Code injection

It is possible to exploit an unsanitized PATH in the suid binary that ships with vagrant-vmware-fusion 4.0.25 through 5.0.4 in order to escalate to root privileges...

CVE-2017-16873

It is possible to exploit an unsanitized PATH in the suid binary that ships with vagrant-vmware-fusion 4.0.25 through 5.0.4 in order to escalate to root privileges...

CVE-2017-16873

It is possible to exploit an unsanitized PATH in the suid binary that ships with vagrant-vmware-fusion 4.0.25 through 5.0.4 in order to escalate to root privileges...

CVE-2017-16873

It is possible to exploit an unsanitized PATH in the suid binary that ships with vagrant-vmware-fusion 4.0.25 through 5.0.4 in order to escalate to root privileges...

CVE-2017-16873: Undefined Security Weakness

It is possible to exploit an unsanitized PATH in the suid binary that ships with vagrant-vmware-fusion 4.0.25 through 5.0.4 in order to escalate to root privileges...

glibc ld.so - Memory Leak / Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Exploit for linux platform in category local exploits Qualys Security Advisory Buffer overflow in glibc's ld.so ======================================================================== Contents ======================================================================== Summary Memory Leak Buffer...

Qualys Security Advisory - GNU C Library Memory Leak / Buffer Overflow

Qualys Security Advisory Buffer overflow in glibc's ld.so ======================================================================== Contents ======================================================================== Summary Memory Leak Buffer Overflow Exploitation Acknowledgments...

Hashicorp vagrant-vmware-fusion 4.0.24 - Local Privilege Escalation

Hashicorp vagrant-vmware-fusion 4.0.24 - Local Privilege Escalation I have previously disclosed a couple of bugs in Hashicorp's vagrant-vmware-fusion plugin for vagrant. Unfortunately the 4.0.23 release which was supposed to fix the previous bug I reported didn't address the issue, so Hashicorp...

Hashicorp vagrant-vmware-fusion 4.0.24 - Local root Privilege Escalation Exploit

Exploit for macOS platform in category local exploits I have previously disclosed a couple of bugs in Hashicorp's vagrant-vmware-fusion plugin for vagrant. Unfortunately the 4.0.23 release which was supposed to fix the previous bug I reported didn't address the issue, so Hashicorp quickly put out...

RHEL 6 : kernel (RHSA-2017:2797)

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 Advanced Update Support and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 Telco Extended Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base...

RHEL 7 : kernel (RHSA-2017:2793)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2017:2793 advisory. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fixes: A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel...

kernel: load_elf_ binary() does not take account of the need to allocate sufficient space for the entire binary

A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel loaded ELF executables. Provided that an application was built as Position Independent Executable PIE, the loader could allow part of that application's data segment to map over the memory area reserved for its stack, potentially resulting in memory...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security update

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.9 Long Life. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each...

Solaris 'EXTREMEPARR' dtappgather Privilege Escalation

This module exploits a directory traversal vulnerability in the dtappgather executable included with Common Desktop Environment CDE on unpatched Solaris systems prior to Solaris 10u11 which allows users to gain root privileges. dtappgather allows users to create a user-owned directory at any...

Ubuntu 15.10 - USERNS Overlayfs Over Fuse Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Exploit for linux platform in category local exploits Source: http://www.halfdog.net/Security/2016/OverlayfsOverFusePrivilegeEscalation/ Introduction Problem description: On Ubuntu Wily it is possible to place an USERNS overlayfs mount over a fuse mount. The fuse filesystem may contain SUID...

NTP - Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Exploit for linux platform in category local exploits Source: http://www.halfdog.net/Security/2015/NtpCronjobUserNtpToRootPrivilegeEscalation/ Introduction Problem description: The cronjob script bundled with ntp package is intended to perform cleanup on statistics files produced by NTP daemon...

Man-db 2.6.7.1 Privilege Escalation

/ EDB Note: man:man - man:root http://www.halfdog.net/Security/2015/SetgidDirectoryPrivilegeEscalation/ man:root - root:root http://www.halfdog.net/Security/2015/MandbSymlinkLocalRootPrivilegeEscalation/ CreateSetgidBinary.c...

Man-db 2.6.7.1 - Privilege Escalation Exploit

Exploit for linux platform in category local exploits / EDB Note: man:man - man:root http://www.halfdog.net/Security/2015/SetgidDirectoryPrivilegeEscalation/ man:root - root:root http://www.halfdog.net/Security/2015/MandbSymlinkLocalRootPrivilegeEscalation/ CreateSetgidBinary.c...

Ubuntu 15.10 - USERNS Overlayfs Over Fuse Privilege Escalation

Ubuntu 15.10 - USERNS Overlayfs Over Fuse Privilege Escalation Source: http://www.halfdog.net/Security/2016/OverlayfsOverFusePrivilegeEscalation/ Introduction Problem description: On Ubuntu Wily it is possible to place an USERNS overlayfs mount over a fuse mount. The fuse filesystem may contain...

Ubuntu 15.10 - 'USERNS ' Overlayfs Over Fuse Privilege Escalation

Source: http://www.halfdog.net/Security/2016/OverlayfsOverFusePrivilegeEscalation/ Introduction Problem description: On Ubuntu Wily it is possible to place an USERNS overlayfs mount over a fuse mount. The fuse filesystem may contain SUID binaries, but those cannot be used to gain privileges due t...