This Metasploit module targets a vulnerability in Tomcat versions 6, 7, and 8 on Debian-based distributions where these older versions provide a vulnerable tomcat init script that allows local attackers who have already gained access to the tomcat account to escalate their privileges from the tomcat user to root and fully compromise the target system.

Ubuntu Security Notice 5842-1 - Mark Esler and David Fernandez Gonzalez discovered that EditorConfig Core C incorrectly handled memory when handling certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause applications using EditorConfig Core C to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

Android Binder VMA management suffers from multiple security issues.

GNUnet is a peer-to-peer framework with focus on providing security. All peer-to-peer messages in the network are confidential and authenticated. The framework provides a transport abstraction layer and can currently encapsulate the network traffic in UDP (IPv4 and IPv6), TCP (IPv4 and IPv6), HTTP, or SMTP messages. GNUnet supports accounting to provide contributing nodes with better service. The primary service build on top of the framework is anonymous file sharing.

Ubuntu Security Notice 5824-1 - Multiple security issues were discovered in Thunderbird. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted website in a browsing context, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service, obtain sensitive information, bypass security restrictions, cross-site tracing, or execute arbitrary code.

Microsoft Windows suffers from a kernel memory corruption due to an insufficient handling of predefined keys in registry virtualization.

Ubuntu Security Notice 5825-2 - USN-5825-1 fixed vulnerabilities in PAM. Unfortunately that update was incomplete and could introduce a regression. This update fixes the problem. It was discovered that PAM did not correctly restrict login from an IP address that is not resolvable via DNS. An attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass authentication.

Ubuntu Security Notice 5816-2 - USN-5816-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. The update introduced several minor regressions. This update fixes the problem. Niklas Baumstark discovered that a compromised web child process of Firefox could disable web security opening restrictions, leading to a new child process being spawned within the file:// context. Tom Schuster discovered that Firefox was not performing a validation check on GTK drag data. An attacker could potentially exploits this to obtain sensitive information. Various other issues were also addressed.

This Metasploit module demonstrates how an incorrect access control for the Lenovo Diagnostics Driver allows a low-privileged user the ability to issue device IOCTLs to perform arbitrary physical/virtual memory reads and writes.

Dirty Cow arbitrary file write local privilege escalation exploit for macOS.

This Metasploit module creates a local user with a username/password and root-level privileges. Note that a root-level account is not required to do this, which makes it a privilege escalation issue. Note that this is pretty noisy, since it creates a user account and creates log files and such. Additionally, most (if not all) vulnerabilities in F5 grant root access anyways.

Ubuntu Security Notice 5841-1 - It was discovered that LibTIFF incorrectly handled certain malformed images. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted image, a remote attacker could crash the application, leading to a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code with user privileges. This issue was only fixed in Ubuntu 14.04 ESM. It was discovered that LibTIFF was incorrectly accessing a data structure when processing data with the tiffcrop tool, which could lead to a heap buffer overflow. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code.

Oracle Database version 12.1.0.2 suffers from a privilege escalation vulnerability that achieves DBA access via the Spatial component.

Zeek is a powerful network analysis framework that is much different from the typical IDS you may know. While focusing on network security monitoring, Zeek provides a comprehensive platform for more general network traffic analysis as well. Well grounded in more than 15 years of research, Zeek has successfully bridged the traditional gap between academia and operations since its inception. Today, it is relied upon operationally in particular by many scientific environments for securing their cyber-infrastructure. Zeek's user community includes major universities, research labs, supercomputing centers, and open-science communities. This is the source code release.

This is a Linux/portable port of OpenBSD's excellent OpenSSH. OpenSSH is based on the last free version of Tatu Ylonen's SSH with all patent-encumbered algorithms removed, all known security bugs fixed, new features reintroduced, and many other clean-ups.

On January 16, 2023, the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team responsibly disclosed several vulnerabilities in Quick Restaurant Menu, a WordPress plugin that allows users to set up restaurant menus on their sites. This plugin is vulnerable to missing authorization, insecure direct object reference, cross site request forgery as well as cross site scripting in versions up to, and including, 2.0.2.

Ubuntu Security Notice 5840-1 - It was discovered that Long Range ZIP incorrectly handled pointers. If a user or an automated system were tricked into opening a certain specially crafted ZIP file, an attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM, Ubuntu 16.04 ESM, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. It was discovered that Long Range ZIP incorrectly handled pointers. If a user or an automated system were tricked into opening a certain specially crafted ZIP file, an attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.

Ubuntu Security Notice 5839-2 - USN-5839-1 fixed a vulnerability in Apache. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. Dimas Fariski Setyawan Putra discovered that the Apache HTTP Server mod_proxy module incorrectly truncated certain response headers. This may result in later headers not being interpreted by the client.

Debian Linux Security Advisory 5338-1 - Guillaume Espanel, Pierre Libeau, Arnaud Morin and Damien Rannou discovered that missing input sanitising in the handling of VMDK images in Cinder, the OpenStack block storage system, may result in information disclosure.

Debian Linux Security Advisory 5337-1 - Guillaume Espanel, Pierre Libeau, Arnaud Morin and Damien Rannou discovered that missing input sanitising in the handling of VMDK images in OpenStack Compute (codenamed Nova) may result in information disclosure.

Debian Linux Security Advisory 5336-1 - Guillaume Espanel, Pierre Libeau, Arnaud Morin and Damien Rannou discovered that missing input sanitizing in the handling of VMDK images in Glance, the OpenStack image registry and delivery service, may result in information disclosure.

Debian Linux Security Advisory 5335-1 - Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the OpenJDK Java runtime, which may result in denial of service or spoofing.

This archive contains all of the 130 exploits added to Packet Storm in January, 2023.

This Metasploit module exploits a bug in io_uring leading to an additional put_cred() that can be exploited to hijack credentials of other processes. This exploit will spawn SUID programs to get the freed cred object reallocated by a privileged process and abuse them to create a SUID root binary that will pop a shell. The dangling cred pointer will, however, lead to a kernel panic as soon as the task terminates and its credentials are destroyed. We therefore detach from the controlling terminal, block all signals and rest in silence until the system shuts down and we get killed hard, just to cry in vain, seeing the kernel collapse. The bug affected kernels from v5.12-rc3 to v5.14-rc7. More than 1 CPU is required for exploitation. Successfully tested against Ubuntu 22.04.01 with kernel 5.13.12-051312-generic.