CVE-2009-1143

A vulnerability was found in open-vm-tools. This flaw allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions on mounting shares via a symlink attack that leverages a realpath race condition in mount.vmhgfs aka hgfsmounter...

CVE-2009-1142

A vulnerability was found in open-vm-tools. This flaw allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack on /tmp files if the vmware-user-suid-wrapper is the setuid root and the ChmodChownDirectory function is enabled...

curl: curl file writing susceptible to symlink attacks

Summary: If curl command is used to download a file with predictable file name to a world writable directory such as /tmp, a local attacker is able to mount a symlink attack to either A redirect the target file writing to another file writable by the user or B replace the downloaded file contents...

Ubuntu Server snap-confine must_mkdir_and_open_with_perms() Race Condition Vulnerability

Qualys discovered a race condition CVE-2022-3328 in snap-confine, a SUID-root program installed by default on Ubuntu. In this advisory,they tell the story of this vulnerability which was introduced in February 2022 by the patch for CVE-2021-44731 and detail how they exploited it in Ubuntu Server ...

Linux flaws could be chained together to achieve root access

Threat Level Vulnerability Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary Two vulnerabilities CVE-2022-41974 and CVE-2022-41973 can either be exploited individually or in combination to lead to local privilege escalation, the first potentially causing a symlink attack a...

USN-5745-1: shadow vulnerability | Cloud Foundry

Severity Low Vendor Canonical Ubuntu Versions Affected Canonical Ubuntu 16.04 Canonical Ubuntu 18.04 Canonical Ubuntu 22.04 Description Florian Weimer discovered that shadow was not properly copying and removing user directory trees, which could lead to a race condition. A local attacker could...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-5745-2)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 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...

USN-5745-2: shadow regression

USN-5745-1 fixed vulnerabilities in shadow. Unfortunately that update introduced a regression that caused useradd to behave incorrectly in Ubuntu 14.04 ESM, Ubuntu 16.04 ESM, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. This update reverts the security fix pending further investigation. We apologize fo...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-5745-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 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...

USN-5745-1: shadow vulnerability

Florian Weimer discovered that shadow was not properly copying and removing user directory trees, which could lead to a race condition. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to setup a symlink attack and alter or remove directories without authorization...

USN-5745-1 shadow vulnerability

Florian Weimer discovered that shadow was not properly copying and removing user directory trees, which could lead to a race condition. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to setup a symlink attack and alter or remove directories without authorization...

DEBIAN-CVE-2009-1142

An issue was discovered in open-vm-tools 2009.03.18-154848. Local users can gain privileges via a symlink attack on /tmp files if vmware-user-suid-wrapper is setuid root and the ChmodChownDirectory function is enabled...

CVE-2009-1142

An issue was discovered in open-vm-tools 2009.03.18-154848. Local users can gain privileges via a symlink attack on /tmp files if vmware-user-suid-wrapper is setuid root and the ChmodChownDirectory function is enabled...

CVE-2009-1142

An issue was discovered in open-vm-tools 2009.03.18-154848. Local users can gain privileges via a symlink attack on /tmp files if vmware-user-suid-wrapper is setuid root and the ChmodChownDirectory function is enabled...

DEBIAN-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...

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...

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...

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...

CVE-2009-1142

An issue was discovered in open-vm-tools 2009.03.18-154848. Local users can gain privileges via a symlink attack on /tmp files if vmware-user-suid-wrapper is setuid root and the ChmodChownDirectory function is enabled...

UBUNTU-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...