SUSE CVE-2009-1143

An issue was discovered in open-vm-tools 2009.03.18-154848. Local users can bypass intended access restrictions on mounting shares via a symlink attack that leverages a realpath race condition in mount.vmhgfs aka hgfsmounter...

SUSE CVE-2009-1215

Race condition in GNU screen 4.0.3 allows local users to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/screen-exchange temporary file...

SUSE CVE-2009-1297

iscsidiscovery in open-iscsi in SUSE openSUSE 10.3 through 11.1 and SUSE Linux Enterprise SLE 10 SP2 and 11, and other operating systems, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on an unspecified temporary file that has a predictable name...

SUSE CVE-2009-1299

The pamakesecuredir function in core-util.c in PulseAudio 0.9.10 and 0.9.19 allows local users to change the ownership and permissions of arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/.esd- temporary file...

SUSE CVE-2009-1962

Xfig, possibly 3.2.5, allows local users to read and write arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the 1 xfig-epsPID, 2 xfig-picPID.pix, 3 xfig-picPID.err, 4 xfig-pcxPID.pix, 5 xfig-xfigrcPID, 6 xfigPID, 7 xfig-printPID, 8 xfig-exportPID.err, 9 xfig-batchPID, 10 xfig-expPID, or 11 xfig-spell.PID...

SUSE CVE-2009-4135

The distcheck rule in dist-check.mk in GNU coreutils 5.2.1 through 8.1 allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack on a file in a directory tree under /tmp...

SUSE CVE-2009-4411

The 1 setfacl and 2 getfacl commands in XFS acl 2.2.47, when running in recursive -R mode, follow symbolic links even when the --physical aka -P or -L option is specified, which might allow local users to modify the ACL for arbitrary files or directories via a symlink attack...

SUSE CVE-2009-4664

Firewall Builder 3.0.4, 3.0.5, and 3.0.6, when running on Linux, allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack on an unspecified temporary file that is created by the iptables script...

SUSE CVE-2009-5023

The 1 dshield.conf, 2 mail-buffered.conf, 3 mynetwatchman.conf, and 4 mynetwatchman.conf actions in action.d/ in Fail2ban before 0.8.5 allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files with predictable names, as demonstrated by /tmp/fail2ban-mail.txt...

SUSE CVE-2009-5044

contrib/pdfmark/pdfroff.sh in GNU troff aka groff before 1.21 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a pdf.tmp temporary file...

SUSE CVE-2009-5079

The 1 gendef.sh, 2 doc/fixinfo.sh, and 3 contrib/gdiffmk/tests/runtests.in scripts in GNU troff aka groff 1.21 and earlier allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a gro.tmp or /tmp/ temporary file...

SUSE CVE-2009-5081

The 1 config.guess, 2 contrib/groffer/perl/groffer.pl, and 3 contrib/groffer/perl/roff2.pl scripts in GNU troff aka groff 1.21 and earlier use an insufficient number of X characters in the template argument to the tempfile function, which makes it easier for local users to overwrite arbitrary fil...

SUSE CVE-2009-5080

The 1 contrib/eqn2graph/eqn2graph.sh, 2 contrib/grap2graph/grap2graph.sh, and 3 contrib/pic2graph/pic2graph.sh scripts in GNU troff aka groff 1.21 and earlier do not properly handle certain failed attempts to create temporary directories, which might allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files...

SUSE CVE-2010-0156

Puppet 0.24.x before 0.24.9 and 0.25.x before 0.25.2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the 1 /tmp/daemonout, 2 /tmp/puppetdoc.txt, 3 /tmp/puppetdoc.tex, or 4 /tmp/puppetdoc.aux temporary file...

SUSE CVE-2010-0424

The editcmd function in crontab.c in 1 cronie before 1.4.4 and 2 Vixie cron vixie-cron allows local users to change the modification times of arbitrary files, and consequently cause a denial of service, via a symlink attack on a temporary file in the /tmp directory...

SUSE CVE-2010-0788

ncpfs 2.2.6 allows local users to cause a denial of service, obtain sensitive information, or possibly gain privileges via symlink attacks involving the 1 ncpmount and 2 ncpumount programs...

SUSE CVE-2010-0789

fusermount in FUSE before 2.7.5, and 2.8.x before 2.8.2, allows local users to unmount an arbitrary FUSE filesystem share via a symlink attack on a mountpoint...

SUSE CVE-2010-0787

client/mount.cifs.c in mount.cifs in smbfs in Samba 3.0.22, 3.0.28a, 3.2.3, 3.3.2, 3.4.0, and 3.4.5 allows local users to mount a CIFS share on an arbitrary mountpoint, and gain privileges, via a symlink attack on the mountpoint directory file...

SUSE CVE-2010-0825

lib-src/movemail.c in movemail in emacs 22 and 23 allows local users to read, modify, or delete arbitrary mailbox files via a symlink attack, related to improper file-permission checks...

SUSE CVE-2010-0832

pammotd aka the MOTD module in libpam-modules before 1.1.0-2ubuntu1.1 in PAM on Ubuntu 9.10 and libpam-modules before 1.1.1-2ubuntu5 in PAM on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS allows local users to change the ownership of arbitrary files via a symlink attack on .cache in a user's home directory, related to "user...