Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : man (MDKSA-2003:054)

A difficult to exploit vulnerability was discovered in versions of man prior to 1.5l. A bug exists in man that could cause a program named 'unsafe' to be executed due to a malformed man file. In order to exploit this bug, a local attacker would have to be able to get another user to read the...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : kdenetwork (MDKSA-2002:080)

The SuSE security team discovered two vulnerabilities in the KDE lanbrowsing service during an audit. The LISa network daemon and 'reslisa', a restricted version of LISa are used to identify servers on the local network by using the URL type 'lan://' and 'rlan://' respectively. A buffer overflow...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : fetchmail (MDKSA-2001:072)

A vulnerability was found by Salvatore Sanfilippo in both the IMAP and POP3 code of fetchmail where the input is not verified and no bounds checking is done. This can be exploited by a remote attacker to write arbitrary data into memory. The attacker must have control of the mail server the clien...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : nfs-utils (MDKSA-2003:076)

An off-by-one buffer overflow was found in the logging code in nfs-utils when adding a newline to the string being logged. This could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code or cause a DoS Denial of Service on the server by sending certain RPC requests. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : at (MDKSA-2002:007)

zen-parse discovered a problem in the at command containing an extra call to free which can lead to a segfault with a carefully crafted, but incorrect, format. This is caused due to a heap corruption that can be exploited under certain circumstances because the at command is installed setuid root...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : xpdf (MDKSA-2003:071-1)

Martyn Gilmore discovered flaws in various PDF viewers, including xpdf. An attacker could place malicious external hyperlinks in a document that, if followed, could execute arbitary shell commands with the privileges of the person viewing the PDF document. Update : New packages are available as t...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : webmin (MDKSA-2004:074)

Unknown vulnerability in Webmin 1.140 allows remote attackers to bypass access control rules and gain read access to configuration information for a module. CVE-2004-0582 The account lockout functionality in Webmin 1.140 does not parse certain character strings, which allows remote attackers to...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : rxvt (MDKSA-2003:034)

Digital Defense Inc. released a paper detailing insecurities in various terminal emulators, including rxvt. Many of the features supported by these programs can be abused when untrusted data is displayed on the screen. This abuse can be anything from garbage data being displayed to the screen or ...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : openldap (MDKSA-2003:006)

A review was completed by the SuSE Security Team on the OpenLDAP server software, and this audit revealed several buffer overflows and other bugs that remote attackers could exploit to gain unauthorized access to the system running the vulnerable OpenLDAP servers. Additionally, various locally...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : perl-MailTools (MDKSA-2002:076)

A vulnerability was discovered in Mail::Mailer perl module by the SuSE security team during an audit. The vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands in certain circumstances due to the usage of mailx as the default mailer, a program that allows commands to be embedded in...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : XFree86 (MDKSA-2003:089)

Several vulnerabilities were discovered by bleximathush.com in the font libraries of XFree86 version 4.3.0 and earlier. These bugs could potentially lead to execution of arbitrary code or a DoS by a remote user in any way that calls these functions, which are related to the transfer and enumerati...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : ypserv (MDKSA-2002:078)

A memory leak that could be triggered remotely was discovered in ypserv 2.5 and earlier. This could lead to a Denial of Service as repeated requests for a non-existent map will result in ypserv consuming more and more memory, and also running more slowly. If the system runs out of available memor...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : cups (MDKSA-2003:104)

A bug in versions of CUPS prior to 1.1.19 was reported by Paul Mitcheson in the Internet Printing Protocol IPP implementation would result in CUPS going into a busy loop, which could result in a Denial of Service DoS condition. To be able to exploit this problem, an attacker would need to be able...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : xchat (MDKSA-2004:036)

A remotely exploitable vulnerability was discovered in the Socks-5 proxy code in XChat. By default, socks5 traversal is disabled, and one would also need to connect to an attacker's own custom proxy server in order for this to be exploited. Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : xloadimage (MDKSA-2001:073-1)

A buffer overflow exists in xli due to missing boundary checks. This could be triggered by an external attacker to execute commands on the victim's machine. An exploit is publically available. xli is an image viewer that is used by Netscape's plugger to display TIFF, PNG, and Sun-Raster images...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : tetex (MDKSA-2001:086)

A problem was discovered in the temporary file handling capabilities of some teTeX filters by zen-parse. These filters are used as print filters automatically when printing .dvi files using lpr. This can lead to elevated privileges. This update relies on the updated mktemp packages for 7.x in...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : apache (MDKSA-2004:065)

A buffer overflow vulnerability was found by George Guninski in Apache's modproxy module, which can be exploited by a remote user to potentially execute arbitrary code with the privileges of an httpd child process user apache. This can only be exploited, however, if modproxy is actually in use. I...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : fetchmail (MDKSA-2002:063)

Several buffer overflows and a boundary check error were discovered in all fetchmail versions prior to 6.1.0 by e-matters GmbH. These problems are vulnerable to crashes and/or arbitrary code execution by remote attackers if fetchmail is running in multidrop mode. The code execution would be done...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : sudo (MDKSA-2002:003)

The SuSE Security Team discovered a vulnerability in sudo that can be exploited to obtain root privilege because sudo is installed setuid root. An attacker could trick sudo to log failed sudo calls executing the sendmail or equivalent mailer program with root privileges and an environment that is...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : jmcce (MDKSA-2002:008)

A problem exists in the jmcce program that is used for Chinese text on the console. jmcce is installed setuid root and places log files in /tmp; because jmcce does not perform suitable checking on the files it writes to and because it uses a predictable logfile name, an attacker could exploit thi...