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 : xsoldier (MDKSA-2000:004)

A vulnerability in xsoldier will allow any user to exploit a buffer overflow. This user does not have to have a valid $DISPLAY to exploit this. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Mandrake Linux Security...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : gpm (MDKSA-2000:025)

Many security flaws existed in the gpm package, which is used to control the mouse in a terminal outside of X Windows. As well, a denial of service attack via /dev/gpmctl is possible. All security issues with the gpm package have been addressed with this update. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : mod_perl (MDKSA-2000:046)

The configuration file, /etc/httpd/conf/addon-modules/modperl.conf contained an Options directive that was not entirely secure and allowed people to browse the /perl/ directory. This update adds the '-Indexes' directive to the Options command, thus making the directory non- browseable...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : xemacs (MDKSA-2001:019)

Previous versions of XEmacs had a problem with the gnuserv application. Versions prior to 21.1.14 could allow arbitrary code to be executed by overrunning the magic cookie buffer, as well as accepting the prefix of valid magic cookies i.e. '12' is accepted if the cookie is '12345678'. %NASLMINLEV...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : shadow-utils (MDKSA-2001:007)

WireX discovered a potential temporary file race condition in the useradd program contained in the shadow-utils package. The useradd program creates it's temporary files in the protected directory /etc/default, but if this directory is changed to world-writable, a problem could occur. This update...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : bind (MDKSA-2000:010)

By default bind is launched as user and group root. This setting can give the possibility to easily exploit vulnerabities in bind. Thanks to Nicolas MONNET for his contribution. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : gpm (MDKSA-2001:006)

WireX discovered a potential temporary file condition in the gpm program. This update corrects the problem. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Mandrake Linux Security Advisory MDKSA-2001:006. The text...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : joe (MDKSA-2000:072)

When exiting joe in a non-standard way such as a system crash, closing an xterm, or a network connection going down, joe will unconditionally append its open buffers to the file DEADJOE. This can be exploited by the creation of DEADJOE symlinks in directories where root would normally use joe. In...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : exmh (MDKSA-2001:015)

All versions of exmh prior to 2.3.1 use the /tmp directory for storing temporary files. This was done in an insecure manner as exmh did not check to ensure that nobody placed a symlink with the same name in /tmp in the meantime and thus was vulnerable to a symlink attack. This could lead to a...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : mod_php3 (MDKSA-2000:062)

PHP version 3 which ships with Linux-Mandrake are vulnerable to format string attacks due to logging functions that make improper use of the syslog and vsnprintf functions. This renders PHP3-enabled servers vulnerable to compromise by remote attackers. This attack is only effective on PHP...

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 : mgetty (MDKSA-2000:042)

There is a problem in the mgetty package, which contains a number of tools for sending and receiving faxes. The faxrunq tool uses a marker file in the /tmp directory, which is world-writable, in an insecure fashion. This problem, if exploited, allows malicious users to overwrite files on the syst...

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 : 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 : apache (MDKSA-2000:060-2)

The Apache web server comes with a module called modrewrite which is used to rewrite URLs presented by the client prior to further processing. There is a flaw in the modrewrite logic that allows an attacker to view arbitrary files on the server system if they contain regular expression references...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : xchat (MDKSA-2000:039-1)

XChat 1.3.9 and later allow users to right-click on a URL appearing in an IRC discussion and select the 'Open in Browser' option. To open the URL in a browser, XChat passes the command to /bin/sh. This allows a malicious URL the ability to execute arbitrary shell commands as the user that is...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : kon2 (MDKSA-2000:028)

There is a vulnerable suid program called fld. This program accepts option input from a text file and it is possible to input arbitrary code into the stack, thus spawning a root shell. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : mgetty (MDKSA-2001:009)

WireX discovered a potential temporary file race condition in the mgetty program. All versions of mgetty prior to 1.1.24 are vulnerable. %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 : xinetd (MDKSA-2002:053)

A vulnerability was discovered by Solar Designer in xinetd. File descriptors for the signal pipe that were introduced in version 2.3.4 are leaked into services started by xinetd, which can then be used to talk to xinetd, resulting in a crash of xinetd. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network...