Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : inn (MDKSA-2000:016)

A vulnerability exists when verifycancels is enabled in /etc/news/inn.conf. This vulnerability could be used to gain root access on any system with inn installed. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Mandra...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : sudo (MDKSA-2001:024-1)

A buffer overflow exists in the sudo program which could be used by an attacker to obtain higher privileges. sudo is a program used to delegate superuser privileges to ordinary users and only for specific commands. Update : The sudo package for 7.1 used the system-auth facility of newer pam...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : sgml-tools (MDKSA-2001:030-1)

Insecure handling of temporary file permissions can lead to other users on a multi-user system being able to read the documents being converted. This is due to sgml-tools creating temporary files without any special permissions. The updated packages create a secure temporary directory first, whic...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : cdrecord (MDKSA-2000:009)

The linux cdrecord binary is vulnerable to a locally exploitable buffer overflow attack. When installed on a Linux-Mandrake distribution, it is by default setgid 'cdburner' which is a group, gid: 80, that is created for the application. The overflow condition is the result of no bounds checking o...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : ypserv (MDKSA-2000:064)

A format string parsing bug exists in ypbind 3.3 if it is run in debug mode which leaks file descriptors under certain circumstances which can lead to a DoS. In addition, ypbind may suffer from buffer overflows. In the ypserv program, a buffer overflow and format bug exist if the build system doe...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : dump (MDKSA-2000:018)

There was the potential for a buffer overflow exploit in the restore program. This new version fixes this possible vulnerability. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Mandrake Linux Security Advisory...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : apache (MDKSA-2000:060-2)

The Apache web server comes with a module called modrewrite which is used to rewrite URLs presented by the client prior to further processing. There is a flaw in the modrewrite logic that allows an attacker to view arbitrary files on the server system if they contain regular expression references...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : fdutils (MDKSA-2000:005)

A vulnerability in fdmount will allow any user to exploit a buffer overflow. This user, when he is in the floppy group, can have a root access on the machine. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Mandrake...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : slocate (MDKSA-2000:085)

Michael Kaempf reported a security problem in slocate a secure version of locate, a tool to quickly locate files on a filesystem on bugtraq which was originally discovered by zorgon. He discovered that there was a bug in the database reading code which made it overwrite an internal structure with...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : usermode (MDKSA-2000:020)

A bug existed in the usermode package that permitted users to reboot or halt the system without having root access. This update removes those files associated with allowing users access to reboot, shutdown, halt, or poweroff the system. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : ntp (MDKSA-2001:036)

Przemyslaw Frasunek reported that ntp daemons such as ntp and xntp3 are vulnerable to a buffer overflow that can lead to a remote root exploit. Linux-Mandrake users are urged to upgrade ntp and xntp3 immediately. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and packag...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : pam (MDKSA-2000:082-1)

The pamlocaluser module, which is a part of the pam package, contains a buffer overflow vulnerability. This module is not used in any default configuration and for a user to be exploited, they would have to manually insert it into a configuration file in the /etc/pam.d directory. Update : The pam...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : hylafax (MDKSA-2001:041)

A problem exists with the HylaFAX program, hfaxd. When hfaxd tries to change it's queue directory and fails, it prints an error message via syslog by directly passing user-supplied data as the format string. If hfaxd is installed setuid root, this behaviour can be exploited to gain root access...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : diffutils (MDKSA-2001:008-1)

WireX discovered a potential temporary file race condition in the sdiff program within the diffutils package. This update corrects the problem. Update : The previous updates had a conflicting man page with the man-pages package which prevented MandrakeUpdate from updating the package. %NASLMINLEV...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : mozilla (MDKSA-2002:074)

Numerous security fixes are available in Mozilla 1.0.1. For a detailed list, refer to the 'Recently fixed security issues' page on the Mozilla website see the first reference. All users are encouraged to upgrade to this latest stable 1.0.x release of Mozilla. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : joe (MDKSA-2000:072)

When exiting joe in a non-standard way such as a system crash, closing an xterm, or a network connection going down, joe will unconditionally append its open buffers to the file DEADJOE. This can be exploited by the creation of DEADJOE symlinks in directories where root would normally use joe. In...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : gpm (MDKSA-2001:006)

WireX discovered a potential temporary file condition in the gpm program. This update corrects the problem. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Mandrake Linux Security Advisory MDKSA-2001:006. The text...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : cups (MDKSA-2005:041)

Previous updates to correct integer overflow issues affecting xpdf overlooked certain conditions when built for a 64 bit platform. formerly CVE-2004-0888. This also affects applications like cups, that use embedded versions of xpdf. The updated packages are patched to deal with these issues...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : gnorpm (MDKSA-2000:055)

Versions of GnoRPM prior to 0.95 used files in the /tmp directory in an insecure manner. If GnoRPM is run as root, a local user can exploit this behaviour to trick GnoRPM into writing to arbitrary files anywhere on the system. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : xinitrc (MDKSA-2000:052)

A problem exists in the /etc/X11/Xsession file which disables the Xauthority mechanism of the localhost. This means that anyone logged into the localhost can arbitrarily connect to an X server running on the localhost. This is only a problem with systems that allow remote logins and is not a...