ncurses: Local users can trigger security-relevant memory corruption via malformed data

A vulnerability was found in ncurses and occurs when used by a setuid application. This flaw allows local users to trigger security-relevant memory corruption via malformed data in a terminfo database file found in $HOME/.terminfo or reached via the TERMINFO or TERM environment variable...

A vulnerability was found in ncurses and occurs when used by a setuid application. (CVE-2023-29491)

ncurses before 6.4 20230408, when used by a setuid application, allows local users to trigger security-relevant memory corruption via malformed data in a terminfo database file that is found in $HOME/.terminfo or reached via the TERMINFO or TERM environment variable...

NTFS-3G: buffer overflow issue in NTFS-3G can cause code execution via crafted metadata in an NTFS image

A buffer overflow flaw was found in NTFS-3G. This issue occurs via a crafted metadata in an NTFS image that can cause code execution. A local attacker can exploit this issue if the NTFS-3G binary is setuid root. A physically proximate attacker can exploit this issue if the NTFS-3G software is...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM : containerd vulnerabilities (USN-5521-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5521-1 advisory. It was discovered that containerd insufficiently restricted permissions on container root and plugin directories. If a user or automated system were...

OESA-2023-1725 glibc security update

The GNU C Library project provides the core libraries for the GNU system and GNU/Linux systems, as well as many other systems that use Linux as the kernel. These libraries provide critical APIs including ISO C11, POSIX.1-2008, BSD, OS-specific APIs and more. These APIs include such foundational...

GLSA-202310-08 : man-db: privilege escalation

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202310-08 man-db: privilege escalation - man-db before 2.8.5 on Gentoo allows local users with access to the man user account to gain root privileges because /usr/bin/mandb is executed by root but not owned by root. Also, the owne...

DEBIAN-CVE-2023-4911

A buffer overflow was discovered in the GNU C Library's dynamic loader ld.so while processing the GLIBCTUNABLES environment variable. This issue could allow a local attacker to use maliciously crafted GLIBCTUNABLES environment variables when launching binaries with SUID permission to execute code...

NTFS-3G: buffer overflow issue in NTFS-3G can cause code execution via crafted metadata in an NTFS image

A buffer overflow flaw was found in NTFS-3G. This issue occurs via a crafted metadata in an NTFS image that can cause code execution. A local attacker can exploit this issue if the NTFS-3G binary is setuid root. A physically proximate attacker can exploit this issue if the NTFS-3G software is...

AlmaLinux 8 : ncurses (ALSA-2023:5249)

The remote AlmaLinux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALSA-2023:5249 advisory. - ncurses before 6.4 20230408, when used by a setuid application, allows local users to trigger security- relevant memory corruption via malformed data in a termin...

Huawei EulerOS: Security Advisory for golang (EulerOS-SA-2023-2859)

The remote host is missing an update for the Huawei EulerOS SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 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...

NTFS-3G: buffer overflow issue in NTFS-3G can cause code execution via crafted metadata in an NTFS image

A buffer overflow flaw was found in NTFS-3G. This issue occurs via a crafted metadata in an NTFS image that can cause code execution. A local attacker can exploit this issue if the NTFS-3G binary is setuid root. A physically proximate attacker can exploit this issue if the NTFS-3G software is...

ncurses: Local users can trigger security-relevant memory corruption via malformed data

A vulnerability was found in ncurses and occurs when used by a setuid application. This flaw allows local users to trigger security-relevant memory corruption via malformed data in a terminfo database file found in $HOME/.terminfo or reached via the TERMINFO or TERM environment variable...

NTFS-3G: buffer overflow issue in NTFS-3G can cause code execution via crafted metadata in an NTFS image

A buffer overflow flaw was found in NTFS-3G. This issue occurs via a crafted metadata in an NTFS image that can cause code execution. A local attacker can exploit this issue if the NTFS-3G binary is setuid root. A physically proximate attacker can exploit this issue if the NTFS-3G software is...

Node.js: setuid() does not drop all privileges due to io_uring

setuid did not drop all privileges in some versions of Node.js due to iouring being initialized before setuid call. This allowed privileged operations after setuid intended to drop privileges...

Huawei EulerOS: Security Advisory for ncurses (EulerOS-SA-2023-2733)

The remote host is missing an update for the Huawei EulerOS SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 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...

Huawei EulerOS: Security Advisory for screen (EulerOS-SA-2023-2709)

The remote host is missing an update for the Huawei EulerOS SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 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...

Important: containerd

Issue Overview: On Unix platforms, the Go runtime does not behave differently when a binary is run with the setuid/setgid bits. This can be dangerous in certain cases, such as when dumping memory state, or assuming the status of standard i/o file descriptors. If a setuid/setgid binary is executed...

Amazon Linux 2023 : containerd, containerd-stress (ALAS2023-2023-312)

It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2023-2023-312 advisory. On Unix platforms, the Go runtime does not behave differently when a binary is run with the setuid/setgid bits. This can be dangerous in certain cases, such as when dumping memory state, or...

CVE-2023-40303

GNU inetutils before 2.5 may allow privilege escalation because of unchecked return values of setid family functions in ftpd, rcp, rlogin, rsh, rshd, and uucpd. This is, for example, relevant if the setuid system call fails when a process is trying to drop privileges before letting an ordinary us...

UBUNTU-CVE-2023-40303

GNU inetutils before 2.5 may allow privilege escalation because of unchecked return values of setid family functions in ftpd, rcp, rlogin, rsh, rshd, and uucpd. This is, for example, relevant if the setuid system call fails when a process is trying to drop privileges before letting an ordinary us...