Slackware: Security Advisory (SSA:2004-136-01)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2012 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...

RHEL 5 / 6 : java-1.5.0-ibm (RHSA-2012:1245)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 / 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2012:1245 advisory. - OpenJDK: fontmanager layout lookup code memory corruption 2D, 7143617 CVE-2012-1713 - OpenJDK: SynthLookAndFeel application context...

OpenJDK: insecure temporary file permissions (JRE, 7143606)

Unspecified vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment JRE component in Oracle Java SE 7 update 4 and earlier, 6 update 32 and earlier, 5 update 35 and earlier, and 1.4.237 and earlier allows local users to affect confidentiality via unknown vectors related to printing on Solaris or Linux...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : ed (MDKSA-2000:076)

Alan Cox discovered that GNU ed a classed line editor tool creates temporary files unsafely. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Mandrake Linux Security Advisory MDKSA-2000:076. The text itself is copyrigh...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : arpwatch (MDKSA-2001:002)

WireX discovered a potential temporary file race condition in the arpwatch program. This problem has been corrected in arpwatch version 2.1a10. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Mandrake Linux Security...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : squid (MDKSA-2001:003)

WireX discovered a potential temporary file race condition in the way that squid sends out email messages notifying the administrator about updating the program. Usually this will only happen if you are running a development version of squid or if the clock on your system is incorrect. This probl...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : mgetty (MDKSA-2001:009)

WireX discovered a potential temporary file race condition in the mgetty program. All versions of mgetty prior to 1.1.24 are vulnerable. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Mandrake Linux Security Advisory...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : getty_ps (MDKSA-2001:004)

WireX discovered a potential temporary file race condition in the gettyps program. This update corrects the problem. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Mandrake Linux Security Advisory MDKSA-2001:004. The...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : webmin (MDKSA-2001:016)

Previous versions of webmin would create temporary files insecurely on several occasions. This could be exploited by a local attacker to overwrite or create arbitrary files and possibly gain root privileges. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : bash1 (MDKSA-2000:075)

The bash1 shell program has the same vulnerability that tcsh has and incorrectly creates temporary files without the OEXCL flag. This vulnerability does not exist in bash2 which uses the OEXCL flag when creating temporary files. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : Mesa (MDKSA-2001:029)

Ben Collins identified a temporary file race in the Utah-glx component of the Mesa package which affects Linux-Mandrake 7.2. The /tmp/glxmemory file is created by Utah-glx and because it is not created securely could be used in a symlink attack which allows files to be overwritten the next time t...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : exmh (MDKSA-2001:015)

All versions of exmh prior to 2.3.1 use the /tmp directory for storing temporary files. This was done in an insecure manner as exmh did not check to ensure that nobody placed a symlink with the same name in /tmp in the meantime and thus was vulnerable to a symlink attack. This could lead to a...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : man (MDKSA-2000:015)

Internet Security Systems ISS X-Force has identified a vulnerability in the makewhatis Bourne shell script that ships with many Linux distributions. It is found in versions 1.5e and higher of man, and handles temporary files insecurely. Local users may gain a variety of privileges depending on th...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-1505-2)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2012 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...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : tcsh (MDKSA-2000:069)

A vulnerability exists with tcsh when using the in-here documents with the syntax. When doing this, tcsh uses a temporary file to store the data. Unfortunately, the temporary file is not created securely and standard symlink attacks can be used to make tcsh overwrite arbitrary files. %NASLMINLEVE...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : inn (MDKSA-2001:010)

WireX discovered a potential temporary file race condition in the inn program. This condition is due partly to the way inn is compiled and configured on some Linux distributions, including Linux-Mandrake, and partly due to the lack of information in the inn package detailing potential security...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : sgml-tools (MDKSA-2001:030-1)

Insecure handling of temporary file permissions can lead to other users on a multi-user system being able to read the documents being converted. This is due to sgml-tools creating temporary files without any special permissions. The updated packages create a secure temporary directory first, whic...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : rdist (MDKSA-2001:005)

WireX discovered a potential temporary file race condition in the rdist program. This update corrects the problem. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Mandrake Linux Security Advisory MDKSA-2001:005. The...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : gpm (MDKSA-2001:006)

WireX discovered a potential temporary file condition in the gpm program. This update corrects the problem. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Mandrake Linux Security Advisory MDKSA-2001:006. The text...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : diffutils (MDKSA-2001:008-1)

WireX discovered a potential temporary file race condition in the sdiff program within the diffutils package. This update corrects the problem. Update : The previous updates had a conflicting man page with the man-pages package which prevented MandrakeUpdate from updating the package. %NASLMINLEV...