[SA15386] Cheetah Insecure Module Importing Vulnerability

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CVE-2004-1833

CVE-2004-1833 affects Borland Interbase 7.1 on Linux. The admin.ib file has default world-writable permissions, enabling local users to gain database administrative privileges (privilege escalation). No remediation details are provided in the supplied documents; mode is based on the concrete desc...

CVE-2004-1833

The admin.ib file in Borland Interbase 7.1 for Linux has default world writable permissions, which allows local users to gain database administrative privileges...

CVE-2004-1778

CVE-2004-1778 affects Skype on Linux (versions 0.92.0.12 and 1.0.0.1; possibly others). The root cause is that the installer creates the directory /usr/share/skype/lang with world-writable permissions, enabling local users to modify language files. This could enable social engineering or other lo...

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-2005-0712

Mac OS X before 10.3.8 users world-writable permissions for certain directories, which may allow local users to gain privileges, possibly via the receipt cache or ColorSync profiles...

portupgrade -- insecure temporary file handling vulnerability

Simon L. Nielsen discovered that portupgrade handles temporary files in an insecure manner. This could allow an unprivileged local attacker to execute arbitrary commands or overwrite arbitrary files with the permissions of the user running portupgrade, typically root, by way of a symlink attack...

CVE-2005-0712

Mac OS X before 10.3.8 users world-writable permissions for certain directories, which may allow local users to gain privileges, possibly via the receipt cache or ColorSync profiles...

CVE-2005-0712

CVE-2005-0712 affects Apple Mac OS X before 10.3.8, where world-writable permissions on certain directories could allow local users to gain privileges, possibly via the receipt cache or ColorSync profiles. The issue is documented across multiple sources (NVD/NVD clone, Red Hat CVE entry, and Seeb...

CVE-2005-0627

Qt before 3.3.4 searches the BUILDPREFIX directory, which could be world-writable, to load shared libraries regardless of the LDLIBRARYPATH environment variable, which allows local users to execute arbitrary programs...

HP-UX PHSS_24608 : s700_800 11.00 AudioSubsystem July 2001 Periodic Patch

s700800 11.00 AudioSubsystem July 2001 Periodic Patch : The remote HP-UX host is affected by multiple vulnerabilities : - The Audio Security File is world-writable. - Certain files used by the asecure program have unsafe permissions. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The...

security flaw

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-2005-0444

VMware before 4.5.2.8848-r5 searches for gdk-pixbuf shared libraries using a path that includes the rrdharan world-writable temporary directory, which allows local users to execute arbitrary code...

VMWare virtual machine privilege escalation

Dynamic libraries are searched in world writable directory...

CVE-2005-0444

VMware before 4.5.2.8848-r5 searches for gdk-pixbuf shared libraries using a path that includes the rrdharan world-writable temporary directory, which allows local users to execute arbitrary code...

security flaw

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...

newsgrab -- insecure file and directory creation

The newsgrab script uses insecure permissions during the creation of the local output directory and downloaded files. After a file is created, permissions on it are set using the mode value of the newsgroup posting. This can potentially be a problem when the mode is not restrictive enough. In...

CVE-2004-2303

MTools Mformat before 3.9.9, when installed setuid root, creates files with world-readable and world-writable permissions, which allows local users to read and overwrite files...

CVE-2004-2615

The documentation for CuteNews 1.3.6 and possibly other versions specifies that files under cutenews/data must be manually given world-writable permissions, which allows local users to insert false news, delete news, and possibly gain privileges or have other unknown impact...

CVE-2004-0952

HP-UX B.11.00 through B.11.23, when running Ignite-UX and using the addnewclient command, causes the TFTP server to set world-writable permissions on part of the directory tree, which allows remote attackers to modify data or cause disk consumption...