Slackware Linux <= 3.5 /etc/group missing results in root access Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/155/info Due to the way /bin/login behaves when a /etc/group file is not present under Slackware's version of the password shadowing suite, users who log in while this file is not present will be given uid and gid 0. This...

Winace UnAce 2.2 Command Line Argument Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (2)

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9002/info UnAce has been reported to be prone to a buffer overflow vulnerability. The issue presents itself when UnAce handles ace filenames that are of excessive length. When this filename is passed to the UnAce utility ...

RedHat Linux 5.0/5.1/5.2,Slackware Linux <= 3.5 klogd Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (2)

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/398/info It is possible to cause a denial of service remote and local through generating old, obscure kernel messages not terminated with \n in klogd. The problem exists because of a buffer overflow in the klogd handling ...

BSD mailx 8.1.1 -10 Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (2)

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1305/info Some Linux distributions ship with BSD mailx 8.1.1-10 On Slackware 7.x it can be found as /usr/bin/Mail. A vulnerability exists in the 'mail' program, part of the Berkeley mailx package. The 'mail' program...

Monit <= 4.2 Basic Authentication Remote Root Exploit

No description provided by source. / THE EYE ON SECURITY RESEARCH GROUP - INDIA http://www.eos-india.net/poc/305monit.c Remote Root Exploit for Monit = 4.2 Vulnerability: Buffer overflow in handling of Basic Authentication informations. Server authenticates clients through: Authentication: Basic...

RedHat Linux <= 6.0, Slackware Linux <= 4.0 Termcap tgetent() Buffer Overflow (2)

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/588/info A buffer overflow existed in libtermcap's tgetent function, which could cause the user to execute arbitrary code if they were able to supply their own termcap file. Versions of libtermcap 2.0.8 and earliear are...

nbSMTP <= 0.99 (util.c) Client-Side Command Execution Exploit

No description provided by source. / nbSMTPfsexp.c nbSMTP v0.99 remote format string exploit by CoKi [email protected] root@nosystem:/home/coki/audi ./nbSMTPfsexp nbSMTP v0.99 remote format string exploit by CoKi [email protected] Use: ./nbSMTPfsexp options options: -t arg type of target...

[slackware-security] samba &#40;SSA:2014-175-04&#41;

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 slackware-security samba SSA:2014-175-04 New samba packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.1 ChangeLog: +--------------------------+...

[slackware-security] gnupg &#40;SSA:2014-175-02&#41;

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 slackware-security gnupg SSA:2014-175-02 New gnupg packages are available for Slackware 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, 14.0, 14.1, and -current to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.1 ChangeLog: +--------------------------+...

Slackware 14.0 / 14.1 / current : seamonkey (SSA:2014-175-05)

New seamonkey packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, and -current to fix security issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Slackware Security Advisory 2014-175-05. The text itself is copyright...

Slackware 13.0 / 13.1 / 13.37 / 14.0 / 14.1 / current : gnupg (SSA:2014-175-02)

New gnupg packages are available for Slackware 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, 14.0, 14.1, and -current to fix a security issue. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Slackware Security Advisory 2014-175-02. The text...

Slackware 13.0 / 13.1 / 13.37 / 14.0 / 14.1 / current : bind (SSA:2014-175-01)

New bind packages are available for Slackware 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, 14.0, 14.1, and -current to fix security issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Slackware Security Advisory 2014-175-01. The text itsel...

Slackware 14.0 / 14.1 / current : samba (SSA:2014-175-04)

New samba packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, and -current to fix security issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Slackware Security Advisory 2014-175-04. The text itself is copyright C...

Slackware 13.37 / 14.0 / 14.1 / current : gnupg2 (SSA:2014-175-03)

New gnupg2 packages are available for Slackware 13.37, 14.0, 14.1, and -current to fix a security issue. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Slackware Security Advisory 2014-175-03. The text itself is...

[slackware-security] seamonkey

New seamonkey packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/seamonkey-2.26.1-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This update contains security fixes and improvements. For more information,...

[slackware-security] samba

New samba packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/samba-4.1.9-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes bugs and security issues, including a flaw in Samba's internal DNS...

[slackware-security] gnupg2

New gnupg2 packages are available for Slackware 13.37, 14.0, 14.1, and -current to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/gnupg2-2.0.24-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This release includes a security fix to stop a denial of service using...

[slackware-security] gnupg

New gnupg packages are available for Slackware 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, 14.0, 14.1, and -current to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/gnupg-1.4.17-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This release includes a security fix to stop a denial of service...

[slackware-security] bind

New bind packages are available for Slackware 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, 14.0, 14.1, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/bind-9.9.5P1-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This fixes security issues and other bugs. Please note that the...

Slackware 14.1 / current : mozilla-thunderbird (SSA:2014-163-01)

New mozilla-thunderbird packages are available for Slackware 14.1 and -current to fix security issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Slackware Security Advisory 2014-163-01. The text itself is...