Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : ntp (MDKSA-2001:036)

Przemyslaw Frasunek reported that ntp daemons such as ntp and xntp3 are vulnerable to a buffer overflow that can lead to a remote root exploit. Linux-Mandrake users are urged to upgrade ntp and xntp3 immediately. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and packag...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : wu-ftpd (MDKSA-2000:014)

Wu-ftpd is vulnerable to a very serious remote attack in the SITE EXEC implementation. Because of user input going directly into a format string for a printf function, it is possible to overwrite important data, such as a return address, on the stack. When this is accomplished, the function can...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : rdist (MDKSA-2001:005)

WireX discovered a potential temporary file race condition in the rdist program. This update corrects the problem. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Mandrake Linux Security Advisory MDKSA-2001:005. The...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : mod_php3 (MDKSA-2000:048)

"A problem exists with PHP3 and PHP4 scripts regarding RFC 1867-based file uploads. PHP saves uploaded files in a temporary directory on the server, using a temporary name that is referenced as the variable $FOO where 'FOO' is the name of the file input tag in the submitted form. Many PHP scripts...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : linuxconf (MDKSA-2001:011)

WireX discovered a potential temporary file race problem in the vpop3d program in the linuxconf package. This update corrects the problem. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Mandrake Linux Security Adviso...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : rp-pppoe (MDKSA-2000:084)

rp-pppoe is a userspace PPPoE client mainly used with ADSL connections which require PPP. Versions prior to 2.5 have a security problem that, when exploited, causes the connection to be dropped. If rp-pppoe receives a crafted TCP segment with an option where the option-length field is zero illega...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : timed (MDKSA-2001:034)

The time server daemon, timed, tries to synchronize the local host time with the time of other machines on a local area network. A bug in timed, as reported by the FreeBSD Security Officer, that could be triggered remotely can crash the time server daemon. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : hylafax (MDKSA-2001:041)

A problem exists with the HylaFAX program, hfaxd. When hfaxd tries to change it's queue directory and fails, it prints an error message via syslog by directly passing user-supplied data as the format string. If hfaxd is installed setuid root, this behaviour can be exploited to gain root access...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : eperl (MDKSA-2001:027)

Several potential buffer overflows in the ePerl package have been found by Fumitoshi Ukai and Denis Barbier. When eperl is installed setuid root, it can switch to the UID/GID of the script's owner. Although Linux-Mandrake does not ship the program setuid root, this is a useful feature which some...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : gnorpm (MDKSA-2000:055)

Versions of GnoRPM prior to 0.95 used files in the /tmp directory in an insecure manner. If GnoRPM is run as root, a local user can exploit this behaviour to trick GnoRPM into writing to arbitrary files anywhere on the system. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : php (MDKSA-2001:013)

There are two security problems with php4 as shipped in Linux-Mandrake 7.2. It is possible to specify PHP directives on a per-directory basis under Apache and a remote attacker could carefully craft an HTTP request that would cause the next page to be served with the wrong values for these...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : pine (MDKSA-2000:073-1)

By adding specific headers to messages, the pine mail reader could be made to exit with an error message when users attempted to manipulate mail folders containing those messages. Update : The previous announcement did not make mention of another vulnerability in pine 4.21 and previous in that it...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : pam (MDKSA-2000:082-1)

The pamlocaluser module, which is a part of the pam package, contains a buffer overflow vulnerability. This module is not used in any default configuration and for a user to be exploited, they would have to manually insert it into a configuration file in the /etc/pam.d directory. Update : The pam...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : ncurses (MDKSA-2001:052)

An overflowable buffer in the part of the ncurses library that handles cursor movement existed in versions of ncurses prior to 5.2. Attackers could force a privileged application to use their own termcap file containing a special terminal entry which would trigger the overflow, allowing them to...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : perl (MDKSA-2000:031)

There is a vulnerability that exists when using setuidperl together with the mailx program. In some cases, setuidperl will warn root that something has going on. The setuidperl program uses /bin/mail to send the message, as root, with the environment preserved. An undocumented feature of /bin/mai...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : MySQL (MDKSA-2001:014-1)

A security problem exists in all versions of MySQL after 3.23.2 and prior to 3.23.31. The problem is that the SHOW GRANTS command could be executed by any user making it possible for anyone with a MySQL account to get the crypted password from the mysql.user table. The new 3.23.31 version fixes...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : xlockmore (MDKSA-2000:038)

A bug exists in previous versions of xlockmore with display name passing '%d' as the display name. This bug is corrected in this version. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Mandrake Linux Security Advisor...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : slrn (MDKSA-2001:028)

A buffer overflow exists in versions of the slrn news reader prior to 0.9.6.3pl4 as reported by Bill Nottingham. This problem exists in the wrapping/unwrapping functions and a long header in a message might overflow a buffer which could result in execution of arbitrary code encoded in the message...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : nss_ldap (MDKSA-2000:066-1)

A race condition exists in versions of nssldap prior to version 121. On a system running nscd, a malicious user can cause the system to hang. Update : Due to a new packaging scheme, the updates have been re-released with the appropriate revision number. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : gnupg (MDKSA-2000:087)

When importing keys from public key servers, GnuPG will import private keys also known as secret keys in addition to public keys. If this happens, the user's web of trust becomes corrupt. Additionally, when used to check detached signatures, if the data file being checked contains clearsigned dat...