Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : kdelibs (MDKSA-2004:150)

Daniel Fabian discovered a potential privacy issue in KDE. When creating a link to a remote file from various applications, including Konqueror, the resulting URL may contain the authentication credentials used to access that remote resource. This includes, but is not limited to, browsing SMB Sam...

SUSE-SA:2004:040: samba

The remote host is missing the patch for the advisory SUSE-SA:2004:040 samba. There is a problem in the Samba file sharing service daemon, which allows a remote user to have the service consume lots of computing power and potentially crash the service by querying special wildcarded filenames. Thi...

RHEL 3 : httpd (RHSA-2004:562)

Updated httpd packages that include fixes for two security issues, as well as other bugs, are now available. The Apache HTTP server is a powerful, full-featured, efficient, and freely-available Web server. An issue has been discovered in the modssl module when configured to use the 'SSLCipherSuit...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : perl-Archive-Zip (MDKSA-2004:118)

Recently, it was noticed that several antivirus programs miss viruses that are contained in ZIP archives with manipulated directory data. The global archive directory of these ZIP file have been manipulated to indicate zero file sizes. Archive::Zip produces files of zero length when decompressing...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: spamassassin security update

An updated spamassassin package that fixes a denial of service bug when parsing malformed messages is now available. SpamAssassin provides a way to reduce unsolicited commercial email SPAM from incoming email. A denial of service bug has been found in SpamAssassin versions below 2.64. A malicious...

Debian DSA-086-1 : ssh-nonfree - remote root exploit

We have received reports that the 'SSH CRC-32 compensation attack detector vulnerability' is being actively exploited. This is the same integer type error previously corrected for OpenSSH in DSA-027-1. OpenSSH the Debian ssh package was fixed at that time, but ssh-nonfree and ssh-socks were not...

[slackware-security] Qt

New Qt packages are available for Slackware 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, and -current to fix security issues. Bugs in the routines that handle PNG, BMP, GIF, and JPEG images may allow an attacker to cause unauthorized code to execute when a specially crafted image file is processed. These flaws may also cause...

RHEL 2.1 / 3 : gnome-vfs (RHSA-2004:373)

Updated GNOME VFS packages that remove potential extfs-related vulnerabilities are now available. GNOME VFS is the GNOME virtual file system. It provides a modular architecture and ships with several modules that implement support for file systems, HTTP, FTP, and others. The extfs backends make i...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : mozilla (MDKSA-2004:021)

A number of vulnerabilities were discovered in Mozilla 1.4 : A malicious website could gain access to a user's authentication credentials to a proxy server. Script.prototype.freeze/thaw could allow an attacker to run arbitrary code on your computer. A vulnerability was also discovered in the NSS...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : file (MDKSA-2003:030-1)

A memory allocation problem in file was found by Jeff Johnson, and a stack overflow corruption problem was found by David Endler. These problems have been corrected in file version 3.41 and likely affect all previous version. These problems pose a security threat as they can be used to execute...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : ethereal (MDKSA-2004:024)

A number of serious issues have been discovered in versions of Ethereal prior to 0.10.2. Stefan Esser discovered thirteen buffer overflows in the NetFlow, IGAP, EIGRP, PGM, IrDA, BGP, ISUP, and TCAP dissectors. Jonathan Heusser discovered that a carefully-crafted RADIUS packet could cause Etherea...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : sendmail (MDKSA-2003:042-1)

Michal Zalweski discovered a vulnerability in sendmail versions earlier than 8.12.9 in the address parser, which performs insufficient bounds checking in certain conditions due to a char to int conversion. This vulnerability makes it poissible for an attacker to take control of sendmail and is...

RHEL 2.1 : kernel (RHSA-2002:263)

The kernel in Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 2.1 is vulnerable to a local denial of service attack. Updated packages are available which address this vulnerability. Updated 28 August 2003 Added CVE-2003-0461 to the list of security issues that were fixed by this advisory there are no changes to th...

RHEL 2.1 : ghostscript (RHSA-2002:123)

Updated packages are available for GNU Ghostscript, which fix a vulnerability found during PostScript interpretation. Ghostscript is a program for displaying PostScript files or printing them to non-PostScript printers. An untrusted PostScript file can cause ghostscript to execute arbitrary...

RHEL 2.1 : WindowMaker (RHSA-2003:009)

Updated packages are available to fix a vulnerability in Window Maker. Updated 06 Feb 2003 Fixed packages for Advanced Workstation 2.1 have been added. Updated 31 Mar 2003 New erratum packages are available to fix a bug in the original security patch. Updated 18 Jun 2003 The last update did not...

RHEL 2.1 : gaim (RHSA-2002:122)

"Updated gaim packages are now available for Red Hat Linux Advanced Server. These updates fix a buffer overflow in the Jabber plug-in module. Gaim is an instant messaging client based on the published TOC protocol from AOL. Versions of gaim prior to 0.58 contain a buffer overflow in the Jabber...

RHEL 2.1 : file (RHSA-2003:087)

Updated file packages are available to close a buffer overflow vulnerability. Updated 12 March 2003 Added packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES and Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS The file command is used to identify a particular file according to the type of data contained by the file. The file...

MDKSA-2004:044 - Updated libuser packages fix vulnerability

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mandrakelinux Security Update Advisory Package name: libuser Advisory ID: MDKSA-2004:044 Date: May 17th, 2004 Affected versions: 10.0, 9.1, 9.2, Corporate Server 2.1 Problem Description: Steve Grubb discovered a number of problems in the libuser libra...

[Full-Disclosure] MDKSA-2004:038 - Updated sysklogd packages fix vulnerability

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mandrakelinux Security Update Advisory Package name: sysklogd Advisory ID: MDKSA-2004:038 Date: April 28th, 2004 Affected versions: 10.0, 9.1, 9.2, Corporate Server 2.1, Multi Network Firewall 8.2 Problem Description: Steve Grubb discovered a bug in...

MDKSA-2004:025 - Updated squid packages fix vulnerability

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mandrakelinux Security Update Advisory Package name: squid Advisory ID: MDKSA-2004:025 Date: March 30th, 2004 Affected versions: 9.1, 9.2, 10.0, Corporate Server 2.1, Multi Network Firewall 8.2 Problem Description: A vulnerability was discovered in...