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kernel: personality: fix PER_CLEAR_ON_SETID
The personality subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.31-rc3 has a PERCLEARONSETID setting that does not clear the ADDRCOMPATLAYOUT and MMAPPAGEZERO flags when executing a setuid or setgid program, which makes it easier for local users to leverage the details of memory usage to 1 conduct NULL...
Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update
Updated kernel packages that fix several security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Updated 21st July 2010 Added links to KBase articles expanding on three...
kernel: personality: fix PER_CLEAR_ON_SETID
The personality subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.31-rc3 has a PERCLEARONSETID setting that does not clear the ADDRCOMPATLAYOUT and MMAPPAGEZERO flags when executing a setuid or setgid program, which makes it easier for local users to leverage the details of memory usage to 1 conduct NULL...
CVE-2009-1895
The personality subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.31-rc3 has a PERCLEARONSETID setting that does not clear the ADDRCOMPATLAYOUT and MMAPPAGEZERO flags when executing a setuid or setgid program, which makes it easier for local users to leverage the details of memory usage to 1 conduct NULL...
Null pointer dereference
The personality subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.31-rc3 has a PERCLEARONSETID setting that does not clear the ADDRCOMPATLAYOUT and MMAPPAGEZERO flags when executing a setuid or setgid program, which makes it easier for local users to leverage the details of memory usage to 1 conduct NULL...
Linux/x86 - setuid(0) + setgid(0) + execve(/bin/sh,[/bin/sh,NULL])) Shellcode (25 bytes)
Linux/x86 - setuid0 + setgid0 + execve/bin/sh,/bin/sh,NULL Shellcode 25 bytes. Shellcode exploit for Linuxx86 platform include const char shellcode= "\x6a\x17" // push $0x17 "\x58" // pop %eax "\x31\xdb" // xor %ebx,%ebx "\xcd\x80" // int $0x80 "\xb0\x2e" // mov $0x2e,%al "\xcd\x80" // int $0x80...
Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 8.04 LTS / 8.10 / 9.04 : cron vulnerability (USN-778-1)
It was discovered that cron did not properly check the return code of the setgid and initgroups system calls. A local attacker could use this to escalate group privileges. Please note that cron versions 3.0pl1-64 and later were already patched to address the more serious setuid check referred to ...
USN-778-1: cron vulnerability
It was discovered that cron did not properly check the return code of the setgid and initgroups system calls. A local attacker could use this to escalate group privileges. Please note that cron versions 3.0pl1-64 and later were already patched to address the more serious setuid check referred to ...
FreeBSD : multiple buffer overflows in xboing (e25566d5-6d3f-11d8-83a4-000a95bc6fae)
"Steve Kemp reports in a Debian bug submission : Due to improper bounds checking it is possible for a malicious user to gain a shell with membership group 'games'. The binary is installed setgid games. Environmental variables are used without being bounds-checked in any way, from the source code ...
udev Netlink Message Validation Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Description The 'udev' Linux application is prone to a local privilege-escalation vulnerability because it fails to properly handle netlink messages. Local attackers may exploit this issue to gain elevated privileges, which may lead to a complete compromise of the system. Versions prior to udev 1...
Mandriva Update for util-linux MDKSA-2007:198 (util-linux)
Check for the Version of util-linux OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Mandriva Update for util-linux MDKSA-2007:198 util-linux Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2009 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modif...
Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-679-1)
The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2009 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...
CVE-2009-0876
Sun xVM VirtualBox 2.0.0, 2.0.2, 2.0.4, 2.0.6r39760, 2.1.0, 2.1.2, and 2.1.4r42893 on Linux allows local users to gain privileges via a hardlink attack, which preserves setuid/setgid bits on Linux, related to DTRPATH:$ORIGIN...
Design/Logic Flaw
Sun xVM VirtualBox 2.0.0, 2.0.2, 2.0.4, 2.0.6r39760, 2.1.0, 2.1.2, and 2.1.4r42893 on Linux allows local users to gain privileges via a hardlink attack, which preserves setuid/setgid bits on Linux, related to DTRPATH:$ORIGIN...
CVE-2009-0876
Sun xVM VirtualBox for Linux (versions 2.0.0 – 2.1.4r42893) is affected by a local privilege-escalation flaw via a hardlink attack that preserves setuid/setgid bits, related to DT_RPATH:$ORIGIN. The issue, described across multiple sources, centers on filesystem manipulation allowing a non-privil...
CentOS Update for kernel CESA-2008:0972 centos4 i386
Check for the Version of kernel OpenVAS Vulnerability Test CentOS Update for kernel CESA-2008:0972 centos4 i386 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2009 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it und...
Linux/x86 - setuid / setgid / chroot break
No description provided by source. /----------------------------------------------------------------------/ / s390 shellcode 0x0a / 0x0 free / / setuid / setgid / chroot break / / code [email protected] / /----------------------------------------------------------------------/ char...
Design/Logic Flaw
The linkimage function in linker/linker.c in the dynamic linker in Bionic in Open Handset Alliance Android 1.0 on the T-Mobile G1 phone does not properly handle file descriptors 0, 1, and 2 for a setgid program, which allows local users to create arbitrary files owned by certain groups, possibly ...
CVE-2009-0606: Improper Input Validation
The linkimage function in linker/linker.c in the dynamic linker in Bionic in Open Handset Alliance Android 1.0 on the T-Mobile G1 phone does not properly handle file descriptors 0, 1, and 2 for a setgid program, which allows local users to create arbitrary files owned by certain groups, possibly ...
kernel: open() call allows setgid bit when user is not in new file's group
fs/open.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.22 does not properly strip setuid and setgid bits when there is a write to a file, which allows local users to gain the privileges of a different group, and obtain sensitive information or possibly have unspecified other impact, by creating an executable...