Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : evolution (MDKSA-2003:045)

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in the Evolution email client. These problems make it possible for a carefully constructed email message to crash the program, causing general system instability by starving resources. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive tex...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : WindowMaker (MDKSA-2001:074)

A buffer overflow exists in the WindowMaker window manager's window title handling code, as discovered by Alban Hertroys. Many programs, such as web browsers, set the window title to something obtained from the network, such as the title of the currently-viewed web page. As such, this buffer...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : openldap (MDKSA-2003:006)

A review was completed by the SuSE Security Team on the OpenLDAP server software, and this audit revealed several buffer overflows and other bugs that remote attackers could exploit to gain unauthorized access to the system running the vulnerable OpenLDAP servers. Additionally, various locally...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : XFree86 (MDKSA-2004:073)

Steve Rumble discovered XDM in XFree86 opens a chooserFd TCP socket even when DisplayManager.requestPort is 0, which could allow remote attackers to connect to the port, in violation of the intended restrictions. The updated packages are patched to correct the problem. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenab...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : fetchmail (MDKSA-2002:063)

Several buffer overflows and a boundary check error were discovered in all fetchmail versions prior to 6.1.0 by e-matters GmbH. These problems are vulnerable to crashes and/or arbitrary code execution by remote attackers if fetchmail is running in multidrop mode. The code execution would be done...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : xchat (MDKSA-2004:036)

A remotely exploitable vulnerability was discovered in the Socks-5 proxy code in XChat. By default, socks5 traversal is disabled, and one would also need to connect to an attacker's own custom proxy server in order for this to be exploited. Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : ypserv (MDKSA-2002:078)

A memory leak that could be triggered remotely was discovered in ypserv 2.5 and earlier. This could lead to a Denial of Service as repeated requests for a non-existent map will result in ypserv consuming more and more memory, and also running more slowly. If the system runs out of available memor...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : xloadimage (MDKSA-2001:073-1)

A buffer overflow exists in xli due to missing boundary checks. This could be triggered by an external attacker to execute commands on the victim's machine. An exploit is publically available. xli is an image viewer that is used by Netscape's plugger to display TIFF, PNG, and Sun-Raster images...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : xpdf (MDKSA-2003:071-1)

Martyn Gilmore discovered flaws in various PDF viewers, including xpdf. An attacker could place malicious external hyperlinks in a document that, if followed, could execute arbitary shell commands with the privileges of the person viewing the PDF document. Update : New packages are available as t...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : sendmail (MDKSA-2003:028)

A vulnerability was discovered in sendmail by Mark Dowd of ISS X-Force that involves mail header manipulation that can result in a remote user gaining root access to the system running the vulnerable sendmail. Patches supplied by the sendmail development team have been applied to correct this...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : util-linux (MDKSA-2001:084)

Tarhon-Onu Victor found a problem in /bin/login's PAM implementation. It stored the value of a static pwent buffer across PAM calls, and when used with some PAM modules in non-default configurations ie. using pamlimits, it would overwrite the buffer and cause the user to get the credentials of...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : vim (MDKSA-2003:012)

A vulnerability was discovered in vim by Georgi Guninski that allows arbitrary command execution using the libcall feature found in modelines. A patch to fix this problem was introduced in vim 6.1 patchlevel 265. This patch has been applied to the provided update packages. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : pine (MDKSA-2002:084)

A vulnerability was discovered in pine while parsing and escaping characters of email addresses; not enough memory is allocated for storing the escaped mailbox part of the address. The resulting buffer overflow on the heap makes pine crash. This new version of pine, 4.50, has the vulnerability...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : libuser (MDKSA-2004:044)

Steve Grubb discovered a number of problems in the libuser library that can lead to a crash in applications linked to it, or possibly write 4GB of garbage to the disk. The updated packages provide a patched libuser to correct these problems. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. Th...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : OpenOffice.org (MDKSA-2004:078)

The OpenOffice.org office suite contains an internal libneon library which allows it to connect to WebDAV servers. This internal library is subject to the same vulnerabilities that were fixed in libneon recently. These updated packages contain fixes to libneon to correct the several format string...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : Eterm (MDKSA-2003:040)

Digital Defense Inc. released a paper detailing insecurities in various terminal emulators, including Eterm. Many of the features supported by these programs can be abused when untrusted data is displayed on the screen. This abuse can be anything from garbage data being displayed to the screen or...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : sudo (MDKSA-2002:028)

A problem was discovered by fc, with further research by Global InterSec, in the sudo program with the password prompt parameter -p. Sudo can be tricked into allocating less memory than it should for the prompt and in certain conditions it is possible to exploit this flaw to corrupt the heap in...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : glibc (MDKSA-2003:037)

An integer overflow was discovered by eEye Digital Security in the xdrmemgetbytes function of glibc 2.3.1 and earlier. This function is part of the XDR encoder/decoder derived from Sun's RPC implementation. Depending upon the application, this vulnerability can cause buffer overflows and could...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : kernel (MDKSA-2004:001)

A flaw in bounds checking in mremap in the Linux kernel versions 2.4.23 and previous was discovered by Paul Starzetz. This flaw may be used to allow a local attacker to obtain root privilege. Another minor information leak in the RTC real time clock routines was fixed as well. All Mandrake Linux...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : mplayer (MDKSA-2003:097)

A buffer overflow vulnerability was found in MPlayer that is remotely exploitable. A malicious host can craft a harmful ASX header and trick MPlayer into executing arbitrary code when it parses that particular header. The provided packages have been patched to fix the problem. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300...