Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200511-17 (FUSE)

The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory GLSA 200511-17. 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...

Denial of Service Vulnerabilities in TrueCrypt 4.3 Linux (re. bid 23180)

TrueCrypt 4.3 for Linux from http://www.truecrypt.org/ It seems to be possible to perform various denial of service attacks on a Linux computer running TrueCrypt in set-uid root mode, or possible introduce evil binaries into normally trusted locations. I tested this on the latest version, 4.3,...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : fuse (MDKSA-2005:216)

Thomas Beige found that fusermount failed to securely handle special characters specified in mount points, which could allow a local attacker to corrupt the contents of /etc/mtab by mounting over a maliciously-named directory using fusermount. This could potentially allow the attacker to set...