Debian DSA-323-1 : noweb - insecure temporary files

Jakob Lell discovered a bug in the 'noroff' script included in noweb whereby a temporary file was created insecurely. During a review, several other instances of this problem were found and fixed. Any of these bugs could be exploited by a local user to overwrite arbitrary files owned by the user...

Debian DSA-036-1 : Midnight Commander - arbitrary program execution

It has been reported that a local user could tweak Midnight Commander of another user into executing an arbitrary program under the user id of the person running Midnight Commander. This behaviour has been fixed by Andrew V. Samoilov. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The...

Debian DSA-369-1 : zblast - buffer overflow

Steve Kemp discovered a buffer overflow in zblast-svgalib, when saving the high score file. This vulnerability could be exploited by a local user to gain gid 'games', if they can achieve a high score. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in...

Debian DSA-048-3 : samba

Marcus Meissner discovered that samba was not creating temporary files safely in two places : - when a remote user queried a printer queue samba would create a temporary file in which the queue data would be written. This was being done using a predictable filename, and insecurely, allowing a loc...

Debian DSA-371-1 : perl - XSS

A cross-site scripting vulnerability exists in the startform function in CGI.pm. This function outputs user-controlled data into the action attribute of a form element without sanitizing it, allowing a remote user to execute arbitrary web script within the context of the generated page. Any progr...

Debian DSA-331-1 : imagemagick - insecure temporary file

imagemagick's libmagick library, under certain circumstances, creates temporary files without taking appropriate security precautions. This vulnerability could be exploited by a local user to create or overwrite files with the privileges of another user who is invoking a program using this librar...

Debian DSA-390-1 : marbles - buffer overflow

Steve Kemp discovered a buffer overflow in marbles, when processing the HOME environment variable. This vulnerability could be exploited by a local user to gain gid 'games'. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted...

CVE-2004-0643

Double free vulnerability in the krb5rdcred function for MIT Kerberos 5 krb5 1.3.1 and earlier may allow local users to execute arbitrary code...

CVE-2004-0559

The maketemp.pl script in Usermin 1.070 and 1.080 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files at install time via a symlink attack on the /tmp/.usermin directory...

CVE-2004-0907

The Linux install .tar.gz archives for Mozilla Firefox before the Preview Release, Mozilla before 1.7.3, and Thunderbird before 0.8, create certain files with insecure permissions, which could allow local users to overwrite those files and execute arbitrary code...

GLSA-200409-27 : glFTPd: Local buffer overflow vulnerability

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200409-27 glFTPd: Local buffer overflow vulnerability The glFTPd server is vulnerable to a buffer overflow in the 'dupescan' program. This vulnerability is due to an unsafe strcpy call which can cause the program to crash when a...

CVE-2004-0747

Buffer overflow in Apache 2.0.50 and earlier allows local users to gain apache privileges via a .htaccess file that causes the overflow during expansion of environment variables...

CVE-2004-1689

sudoedit aka sudo -e in sudo 1.6.8 opens a temporary file with root privileges, which allows local users to read arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the temporary file before quitting sudoedit...

CVE-2004-0643

Double free vulnerability in the krb5rdcred function for MIT Kerberos 5 krb5 1.3.1 and earlier may allow local users to execute arbitrary code...

CVE-2001-0914

Linux kernel before 2.4.11pre3 in multiple Linux distributions allows local users to cause a denial of service crash by starting the core vmlinux kernel, possibly related to poor error checking during ELF loading...

CVE-2002-0158

Buffer overflow in Xsun on Solaris 2.6 through 8 allows local users to gain root privileges via a long -co color database command line argument...

CVE-2003-0120

adb2mhc in the mhc-utils package before 0.25+20010625-7.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a default temporary directory with a predictable name...

CVE-2002-1193

tkmail before 4.0beta9-8.1 allows local users to create or overwrite files as users via a symlink attack on temporary files...

CVE-2002-1472

Untrusted search path vulnerability in libX11.so in xfree86, when used in setuid or setgid programs, allows local users to gain root privileges via a modified LDPRELOAD environment variable that points to a malicious module...

CVE-2004-0186

smbmnt in Samba 2.x and 3.x on Linux 2.6, when installed setuid, allows local users to gain root privileges by mounting a Samba share that contains a setuid root program, whose setuid attributes are not cleared when the share is mounted...