GAO Names Areas of Threat to U.S.

It’s not a very good day when a security report concludes: Disruptive cyber activities expected to become the norm in future political and military conflicts. But such was the case as the Government Accountability Office took yet another critical look at the US federal security systems and found...

CVE-2009-3939

The pollmodeio file for the megaraidsas driver in the Linux kernel 2.6.31.6 and earlier has world-writable permissions, which allows local users to change the I/O mode of the driver by modifying this file...

Design/Logic Flaw

The pollmodeio file for the megaraidsas driver in the Linux kernel 2.6.31.6 and earlier has world-writable permissions, which allows local users to change the I/O mode of the driver by modifying this file...

Design/Logic Flaw

The dbglvl file for the megaraidsas driver in the Linux kernel before 2.6.27 has world-writable permissions, which allows local users to change the 1 behavior and 2 logging level of the driver by modifying this file...

CVE-2009-3939

The pollmodeio file for the megaraidsas driver in the Linux kernel 2.6.31.6 and earlier has world-writable permissions, which allows local users to change the I/O mode of the driver by modifying this file...

CVE-2009-3889

CVE-2009-3889 affects the Linux kernel megaraid_sas driver; the dbg_lvl file is world-writable in kernels before 2.6.27, enabling local users to modify driver behavior and logging level. MiracleLinux AXSA:2010-141 references this issue among others and indicates a fix in kernel 2.6.27+ as part of...

CVE-2009-3889

The dbglvl file for the megaraidsas driver in the Linux kernel before 2.6.27 has world-writable permissions, which allows local users to change the 1 behavior and 2 logging level of the driver by modifying this file...

CVE-2009-3939

CVE-2009-3939 affects the Linux kernel megaraid_sas driver: the poll_mode_io file has world-writable permissions in kernel 2.6.31.6 and earlier. This enables local users to change the driver I/O mode by modifying the file. The description notes local access and manipulation of driver behavior, wi...

PT-2009-6113 · Linux +1 · Linux Kernel +1

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux kernel versions prior to 2.6.27 Description: The issue concerns the megaraid sas driver in the Linux kernel, where the dbg lvl file has world-writable permissions. This allows local users to modify the file, which in turn enables them t...

CVE-2009-3939

The pollmodeio file for the megaraidsas driver in the Linux kernel 2.6.31.6 and earlier has world-writable permissions, which allows local users to change the I/O mode of the driver by modifying this file...

Social Engineering in Real-World Computer Attacks

Why bother breaking down the door if you can simply ask to be let in? The SANS Diary has an excellent entry on just how valuable social engineering is to attackers — whether during penetration testing or as part of real world attacks. It explores the techniques used to marry offline social...

NFS Shares World Readable

The remote NFS server is exporting one or more shares without restricting access based on hostname, IP, or IP range. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include'compat.inc'; if description scriptid42256; scriptversion"1.12"; scriptsetattributeattribute:"pluginmodificationdate", value:"2024/02/21";...

PBBoard 2.0.2 - Full Path Disclosure

PBBoard 2.0.2 - Full Path Disclosure AdvisoryPBBoard GET as $sqlget if eregi"select", $sqlget or eregi"union", $sqlget or eregi"%", $sqlget $this-error'?? ¨¹??? ± ?´±?¹?!'; ================ ================ 2. Full Path Disclosure ----------------------------------- allow attackers to gather the...

USN-841-1: GLib vulnerability

Arand Nash discovered that applications linked to GLib e.g. Nautilus did not correctly copy symlinks. If a user copied symlinks with GLib, the symlink target files would become world-writable, allowing local attackers to gain access to potentially sensitive information...

SuSE9 Security Update : permissions (YOU Patch Number 10815)

It is technically impossible to change permissions files in of world writeable directories that don't have the sticky bit set in a secure way. This update therefore removes /var/lib/xmcd/discog from /etc/permissions. Furthermore permissions handling of files below /var/games is removed. To be abl...

HyperVM File Permissions Local Vulnerability

HyperVM is a virtualization application that runs off a host node and can provide several Virtual Private Servers. There is a previously unreported vulnerability in HyperVM/Kloxo. It was originally documented in ISSUE 14 by an anonymous author: http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/8880 It turns out th...

HyperVM weak permissions

Passwords and private keys are stored in world-readable file...

HyperVM File Permissions Local Vulnerability

Exploit for multiple platform in category local exploits ============================================ HyperVM File Permissions Local Vulnerability ============================================ HyperVM is a virtualization application that runs off a host node and can provide several Virtual Private...

HyperVM - File Permissions Credential Disclosure

HyperVM is a virtualization application that runs off a host node and can provide several Virtual Private Servers. There is a previously unreported vulnerability in HyperVM/Kloxo. It was originally documented in ISSUE 14 by an anonymous author: http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/8880 It turns out th...

CVE-2009-2669

A certain debugging component in IBM AIX 5.3 and 6.1 does not properly handle the 1 LIBINITDBG and 2 LIBINITDBGFILE environment variables, which allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging a setuid-root program to create an arbitrary root-owned file with world-writable permissions, relate...