Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : ipsec-tools (MDKSA-2005:062)

A bug was discovered in the way that the racoon daemon handled incoming ISAKMP requests. It is possible that an attacker could crash the racoon daemon by sending a specially crafted ISAKMP packet. The updated packages have been patched to correct these issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Networ...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : krb5 (MDKSA-2005:061)

Two buffer overflow issues were discovered in the way telnet clients handle messages from a server. Because of these issues, an attacker may be able to execute arbitrary code on the victim's machine if the victim can be tricked into connecting to a malicious telnet server. The Kerberos package...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : MySQL (MDKSA-2005:060)

A number of vulnerabilities were discovered by Stefano Di Paola in the MySQL server : If an authenticated user had INSERT privileges on the 'mysql' database, the CREATE FUNCTION command allowed that user to use libc functions to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : kdelibs (MDKSA-2005:058)

A vulnerability in dcopserver was discovered by Sebastian Krahmer of the SUSE security team. A local user can lock up the dcopserver of other users on the same machine by stalling the DCOP authentication process, causing a local Denial of Service. dcopserver is the KDE Desktop Communication...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : evolution (MDKSA-2005:059)

It was discovered that certain types of messages could be used to crash the Evolution mail client. Fixes have been applied to correct this behaviour. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Mandrake Linux...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : cyrus-sasl (MDKSA-2005:054)

A buffer overflow was discovered in cyrus-sasl's digestmd5 code. This could lead to a remote attacker executing code in the context of the service using SASL authentication. This vulnerability was fixed upstream in version 2.1.19. The updated packages are patched to deal with this issue...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : openslp (MDKSA-2005:055)

An audit by the SUSE Security Team of critical parts of the OpenSLP package revealed various buffer overflow and out of bounds memory access issues. These problems can be triggered by remote attackers by sending malformed SLP packets. The packages have been patched to prevent these problems...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : gnupg (MDKSA-2005:057)

The OpenPGP protocol is vulnerable to a timing-attack in order to gain plain text from cipher text. The timing difference appears as a side effect of the so-called 'quick scan' and is only exploitable on systems that accept an arbitrary amount of cipher text for automatic decryption. The updated...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : ethereal (MDKSA-2005:053)

"A number of issues were discovered in Ethereal versions prior to 0.10.10, which is provided by this update. Matevz Pustisek discovered a buffer overflow in the Etheric dissector CVE-2005-0704 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : cyrus-imapd (MDKSA-2005:051)

Several overruns have been fixed in the IMAP annote extension as well as in cached header handling which can be run by an authenticated user. As well, additional bounds checking in fetchnews was improved to avoid exploitation by a peer news admin. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security,...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : curl (MDKSA-2005:048)

'infamous41md' discovered a buffer overflow vulnerability in libcurl's NTLM authorization base64 decoding. This could allow a remote attacker using a prepared remote server to execute arbitrary code as the user running curl. The updated packages are patched to deal with these issues. %NASLMINLEVE...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : uim (MDKSA-2005:046)

Takumi ASAKI discovered that uim always trusts environment variables which can allow a local attacker to obtain elevated privileges when libuim is linked against an suid/sgid application. This problem is only exploitable in 'immodule for Qt' enabled Qt applications. The updated packages are patch...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : squid (MDKSA-2005:047)

The squid developers discovered that a remote attacker could cause squid to crash via certain DNS responses. The updated packages are patched to fix the problem. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Mandrak...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : kdelibs (MDKSA-2005:045)

A bug in the way kioslave handles URL-encoded newline %0a characters before the FTP command was discovered. Because of this, it is possible that a specially crafted URL could be used to execute any ftp command on a remote server, or even send unsolicited email. As well, Davide Madrisan discovered...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : rwho (MDKSA-2005:039)

A vulnerability in rwhod was discovered by 'Vlad902' that can be abused to crash the listening process the broadcasting process is not affected. This vulnerability only affects little endian architectures. The updated packages have been patched to correct the problem. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenabl...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : emacs (MDKSA-2005:038)

Max Vozeler discovered several format string vulnerabilities in the movemail utility in Emacs. If a user connects to a malicious POP server, an attacker can execute arbitrary code as the user running emacs. The updated packages have been patched to correct the problem. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenab...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : mailman (MDKSA-2005:037)

A vulnerability was discovered in Mailman, which allows a remote directory traversal exploit using URLs of the form '.../....///' to access private Mailman configuration data. The vulnerability lies in the Mailman/Cgi/private.py file. Updated packages correct this issue. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : MySQL (MDKSA-2005:036)

A temporary file vulnerability in the mysqlaccess script in MySQL was discovered by Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pena. This flaw could allow an unprivileged user to let root overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack. It could also be used to view the contents of a temporary file which could...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : perl-DBI (MDKSA-2005:030)

Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pena disovered the perl5 DBI library created a temporary PID file in an insecure manner, which could be exploited by a malicious user to overwrite arbitrary files owned by the user executing the parts of the library. The updated packages have been patched to prevent thes...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : vim (MDKSA-2005:029)

Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pena discovered two vulnerabilities in scripts included with the vim editor. The two scripts, 'tcltags' and 'vimspell.sh' created temporary files in an insecure manner which could allow a malicious user to execute a symbolic link attack or to create, or overwrite,...