AVG Internet Security Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

AVG Internet Security is an Internet security suite that includes antivirus, antispyware, antispam, link scanning and firewall. AVG Internet Security suffers from an elevation of privilege vulnerability, which can be exploited by a local attacker to write arbitrary files to enforce kernel-level...

Arbitrary Write Privilege Elevation Vulnerability in Various K7 Computing Products

K7 Computing is an antivirus program. An arbitrary write elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in several K7 Computing products that allows a local user to write to arbitrary memory locations and gain elevated privileges by crafting 0x95002570, 0x95002574, 0x95002580, 0x950025a8, 0x950025ac...

There is an unspecified vulnerability in pax

pax is a set of archiving tools developed by Debian's QA group that can read and write tar and cpio formats. A security vulnerability exists in pax version 1:20140703. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability to write arbitrary files by performing a symlink attack on the archive file...

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS : linux vulnerabilities (USN-2462-1)

Lars Bull reported a race condition in the PIT programmable interrupt timer emulation in the KVM Kernel Virtual Machine subsystem of the Linux kernel. A local guest user with access to PIT i/o ports could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service crash on the host. CVE-2014-3611 Lars Bull an...

IBM Security AppScan Enterprise Arbitrary Command Execution Vulnerability

IBM Security AppScan Enterprise is a set of U.S. IBM Web application security testing solutions. Formerly known as IBM Rational AppScan Enterprise, the program supports simultaneous scanning of multiple Web applications , generate vulnerability reports and intelligent patching . IBM Security...

DEBIAN-CVE-2014-6407

Docker before 1.3.2 allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files and execute arbitrary code via a 1 symlink or 2 hard link attack in an image archive in a a pull or b load operation...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux vulnerabilities (USN-2417-1)

Nadav Amit reported that the KVM Kernel Virtual Machine mishandles noncanonical addresses when emulating instructions that change the rip Instruction Pointer. A guest user with access to I/O or the MMIO can use this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash of the guest. CVE-2014-3647 A flaw...

libXfont: unvalidated length fields when parsing xfs protocol replies

Multiple out-of-bounds write flaws were found in the way libXfont parsed replies received from an X.org font server. A malicious X.org server could cause an X client to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the X.Org server...

Vulnerability in JP1/NETM/DM and Job Management Partner 1/Software Distribution data reproduction functionality

Overview JP1/NETM/DM and Job Management Partner 1/Software Distribution contain a vulnerability that prevents them from disabling writing to built-in USB storage devices. Impact An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to prevent the affected products from disabling writing to built-in type USB...

DEBIAN-CVE-2012-1111

lightdm before 1.0.9 does not properly close file descriptors before opening a child process, which allows local users to write to the lightdm log or have other unspecified impact...

GNU Wget FTP Symlink Arbitrary Filesystem Access

This module exploits a vulnerability in Wget when used in recursive -r mode with a FTP server as a destination. A symlink is used to allow arbitrary writes to the target's filesystem. To specify content for the file, use the "file:/path" syntax for the TARGETDATA option. Tested successfully with...

CVE-2014-3074 - Runtime Linker Allows Privilege Escalation Via Arbitrary File Writes in IBM AIX

Vulnerability title: Runtime Linker Allows Privilege Escalation Via Arbitrary File Writes in IBM AIX CVE: CVE-2014-3074 Vendor: IBM Product: AIX Affected version: AIX 6.1 and 7.1 and VIOS 2.2. Reported by: Tim Brown Details: It has been identified that the runtime linker allows privilege escalati...

AIX 7.1 TL 2 : malloc (IV62807)

It has been identified that the runtime linker allows privilege escalation via arbitrary file writes with elevated privileges programs. When MALLOCOPTIONS and MALLOCBUCKETS environment variables are set with bucket statistics options and by executing certain setuid programs, a non-privileged user...

AIX 6.1 TL 7 : malloc (IV61313)

It has been identified that the runtime linker allows privilege escalation via arbitrary file writes with elevated privileges programs. When MALLOCOPTIONS and MALLOCBUCKETS environment variables are set with bucket statistics options and by executing certain setuid programs, a non-privileged user...

SCO Unixware 7.0/7.0.1/7.1/7.1.1 'uidadmin' Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/842/info Certain versions of SCO Unixware ship with an exploitable version of the /usr/bin/uidadmin program. The problem lies in that 'uidadmin' runs with root privileges and performs insecure writes to a scratch director...

AIX 6.1 TL 9 : malloc (IV60935)

It has been identified that the runtime linker allows privilege escalation via arbitrary file writes with elevated privileges programs. When MALLOCOPTIONS and MALLOCBUCKETS environment variables are set with bucket statistics options and by executing certain setuid programs, a non-privileged user...

AIX 6.1 TL 8 : malloc (IV61311)

It has been identified that the runtime linker allows privilege escalation via arbitrary file writes with elevated privileges programs. When MALLOCOPTIONS and MALLOCBUCKETS environment variables are set with bucket statistics options and by executing certain setuid programs, a non-privileged user...

AIX 7.1 TL 2 : malloc (IV61314)

It has been identified that the runtime linker allows privilege escalation via arbitrary file writes with elevated privileges programs. When MALLOCOPTIONS and MALLOCBUCKETS environment variables are set with bucket statistics options and by executing certain setuid programs, a non-privileged user...

AIX 7.1 TL 1 : malloc (IV61315)

It has been identified that the runtime linker allows privilege escalation via arbitrary file writes with elevated privileges programs. When MALLOCOPTIONS and MALLOCBUCKETS environment variables are set with bucket statistics options and by executing certain setuid programs, a non-privileged user...

DEBIAN-CVE-2014-0471

Directory traversal vulnerability in the unpacking functionality in dpkg before 1.15.9, 1.16.x before 1.16.13, and 1.17.x before 1.17.8 allows remote attackers to write arbitrary files via a crafted source package, related to "C-style filename quoting."...