Mandrake 6.1/7.0/7.1 /perl http Directory Disclosure Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1678/info The default configuration files for versions of modperl shipped with Mandrake Linux 6.1 through 7.1 contain a misconfiguration that can be a security concern in some situations. The /perl directory is part of th...

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 : sudo (MDKSA-2001:024-1)

A buffer overflow exists in the sudo program which could be used by an attacker to obtain higher privileges. sudo is a program used to delegate superuser privileges to ordinary users and only for specific commands. Update : The sudo package for 7.1 used the system-auth facility of newer pam...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : koffice (MDKSA-2005:056)

Previous updates to correct integer overflow issues affecting xpdf overlooked certain conditions when built for a 64 bit platform. formerly CVE-2004-0888. This also affects applications like koffice, that use embedded versions of xpdf. The updated packages are patched to deal with these issues...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : perl-Digest-MD5 (MDKSA-2002:035)

A bug exists in the UTF8 interaction between the perl-Digest-MD5 module and perl that results in UTF8 strings having improper MD5 digests. The 2.20 version of the module corrects this problem. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : wu-ftpd (MDKSA-2003:080)

A vulnerability was discovered by Janusz Niewiadomski and Wojciech Purczynski in the wu-ftpd FTP server package. They found an off-by- one bug in the fbrealpath function which could be used by a remote attacker to obtain root privileges on the server. This bug can only be successfully accomplishe...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : Zope (MDKSA-2000:083)

There is an issue involving security registration of 'legacy' names for certain object constructors such as the constructors for DTML Method Objects. Security was not being applied correctly for the legacy names, making it possible to call those constructors without the permissions that should ha...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : licq (MDKSA-2001:032-1)

Versions of Licq prior to 1.0.3 have a vulnerability involving the way Licq parses received URLs. The received URLs are passed to the web browser without any sanity checking by using the system function. Because of the lack of checks on the URL, remote attackers can pipe other commands with the...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : kdesu (MDKSA-2000:008)

A vulnerability in kdesud will allow any user to exploit a buffer overflow. This user then can have a root group access on the machine, by exploiting a bug in the kdesud program. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : glibc (MDKSA-2001:012)

The LDPRELOAD variable in the GNU C Library is honoured normally even for SUID/SGID applications but removed afterwards from the environment if it does not contain '/' characters. There is a special check which only preloads found libraries if they have the SUID bit set. However, if a library has...

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 : cdrecord (MDKSA-2000:009)

The linux cdrecord binary is vulnerable to a locally exploitable buffer overflow attack. When installed on a Linux-Mandrake distribution, it is by default setgid 'cdburner' which is a group, gid: 80, that is created for the application. The overflow condition is the result of no bounds checking o...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : kdesu (MDKSA-2001:018)

A problem exists with the kdesu program for KDE versions 1 and 2. kdesu is a frontend for the su program, allowing normal users to run programs with root privileges by prompting for the root password. When the 'keep password' option is enabled, kdesu tries to send the password across process...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : mutt (MDKSA-2001:031)

A format string vulnerability was present in the IMAP code in versions of the mutt email client previous to 1.2.5. This had the effect that a compromised or malicious IMAP server could possibly execute code on the local machine. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : sgml-tools (MDKSA-2001:030-1)

Insecure handling of temporary file permissions can lead to other users on a multi-user system being able to read the documents being converted. This is due to sgml-tools creating temporary files without any special permissions. The updated packages create a secure temporary directory first, whic...

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 : lpr (MDKSA-2003:059)

A buffer overflow was discovered in the lpr printer spooling system that can be exploited by a local user to gain root privileges. This can be done even if the printer is configured properly. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plug...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : glibc (MDKSA-2000:045-1)

A bug was discovered in ld.so that could allow local users to obtain root privileges. The dynamic loader, ld.so, is responsible for making shared libraries available within a program at run-time. Normally, a user is allowed to load additional shared libraries when executing a program; they can be...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : imwheel (MDKSA-2000:001)

A security bug was found in imwheel; the bug can be exploited to provide local users with root access. Version 0.9.8 fixes this problem. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Mandrake Linux Security Advisory...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : cvsweb (MDKSA-2000:019)

Cvsweb contains a hole that provides attackers who have write access to a cvs repository with shell access. Thus, attackers who have write access to a cvs repository but not shell access can obtain a shell. In addition, anyone with write access to a cvs repository that is viewable with cvsweb can...