Race condition

screenresolution-mechanism in screen-resolution-extra 0.17.2 does not properly use the PolicyKit D-Bus API, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions by leveraging a race condition via a setuid or pkexec process that is mishandled in a PolicyKitService.checkpermission call...

CVE-2018-8885

screenresolution-mechanism in screen-resolution-extra 0.17.2 does not properly use the PolicyKit D-Bus API, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions by leveraging a race condition via a setuid or pkexec process that is mishandled in a PolicyKitService.checkpermission call...

CVE-2018-8885

screenresolution-mechanism in screen-resolution-extra 0.17.2 does not properly use the PolicyKit D-Bus API, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions by leveraging a race condition via a setuid or pkexec process that is mishandled in a PolicyKitService.checkpermission call...

IBM Spectrum LSF Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

A vulnerability was identified within IBM Spectrum LSF which made it was possible to impersonate other users when submitting jobs for execution. Additionally, it was found to be possible to impersonate and execute jobs as root, even where root job submission is disabled. Versions affected include...

Updated TiMidity++ packages fix security vulnerabilities

The insertnotesteps function in readmidi.c in TiMidity++ 2.14.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service divide-by-zero error and application crash via a crafted mid file. NOTE: a crash might be relevant when using the --background option CVE-2017-11546. The resamplegauss function in...

openSUSE Security Update : libdb-4_5 (openSUSE-2018-200)

This update for libdb-45 fixes the following issues : - A DBCONFIG file in the current working directory allowed local users to obtain sensitive information via a symlink attack involving a setgid or setuid application using libdb-45. bsc1043886 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc...

openSUSE Security Update : libdb-4_8 (openSUSE-2018-199)

This update for libdb-48 fixes the following issues : - A DBCONFIG file in the current working directory allowed local users to obtain sensitive information via a symlink attack involving a setgid or setuid application using libdb-48. bsc1043886 This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12:Updat...

CVE-2018-7281

CactusVPN 5.3.6 for macOS contains a root privilege escalation vulnerability through a setuid root binary called runme. The binary takes a single command line argument and passes this argument to a system call, thus allowing low privileged users to execute commands as root...

CVE-2018-7169

An issue was discovered in shadow 4.5. newgidmap in shadow-utils is setuid and allows an unprivileged user to be placed in a user namespace where setgroups2 is permitted. This allows an attacker to remove themselves from a supplementary group, which may allow access to certain filesystem paths if...

CVE-2018-7169

An issue was discovered in shadow 4.5. newgidmap in shadow-utils is setuid and allows an unprivileged user to be placed in a user namespace where setgroups2 is permitted. This allows an attacker to remove themselves from a supplementary group, which may allow access to certain filesystem paths if...

UBUNTU-CVE-2018-7169

An issue was discovered in shadow 4.5. newgidmap in shadow-utils is setuid and allows an unprivileged user to be placed in a user namespace where setgroups2 is permitted. This allows an attacker to remove themselves from a supplementary group, which may allow access to certain filesystem paths if...

CVE-2018-7169

An issue was discovered in shadow 4.5. newgidmap in shadow-utils is setuid and allows an unprivileged user to be placed in a user namespace where setgroups2 is permitted. This allows an attacker to remove themselves from a supplementary group, which may allow access to certain filesystem paths if...

SUSE SLES11 Security Update : libdb-4_5 (SUSE-SU-2018:0409-1)

This update for libdb-45 fixes the following issues : - A DBCONFIG file in the current working directory allowed local users to obtain sensitive information via a symlink attack involving a setgid or setuid application using libdb-48. bsc1043886 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted th...

glibc $ORIGIN Expansion Privilege Escalation Exploit

This Metasploit module attempts to gain root privileges on Linux systems by abusing a vulnerability in the GNU C Library glibc dynamic linker. glibc ld.so in versions before 2.11.3, and 2.12.x before 2.12.2 does not properly restrict use of the LDAUDIT environment variable when loading setuid...

glibc '$ORIGIN' Expansion Privilege Escalation

This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework require 'msf/core/exploit/local/linux' require 'msf/core/exploit/exe' class MetasploitModule "glibc '$ORIGIN' Expansion Privilege Escalation", 'Description' = %q This...

Apport Denial of Service Vulnerability (CNVD-2018-05468)

Ubuntu is a desktop-oriented GNU/Linux operating system developed by Canonical and the Ubuntu Foundation, and Apport is a toolkit that collects and provides feedback on errors information that the operating system finds useful when an application crashes. A security vulnerability exists in Apport...

CVE-2017-14177

Apport through 2.20.7 does not properly handle core dumps from setuid binaries allowing local users to create certain files as root which an attacker could leverage to perform a denial of service via resource exhaustion or possibly gain root privileges. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of ...

glibc LD_AUDIT Arbitrary DSO Load Privilege Escalation

This module attempts to gain root privileges on Linux systems by abusing a vulnerability in the GNU C Library glibc dynamic linker. glibc ld.so in versions before 2.11.3, and 2.12.x before 2.12.2 does not properly restrict use of the LDAUDIT environment variable when loading setuid executables...

CVE-2017-9780

In Flatpak before 0.8.7, a third-party app repository could include malicious apps that contain files with inappropriate permissions, for example setuid or world-writable. The files are deployed with those permissions, which would let a local attacker run the setuid executable or write to the...

USN-3536-1: GNU C Library vulnerability

It was discovered that the GNU C library did not properly handle all of the possible return values from the kernel getcwd2 syscall. A local attacker could potentially exploit this to execute arbitrary code in setuid programs and gain administrative privileges. CVE-2018-1000001...