Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : vixie-cron (MDKSA-2007:234)

Raphael Marichez discovered a denial of service bug in how vixie-cron verifies crontab file integrity. A local user with the ability to create a hardlink to /etc/crontab could prevent vixie-cron from executing certain system cron jobs. The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : tetex (MDKSA-2007:230)

A flaw in the t1lib library where an attacker could create a malicious file that would cause tetex to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code when opened CVE-2007-4033. Alin Rad Pop found several flaws in how PDF files are handled in tetex. An attacker could create a malicious PDF file that woul...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : net-snmp (MDKSA-2007:225)

The SNMP agent in net-snmp 5.4.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service CPU and memory consumption via a GETBULK request with a large max-repeaters value. Updated packages fix this issue. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and packa...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : cups (MDKSA-2007:228)

Alin Rad Pop found several flaws in how PDF files are handled in cups. An attacker could create a malicious PDF file that would cause cups to crash or potentially execute arbitrary code when opened. The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Networ...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : pdftohtml (MDKSA-2007:223)

Alin Rad Pop found several flaws in how PDF files are handled in pdftohtml. An attacker could create a malicious PDF file that would cause pdftohtml to crash or potentially execute arbitrary code when opened. The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : samba (MDKSA-2007:224-3)

The samba developers discovered that nmbd could be made to overrun a buffer during the processing of GETDC logon server requests. If samba is configured as a Primary or Backup Domain Controller, this could be used by a remote attacker to send malicious logon requests and possibly cause a denial o...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : mono (MDKSA-2007:218)

IOActive Inc. found a buffer overflow in Mono.Math.BigInteger class in Mono 1.2.5.1 and previous versions, which allows arbitrary code execution by context-dependent attackers. Updated packages fix this issue. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : libpng (MDKSA-2007:217)

Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in libpng : An off-by-one error when handling ICC profile chunks in the pngsetiCCP function CVE-2007-5266; only affects Mandriva Linux 2008.0. George Cook and Jeff Phillips reported several errors in pngrtran.c, such as the use of logical instead of bitwis...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : openldap (MDKSA-2007:215)

A flaw in the way OpenLDAP's slapd daemon handled malformed objectClasses LDAP attributes was discovered. A local or remote attacker could create an LDAP request that could cause a denial of service by crashing slapd. Updated packages have been patched to prevent this issue. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : flac (MDKSA-2007:214)

A security vulnerability was discovered in how flac processed audio data. An attacker could create a carefully crafted FLAC audio file that could cause an application linked against the flac libraries to crash or execute arbitrary code when opened. Updated packages have been patched to prevent th...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : pcre (MDKSA-2007:212)

Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered by Tavis Ormandy and Will Drewry in the way that pcre handled certain malformed regular expressions. If an application linked against pcre, such as Konqueror, parses a malicious regular expression, it could lead to the execution of arbitrary code as the us...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : xfs (MDKSA-2007:210)

Integer overflow in the buildrange function in X.Org X Font Server xfs before 1.0.5 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via 1 QueryXBitmaps and 2 QueryXExtents protocol requests with crafted size values, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow. CVE-2007-4568 The...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : perl (MDKSA-2007:207)

Tavis Ormandy and Will Drewry discovered a flaw in Perl's regular expression engine. Specially crafted input to a regular expression can cause Perl to improperly allocate memory, resulting in the possible execution of arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running Perl. Updated packages...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : netpbm (MDKSA-2007:209)

A function in the JasPer JPEG-2000 library before 1.900 could allow a remote user-assisted attack to cause a crash and possibly corrupt the heap via malformed image files. netpbm contains an embedded copy of libjasper and as such is vulnerable to this issue. Updated packages have been patched to...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : pwlib (MDKSA-2007:206)

A memory management flaw was discovered in PWLib, that an attacker could use to crash an application linked with it, such as Ekiga. Updated packages have been patched to prevent these issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plug...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : opal (MDKSA-2007:205)

A flaw in opal, the Open Phone Abstraction Library, was found in how it handles certain Session Initiation Protocol SIP packets. An attacker could use this vulnerability to crash an application linked to opal, such as Ekiga. Updated packages have been patched to prevent these issues. %NASLMINLEVE...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : xen (MDKSA-2007:203)

Tavis Ormandy discovered a heap overflow flaw during video-to-video copy operations in the Cirrus VGA extension code that is used in Xen. A malicious local administrator of a guest domain could potentially trigger this flaw and execute arbitrary code outside of the domain CVE-2007-1320. Tavis...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : cups (MDKSA-2007:204-1)

Alin Rad Pop of Secunia Research discovered a vulnerability in CUPS that can be exploited by malicious individuals to execute arbitrary code. This flaw is due to a boundary error when processing IPP Internet Printing Protocol tags. Update : Due to incorrect build requirements/conflicts, the...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : hplip (MDKSA-2007:201)

A vulnerability in the hpssd tool was discovered where it did not correctly handle shell meta-characters. A local attacker could use this flaw to execute arbitrary commands as the hplip user. As well, this update fixes a problem with some HP scanners on Mandriva Linux 2007.1, particularly HP PSC...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : tk (MDKSA-2007:200)

A vulnerability in Tk was found that could be used to overrun a buffer when loading certain GIF images. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted GIF file, it could lead to a denial of service condition or possibly the execution of arbitrary code with the user's privileges. Updated...