DSA-1629-1 postfix - privilege escalation

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Postfix: Local privilege escalation vulnerability

Background Postfix is Wietse Venema's mailer that attempts to be fast, easy to administer, and secure, as an alternative to the widely-used Sendmail program. Description Sebastian Krahmer of SuSE has found that Postfix allows to deliver mail to root-owned symlinks in an insecure manner under...

Postfix local privilege escalation via hardlinked symlinks

Summary: Solaris and Linux file system behavior has changed over time, breaking one of the assumptions in Postfix. See below for a description of the behavior and how it disagrees with standards. Postfix is not affected on systems with standard POSIX, X/Open file system behavior, i.e. BSD, AIX,...

Fedora 9 : tkimg-1.3-0.10.20080505svn.fc9 (2008-3621)

Mon May 5 2008 Sergio Pascual - 1.3-0.10.20080505svn - New upstream source - Including fooConfig.sh files in -devel - Making symlinks of shared libraries in libdir - Removing file in ld.so.conf.d - Fixing bug 444872 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block...

Dovecot mail_extra_groups setting is often used insecurely

mailextragroups=mail setting is often used insecurely to give Dovecot access to create dotlocks to /var/mail directory. If you don't use mboxes in /var/mail, make sure this setting is cleared. If you do use /var/mail mboxes and Dovecot gives permission errors without it, do one of the following i...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 1494-1 (linux-2.6)

The remote host is missing an update to linux-2.6 announced via advisory DSA 1494-1. This VT has been deprecated and merged into the VT SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2008 E-Soft Inc. Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders...

CVE-2008-0732

The init script for Apache Geronimo on SUSE Linux follows symlinks when performing a chown operation, which might allow local users to obtain access to unspecified files or directories...

CVE-2008-0732

The init script for Apache Geronimo on SUSE Linux follows symlinks when performing a chown operation, which might allow local users to obtain access to unspecified files or directories...

Debian DSA-1494-2 : linux-2.6 - missing access checks

The vmsplice system call did not properly verify address arguments passed by user space processes, which allowed local attackers to overwrite arbitrary kernel memory, gaining root privileges CVE-2008-0010, CVE-2008-0600 . In the vserver-enabled kernels, a missing access check on certain symlinks ...

DSA-1494-1 linux-2.6 - privilege escalation

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AZL-6512 CVE-2007-4998 affecting package kernel for versions less than 5.10.78.1-1

cp, when running with an option to preserve symlinks on multiple OSes, allows local, user-assisted attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack using crafted directories containing multiple source files that are copied to the same destination...

CVE-2007-4998

cp, when running with an option to preserve symlinks on multiple OSes, allows local, user-assisted attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack using crafted directories containing multiple source files that are copied to the same destination...

CVE-2007-4998

cp, when running with an option to preserve symlinks on multiple OSes, allows local, user-assisted attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack using crafted directories containing multiple source files that are copied to the same destination...

AZL-34843 CVE-2007-4998 affecting package kernel for versions less than 6.6.35.1-4

cp, when running with an option to preserve symlinks on multiple OSes, allows local, user-assisted attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack using crafted directories containing multiple source files that are copied to the same destination...

Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-975-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2008 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...

mysql: possible system table information overwrite using symlinks

MySQL Community Server 5.0.x before 5.0.51, Enterprise Server 5.0.x before 5.0.52, Server 5.1.x before 5.1.23, and Server 6.0.x before 6.0.4, when a table relies on symlinks created through explicit DATA DIRECTORY and INDEX DIRECTORY options, allows remote authenticated users to overwrite system...

mysql: possible system table information overwrite using symlinks

MySQL Community Server 5.0.x before 5.0.51, Enterprise Server 5.0.x before 5.0.52, Server 5.1.x before 5.1.23, and Server 6.0.x before 6.0.4, when a table relies on symlinks created through explicit DATA DIRECTORY and INDEX DIRECTORY options, allows remote authenticated users to overwrite system...

SuSE 10 Security Update : tar (ZYPP Patch Number 2344)

This security update fixes a directory traversal in tar, where unpacked symlinks could be followed outside of the directory where the tar file is unpacked. CVE-2006-6097 The problematic feature has been made optional and is disabled by default. It can be enabled by a commandline switch...

Ubuntu 5.10 / 6.06 LTS / 6.10 : tar vulnerability (USN-385-1)

Teemu Salmela discovered that tar still handled the deprecated GNUTYPENAMES record type. This record type could be used to create symlinks that would be followed while unpacking a tar archive. If a user or an automated system were tricked into unpacking a specially crafted tar file, arbitrary fil...

star directory traversal vulnerability

Directory traversal vulnerability in extract.c in star before 1.5a84 allows user-assisted remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via certain //.. slash slash dot dot sequences in directory symlinks in a TAR archive...