openSUSE Security Update : valgrind (valgrind-321)

valgrind reads a file .valgrindrc in the current directory. Therefore local users could place such a file a world-writable directory such as /tmp and influence other users' valgrind when it's executed there CVE-2008-4865. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text a...

Fedora 10 : ntop-3.3.8-3.fc10 (2009-2805)

ls -lh /var/log/ntop/access.log -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 2009-02-04 11:53 /var/log/ntop/access.log Fixed. log world-writable when the --access-log- file option is used. This option is not used in Fedora or Red Hat by default and is not noted in the configuration file. It is, however, noted in the...

Fedora Core 10 FEDORA-2009-2805 (ntop)

The remote host is missing an update to ntop announced via advisory FEDORA-2009-2805. Note: This VT has been deprecated and is therefore no longer functional. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2009 E-Soft Inc. Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the...

device-mapper-multipath: insecure permissions on multipathd.sock

The Device Mapper multipathing driver aka multipath-tools or device-mapper-multipath 0.4.8, as used in SUSE openSUSE, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server SLES, Fedora, and possibly other operating systems, uses world-writable permissions for the socket file aka /var/run/multipathd.sock, which allows loc...

DEBIAN-CVE-2009-0115

The Device Mapper multipathing driver aka multipath-tools or device-mapper-multipath 0.4.8, as used in SUSE openSUSE, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server SLES, Fedora, and possibly other operating systems, uses world-writable permissions for the socket file aka /var/run/multipathd.sock, which allows loc...

Design/Logic Flaw

The Device Mapper multipathing driver aka multipath-tools or device-mapper-multipath 0.4.8, as used in SUSE openSUSE, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server SLES, Fedora, and possibly other operating systems, uses world-writable permissions for the socket file aka /var/run/multipathd.sock, which allows loc...

CVE-2009-0115

The Device Mapper multipathing driver aka multipath-tools or device-mapper-multipath 0.4.8, as used in SUSE openSUSE, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server SLES, Fedora, and possibly other operating systems, uses world-writable permissions for the socket file aka /var/run/multipathd.sock, which allows loc...

CVE-2009-0115

The Device Mapper multipathing driver aka multipath-tools or device-mapper-multipath 0.4.8, as used in SUSE openSUSE, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server SLES, Fedora, and possibly other operating systems, uses world-writable permissions for the socket file aka /var/run/multipathd.sock, which allows loc...

CVE-2009-0115

The Device Mapper multipathing driver aka multipath-tools or device-mapper-multipath 0.4.8, as used in SUSE openSUSE, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server SLES, Fedora, and possibly other operating systems, uses world-writable permissions for the socket file aka /var/run/multipathd.sock, which allows loc...

CVE-2009-0115

The Device Mapper multipathing driver aka multipath-tools or device-mapper-multipath 0.4.8, as used in SUSE openSUSE, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server SLES, Fedora, and possibly other operating systems, uses world-writable permissions for the socket file aka /var/run/multipathd.sock, which allows loc...

PT-2009-1060 · Linux +1 · Kpartx +3

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: device-mapper-multipath versions 0.4.5 through 0.4.8 multipath-tools versions prior to 0.4.8-r1 kpartx version 0.4.7 Description: The issue concerns the Device Mapper multipathing driver, which uses world-writable permissions for the socket...

CentOS Update for sblim-cmpi-base CESA-2008:0497 centos4 x86_64

Check for the Version of sblim-cmpi-base OpenVAS Vulnerability Test CentOS Update for sblim-cmpi-base CESA-2008:0497 centos4 x8664 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2009 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it...

CVE-2009-0141

XTerm in Apple Mac OS X 10.4.11 and 10.5.6, when used with luit, creates tty devices with insecure world-writable permissions, which allows local users to write to the Xterm of another user...

PT-2009-2834 · Apple +1 · Xterm +2

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: XTerm in Apple Mac OS X versions 10.4.11 through 10.5.6 Description: The issue allows local users to write to the XTerm of another user due to insecure world-writable permissions on tty devices created when XTerm is used with luit...

FreeBSD : perl -- Directory Permissions Race Condition (4a99d61c-f23a-11dd-9f55-0030843d3802)

Secunia reports : Paul Szabo has reported a vulnerability in Perl File::Path::rmtree, which potentially can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges. The vulnerability is caused due to a race condition in the way File::Path::rmtree handles directory permissions when...

openSUSE 10 Security Update : valgrind (valgrind-5809)

valgrind reads a file .valgrindrc in the current directory. Therefore local users could place such a file a world-writable directory such as /tmp and influence other users' valgrind when it's executed there CVE-2008-4865. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text a...

FreeBSD : emacs -- run-python vulnerability (66657bd5-ac92-11dd-b541-001f3b19d541)

Emacs developers report : The Emacs command run-python' launches an interactive Python interpreter. After the Python process starts up, Emacs automatically sends it the line : import emacs which normally imports a script named emacs.py which is distributed with Emacs. This script, which is...

Linux Kernel < 2.6.22 - 'ftruncate()'/'open()' Local Privilege Escalation

/ gw-ftrex.c: Linux kernel bug information: http://osvdb.org/49081 !!!This is for educational purposes only!!! To use it, you've got to find a sgid directory you've got permissions to write into obviously world-writable, e.g: find / -perm -2000 -type d 2/dev/null|xargs ls -ld|grep "rwx" which...

CVE-2008-0884

The Replace function in the capp-lspp-config script in the 1 lspp-eal4-config-ibm and 2 capp-lspp-eal4-config-hp packages before 0.65-2 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux RHEL 5 uses lstat instead of stat to determine the /etc/pam.d/system-auth file permissions, leading to a change to world-writable...

PT-2008-2501 · Ibm +1 · Capp-Lspp-Config +2

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: capp-lspp-eal4-config-hp versions prior to 0.65-2 capp-lspp-config in lspp-eal4-config-ibm versions prior to 0.65-2 Description: The issue arises from the Replace function in the capp-lspp-config script, which uses lstat instead of stat to...