OpenJDK: jar directory traversal issues (Tools, 8064601)

A directory traversal flaw was found in the way the jar tool extracted JAR archive files. A specially crafted JAR archive could cause jar to overwrite arbitrary files writable by the user running jar when the archive was extracted...

Multiple Mac OS X security privilege escalation

Few suid application binaries are user-writable...

CA eTrust EZ weak permissions

Executables, including ones executed with System privileges are writable by users...