Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : gzip (MDKSA-2002:011)

There are two problems with the gzip archiving program; the first is a crash when an input file name is over 1020 characters, and the second is a buffer overflow that could be exploited if gzip is run on a server such as an FTP server. The patch applied is from the gzip developers and the problem...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : procmail (MDKSA-2001:085)

In older versions of procmail, it is possible to crash procmail by sending it certain signals. If procmail is installed setuid, this could be exploited to gain unauthorized privilege. This problem is fixed in unstable version 3.20 and stable version 3.15.2. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : tar (MDKSA-2002:066)

A directory traversal vulnerability was discovered in GNU tar version 1.13.25 and earlier that allows attackers to overwrite arbitrary files during extraction of the archive by using a '..' dot dot in an extracted filename. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : groff (MDKSA-2002:012)

zen-parse discovered an exploitable buffer overflow in groff's preprocessor. If groff is invoked using the LPRng printing system, an attacker can gain rights as the 'lp' user. Likewise, this may be remotely exploitable if lpd is running and remotely accessible and the attacker knows the name of t...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : sysklogd (MDKSA-2004:038)

Steve Grubb discovered a bug in sysklogd where it allocates an insufficient amount of memory which causes sysklogd to write to unallocated memory. This could allow for a malicious user to crash sysklogd. The updated packages provide a patched sysklogd using patches from Openwall to correct the...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : gv (MDKSA-2002:069)

A buffer overflow was discovered in gv versions 3.5.8 and earlier by Zen Parse. The problem is triggered by scanning a file and can be exploited by an attacker sending a malformed PostScript or PDF file. This would result in arbitrary code being executed with the privilege of the user viewing the...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : xinetd (MDKSA-2001:076)

An audit has been performed on the xinetd 2.3.0 source code by Solar Designer for many different possible vulnerabilities. The 2.3.1 release incorporated his patches into the xinetd source tree. The audit was very thorough and found and fixed many problems. This xinetd update includes his audit...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : fileutils (MDKSA-2002:031)

Wojciech Purczynski reported a race condition in some utilities in the GNU fileutils package that may cause root to delete the entire filesystem. This only affects version 4.1 stable and 4.1.6 development versions, and the authors have fixed this in the latest development version. %NASLMINLEVEL...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : mm (MDKSA-2002:045)

Marcus Meissner and Sebastian Krahmer discovered a temporary file vulnerability in the mm library which is used by the Apache webserver. This vulnerability can be exploited to obtain root privilege if shell access to the apache user typically apache or nobody is already obtained. %NASLMINLEVEL...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : cups (MDKSA-2001:048)

The version of cups shipped with Linux-Mandrake 8.0 has a problem where when a user prints a multi-page PostScript file with embedded pictures, the pages following the first with the picture are all printed on the same page, one on top of the other. From multi-page Abiword files only text only th...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : fetchmail (MDKSA-2003:101)

A bug was discovered in fetchmail 6.2.4 where a specially crafted email message can cause fetchmail to crash. Thanks to Nalin Dahyabhai of Red Hat for providing the patch to fix the problem. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugi...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : tripwire (MDKSA-2004:057-1)

Paul Herman discovered a format string vulnerability in tripwire that could allow a local user to execute arbitrary code with the rights of the user running tripwire typically root. This vulnerability only exists when tripwire is generating an email report. Update : The packages previously releas...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : LPRng (MDKSA-2002:042)

Matthew Caron pointed out that using the LPRng default configuration, the lpd daemon will accept job submissions from any remote host. These updated LPRng packages modify the job submission policy in /etc/lpd.perms to refuse print jobs from remote hosts by default. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : wv (MDKSA-2004:077)

iDefense discovered a buffer overflow vulnerability in the wv package which could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the vulnerable application. The updated packages are patched to protect against this problem. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : xchat (MDKSA-2002:051)

In versions of the xchat IRC client prior to version 1.8.9, xchat does not filter the response from an IRC server when a /dns query is executed. xchat resolves hostnames by passing the configured resolver and hostname to a shell, so an IRC server may return a malicious response formatted so that...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : WindowMaker (MDKSA-2002:085)

Al Viro discovered a vulnerability in the WindowMaker window manager. A function used to load images, for example when configuring a new background image or previewing themes, contains a buffer overflow. The function calculates the amount of memory necessary to load the image by doing some...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : gdm (MDKSA-2003:100)

Two vulnerabilities were discovered in gdm by Jarno Gassenbauer that would allow a local attacker to cause gdm to crash or freeze. The provided packages are patched to fix this problem. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin wer...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : cyrus-sasl (MDKSA-2002:018)

Kari Hurtta discovered that a format bug exists in the Cyrus SASL library, which is used to provide an authentication API for mail clients and servers, as well as other services such as LDAP. The format bug was found in one of the logging functions which could be used by an attacker to obtain...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : xpcd (MDKSA-2004:053)

A vulnerability in xpcd-svga, part of xpcd, was discovered by Jaguar. xpcd-svga uses svgalib to display graphics on the console and it would copy user-supplied data of an arbitrary length into a fixed-size buffer in the pcdopen function. As well, Steve Kemp previously discovered a buffer overflow...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : MYSQL (MDKSA-2003:013)

Aleksander Adamowski informed MandrakeSoft that the MySQL developers fixed a DoS vulnerability in the recently released 3.23.55 version of MySQL. A double free pointer bug in the mysqlchangeuser handling would allow a specially hacked mysql client to crash the main mysqld server. This vulnerabili...