[SECURITY] [DSA 1436-1] New Linux 2.6.18 packages fix several vulnerabilities

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 1436-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ dann frazier December 20th, 2007 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

[ MDKSA-2007:240 ] - Updated libnfsidmap packages fix username lookup flaw

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDKSA-2007:240 http://www.mandriva.com/security/ Package : libnfsidmap Date : December 7, 2007 Affected: 2007.0, Corporate 4.0 Problem Description: The NFSv4 ID mapper prior to 0.17 did not properly handle return value...

sing (debian) vunlerability?

Hello, The sing utility Send Nasty ICMP Garbage is a ping replacement that allows sending ICMP packets with spoofed source and custom ICMP types/codes http://sourceforge.net/projects/sing. The debian package provides sing as a suid binary actually, the sid distribution asks the user whether he'd...

xterm security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2007:0701 An updated xterm package that corrects a security issue is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. This update has been rated as having low security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The xterm program is a terminal emulator for...

security flaw

pamconsole does not properly restore ownership for certain console devices when there are multiple users logged into the console and one user logs out, which might allow local users to gain privileges...

(mesg: error: tty device is not owned by group `tty')

xterm, including 192-7.el4 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux and 208-3.1 in Debian GNU/Linux, sets the wrong group ownership of tty devices, which allows local users to write data to other users' terminals...

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 6.10 / 7.04 : dovecot vulnerability (USN-487-1)

It was discovered that Dovecot, when configured to use non-system-user spools and compressed folders, would allow directory traversals in mailbox names. Remote authenticated users could potentially read email owned by other users. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding...

nfs-utils-lib NFSv4 user id mapping flaw

The NFSv4 ID mapper nfsidmap before 0.17 does not properly handle return values from the getpwnamr function when performing a username lookup, which can cause it to report a file as being owned by "root" instead of "nobody" if the file exists on the server but not on the client...

Code injection

ChironFS before 1.0 RC7 sets user/group ownership to the mounter account instead of the creator account when files are created, which allows local users to gain privileges...

CVE-2007-5101

ChironFS before 1.0 RC7 sets user/group ownership to the mounter account instead of the creator account when files are created, which allows local users to gain privileges...

[SECURITY] Fedora 7 Update: ntfs-3g-1.913-2.fc7

The ntfs-3g driver is an open source, GPL licensed, third generation Linux NTFS driver. It provides full read-write access to NTFS, excluding access to encrypted files, writing compressed files, changing file ownership, access right. Technically it=E2=80=99s based on and a major improvement to th...

CVE-2007-4135

The NFSv4 ID mapper nfsidmap before 0.17 does not properly handle return values from the getpwnamr function when performing a username lookup, which can cause it to report a file as being owned by "root" instead of "nobody" if the file exists on the server but not on the client...

CVE-2007-4135

The NFSv4 ID mapper nfsidmap before 0.17 does not properly handle return values from the getpwnamr function when performing a username lookup, which can cause it to report a file as being owned by "root" instead of "nobody" if the file exists on the server but not on the client...

DEBIAN-CVE-2007-4135

The NFSv4 ID mapper nfsidmap before 0.17 does not properly handle return values from the getpwnamr function when performing a username lookup, which can cause it to report a file as being owned by "root" instead of "nobody" if the file exists on the server but not on the client...

Code injection

The NFSv4 ID mapper nfsidmap before 0.17 does not properly handle return values from the getpwnamr function when performing a username lookup, which can cause it to report a file as being owned by "root" instead of "nobody" if the file exists on the server but not on the client...

CVE-2007-4135

The NFSv4 ID mapper nfsidmap before 0.17 does not properly handle return values from the getpwnamr function when performing a username lookup, which can cause it to report a file as being owned by "root" instead of "nobody" if the file exists on the server but not on the client...

CVE-2007-4135

CVE-2007-4135 affects the NFSv4 ID mapper (libnfsidmap) prior to 0.17. The root cause is improper handling of return values from getpwnam_r during username lookup, which can cause a file to be reported as owned by root instead of nobody when the file exists on the server but not on the client. Pu...

CVE-2007-4135

The NFSv4 ID mapper nfsidmap before 0.17 does not properly handle return values from the getpwnamr function when performing a username lookup, which can cause it to report a file as being owned by "root" instead of "nobody" if the file exists on the server but not on the client...

CVE-2007-2797

xterm, including 192-7.el4 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux and 208-3.1 in Debian GNU/Linux, sets the wrong group ownership of tty devices, which allows local users to write data to other users' terminals...

CVE-2007-2797

xterm, including 192-7.el4 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux and 208-3.1 in Debian GNU/Linux, sets the wrong group ownership of tty devices, which allows local users to write data to other users' terminals...