privileges

Description : A vulnerability has been reported in HP Tru64 UNIX, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

Release Date: 2008-11-05 Last Updated: 2008-11-05 Potential Security Impact: Local gain extended privileges.

This script will create a backup of each table in every database (one file per table), compress it and upload it to a remote ftp.

First create a mysql user with select and lock table privileges (or use root). Then use this script in your crontab every hours:

Release Date: 2008-09-17 Last Updated: 2008-09-17 Potential Security Impact: Remote SQL injection, remote gain extended privileges, local gain extended privileges, local Denial of Service Source: ...

Description : VMware has acknowledged some vulnerabilities in VMware Player, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges and by malicious people to cause a DoS and potentially ...

Description : VMware has acknowledged some vulnerabilities in VMware Workstation, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges and by malicious people to cause a DoS and ...

Description : A security issue has been reported in Sympa, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform actions with escalated privileges.

Redhat retrieve the super user passwords Unix / Linux The author of the machine is equipped with Redhat Linux7.2 operating system, installed the KDE and GNOME desktop, the only established at the time of installation in the super-user root, but the super-user privileges too, is only applicable to system maintenance and installation of software us

Description : A vulnerability has been reported in MaxDB, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

Attorney James Grimmelmann has put together a detailed history of issues surrounding access to the law as a way of looking at the state of Oregon's attempts to assert copyright privileges on its legal code.

He concludes with a set of principles for access to legal code which has a lot of similarities with our principles regarding source code.

"The right to distribute: Once primary legal information is online, anyone should be able to pick it up and republish it as they see fit.