The vulnerability of the get_process_ttyname function in the system administration software Sudo may allow attackers to elevate their privileges to superuser status and execute arbitrary code.

The vulnerability of the getprocessttyname function in the Sudo system administration program is related to insufficient input data validation. The vulnerability is exploited by creating a symbolic link to the executable file of Sudo, with the file name formatted in a specific way a space followe...

NSA Arsenal: CVE-2017-9073 EsteemAudit analysis-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

In April, one named“shadow broker,”the organization publish a part of them from the NSA to steal the exploit tool, mainly for the windows operating system. One of the most famous is the ransomware WanaCryp0t use / exploit"EternalBlue"in. Another is the release to use the tool for the CVE-2017-907...

Oracle Human Resources Management System PeopleSoft unauthorized remote code execution vulnerability parsing-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

! A few months ago, I had the privilege of participating in several of Oracle's PeopleSoft construction project Safety Audit, the audit object mainly for the PeopleSoft series of Human Resources Management System, HRMS, and development tools package PeopleTool it. Throughout the online on the...

[SECURITY] Fedora 24 Update: lxterminal-0.3.0-3.fc24

LXterminal is a VTE-based terminal emulator with support for multiple tabs. It is completely desktop-independent and does not have any unnecessary dependencies. In order to reduce memory usage and increase the performance all instances of the terminal are sharing a single process...

sudo: Privilege escalation in via improper get_process_ttyname() parsing

A flaw was found in the way sudo parsed tty information from the process status file in the proc filesystem. A local user with privileges to execute commands via sudo could use this flaw to escalate their privileges to root...

Password Reset

I changed my password on my Linux system and now I can't push/pull via Atlassian SourceTree 2.0.20.1 gui. I tried resetting via the authentication tab under Tools-Options but the password is not being saved. I can use git via command line via Terminal because I am prompted for a password. I...

Password Reset

I changed my password on my Linux system and now I can't push/pull via Atlassian SourceTree 2.0.20.1 gui. I tried resetting via the authentication tab under Tools-Options but the password is not being saved. I can use git via command line via Terminal because I am prompted for a password. I...

[SECURITY] Fedora 25 Update: lxterminal-0.3.0-3.fc25

LXterminal is a VTE-based terminal emulator with support for multiple tabs. It is completely desktop-independent and does not have any unnecessary dependencies. In order to reduce memory usage and increase the performance all instances of the terminal are sharing a single process...

Linux kernel denial of service vulnerability (CNVD-2017-06928)

The Linux kernel is the kernel used by the operating system Linux, released by the Linux Foundation in the United States. A denial of service vulnerability exists in the 'omninetopen' function in the drivers/usb/serial/omninet.c file in Linux kernel 4.10.4 and earlier versions. A local attacker c...

Input validation vulnerability in multiple Huawei products

Huawei DP300 and so on are products of Huawei, China. DP300 is a video conferencing terminal. eSpace 7950 is an intelligent IP video phone product of Huawei, China. An input validation vulnerability exists in multiple Huawei products, which stems from a lack of input validation in the program. A...

Debian DLA-935-1 : lxterminal security update

It was discovered that there was a local denial of service vulnerability in lxterminal, the terminal emulator for the LXDE desktop environment. This was caused by an insecure use of temporary files for a socket file. For Debian 7 'Wheezy', this issue has been fixed in lxterminal version...

Updated lxterminal package fixes security vulnerability

unixsocket.c in lxterminal through 0.3.0 insecurely uses /tmp for a socket file, allowing a local user to cause a denial of service preventing terminal launch, or possibly have other impact bypassing terminal access control. CVE-2016-10369...

Microsoft Office Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Microsoft Office that could be exploited when a user opens a file containing a malformed graphics image or when a user inserts a malformed graphics image into an Office file. Such a file could also be included in an email attachment. An attacker cou...

CVE-2016-10369

unixsocket.c in lxterminal through 0.3.0 insecurely uses /tmp for a socket file, allowing a local user to cause a denial of service preventing terminal launch, or possibly have other impact bypassing terminal access control...

CVE-2016-10369

unixsocket.c in lxterminal through 0.3.0 insecurely uses /tmp for a socket file, allowing a local user to cause a denial of service preventing terminal launch, or possibly have other impact bypassing terminal access control...

CVE-2016-10369

unixsocket.c in lxterminal through 0.3.0 insecurely uses /tmp for a socket file, allowing a local user to cause a denial of service preventing terminal launch, or possibly have other impact bypassing terminal access control...

CVE-2016-10369

CVE-2016-10369 affects lxterminal (and lxterminal-gtk3) where unixsocket.c insecurely uses /tmp for the socket file through version 0.3.0, allowing a local attacker to cause a denial of service (prevent terminal launch) or potentially bypass terminal access control. Arch Linux advisories (ASA-201...

CVE-2016-10369

unixsocket.c in lxterminal through 0.3.0 insecurely uses /tmp for a socket file, allowing a local user to cause a denial of service preventing terminal launch, or possibly have other impact bypassing terminal access control...

RubyGems: Escape sequence injection in "summary" field

Seems we can include any escape sequence in the "summary" field of gemspec. This allows attackers to inject escape sequences to a victim's terminal emulator. How to attack 1 An attacker creates a gem with summary string that includes malicious escape sequences, and push it to rubygems.org. 2 A...

CVE-2017-7483

Rxvt 2.7.10 is vulnerable to a denial of service attack by passing the value -2^31 inside a terminal escape code, which results in a non-invertible integer that eventually leads to a segfault due to an out of bounds read...