MDKA-2006:043 : subversion

One of subversion's operating modes, svnserve, needs some entries in the /etc/services file. These entries are created during package installation, but under some conditions this procedure fails and /etc/services remains without them. The updated packages correct this issue. %NASLMINLEVEL 999999...

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 : mozilla-thunderbird (MDKSA-2006:206)

A number of security vulnerabilities have been discovered and corrected in the latest Mozilla Thunderbird program, version 1.5.0.8. 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 : sendmail (MDKSA-2006:156)

Moritz Jodeit discovered a vulnerability in sendmail when processing very long header lines that could be exploited to cause a Denial of Service by crashing sendmail. The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : libtunepimp (MDKSA-2006:126)

Kevin Kofler discovered multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the LookupTRM::lookup function in libtunepimp 0.4.2 that allow remote user-complicit attackers to cause a denial of service application crash and possibly execute code via a long 1 Album release date MBEReleaseGetDate, 2 data, or 3...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : freetype2 (MDKSA-2006:129)

An additional overflow, similar to those corrected by patches for CVE-2006-1861 was found in libfreetype. If a user loads a carefully crafted font file with a program linked against FreeType, it could cause the application to crash or execute arbitrary code as the user. Updated packages have been...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : freeciv (MDKSA-2006:135)

Buffer overflow in Freeciv 2.1.0-beta1 and earlier, and SVN 15 Jul 2006 and earlier, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash and possibly execute arbitrary code via a 1 negative chunklength or a 2 large chunk-offset value in a PACKETPLAYERATTRIBUTECHUNK packet in the...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : ruby (MDKSA-2006:134)

A number of flaws were discovered in the safe-level restrictions in the Ruby language. Because of these flaws, it would be possible for an attacker to create a carefully crafted malicious script that could allow them to bypass certain safe-level restrictions. Updated packages have been patched to...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : php (MDKSA-2006:162)

The 1 fileexists and 2 imapreopen functions in PHP before 5.1.5 do not check for the safemode and openbasedir settings, which allows local users to bypass the settings CVE-2006-4481. Buffer overflow in the LWZReadByte function in ext/gd/libgd/gdgifin.c in the GD extension in PHP before 5.1.5 allo...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : xorg-x11 (MDKSA-2006:160)

X.Org and XFree86, including libX11, xdm, xf86dga, xinit, xload, xtrans, and xterm, does not check the return values for setuid and seteuid calls when attempting to drop privileges, which might allow local users to gain privileges by causing those calls to fail, such as by exceeding a ulimit. In...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : webmin (MDKSA-2006:125)

Webmin before 1.290 and Usermin before 1.220 calls the simplifypath function before decoding HTML, which allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files. NOTE: This is a different issue than CVE-2006-3274. Updated packages have been patched to correct this issue. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : wireshark (MDKSA-2006:152)

Vulnerabilities in the SCSI, DHCP, and SSCOP dissectors were discovered in versions of wireshark less than 0.99.3, as well as an off-by-one error in the IPsec ESP preference parser if compiled with ESP decryption support. This updated provides wireshark 0.99.3a which is not vulnerable to these...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : heartbeat (MDKSA-2006:142)

Two vulnerabilities in heartbeat prior to 2.0.6 was discovered by Yan Rong Ge. The first is that heartbeat would set insecure permissions in an shmget call for shared memory, allowing a local attacker to cause an unspecified denial of service via unknown vectors CVE-2006-3815. The second is a...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : gimp (MDKSA-2006:127)

A buffer overflow in the xcfloadvector function in app/xcf/xcf-load.c for gimp 2.2.x allows user-complicit attackers to cause a denial of service crash and possibly execute arbitrary code via an XCF file with a large numaxes value in the VECTORS property. Updated packages have been patched to...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : apache (MDKSA-2006:133)

Mark Dowd, of McAffee Avert Labs, discovered a potential remotely exploitable off-by-one flaw in Apache's modrewrite ldap scheme handling. In order for this to be exploitable, a number of conditions need to be met including a running a vulnerable version of Apache 1.3.28+, 2.0.46+, or 2.2.0+, b...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : musicbrainz (MDKSA-2006:157-1)

Multiple buffer overflows in libmusicbrainz aka mbclient or MusicBrainz Client Library 2.1.2 and earlier, and SVN 8406 and earlier, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash or execute arbitrary code via 1 a long Location header by the HTTP server, which triggers an overflow in th...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : bind (MDKSA-2006:163)

A vulnerability in BIND was discovered where it did not sufficiently verify particular requests and responses from other name servers and users. This could be exploited by sending a specially crafted packet to crash the name server. Updated packages have been patched to address these issues...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : kernel (MDKSA-2006:151)

A number of vulnerabilities were discovered and corrected in the Linux 2.6 kernel : Prior to and including 2.6.16-rc2, when running on x8664 systems with preemption enabled, local users can cause a DoS oops via multiple ptrace tasks that perform single steps CVE-2006-1066. Prior to 2.6.16, a...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : MySQL (MDKSA-2006:149)

MySQL 4.1 before 4.1.21 and 5.0 before 5.0.24 allows a local user to access a table through a previously created MERGE table, even after the user's privileges are revoked for the original table, which might violate intended security policy CVE-2006-4031. The update allows the local admin to...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : sudo (MDKSA-2006:159)

Previous sudo updates were made available to sanitize certain environment variables from affecting a sudo call, such as PYTHONINSPECT, PERL5OPT, etc. While those updates were effective in addressing those specific environment variables, other variables that were not blacklisted were being made...