Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : Zope (MDKSA-2000:083)

There is an issue involving security registration of 'legacy' names for certain object constructors such as the constructors for DTML Method Objects. Security was not being applied correctly for the legacy names, making it possible to call those constructors without the permissions that should ha...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : kdesu (MDKSA-2000:008)

A vulnerability in kdesud will allow any user to exploit a buffer overflow. This user then can have a root group access on the machine, by exploiting a bug in the kdesud program. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : openldap (MDKSA-2000:003)

OpenLDAP follows symbolic links when creating files. The default location for these files is /usr/tmp, which is a symlink to /tmp, which in turn is a world-writable directory. Local users can destroy the contents of any file on any mounted filesystem. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Securit...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : kernel (MDKSA-2001:037)

A number of security problems have been found in the Linux kernels prior to the latest 2.2.19 kernel. Following is a list of problems based on the 2.2.19 release notes as found on http://www.linux.org.uk/ - binfmtmisc used user pages directly - the CPIA driver had an off-by-one error in the buffe...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : ed (MDKSA-2000:076)

Alan Cox discovered that GNU ed a classed line editor tool creates temporary files unsafely. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Mandrake Linux Security Advisory MDKSA-2000:076. The text itself is copyrigh...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : ghostscript (MDKSA-2000:074)

The ghostscript package uses mktemp instead of mkstemp to create temporary files. It also uses improper LDRUNPATH values, which causes it to search for libraries in the current directory. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : bind (MDKSA-2002:043)

A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in different implementations of the DNS resolver libraries. A remote attacker able to sent malicious DNS responses could potentially exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code or cause a DoS Denial of Service on a vulnerable system. The named daemo...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : xpdf (MDKSA-2005:043)

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 that use embedded versions of xpdf. The updated packages are patched to deal with these issues. %NASLMINLEVEL...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : Zope (MDKSA-2000:086)

A potential security issue exists in versions of Zope up to and including 2.2.4. This issue involves incorrect protection of a data updating method on Image and File objects. Because the method was not correctly protected, it was possible for users with DTML editing privileges to update the raw...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : gnupg (MDKSA-2000:087)

When importing keys from public key servers, GnuPG will import private keys also known as secret keys in addition to public keys. If this happens, the user's web of trust becomes corrupt. Additionally, when used to check detached signatures, if the data file being checked contains clearsigned dat...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : netscape (MDKSA-2000:080)

A buffer overflow exists in the HTML parser code of the Netscape web browser in all versions prior to and including 4.75. This buffer overflow can be exploited by a remote attacker or web site. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : webmin (MDKSA-2001:016)

Previous versions of webmin would create temporary files insecurely on several occasions. This could be exploited by a local attacker to overwrite or create arbitrary files and possibly gain root privileges. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : glibc (MDKSA-2000:045-1)

A bug was discovered in ld.so that could allow local users to obtain root privileges. The dynamic loader, ld.so, is responsible for making shared libraries available within a program at run-time. Normally, a user is allowed to load additional shared libraries when executing a program; they can be...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : tetex (MDKSA-2005:044)

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 tetex, that use embedded versions of xpdf. The updated packages are patched to deal with these issues...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : getty_ps (MDKSA-2001:004)

WireX discovered a potential temporary file race condition in the gettyps 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-2001:004. The...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : Zope (MDKSA-2001:025)

A new Hotfix for Zope has been released that fixes a very important security issue that affects all versions of Zope prior to and including 2.3.1b1. Users can use through-the-web scripting capabilities on a Zope site to view and assign class attributes to ZClasses, possibly allowing them to make...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : gnupg (MDKSA-2000:063-1)

A problem exists in all versions of GnuPG prior to and including 1.0.3. Because of this problem, GnuPG may report files which have been signed with multiple keys one or more of which may be incorrect to be valid even if one of the signatures is in fact valid. Update : The previous packages...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : Mesa (MDKSA-2001:029)

Ben Collins identified a temporary file race in the Utah-glx component of the Mesa package which affects Linux-Mandrake 7.2. The /tmp/glxmemory file is created by Utah-glx and because it is not created securely could be used in a symlink attack which allows files to be overwritten the next time t...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : perl-Digest-MD5 (MDKSA-2002:035)

A bug exists in the UTF8 interaction between the perl-Digest-MD5 module and perl that results in UTF8 strings having improper MD5 digests. The 2.20 version of the module corrects this problem. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : xlockmore (MDKSA-2000:011)

Xlock is an X11 utility used to lock X-Window displays until the password of the user running X is entered correctly. Of course, in order to perform the password-check xlock must be setuid root and have access to the shadowed passwd file. In the xlockmore distributions versions prior to 4.16.1, a...