rockdodger -- buffer overflows

The environment variable HOME is copied without regard to buffer size, which can be used to gain elevated privilege if the binary is installed setgid games, and a string is read from the high score file without bounds check. The port installs the binary without setgid, but with a world-writable...

GLSA-200410-10 : gettext: Insecure temporary file handling

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200410-10 gettext: Insecure temporary file handling gettext insecurely creates temporary files in world-writeable directories with predictable names. Impact : A local attacker could create symbolic links in the temporary files...

Low: Red Hat Security Advisory: ruby security update

An updated ruby package that fixes insecure file permissions for CGI session files is now available. Ruby is an interpreted scripting language for object-oriented programming. Andres Salomon reported an insecure file permissions flaw in the CGI session management of Ruby. FileStore created world...

DSA-555-1 freenet6 - file permissions

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Mozilla/Firefox Linux Installation Arbitrary File Overwrite (deprecated)

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[ GLSA 200409-10 ] multi-gnome-terminal: Information leak

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GLSA-200409-10 : multi-gnome-terminal: Information leak

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200409-10 multi-gnome-terminal: Information leak multi-gnome-terminal contains debugging code that has been known to output active keystrokes to a potentially unsafe location. Output has been seen to show up in the...

CVE-2002-1518

mv in IRIX 6.5 creates a directory with world-writable permissions while moving a directory, which could allow local users to modify files and directories...

CVE-2001-0837

DeltaThree Pc-To-Phone 3.0.3 places sensitive data in world-readable locations in the installation directory, which allows local users to read the information in 1 temp.html, 2 the log folder, and 3 the PhoneBook folder...

CVE-2002-1392

faxspool in mgetty before 1.1.29 uses a world-writable spool directory for outgoing faxes, which allows local users to modify fax transmission privileges...

CVE-2003-0012

The data collection script for Bugzilla 2.14.x before 2.14.5, 2.16.x before 2.16.2, and 2.17.x before 2.17.3 sets world-writable permissions for the data/mining directory when it runs, which allows local users to modify or delete the data...

CVE-2001-1069

libCoolType library as used in Adobe Acrobat acroread on Linux creates the AdobeFnt.lst file with world-writable permissions, which allows local users to modify the file and possibly modify acroread's behavior...

CVE-2002-1392: Undefined Security Weakness

faxspool in mgetty before 1.1.29 uses a world-writable spool directory for outgoing faxes, which allows local users to modify fax transmission privileges...

CVE-2002-1518: Undefined Security Weakness

mv in IRIX 6.5 creates a directory with world-writable permissions while moving a directory, which could allow local users to modify files and directories...

CVE-2001-1069: Undefined Security Weakness

libCoolType library as used in Adobe Acrobat acroread on Linux creates the AdobeFnt.lst file with world-writable permissions, which allows local users to modify the file and possibly modify acroread's behavior...

CVE-2003-0012: Undefined Security Weakness

The data collection script for Bugzilla 2.14.x before 2.14.5, 2.16.x before 2.16.2, and 2.17.x before 2.17.3 sets world-writable permissions for the data/mining directory when it runs, which allows local users to modify or delete the data...

CVE-2004-1367

Oracle 10g Database Server, when installed with a password that contains an exclamation point "!" for the 1 DBSNMP or 2 SYSMAN user, generates an error that logs the password in the world-readable postDBCreation.log file, which could allow local users to obtain that password and use it against SY...

mozilla -- insecure permissions for some downloaded files

In a Mozilla bug report, Daniel Kleinsinger writes: I was comparing treatment of attachments opened directly from emails on different platforms. I discovered that Linux builds save attachments in /tmp with world readable rights. This doesn't seem like a good thing. Couldn't someone else logged on...

RHEL 2.1 : tetex (RHSA-2002:195)

Updated packages for dvips are available which fix a vulnerability allowing print users to execute arbitrary commands. Updated 13 Aug 2003 Added tetex-doc package that was originally left out of the errata. The dvips utility converts DVI format into PostScriptTM, and is used in Red Hat Linux as a...

wgetuhoh.txt

Tested software: Wget 1.9, Wget 1.9.1 Wget checks for the presence of a file with the same name of the one invoqued at the command line, if the file exists, then it saves the downloaded file with a different name. The problem is that Wget does not lock the file, and directly writes to it. So...