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gtar -- Directory traversal vulnerability
Red Hat reports: A path traversal flaw was discovered in the way GNU tar extracted archives. A malicious user could create a tar archive that could write to arbitrary files to which the user running GNU tar had write access. Red Hat credits Dmitry V. Levin for reporting the issue...
Security fix for the ALT Linux 9 package openssl10 version 0.9.7g-alt3
Oct. 11, 2005 Dmitry V. Levin 0.9.7g-alt3 - Applied upstream fix for potential SSL 2.0 rollback during SSL handshake CAN-2005-2969...
Slackware 9.1 / current : utempter security update (SSA:2004-110-01)
New utempter packages are available for Slackware 9.1 and -current to fix a security issue. Slackware 9.1 was the first version of Slackware to use the libutempter library, and earlier versions of Slackware are not affected by this issue The utempter package provides a utility and shared library...
Security fix for the ALT Linux 6 package sudo version 1:1.6.7p5-alt5
June 21, 2005 Dmitry V. Levin 1:1.6.7p5-alt5 - Backported upstream fix so a sudoers entry with sudo ALL no longer overwrites the value of safecmnd CAN-2005-1993...
USN-54-1: TIFF library tool vulnerability
Dmitry V. Levin discovered a buffer overflow in the "tiffdump" utility. If an attacker tricked a user into processing a malicious TIFF image with tiffdump, they could cause a buffer overflow which at least causes the program to crash. However, it is not entirely clear whether this can be exploite...
tiff -- tiffdump integer overflow vulnerability
Dmitry V. Levin found a potential integer overflow in the tiffdump utility which could lead to execution of arbitrary code. This could be exploited by tricking an user into executing tiffdump on a specially crafted tiff image...
utempter security update
New utempter packages are available for Slackware 9.1 and -current to fix a security issue. Slackware 9.1 was the first version of Slackware to use the libutempter library, and earlier versions of Slackware are not affected by this issue The utempter package provides a utility and shared library...