Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : sharutils (MDKSA-2002:052)

The uudecode utility creates output files without checking to see if it is about to write to a symlink or pipe. This could be exploited by a local attacker to overwrite files or lead to privilege escalation if users decode data into share directories, such as /tmp. This update fixes this...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : pam_ldap (MDKSA-2003:088)

A bug was fixed in pamldap 162 with the pamfilter mechanism which is commonly used for host-based access restriction in environments using LDAP for authentication. Mandrake Linux 9.1 provided pamldap 161 which had this problem and as a result, systems relying on pamfilter for host-based access...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : fetchmail (MDKSA-2003:011)

A vulnerability was discovered in all versions of fetchmail prior to 6.2.0 that allows a remote attacker to crash fetchmail and potentially execute arbitrary code by sending carefully crafted email wihch is then parsed by fetchmail. The vulnerability has been fixed in these patched packages of...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : teetx (MDKSA-2002:070)

A vulnerability was discovered in dvips by Olaf Kirch that would allow remote users with access to the printer to execute commands as the lp user through sending special print jobs to the printer. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : apache-mod_perl (MDKSA-2004:046-1)

Four security vulnerabilities were fixed with the 1.3.31 release of Apache. All of these issues have been backported and applied to the provided packages. Thanks to Ralf Engelschall of OpenPKG for providing the patches. Apache 1.3 prior to 1.3.30 did not filter terminal escape sequences from its...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : eroaster (MDKSA-2003:083)

A vulnerability was discovered in eroaster where it does not take any security precautions when creating a temporary file for the lockfile. This vulnerability could be exploited to overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user running eroaster. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : utempter (MDKSA-2004:031-1)

Steve Grubb discovered two potential issues in the utempter program : 1 If the path to the device contained /../ or /./ or //, the program was not exiting as it should. It would be possible to use something like /dev/../tmp/tty0, and then if /tmp/tty0 were deleted and symlinked to another importa...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : kdegraphics (MDKSA-2002:071)

A vulnerability exists in KGhostview, part of the kdegraphics package. It includes a DSC 3.0 parser from GSview then is vulnerable to a buffer overflow while parsing a specially crafted .ps file. It also contains code from gv which is vulnerable to a similar buffer overflow triggered by malformed...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : ethereal (MDKSA-2004:067)

Three vulnerabilities were discovered in Ethereal versions prior to 0.10.5 in the iSNS, SMB SID, and SNMP dissectors. It may be possible to make Ethereal crash or run arbitrary code by injecting a purposefully malformed packet into the wire or by convincing someone to read a malformed packet trac...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : ethereal (MDKSA-2003:070)

A number of string handling bugs were found in the packet dissectors in ethereal that can be exploited using specially crafted packets to cause ethereal to consume excessive amounts of memory, crash, or even execute arbitrary code. These vulnerabilities have been fixed upsteam in ethereal 0.9.13...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : LPRng (MDKSA-2003:060)

Karol Lewandowski discovered a problem with psbanner, a printer filter that creates a PostScript format banner. psbanner creates a temporary file for debugging purposes when it is configured as a filter, and does not check whether or not this file already exists or is a symlink. The filter will...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : openldap (MDKSA-2002:013)

A problem exists in all versions of OpenLDAP from 2.0.0 through 2.0.19 where permissions are not properly checked using access control lists when a user tries to remove an attribute from an object in the directory by replacing it's values with an empty list. Schema checking is still enforced, so ...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : wget (MDKSA-2002:086)

A vulnerability in all versions of wget prior to and including 1.8.2 was discovered by Steven M. Christey. The bug permits a malicious FTP server to create or overwriet files anywhere on the local file system by sending filenames beginning with '/' or containing '/../'. This can be used to make...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : nedit (MDKSA-2001:042)

A temporary file vulnerability exists in NEdit, the Nirvana Editor. When printing the entire text or selected parts of the text within the editor, nedit creates a temporary file in an insecure manner. This could be exploited to gain access to other user privileges including root. %NASLMINLEVEL...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : ethereal (MDKSA-2003:051)

A vulnerability was discovered in Ethereal 0.9.9 and earlier that allows a remote attacker to use specially crafted SOCKS packets to cause a denial of service DoS and possibly execute arbitrary code. A similar vulnerability also exists in the NTLMSSP code in Ethereal 0.9.9 and earlier, due to a...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : mod_ssl (MDKSA-2002:020)

Ed Moyle discovered a buffer overflow in modssl's session caching mechanisms that use shared memory and dbm. This could potentially be triggered by sending a very long client certificate to the server. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : xpdf (MDKSA-2003:002)

The pdftops filter found in both the xpdf and CUPS packages suffers from an integer overflow that can be exploited to gain the privilege of the victim user. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Mandrake Lin...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : squid (MDKSA-2001:066)

The Squid proxy server has a serious security flaw in versions 2.3.STABLE2 through 2.3.STABLE4. This problem surfaces when Squid is used in httpdaccel mode. If you configure httpaccelwithproxy off then any request to Squid is allowed. Malicious users may use your proxy to portscan remote systems,...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : mailman (MDKSA-2004:051)

Mailman versions = 2.1 have an issue where 3rd parties can retrieve member passwords from the server. The updated packages have a patch backported from 2.1.5 to correct the issue. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : ksymoops (MDKSA-2004:060)

Geoffrey Lee discovered a problem with the ksymoops-gznm script distributed with Mandrakelinux. The script fails to do proper checking when copying a file to the /tmp directory. Because of this, a local attacker can setup a symlink to point to a file that they do not have permission to remove. Th...