security flaw

Race condition in the rmtree function in the File::Path module in Perl 5.6.1 and 5.8.4 sets read/write permissions for the world, which allows local users to delete arbitrary files and directories, and possibly read files and directories, via a symlink attack...

CVE-2005-0444

VMware before 4.5.2.8848-r5 searches for gdk-pixbuf shared libraries using a path that includes the rrdharan world-writable temporary directory, which allows local users to execute arbitrary code...

VMWare virtual machine privilege escalation

Dynamic libraries are searched in world writable directory...

CVE-2005-0444

VMware before 4.5.2.8848-r5 searches for gdk-pixbuf shared libraries using a path that includes the rrdharan world-writable temporary directory, which allows local users to execute arbitrary code...

security flaw

Race condition in the rmtree function in the File::Path module in Perl 5.6.1 and 5.8.4 sets read/write permissions for the world, which allows local users to delete arbitrary files and directories, and possibly read files and directories, via a symlink attack...

USN-75-1: cpio vulnerability

Recently it was discovered that cpio created world-writeable files when used in -o/--create mode with giving an output file with -O. This allowed any user to modify the created cpio archives. Now cpio respects the current umask setting of the user. Note: This vulnerability has already been fixed ...

CVE-2005-0142

Firefox 0.9, Thunderbird 0.6 and other versions before 0.9, and Mozilla 1.7 before 1.7.5 save temporary files with world-readable permissions, which allows local users to read certain web content or attachments that belong to other users, e.g. content that is managed by helper applications such a...

CVE-2004-1340

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 installs the libpam-radius-auth package with the pamradiusauth.conf set to be world-readable, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information...

DEBIAN-CVE-2004-1340

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 installs the libpam-radius-auth package with the pamradiusauth.conf set to be world-readable, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information...

Opened attachments are temporarily saved world-readable — Mozilla

Mozilla software released after March 2004 saves some temporary files with world-readable permissions. In the browser this is primarily content fed to helper applications for example, PDF files, and in the mail clients it is attachments...

CVE-2005-0118

helvis 1.8h21 and earlier stores recovery files in world readable directories with world readable permissions, which allows local users to read the recovered files of other users...

CVE-2005-0118

CVE-2005-0118 affects helvis 1.8h2_1 and earlier. The vulnerability arises because recovery files are stored in world-readable directories with world-readable permissions, allowing local users to read recovered files of other users. Multiple sources (NVD/CVE, FreeBSD VuXML and OpenVAS entries) co...

newsgrab -- insecure file and directory creation

The newsgrab script uses insecure permissions during the creation of the local output directory and downloaded files. After a file is created, permissions on it are set using the mode value of the newsgroup posting. This can potentially be a problem when the mode is not restrictive enough. In...

CVE-2004-2303

MTools Mformat before 3.9.9, when installed setuid root, creates files with world-readable and world-writable permissions, which allows local users to read and overwrite files...

CVE-2004-2615

The documentation for CuteNews 1.3.6 and possibly other versions specifies that files under cutenews/data must be manually given world-writable permissions, which allows local users to insert false news, delete news, and possibly gain privileges or have other unknown impact...

CVE-2004-0952

HP-UX B.11.00 through B.11.23, when running Ignite-UX and using the addnewclient command, causes the TFTP server to set world-writable permissions on part of the directory tree, which allows remote attackers to modify data or cause disk consumption...

DEBIAN-CVE-2004-2303

MTools Mformat before 3.9.9, when installed setuid root, creates files with world-readable and world-writable permissions, which allows local users to read and overwrite files...

perl -- File::Path insecure file/directory permissions

Jeroen van Wolffelaar reports that the Perl module File::Path contains a race condition wherein traversed directories and files are temporarily made world-readable/writable...

Oracle clear text passwords (#NISR2122004D)

NGSSoftware Insight Security Research Advisory Name: Oracle 10g clear text passwords Systems Affected: Oracle 10g on all operating systems Severity: Medium Risk Vendor URL: http://www.oracle.com/ Author: David Litchfield davidl at ngssoftware.com Relates to:...

CVE-2004-0563

The tspc.conf configuration file in freenet6 before 0.9.6 and before 1.0 on Debian Linux has world readable permissions, which could allow local users to gain sensitive information, such as a username and password...