xen security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2009:0003 Updated xen packages that resolve several security issues and a bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The xen packages contain th...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: xen security and bug fix update

Updated xen packages that resolve several security issues and a bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The xen packages contain the Xen tools and management daemons needed to manage...

xen: insecure temporary file use in qemu-dm.debug

qemu-dm.debug in Xen 3.2.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/args temporary file...

Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200812-22 (ampache)

The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory GLSA 200812-22. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $ Description: Auto generated from Gentoo's XML based advisory Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2008 E-Soft Inc. http://www.securityspace.com Text descriptions are largely excerpted fr...

FreeBSD : ampache -- insecure temporary file usage (0ac68e68-d32b-11dd-b540-d1288664c17e)

Secunia reports : A security issue has been reported in Ampache, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions with escalated privileges. The security issue is caused due to the 'gather-messages.sh' script handling temporary files in an insecure manner. This can be...

Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200812-12 (honeyd)

The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory GLSA 200812-12. 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. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200812-14 (aview)

The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory GLSA 200812-14. 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. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200812-14 (aview)

The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory GLSA 200812-14. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $ Description: Auto generated from Gentoo's XML based advisory Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2008 E-Soft Inc. http://www.securityspace.com Text descriptions are largely excerpted fr...

Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200812-12 (honeyd)

The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory GLSA 200812-12. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $ Description: Auto generated from Gentoo's XML based advisory Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2008 E-Soft Inc. http://www.securityspace.com Text descriptions are largely excerpted fr...

Ampache: Insecure temporary file usage

Background Ampache is a PHP based tool for managing, updating and playing audio files via a web interface. Description Dmitry E. Oboukhov reported an insecure temporary file usage within the gather-messages.sh script. Impact A local attacker could perform symlink attacks to overwrite arbitrary...

Code injection

gpsdrive aka gpsdrive-scripts 2.10pre4 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the a /tmp/.smswatch or b /tmp/gpsdrivepos temporary file, related to 1 examples/gpssmswatch and 2 src/splash.c, different vectors than CVE-2008-4959 and CVE-2008-5380...

CVE-2008-5706

The cTrigger::DoIt function in src/ctrigger.cpp in the trigger mechanism in the daemon in Verlihub 0.9.8d-RC2 and earlier allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/trigger.tmp temporary file...

CUPS < 1.3.8-4 - Local Privilege Escalation

/ cve-2008-5377.c CUPS http://jon.oberheide.org Usage: $ gcc cve-2008-5377.c -o cve-2008-5377.c $ ./cve-2008-5377 $ id uid=0root gid=1000vm ... Information: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=cve-2008-5377 pstopdf in CUPS 1.3.8 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a...

GLSA-200812-13 : OpenOffice.org: Multiple vulnerabilities

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200812-13 OpenOffice.org: Multiple vulnerabilities Two heap-based buffer overflows when processing WMF files CVE-2008-2237 and EMF files CVE-2008-2238 were discovered. Dmitry E. Oboukhov also reported an insecure temporary file...

GLSA-200812-14 : aview: Insecure temporary file usage

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200812-14 aview: Insecure temporary file usage Dmitry E. Oboukhov reported that aview uses the '/tmp/aview$$.pgm' file in an insecure manner when processing files. Impact : A local attacker could perform symlink attacks to overwri...

[ GLSA 200812-12 ] Honeyd: Insecure temporary file creation

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[ GLSA 200812-14 ] aview: Insecure temporary file usage

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aview symbolic links vulnerability

Insecure temporary file creation...

GLSA-200812-12 : Honeyd: Insecure temporary file creation

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200812-12 Honeyd: Insecure temporary file creation Dmitry E. Oboukhov reported an insecure temporary file usage within the 'test.sh' script. Impact : A local attacker could perform symlink attacks and overwrite arbitrary files wit...

aview: Insecure temporary file usage

Background aview is an ASCII image viewer and animation player. Description Dmitry E. Oboukhov reported that aview uses the "/tmp/aview$$.pgm" file in an insecure manner when processing files. Impact A local attacker could perform symlink attacks to overwrite arbitrary files on the system with th...