security flaw

fixproc in Net-snmp 5.x before 5.2.1-r1 creates temporary files insecurely, which allows local users to modify the contents of those files to execute arbitrary commands, or overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack...

CVE-2005-2672

pwmconfig in LMsensors before 2.9.1 creates temporary files insecurely, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the fancontrol temporary file...

CVE-2005-1993

Race condition in sudo 1.3.1 up to 1.6.8p8, when the ALL pseudo-command is used after a user entry in the sudoers file, allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack...

CVE-2005-1111

Race condition in cpio 2.6 and earlier allows local users to modify permissions of arbitrary files via a hard link attack on a file while it is being decompressed, whose permissions are changed by cpio after the decompression is complete...

CVE-2005-0988

Race condition in gzip 1.2.4, 1.3.3, and earlier, when decompressing a gzipped file, allows local users to modify permissions of arbitrary files via a hard link attack on a file while it is being decompressed, whose permissions are changed by gzip after the decompression is complete...

[Full-disclosure] [CIRT.DK - Advisory] Novell Nsure Audit 1.0.1 Denial of Service

Description: A vulnerability was reported in Novell Nsure Audit. A remote user can cause denial of service conditions. A remote user can conduct a brute force attack against 'webadmin.exe' on TCP port 449 to cause the target system to stop responding. Read the full advisory http://www.cirt.dk...

CVE-2005-0180

Multiple integer signedness errors in the sgscsiioctl function in scsiioctl.c for Linux 2.6.x allow local users to read or modify kernel memory via negative integers in arguments to the scsi ioctl, which bypass a maximum length check before calling the copyfromuser and copytouser functions...

CVE-2004-1031

fcronsighup in Fcron 2.0.1, 2.9.4, and possibly earlier versions allows local users to bypass access restrictions and load an arbitrary configuration file by starting an suid process and pointing the fcronsighup configuration file to a /proc entry that is owned by root but modifiable by the user,...

GLSA-200502-29 : Cyrus IMAP Server: Multiple overflow vulnerabilities

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200502-29 Cyrus IMAP Server: Multiple overflow vulnerabilities Possible single byte overflows have been found in the imapd annotate extension and mailbox handling code. Furthermore stack-based buffer overflows have been found in...

[PersianHacker.NET 200505-06] paNews v2.0b4 XSS Vulnerability

PersianHacker.NET 200505-06 paNews v2.0b4 XSS Vulnerability Date: 2005 February Bug Number: 06 paNews is a news management script to use on your site. Users can use paCode, special code designed to allow the adding of images and font changes in the posts without allowing users to use HTML to post...

CVE-2004-1000

lintian 1.23 and earlier removes the working directory even if it was not created by lintian, which may allow local users to delete arbitrary files or directories via a symlink attack...

CVE-2004-1335

Memory leak in the ipoptionsget function in the Linux kernel before 2.6.10 allows local users to cause a denial of service memory consumption by repeatedly calling the ipcmsgsend function...

CVE-2004-1179

The debstd script in debmake 3.6.x before 3.6.10 and 3.7.x before 3.7.7 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary directories...

CVE-2004-2014

Wget 1.9 and 1.9.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the name of the file being downloaded...

CVE-2004-1393

Unknown vulnerability in the tcsetattr function for Sun Solaris for SPARC 2.6, 7, and 8 allows local users to cause a denial of service system hang...

CVE-2004-0452

Race condition in the rmtree function in the File::Path module in Perl 5.6.1 and 5.8.4 sets read/write permissions for the world, which allows local users to delete arbitrary files and directories, and possibly read files and directories, via a symlink attack...

CVE-2004-2698

Race condition in IMWheel 1.0.0pre11 and earlier, when running with the -k option, allows local users to cause a denial of service IMWheel crash and possibly modify arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the imwheel.pid file...

USN-53-1: imlib vulnerabilities

Pavel Kankovsky discovered several buffer overflows in imlib. If an attacker tricked a user into loading a malicious image, he could exploit this to execute arbitrary code in the context of the user opening the image...

CVE-2004-1778

Skype 0.92.0.12 and 1.0.0.1 for Linux, and possibly other versions, creates the /usr/share/skype/lang directory with world-writable permissions, which allows local users to modify language files and possibly conduct social engineering or other attacks...

CVE-2004-0452

Race condition in the rmtree function in the File::Path module in Perl 5.6.1 and 5.8.4 sets read/write permissions for the world, which allows local users to delete arbitrary files and directories, and possibly read files and directories, via a symlink attack...