Arbitrary File Overwrite

Overview Versions of tar prior to 4.4.2 for 4.x and 2.2.2 for 2.x are vulnerable to Arbitrary File Overwrite. Extracting tarballs containing a hardlink to a file that already exists in the system, and a file that matches the hardlink will overwrite the system's file with the contents of the...

SUSE-SU-2018:3456-1 Security update for xorg-x11-server

This update for xorg-x11-server provides the following fix: Security issue fixed: - CVE-2018-14665: Local attackers could overwrite system files in any directory using the -logfile option and gain privileges bsc1111697 Non security issues fixed: - Do not write past the allocated buffer. bsc107838...

AMD Driver Installer and Gaming Evolved Product plays.tv Service Write File Vulnerability

AMD driver-installation packages and Gaming Evolved products are both products of AMD, Inc. AMD driver-installation packages are a set of driver installation packages for AMD graphics cards. Gaming Evolved products are game optimization products. plays.tv is one of the game recording and sharing...

QNX RTOS 4.25 - monitor Arbitrary File Modification

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4902/info The QNX RTOS monitor utility is prone to an issue which may allow local attackers to modify arbitrary system files such as /etc/passwd. monitor is installed setuid root by default. The monitor -f command line option may be used by a local attack...

CVE-1999-1013

CVE-1999-1013 affects AIX 4.1.5 and 4.2.1 via the named-xfer component. A flaw allows members of the system group to overwrite system files and gain root access by abusing the -f parameter together with a malformed zone file. Root cause is improper validation of file operations and zone-file pars...

Дырка в perfmon под SunOS

Некорректная работа с лог-файлом позволяет переписать любой системный файл...

Junsoft JSparm 4.0 - Logging Output File

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2515/info JSparm is the Junsoft Performance Analysis Report Maker package. This software package provides an enhanced perfmon performance monitoring package and interface, as well as a performance report generation interface. A problem with the package...

Serious security flaw in SuSE rctab

Hi @ll, it seems that the problem described below has not been discussed on Bugtraq. Problem description ------------------- Due to a various race conditions in the init level editing script /sbin/rctab it is possible for any local user to overwrite any system's file with arbitrary data. This may...

tar-symlink.txt

Title : GNU tar Tape ARchive symlinkvulnerability Author : Marco van Berkum Organisation : OBIT b.v. URL : http://www.obit.nl Email : [email protected] Date : 06-01-2001 The usefull program tar Tape ARchive is used by all UNIX, Linux and BSD versions around and is used to ARCHIVE files to disk o...