CLSA-2026-1779368297 polkit: Fix of CVE-2026-4897

CVE-2026-4897: Fix unbounded stdin reads that allow local user to trigger OOM and DoS in setuid helper; add input length checks and limit allocations...

CVE-2003-0670

Sustworks IPNetSentryX and IPNetMonitorX allow local users to sniff network packets via the setuid helper applications 1 RunTCPDump, which calls tcpdump, and 2 RunTCPFlow, which calls tcpflow...

CVE-2011-4125

A untrusted search path issue was found in Calibre at devices/linuxmounthelper.c leading to the ability of unprivileged users to execute any program as root...

CVE-2011-4124

Input validation issues were found in Calibre at devices/linuxmounthelper.c which can lead to argument injection and elevation of privileges...

UBUNTU-CVE-2012-3409

ecryptfs-utils: suid helper does not restrict mounting filesystems with nosuid,nodev which creates a possible privilege escalation...

CVE-2017-16777

If HashiCorp Vagrant VMware Fusion plugin aka vagrant-vmware-fusion 5.0.3 is installed but VMware Fusion is not, a local attacker can create a fake application directory and exploit the suid sudo helper in order to escalate to root...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: spice-gtk security update

Updated spice-gtk packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is...

RedHat Security Advisory RHSA-2009:0382

The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory RHSA-2009:0382. libvirt is a C API for managing and interacting with the virtualization capabilities of Linux and other operating systems. libvirt also provides tools for remotely managing virtualized systems. The libvirtd daemon was...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: pam security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Updated pam packages that fix two security flaws, resolve several bugs, and add enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Pluggable Authentication Modules PAM provide a system...

MOAB-21-01-2007: System Preferences writeconfig Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Summary Apple provides the following description in the The Preference Application documentation: System Preferences is the standard location for presenting system-level preferences on OSX. The preference panes shipped with Mac OS X include panes affecting hardware such as the Sound, Mouse, and...