[SECURITY] [DSA-002-1] fsh symlink attack

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Security Advisory DSA-002-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Wichert Akkerman November 30, 2000 -...

[SECURITY] [DSA-003-1] Revised security fix for joe

Package : joe Problem type : symlink attack Debian-specific: no The security fix for joe released on November 22, 2000 had a problem: it created the DEADJOE file securily but didnt write anything to it. This has been fixed in version 2.8.15.2 . This is the text from the previous advisory: When jo...

[SECURITY] [DSA-002-1] fsh symlink attack

Package : fsh Problem type : symlink attack Debian-specific: no Colin Phipps found an interesting symlink attack problem in fsh a tool to quickly run remote commands over rsh/ssh/lsh. When fshd starts it creates a directory in /tmp to hold its sockets. It tries to do that securely by checking of ...

[SECURITY] [DSA-001-1] ed symlink attack

Package : ed Problem type : symlink attack Debian-specific: no Alan Cox discovered that GNU ed a classed line editor tool created temporary files unsafely. This has been fixed in version 0.2-18.1. wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file. Debian...

Security Update: bash creates insecure temp files

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Caldera Systems, Inc. Security Advisory Subject: bash creates insecure temp files Advisory number: CSSA-2000-042.0 Issue date: 2000 November, 24 Cross reference: 1. Problem Description Bash creates temp files for here scripts insecurely. This can be...

[SECURITY] New version of joe released

Package : joe Problem type : symlink attack Debian-specific: no When joe Joes Own Editor dies due to a signal instead of a normal exit it saves a list of the files it is editing to a file called DEADJOE in its current directory. Unfortunately this wasnt done safely which made joe vulnerable to a...

[SECURITY] New version of ghostscript released

------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Security Advisory [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Wichert Akkerman November 23, 2000 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Package : gs Problem type : symlink...

[SECURITY] New version of joe released

------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Security Advisory [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Wichert Akkerman November 22, 2000 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Package : joe Problem type : symlink...

CVE-2000-0864

Race condition in the creation of a Unix domain socket in GNOME esound 0.2.19 and earlier allows a local user to change the permissions of arbitrary files and directories, and gain additional privileges, via a symlink attack...

CVE-2000-0724

The go-gnome Helix GNOME pre-installer allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on various files in /tmp, including uudecode, snarf, and some installer files...

CVE-2000-0702

The net.init rc script in HP-UX 11.00 S008net.init allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack that points from /tmp/stcp.conf to the targeted file...

CVE-2000-0031

The initscripts package in Red Hat Linux allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack...

CVE-2000-0728

xpdf PDF viewer client earlier than 0.91 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack...

CVE-2000-0799

inpview in InPerson in SGI IRIX 5.3 through IRIX 6.5.10 allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack on the .ilmpAAA temporary file...

CVE-2000-0715

DiskCheck script diskcheck.pl in Red Hat Linux 6.2 allows local users to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file...

CVE-2000-0694

pgxconfig in the Raptor GFX configuration tool allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack...

CVE-2000-0691

The faxrunq and faxrunqd in the mgetty package allows local users to create or modify arbitrary files via a symlink attack which creates a symlink in from /var/spool/fax/outgoing/.lastrun to the target file...

CVE-2000-0698

Minicom 1.82.1 and earlier on some Linux systems allows local users to create arbitrary files owned by the uucp user via a symlink attack...

PT-2000-1038 · Unknown · Initscripts

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: initscripts affected versions not specified Description: The issue allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack. Recommendations: At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this...

CVE-2000-0728

xpdf PDF viewer client earlier than 0.91 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack...