Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : devscripts vulnerability (USN-2649-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-2649-1 advisory. It was discovered that the uupdate tool incorrectly handled symlinks. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing specially crafted files, a remote...

SUSE SLED12 Security Update : libreoffice (SUSE-SU-2014:1729-1)

This libreoffice update fixes the following security and non security issues : - Version bump to 4.3.5 release : - Various small fixes - Fix for CVE-2014-9093 bnc907636 - Remove dangling symlinks from previous versions bnc884942 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding...

Updated arj packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated arj package fixes security vulnerabilities: ARJ follows symlinks when unpacking stuff, even the symlinks that were created during the same unpack process, making it vulnerable to a directory traversal CVE-2015-0556. To protect from directory traversals, ARJ strips leading slash from the...

Debian DSA-3213-1 : arj - security update

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in arj, an open source version of the arj archiver. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2015-0556 Jakub Wilk discovered that arj follows symlinks created during unpacking of an arj archive. A remo...

Debian DLA-136-1 : websvn security update

James Clawson discovered that websvn, a web viewer for Subversion repositories, would follow symlinks in a repository when presenting a file for download. An attacker with repository write access could thereby access any file on disk readable by the user the webserver runs as. NOTE: Tenable Netwo...

Fedora 21 : patch-2.7.5-1.fc21 (2015-3556)

This update allows symlinks again. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300...

docker: Path traversal during processing of absolute symlinks

It was found that a malicious container image could overwrite arbitrary portions of the host file system by including absolute symlinks, potentially leading to privilege escalation...

MGASA-2015-0080 Updated cpio package fixes security vulnerability

In GNU Cpio 2.11, the --no-absolute-filenames option limits extracting contents of an archive to be strictly inside a current directory. However, it can be bypassed with symlinks. While extracting an archive, it will extract symlinks and then follow them if they are referenced in further entries...

Updated cpio package fixes security vulnerability

In GNU Cpio 2.11, the --no-absolute-filenames option limits extracting contents of an archive to be strictly inside a current directory. However, it can be bypassed with symlinks. While extracting an archive, it will extract symlinks and then follow them if they are referenced in further entries...

OpenJDK: insecure hsperfdata temporary file handling (Hotspot, 8050807)

Multiple insecure temporary file use issues were found in the way the Hotspot component in OpenJDK created performance statistics and error log files. A local attacker could possibly make a victim using OpenJDK overwrite arbitrary files using a symlink attack...

Debian DSA-3137-1 : websvn - security update

James Clawson discovered that websvn, a web viewer for Subversion repositories, would follow symlinks in a repository when presenting a file for download. An attacker with repository write access could thereby access any file on disk readable by the user the webserver runs as. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300...

MGASA-2015-0007 Updated webmin packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated webmin package fixes security vulnerability: The webmin package has been updated to version 1.730 to fix possible security issues that could be caused by malicious symlinks when reading mail. The updated version also has various bug fixes, translation updates, and functionality...

Updated webmin packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated webmin package fixes security vulnerability: The webmin package has been updated to version 1.730 to fix possible security issues that could be caused by malicious symlinks when reading mail. The updated version also has various bug fixes, translation updates, and functionality...

kernel: vfs: refcount issues during unmount on symlink

A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's VFS subsystem handled reference counting when performing unmount operations on symbolic links. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to exhaust all available memory on the system or, potentially, trigger a use-after-free error, resulting in ...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: wget security update

An updated wget package that fixes one security issue is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 Extended Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severit...

Scientific Linux Security Update : wget on SL6.x, SL7.x i386/x86_64 (20141030)

A flaw was found in the way Wget handled symbolic links. A malicious FTP server could allow Wget running in the mirror mode using the '-m' command line option to write an arbitrary file to a location writable to by the user running Wget, possibly leading to code execution. CVE-2014-4877 Note: Thi...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: wget security update

An updated wget package that fixes one security issue is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is availab...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2341-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2014 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-2341-1: CUPS vulnerabilities

Salvatore Bonaccorso discovered that the CUPS web interface incorrectly validated permissions and incorrectly handled symlinks. An attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass file permissions and read arbitrary files, possibly leading to a privilege escalation...

Apache suEXEC Privilege Elevation / Information Disclosure

No description provided by source. Apache suEXEC privilege elevation / information disclosure Discovered by Kingcope/Aug 2013 The suEXEC feature provides Apache users the ability to run CGI and SSI programs under user IDs different from the user ID of the calling web server. Normally, when a CGI ...