[SECURITY] New versions of cfingerd fixes root exploit

We have received a report that the all versions of cfingerd prior to 1.4.0 and 1.3.2-18.1 are vulnerable to a root exploit - as posted on bugtraq. We recommend you upgrade your cfingerd package immediately or disable ALLOWEXECUTION. The latter is turned off in the default Debian configuration. wg...

[SECURITY] New version of samba released

The version of samba as distributed in Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 has a couple of security problems: a Denial-of-Service attack against nmbd was possible it was possible to exploit smbd if you had a message command defined which used the %f or %M formatter. smbmnts check to see if a user is allowed to...

Subject: [SECURITY] New version of kernel-image for sparc fixes DoS attack

As is widely known by now the Linux 2.2.x kernels had a problem with parsing IP options, which made them susceptible to a DoS attack. The Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 release for the Sun sparc architecture uses such a kernel. If you are using such a system and havent upgraded the kernel yourself, we...

Solaris 2.67.08 - netpr Local Buffer Overflow (1)

Solaris 2.67.08 - netpr Local Buffer Overflow 1 // source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1200/info A buffer overrun exists in the 'netpr' program, part of the SUNWpcu LP package included with Solaris, from Sun Microsystems. Versions of netpr on Solaris 2.6 and 7, on both Sparc and x86 have be...

[SECURITY] New version of procmail with security fixes

A new version of procmail has been released which fixes some new buffer overflows that were missed in version 3.13 . We recommend you upgrade your procmail package immediately. wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file. Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 alias slink...

[SECURITY] new version of procmail with security fixes

A new version of procmail has been released which fixes a couple of buffer overflows and has extra security checks. We recommend you upgrade your procmail package immediately. wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file. Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 alias slink...

[SECURITY] new version of procmail with security fixes

A new version of procmail has been released which fixes a couple of buffer overflows and has extra security checks. We recommend you upgrade your procmail package immediately. wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file. Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 alias slink...

[SECURITY] New version of lsof fixes buffer overflow

We have received reports that the lsof package is distributed in Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 contains a buffer overflow. Using this overflow it is possible for local users to gain root-access. We have fixed this problem in version 4.37-3. We recommend you upgrade your lsof package immediately. wget url...

[SECURITY] New versions of cfengine fixes symlink attack

The maintainer of Debian GNU/Linux cfengine package found a error in the way cfengine handles temporary files when it runs the tidy action on homedirectories, which makes it suspectible to a symlink attack. The author has been notified of the problem but has not released a fix yet. We recommend y...

[SECURITY] New version of ssh may fix buffer overflows

There has been a lot of confusion over ssh lately: some people think their systems have been hacked through ssh, although nobody has been able to produce an exploit. To avoid any possible problems we have patched ssh to fix any possible buffer overruns. We think this will stop any attack that mig...

[SECURITY] New version of fte fixes access problems

We have found that the fte package as supplied in our slink frozen and potato unstable archives does not drop its root priviliges after initializing the virtual console device. This allows all users to read and write files with root priviliges, and execute all programs as root. A new package...

[SECURITY] New version of zgv fixes buffer overflows

We have received reports that the zgv package is vulnerable to buffer overflows. We recommend you upgrade your zgv package immediately. wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file. Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 alias hamm ------------------------------- This...

[SECURITY] New versions of junkbuster fixes buffer overflows

We have received reports that junkbuster had a couple buffer overflow vulnerabilities. We fixed those in version 2.0-3.2. All later version are also not vulnerable. The patches were backported from 2.0.2 . We recommend you upgrade your junkbuster package immediately. wget url will fetch the file...

[SECURITY] New versions of junkbuster fixes buffer overflows

We have received reports that junkbuster had a couple buffer overflow vulnerabilities. We fixed those in version 2.0-3.2. All later version are also not vulnerable. The patches were backported from 2.0.2 . We recommend you upgrade your junkbuster package immediately. wget url will fetch the file...

[SECURITY] New versions of tcsh fixes buffer overflows

We have found that the tcsh shell had a problem with very long pathnames. When a very long path was encountered tcsh failed to check the result of getcwd in all places, which could be exploited. We recommend you upgrade your tcsh package immediately. wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i...

[SECURITY] New versions of bash fixes buffer overflows

We have received reports that the bash shell had a problem with very long pathnames. When a very long path was encountered bash failed to check the result of getcwd in all places, which could be exploited. We recommend you upgrade your bash package immediately. wget url will fetch the file for yo...

[SECURITY] New versions of bash fixes buffer overflows

We have received reports that the bash shell had a problem with very long pathnames. When a very long path was encountered bash failed to check the result of getcwd in all places, which could be exploited. We recommend you upgrade your bash package immediately. wget url will fetch the file for yo...

[SECURITY] New version of bind fixes buffer overflows

We have received reports that the nslookup and dig utilities as shipped with current distribution of Linux contain possible buffer overflows. We recommend you upgrade your bind package immediately. wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file. Debian...

[SECURITY] New versions of netstd fixes root exploit in rpc.mountd

Description ----------- The Program rpc.mountd is a mount daemon that handles NFS mounts. The version as shipped with current distributions of Linux contains a buffer overflow. Impact ------ The overflow can be used as part of an attack to gain root access on the machine acting NFS server. We...

[SECURITY] New versions of bsdgames fixes sail /tmp race

The game sail as provided by the bsdgames package contained a /tmp race. This has been fixes. We recommend you upgrade your bsdgames package. wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file. Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 alias hamm This version of Debian were release...