Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : openssh (MDKSA-2002:019)

Joost Pol found a bug in the channel code of all versions of OpenSSH from 2.0 to 3.0.2. This bug can allow authenticated users with an existing account on the vulnerable system to obtain root privilege or by a malicious server attacking a vulnerable client. OpenSSH 3.1 is not vulnerable to this...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : php (MDKSA-2002:017)

Several flaws exist in various versions of PHP in the way it handles multipart/form-data POST requests, which are used for file uploads. The phpmimesplit function could be used by an attacker to execute arbitrary code on the server. This affects both PHP4 and PHP3. The authors have fixed this in...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : postfix (MDKSA-2001:089)

Wietse Venema, the author of postfix, reported a vulnerability in the SMTP server where a remote attacker could execute a Denial of Service attack on it. The SMTP session log could grow to an unreasonable size and could possibly exhause the server's memory if no other limits were enforced...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : mutt (MDKSA-2003:041-1)

A vulnerability was discovered in the mutt text-mode email client in the IMAP code. This vulnerability can be exploited by a malicious IMAP server to crash mutt or even execute arbitrary code with the privilege of the user running mutt. Update : The packages for Mandrake Linux 9.1 and 9.1/PPC wer...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : mplayer (MDKSA-2003:097)

A buffer overflow vulnerability was found in MPlayer that is remotely exploitable. A malicious host can craft a harmful ASX header and trick MPlayer into executing arbitrary code when it parses that particular header. The provided packages have been patched to fix the problem. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : mplayer (MDKSA-2004:026)

A remotely exploitable buffer overflow vulnerability was found in MPlayer. A malicious host can craft a harmful HTTP header 'Location:', and trick MPlayer into executing arbitrary code upon parsing that header. The updated packages contain a patch from the MPlayer development team to correct the...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : php (MDKSA-2002:059)

A fifth parameter was added to PHP's mail function in 4.0.5 that is not properly sanitized when the server is running in safe mode. This vulnerability would allow local users and, possibly, remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands using shell metacharacters. After upgrading to these package...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : kernel (MDKSA-2003:110)

A vulnerability was discovered in the Linux kernel versions 2.4.22 and previous. A flaw in bounds checking in the dobrk function can allow a local attacker to gain root privileges. This vulnerability is known to be exploitable; an exploit is in the wild at this time. The Mandrake Linux 9.2 kernel...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : openssl (MDKSA-2001:065)

The pseudo-random number generator in OpenSSL versions up to 0.9.6a has a design flaw. By knowing the output of specific PRNG requests, an attacker would be able to determine the PRNG's internal state and thus predict future PRNG output. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : imap (MDKSA-2002:034)

A buffer overflow was discovered in the imap server that could allow a malicious user to run code on the server with the uid and gid of the email owner by constructing a malformed request that would trigger the buffer overflow. However, the user must successfully authenticate to the imap service ...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : kon2 (MDKSA-2003:064)

A vulnerability was discovered in kon2, a Kanji emulator for the console. A buffer overflow in the command line parsing can be exploited, leading to local users being able to gain root privileges. These updated packages provide a fix for this vulnerability. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : samba (MDKSA-2001:062)

Michal Zalewski has found a vulnerability in all versions of Samba prior to 2.0.10 where if a client sends an invalid netbios name Samba could be tricked into appending it's log to files writable by root. This can be very dangerous if combined with a symlink created by a local user. Note that the...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : gnupg (MDKSA-2003:061)

A bug was discovered in GnuPG versions 1.2.1 and earlier. When gpg evaluates trust values for different UIDs assigned to a key, it would incorrectly associate the trust value of the UID with the highest trust value with every other UID assigned to that key. This prevents a warning message from...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : php (MDKSA-2003:019)

A buffer overflow was discovered in the wordwrap function in versions of PHP greater than 4.1.2 and less than 4.3.0. Under certain circumstances, this buffer overflow can be used to overwite heap memory and could potentially lead to remote system compromise. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : passwd (MDKSA-2004:045)

Steve Grubb found some problems in the passwd program. Passwords given to passwd via stdin are one character shorter than they are supposed to be. He also discovered that pam may not have been sufficiently initialized to ensure safe and proper operation. A few small memory leaks have been fixed a...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : samba (MDKSA-2004:035)

A vulnerability was discovered in samba where a local user could use the smbmnt utility, which is shipped suid root, to mount a file share from a remote server which would contain a setuid program under the control of the user. By executing this setuid program, the local user could elevate their...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : libsafe (MDKSA-2002:026)

Wojciech Purczynski discovered that format string protection in libsafe can be easily bypassed by using flag characters that are implemented in glibc but are not implemented in libsafe. It was also discovered that printf function wrappers incorrectly parse argument indexing in format strings,...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : kolab-server (MDKSA-2004:052)

Luca Villani reported the disclosure of critical configuration information within Kolab, the KDE Groupware server. The affected versions store OpenLDAP passwords in plain text. The heart of Kolab is an engine written in Perl that rewrites configuration for certain applications based on templates...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : perl-CGI (MDKSA-2003:084)

Eye on Security found a cross-site scripting vulnerability in the startform function in CGI.pm. This vulnerability allows a remote attacker to place a web script in a URL which feeds into a form's action parameter and allows execution by the browser as if it was coming from the site. %NASLMINLEVE...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : gtkhtml (MDKSA-2003:046)

A vulnerability in GtkHTML was discovered by Alan Cox with the Evolution email client. GtkHTML is used to handle HTML messages in Evolution and certain malformed messages could cause Evolution to crash due to this bug. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and...