Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : inn (MDKSA-2000:016)

A vulnerability exists when verifycancels is enabled in /etc/news/inn.conf. This vulnerability could be used to gain root access on any system with inn installed. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Mandra...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : inn (MDKSA-2000:023)

A vulnerability exists when verifycancels is enabled in /etc/news/inn.conf. This vulnerability could be used to gain root access on any system with inn installed. This new version also does not install inews as setgid news or rnews as setuid root. Many other security paranoia fixes have been made...