Vulnerabilities of the Red Hat Linux operating system that allow a malicious individual to compromise the accessibility of protected information

The tmpwatch-2.6.2 package of the Red Hat Linux operating system has multiple vulnerabilities. Exploitation of these vulnerabilities may lead to a violation of the confidentiality of protected information. These vulnerabilities can be exploited locally...

CVE-2000-0829

The tmpwatch utility in Red Hat Linux forks a new process for each directory level, which allows local users to cause a denial of service by creating deeply nested directories in /tmp or /var/tmp/...

ISS Security Advisory: Insecure call of external programs in Red Hat Linux tmpwatch

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Internet Security Systems Security Advisory October 6, 2000 Insecure call of external programs in Red Hat Linux tmpwatch Synopsis: The tmpwatch utility is used in Red Hat Linux to remove temporary files. This utility has an option to call the "fuser" program,...

RedHat 6.27.0 Tmpwatch - Arbitrary Command Execution

RedHat 6.27.0 Tmpwatch - Arbitrary Command Execution // source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1785/info A vulnerability exists in tmpwatch, a utility which automates the removal of temporary files in unix-like systems. An optional component of tmpwatch, fuser, improperly handles arguments to...

RedHat 6.2/7.0 Tmpwatch - Arbitrary Command Execution

// source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1785/info A vulnerability exists in tmpwatch, a utility which automates the removal of temporary files in unix-like systems. An optional component of tmpwatch, fuser, improperly handles arguments to system library calls. If an attacker creates a file...

tmpwatch: local DoS : fork()bomb as root

sent through bugzilla.redhat.com no reply from responsible person. here it goes. Local DoS in /usr/sbin/tmpwatch. root forkbombs himself. tmpwatch is a bad boy Summary Local people can stop things working, and force you to reboot.  Longer summary Any user with write access to /tmp or /var/tmp ca...

RedHat Linux 6.1 i386 - Tmpwatch Recursive Write Denial of Service

RedHat Linux 6.1 i386 - Tmpwatch Recursive Write Denial of Service source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1664/info Any user with write access to /tmp or /var/tmp, can induce tmpwatch to cause Red Hat and others runnng tmpwatch from cron to stop responding, and possibly require a hard reboot...

RedHat Linux 6.1 i386 - Tmpwatch Recursive Write Denial of Service

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1664/info Any user with write access to /tmp or /var/tmp, can induce tmpwatch to cause Red Hat and others runnng tmpwatch from cron to stop responding, and possibly require a hard reboot. This is accomplished by creating a directory tree many ie. 6000 nod...