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...

java security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2015:0067 Updated java-1.7.0-openjdk packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Critical security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System...

CentOS 5 : java-1.7.0-openjdk (CESA-2015:0068) (POODLE)

Updated java-1.7.0-openjdk packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, a...

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...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: java-1.7.0-openjdk security update

Updated java-1.7.0-openjdk packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, a...

USN-2479-1 rpm vulnerabilities

Florian Weimer discovered that RPM incorrectly handled temporary files. A local attacker could use this issue to execute arbitrary code. CVE-2013-6435 Florian Weimer discovered that RPM incorrectly handled certain CPIO headers. If a user or automated system were tricked into installing a maliciou...

Oracle Solaris Third-Party Patch Update : py_pil (multiple_vulnerabilities_in_python_image)

The remote Solaris system is missing necessary patches to address security updates : - The 1 loaddjpeg function in JpegImagePlugin.py, 2 Ghostscript function in EpsImagePlugin.py, 3 load function in IptcImagePlugin.py, and 4 copy function in Image.py in Python Image Library PIL 1.1.7 and earlier...

GNU Coreutils Insecure Temporary File Creation Vulnerability

The GNU Coreutils are the basic file, shell and text manipulation tools used by the GNU operating system. An insecure temporary file creation vulnerability exists in GNU Coreutils that allows a local access attacker to potentially obtain sensitive information or perform a symbolic link attack to...

USN-2473-1 coreutils vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the distcheck rule in dist-check.mk in GNU coreutils allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack on a directory tree under /tmp. This issue only affected Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. CVE-2009-4135 Bertrand Jacquin and Fiedler Roman discovered date and touch incorrectly...

HawtJNI: predictable temporary file name leading to local arbitrary code execution

The HawtJNI Library class wrote native libraries to a predictable file name in /tmp when the native libraries were bundled in a JAR file, and no custom library path was specified. A local attacker could overwrite these native libraries with malicious versions during the window between when HawtJN...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : openssl (MDVSA-2015:019)

Multiple vulnerabilities has been discovered and corrected in openssl : A carefully crafted DTLS message can cause a segmentation fault in OpenSSL due to a NULL pointer dereference. This could lead to a Denial Of Service attack CVE-2014-3571. A memory leak can occur in the dtls1bufferrecord...

Updated openssl packages fix security vulnerabilities

A carefully crafted DTLS message can cause a segmentation fault in OpenSSL due to a NULL pointer dereference. This could lead to a Denial Of Service attack CVE-2014-3571. A memory leak can occur in the dtls1bufferrecord function under certain conditions. In particular this could occur if an...

xbindkeys-config '/tmp/xbindkeysrc-tmp' local temporary file creation vulnerability

xbindkeys-config is the GTK front end for xbindkeys. A local temporary file creation vulnerability exists in bindkeys-config '/tmp/xbindkeysrc-tmp' which allows local attackers to corrupt system files via symbolic links...

[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: ctdb-2.5.4-2.fc20

CTDB is a cluster implementation of the TDB database used by Samba and other projects to store temporary data. If an application is already using TDB for temporary data it is very easy to convert that application to be cluster aw are and use CTDB instead...

Information disclosure - full path disclosure

Jira displays charts on the dashboard by writting a temporary file in Jira "tmp" folder and reading it through a page called "charts" When the filename provided to this page is not present, an error message displays the full path to the "tmp" folder, which lies in Jira directory. This is a...

Information disclosure - full path disclosure

Jira displays charts on the dashboard by writting a temporary file in Jira "tmp" folder and reading it through a page called "charts" When the filename provided to this page is not present, an error message displays the full path to the "tmp" folder, which lies in Jira directory. This is a...

Race condition

Race condition in RPM 4.11.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted RPM file whose installation extracts the contents to temporary files before validating the signature, as demonstrated by installing a file in the /etc/cron.d directory...

CVE-2013-6435

Race condition in RPM 4.11.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted RPM file whose installation extracts the contents to temporary files before validating the signature, as demonstrated by installing a file in the /etc/cron.d directory...

CVE-2013-6435

Race condition in RPM 4.11.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted RPM file whose installation extracts the contents to temporary files before validating the signature, as demonstrated by installing a file in the /etc/cron.d directory...

HawtJNI: predictable temporary file name leading to local arbitrary code execution

The HawtJNI Library class wrote native libraries to a predictable file name in /tmp when the native libraries were bundled in a JAR file, and no custom library path was specified. A local attacker could overwrite these native libraries with malicious versions during the window between when HawtJN...