Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : mozilla-firefox (MDKSA-2007:010)

A number of security vulnerabilities have been discovered and corrected in the latest Mozilla Firefox program, version 1.5.0.9. This update provides the latest Firefox to correct these issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : evince (MDKSA-2006:229)

Stack-based buffer overflow in ps.c for evince allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via a PostScript PS file with certain headers that contain long comments, as demonstrated using the DocumentMedia header. Packages have been patched to correct this issue. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : nvidia (MDKSA-2007:007)

A vulnerability in the NVIDIA Xorg driver was discovered by Derek Abdine who found that it did not correctly verify the size of buffers used to render text glyphs, resulting in a crash of the server when displaying very long strings of text. If a user was tricked into viewing a specially crafted...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : bluez-utils (MDKSA-2007:014)

hidd in BlueZ bluez-utils before 2.25 allows remote attackers to obtain control of the 1 Mouse and 2 Keyboard Human Interface Device HID via a certain configuration of two HID PSM endpoints, operating as a server, aka HidAttack. hidd is not enabled by default on Mandriva 2006.0. This update adds...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : gnutls (MDKSA-2006:166)

verify.c in GnuTLS before 1.4.4, when using an RSA key with exponent 3, does not properly handle excess data in the digestAlgorithm.parameters field when generating a hash, which allows remote attackers to forge a PKCS 1 v1.5 signature that is signed by that RSA key and prevents GnuTLS from...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : mozilla-thunderbird (MDKSA-2006:169)

A number of security vulnerabilities have been discovered and corrected in the latest Mozilla Thunderbird program, version 1.5.0.7. This update provides the latest Thunderbird to correct these issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : proftpd (MDKSA-2006:217-1)

A stack-based buffer overflow in the sreplace function in ProFTPD 1.3.0 and earlier, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, as demonstrated by vdproftpd.pm, a 'ProFTPD remote exploit.' CVE-2006-5815 Buffer overflow in the tlsx509nameoneline function in the modtls module, as used in...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : openssl (MDKSA-2006:172-1)

Dr S N Henson of the OpenSSL core team and Open Network Security recently developed an ASN1 test suite for NISCC www.niscc.gov.uk. When the test suite was run against OpenSSL two denial of service vulnerabilities were discovered. During the parsing of certain invalid ASN1 structures an error...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : smb4k (MDKSA-2007:042)

Kees Cook performed an audit on the Smb4K program and discovered a number of vulnerabilities and security weaknesses that have been addressed and corrected in Smb4K 0.8.0 which is being provided with this update. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and packag...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : mozilla-firefox (MDKSA-2006:205)

A number of security vulnerabilities have been discovered and corrected in the latest Mozilla Firefox program, version 1.5.0.8. This update provides the latest Firefox to correct these issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : wxGTK2 (MDKSA-2004:111)

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the libtiff package; wxGTK2 uses a libtiff code tree, so it may have the same vulnerabilities : Chris Evans discovered several problems in the RLE run length encoding decoders that could lead to arbitrary code execution. CVE-2004-0803 Matthias Clase...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : tar (MDKSA-2006:219)

GNU tar 1.16 and 1.15.1, and possibly other versions, allows user-assisted attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a tar file that contains a GNUTYPENAMES record with a symbolic link, which is not properly handled by the extractarchive function in extract.c and extractmangle function in...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : tetex (MDKSA-2007:022)

The Adobe PDF specification 1.3, as implemented by xpdf 3.0.1 patch 2, kpdf in KDE before 3.5.5, and other products, allows remote attackers to have an unknown impact, possibly including denial of service infinite loop, arbitrary code execution, or memory corruption, via a PDF file with a 1 craft...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : gnupg (MDKSA-2006:221)

Buffer overflow in the askoutfilename function in openfile.c for GnuPG gpg 1.4 and 2.0, when running interactively, might allow attackers to execute arbitrary code via messages that cause the makeprintablestring function to return a longer string than expected while constructing a prompt. Updated...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : ImageMagick (MDKSA-2006:193)

Multiple buffer overflows in GraphicsMagick before 1.1.7 and ImageMagick 6.0.7 allow user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute execute arbitrary code via 1 a DCM image that is not properly handled by the ReadDCMImage function in coders/dcm.c, or 2 a PALM image that...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : wireshark (MDKSA-2007:033)

Vulnerabilities in the LLT, IEEE 802.11, HTTP, and TCP dissectors were discovered in versions of wireshark less than 0.99.5, as well as various other bugs. This updated provides wireshark 0.99.5 which is not vulnerable to these issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : wireshark (MDKSA-2006:195)

Vulnerabilities in the HTTP, LDAP, XOT, WBXML, and MIME Multipart dissectors were discovered in versions of wireshark less than 0.99.4, as well as various other bugs. This updated provides wireshark 0.99.4 which is not vulnerable to these issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, In...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : koffice (MDKSA-2006:222)

An integer overflow was discovered in KOffice's filtering code. By tricking a user into opening a specially crafted PPT file, attackers could crash KOffice or possibly execute arbitrary code with the user's privileges. The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue. %NASLMINLEVEL...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : libmodplug (MDKSA-2007:001)

Multiple buffer overflows in MODPlug Tracker OpenMPT 1.17.02.43 and earlier and libmodplug 0.8 and earlier allow user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via 1 long strings in ITP files used by the CSoundFile::ReadITProject function in soundlib/Loadit.cpp and 2 crafted modules use...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : poppler (MDKSA-2007:020)

The Adobe PDF specification 1.3, as implemented by xpdf 3.0.1 patch 2, kpdf in KDE before 3.5.5, and other products, allows remote attackers to have an unknown impact, possibly including denial of service infinite loop, arbitrary code execution, or memory corruption, via a PDF file with a 1 craft...