[Touch-packages] [Bug 1618229] Re: rsyslogd terminal escape sequences injection

2016-08-30 Thread Federico Bento
from entering the syslog system as whole." On my system, this does not seem to be true, and actually went ahead and added "$EscapeControlCharactersOnReceive on" to the /etc/rsyslog.conf file, restarted rsyslog and the problem still persists. I am using rsyslogd 7.4.8 T

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1535768] [NEW] pkexec tty hijacking via TIOCSTI ioctl

2016-01-19 Thread Federico Bento
Public bug reported: When executing a program via "pkexec --user nonpriv program" the nonpriv session can escape to the parent session by using the TIOCSTI ioctl to push characters into the terminal's input buffer, allowing privilege escalation. This issue has been fixed in "su" CVE-2005-4890 by