA 050-1] New version sendfile fix local root exploit

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 050-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze April 20, 2001 -...