Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : apcupsd (MDKSA-2000:077)

A problem exists with the apcupsd daemon. During startup, apcupsd creates a PID file in /var/run with the ID of the daemon process. This file is used by the shutdown script to kill the daemon process. The /var/run/apcupsd.pid file is created with mode 666 permissions, meaning it is world-writeabl...

DEBIAN-CVE-2011-4944

Python 2.6 through 3.2 creates /.pypirc with world-readable permissions before changing them after data has been written, which introduces a race condition that allows local users to obtain a username and password by reading this file...

Race condition

Python 2.6 through 3.2 creates /.pypirc with world-readable permissions before changing them after data has been written, which introduces a race condition that allows local users to obtain a username and password by reading this file...

PSF-2012-2 pypirc created insecurely

Python 2.6 through 3.2 creates /.pypirc with world-readable permissions before changing them after data has been written, which introduces a race condition that allows local users to obtain a username and password by reading this file...

For the LULZ of it, I apologize to Lulzsec

Note : This Article Cross posted from our Magazine's 13th Issue - August 2012 called "BOTNET | The Hacker News Magazine", Written by Ann Smith Executive Editor, The Hacker News Magazine. You can Download full magazine free here. Shame on me. When someone mentioned Lulzsec I would slightly bristle...

Julian Assange - The most Fuckable Man on the Planet

Julian Assange made a speech today from the balcony of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London and I felt a primal urge brought on by the fact that this man, in all his manly glory, has stuck his proverbial neck out for the essence of life. Truth and Justice. He is a handsome and articulate man, fightin...

Samsung Galaxy S2 World Writeable Directories

Note: I really don't know much about how one writes up vulnerabilities and exploits. I just wanted to root my phone, and found the following apparently previously unknown vulnerabilities. I reported them to Samsung two weeks ago. Affected devices: Vulnerabilities verified on Samsung Galaxy S2 for...

CVE-2012-3457

PNP4Nagios 0.6 through 0.6.16 uses world-readable permissions for processperfdata.cfg, which allows local users to obtain the Gearman shared secret by reading the file...

CVE-2012-3457

CVE-2012-3457 affects PNP4Nagios 0.6–0.6.16. The root cause is world-readable permissions on the file process_perfdata.cfg , which allows local users to read the Gearman shared secret . Public references include NVD, OpenVAS/Fedora advisories, and Ubuntu/Prion entries confirming the same vulnerab...

Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 201207-07 (keepalived)

The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory GLSA 201207-07. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2012 E-Soft Inc. Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only OR GPL-3.0-only...

Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 201207-07 (keepalived)

The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory GLSA 201207-07. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $ Description: Auto generated from Gentoo's XML based advisory Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2012 E-Soft Inc. http://www.securityspace.com Text descriptions are largely excerpted fr...

FreeBSD Ports: automake

The remote host is missing an update to the system as announced in the referenced advisory. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2012 E-Soft Inc. Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only...

CVE-2012-0421

The SUSE Audit Log Keeper daemon before 0.2.1-0.4.6.1 for SUSE Manager and Spacewalk uses world-readable permissions for /etc/auditlog-keeper.conf, which allows local users to obtain passwords by reading this file...

CVE-2012-0421

The SUSE Audit Log Keeper daemon before 0.2.1-0.4.6.1 for SUSE Manager and Spacewalk uses world-readable permissions for /etc/auditlog-keeper.conf, which allows local users to obtain passwords by reading this file...

FreeBSD : automake -- Insecure 'distcheck' recipe granted world-writable distdir (36235c38-e0a8-11e1-9f4d-002354ed89bc)

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...

DEBIAN-CVE-2012-3386

The "make distcheck" rule in GNU Automake before 1.11.6 and 1.12.x before 1.12.2 grants world-writable permissions to the extraction directory, which introduces a race condition that allows local users to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors...

Race condition

The "make distcheck" rule in GNU Automake before 1.11.6 and 1.12.x before 1.12.2 grants world-writable permissions to the extraction directory, which introduces a race condition that allows local users to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors...

CVE-2012-3386

The "make distcheck" rule in GNU Automake before 1.11.6 and 1.12.x before 1.12.2 grants world-writable permissions to the extraction directory, which introduces a race condition that allows local users to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors...

CVE-2012-3386

The "make distcheck" rule in GNU Automake before 1.11.6 and 1.12.x before 1.12.2 grants world-writable permissions to the extraction directory, which introduces a race condition that allows local users to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors...

CVE-2012-3386

The "make distcheck" rule in GNU Automake before 1.11.6 and 1.12.x before 1.12.2 grants world-writable permissions to the extraction directory, which introduces a race condition that allows local users to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors...