Solaris 10 Patch 137097-01 Symlink Attack Privilege Escalation

Exploit for solaris platform in category local exploits Larry W. Cashdollar 8/6/2012 Here is another symlink attack with temp file creation using process id in Solaris 10 patch cluster. You can over write the contents of root owned files with the contents of inetd.conf. In...

glibc LD_AUDIT Privilege Escalation

!/bin/sh I Can't Read and I Won't Race You Either by zx2c4 This is an exploit for CVE-2010-3856. A while back, Tavis showed us three ways to exploit flaws in glibc's dynamic linker involving LDAUDIT. 1 2 The first way involved opening a file descriptor and using fexecve to easily win a race with...

jakarta-commons-daemon: jsvc does not drop capabilities allowing access to files and directories owned by the superuser

native/unix/native/jsvc-unix.c in jsvc in the Daemon component 1.0.3 through 1.0.6 in Apache Commons, as used in Apache Tomcat 5.5.32 through 5.5.33, 6.0.30 through 6.0.32, and 7.0.x before 7.0.20 on Linux, does not drop capabilities, which allows remote attackers to bypass read permissions for...

DISA STIG SRR Still Vulnerable

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 After the issue in CVE-2009-4211 was made public, the Unix SRR script was removed from http://iase.disa.mil/stigs/SRR/unix.html with a note saying: ?Due to a recently identified security issue, please do not run any version of the UNIX SRR scripts unt...

xscreensaver Symlink Attack

xscreensaver local arbitrary file disclosure | symlink attack The ´xscreensaver´ program distributed normally with Xorg can be abused to disclose local files owned by other users also of the root account. Xscreensaver has the setuid bit on by default Example: Opensolaris The xscreensaver program...

Prismstumbler 0.7.3 File Overwrite

I found a symlink vuln in this older program. Prismstumbler 0.7.3 is most often ran as root to utilize all of capabilities. Prismstumbler pst creates /tmp/.psintercom and /tmp/spotkoord.txt as default. Can be changed within preferences. srw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 2009-04-02 00:44 .psintercom...

Debian DSA-1629-2 : postfix - programming error

Sebastian Krahmer discovered that Postfix, a mail transfer agent, incorrectly checks the ownership of a mailbox. In some configurations, this allows for appending data to arbitrary files as root. Note that only specific configurations are vulnerable; the default Debian installation is not affecte...

Hardcoded credentials

Postfix before 2.3.15, 2.4 before 2.4.8, 2.5 before 2.5.4, and 2.6 before 2.6-20080814, when the operating system supports hard links to symlinks, allows local users to append e-mail messages to a file to which a root-owned symlink points, by creating a hard link to this symlink and then sending ...

DEBIAN-CVE-2008-2936

Postfix before 2.3.15, 2.4 before 2.4.8, 2.5 before 2.5.4, and 2.6 before 2.6-20080814, when the operating system supports hard links to symlinks, allows local users to append e-mail messages to a file to which a root-owned symlink points, by creating a hard link to this symlink and then sending ...

CVE-2008-2936

Postfix before 2.3.15, 2.4 before 2.4.8, 2.5 before 2.5.4, and 2.6 before 2.6-20080814, when the operating system supports hard links to symlinks, allows local users to append e-mail messages to a file to which a root-owned symlink points, by creating a hard link to this symlink and then sending ...

DSA-1629-1 postfix - privilege escalation

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Postfix local privilege escalation

Overview The Postfix MTA contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability. Description Postfix is an mail transport agent MTA that is used by several Unix-like operating systems. Symbolic links and hard links are types of files that reference other files. Unlike hard links, symbolic links can...

postfix privilege escalation flaw

Postfix before 2.3.15, 2.4 before 2.4.8, 2.5 before 2.5.4, and 2.6 before 2.6-20080814, when the operating system supports hard links to symlinks, allows local users to append e-mail messages to a file to which a root-owned symlink points, by creating a hard link to this symlink and then sending ...

PT-2008-4373 · Postfix +1 · Postfix +1

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Postfix versions prior to 2.3.15 Postfix versions 2.4 prior to 2.4.8 Postfix versions 2.5 prior to 2.5.4 Postfix versions 2.6 prior to 2.6-20080814 Description: The issue allows local users to append e-mail messages to a file to which a...

[UNIX] Liblesstif Local Root (Exploit)

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Linux Kernel 2.6.13 <= 2.6.17.4 sys_prctl() Local Root Exploit (2)

No description provided by source. / Linux = 2.6.13 prctl kernel exploit C Julien TINNES If you read the Changelog from 2.6.13 you've probably seen: PATCH setuid core dump This patch mainly adds suidsafe to suiddumpable sysctl but also a new per process, user setable argument to PRSETDUMPABLE. Th...

Linux Kernel 2.6.17.4 sys_prctl() Local Root

/ Linux = 2.6.13 prctl kernel exploit C Julien TINNES If you read the Changelog from 2.6.13 you've probably seen: PATCH setuid core dump This patch mainly adds suidsafe to suiddumpable sysctl but also a new per process, user setable argument to PRSETDUMPABLE. This flaw allows us to create a root...

DSA-836-1 cfengine2 - insecure temporary files

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Weak permissions in Etnus TotalView 5

write access to files and directories owned by root...

sol2.51-6.lockfiles.txt

Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 20:22:38 +0200 From: Joel Eriksson To: [email protected] Subject: License Manager's lockfiles Solaris 2.5.1 License Manager on Solaris 2.5.1 tends to make stupid lockfiles owned by root and mode 666 worldwrite'able. That is not good, since anyone could create rootowned...