FreeBSD : automake -- Insecure 'distcheck' recipe granted world-writable distdir (10f38033-e006-11e1-9304-000000000000)

GNU reports : The recipe of the 'distcheck' target granted temporary world-write permissions on the extracted distdir. This introduced a locally exploitable race condition for those who run 'make distcheck' with a non-restrictive umask e.g., 022 in a directory that was accessible by others. A...

PT-2012-4722

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Open vSwitch version 1.4.2 Description The issue allows local users to delete and overwrite arbitrary files due to world-writable permissions for certain directories. Specifically, the directories /var/lib/openvswitch/pki/controllerca/incoming...

CVE-2012-3449: Undefined Security Weakness

Open vSwitch 1.4.2 uses world writable permissions for 1 /var/lib/openvswitch/pki/controllerca/incoming/ and 2 /var/lib/openvswitch/pki/switchca/incoming/, which allows local users to delete and overwrite arbitrary files...

Scientific Linux Security Update : udev on SL5.x i386/x86_64

It was discovered that udev did not properly check the origin of Netlink messages. A local attacker could use this flaw to gain root privileges via a crafted Netlink message sent to udev, causing it to create a world-writable block device file for an existing system block device for example, the...

Scientific Linux Security Update : automake on SL5.x i386/x86_64

Automake-generated Makefiles made certain directories world-writable when preparing source archives, as was recommended by the GNU Coding Standards. If a malicious, local user could access the directory where a victim was creating distribution archives, they could use this flaw to modify the file...

Scientific Linux Security Update : sblim on SL4.x, SL5.x i386/x86_64

It was discovered that certain sblim libraries had an RPATH runtime library search path set in the ELF Executable and Linking Format header. This RPATH pointed to a sub-directory of a world-writable, temporary directory. A local user could create a file with the same name as a library required by...

Design/Logic Flaw

Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 uses world-writable permissions for the "Applications/Microsoft Office 2011/" directory and certain other directories, which allows local users to gain privileges by placing a Trojan horse executable file in one of these directories, aka "Office for Mac Improper Fold...

CVE-2012-1894: Undefined Security Weakness

Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 uses world-writable permissions for the "Applications/Microsoft Office 2011/" directory and certain other directories, which allows local users to gain privileges by placing a Trojan horse executable file in one of these directories, aka "Office for Mac Improper Fold...

automake -- Insecure 'distcheck' recipe granted world-writable distdir

GNU reports: The recipe of the 'distcheck' target granted temporary world-write permissions on the extracted distdir. This introduced a locally exploitable race condition for those who run "make distcheck" with a non-restrictive umask e.g., 022 in a directory that was accessible by others. A...

SuSE 10 Security Update : the Linux Kernel (x86_64) (ZYPP Patch Number 6730)

This update fixes a several security issues and various bugs in the SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 SP 2 kernel. The following security issues were fixed: CVE-2009-3939: A sysctl variable of the megaraidsas driver was worldwriteable, allowing local users to cause a denial of service or potential code...

IBM DB2 'nodes.reg' Permission Weakness Vulnerability

The host is running IBM DB2 and is prone to permission weakness vulnerability. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbibmdb2nodespermweakvuln.nasl 5963 2017-04-18 09:02:14Z teissa $ IBM DB2 'nodes.reg' Permission Weakness Vulnerability Authors: Madhuri D Copyright: Copyright c 2012 Greenbone Networks...

CVE-2012-1797

IBM DB2 9.5 uses world-writable permissions for nodes.reg, which has unspecified impact and attack vectors...

Design/Logic Flaw

IBM DB2 9.5 uses world-writable permissions for nodes.reg, which has unspecified impact and attack vectors...

CVE-2012-1797

IBM DB2 9.5 uses world-writable permissions for nodes.reg, which has unspecified impact and attack vectors...

CVE-2012-1797

IBM DB2 9.5 uses world-writable permissions for nodes.reg, which has unspecified impact and attack vectors...

CVE-2012-1797

CVE-2012-1797 affects IBM DB2 9.5 where the file nodes.reg is created with world-writable permissions. The OpenVAS entry notes a permission weakness in IBM DB2 that is addressed by a vendor fix (Fix Pack 9). No explicit exploitation details or impact are provided beyond the permission issue; CVSS...

CLI: world-writable root directory

Red Hat JBoss Operations Network JON before 3.0.1 uses 0777 permissions for the root directory when installing a remote client, which allows local users to read or modify subdirectories and files within the root directory, as demonstrated by obtaining JON credentials...

PT-2012-3545

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions IBM DB2 version 9.5 Description The issue is related to world-writable permissions for nodes.reg, which has unspecified impact and attack vectors. Recommendations For IBM DB2 version 9.5, change the permissions of nodes.reg to prevent...

CVE-2012-1797: Undefined Security Weakness

IBM DB2 9.5 uses world-writable permissions for nodes.reg, which has unspecified impact and attack vectors...

CVE-2011-3479

Symantec pcAnywhere 12.5.x through 12.5.3, and IT Management Suite pcAnywhere Solution 7.0 aka 12.5.x and 7.1 aka 12.6.x, uses world-writable permissions for product-installation files, which allows local users to gain privileges by modifying a file...