EUVD-2017-1541

Malware in sbrugna...

USN-3907-1: WALinuxAgent vulnerability

It was discovered that WALinuxAgent created swap files with incorrect permissions. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information from the swap file...

UBUNTU-CVE-2017-1000382

VIM version 8.0.1187 and other versions most likely ignores umask when creating a swap file "ORIGINALFILENAME.swp" resulting in files that may be world readable or otherwise accessible in ways not intended by the user running the vi binary...

CVE-2001-0635

Red Hat Linux 7.1 sets insecure permissions on swap files created during installation, which can allow a local attacker to gain additional privileges by reading sensitive information from the swap file, such as passwords...

[RHSA-2001:058-04] Updated mount package available

--------------------------------------------------------------------- Red Hat, Inc. Red Hat Security Advisory Synopsis: Updated mount package available Advisory ID: RHSA-2001:058-04 Issue date: 2001-04-25 Updated on: 2001-05-02 Product: Red Hat Linux Keywords: mount swapon swap permissions Cross...