Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : cups (MDKSA-2001:023)

A number of problems were found by the SuSE security team recently during an internal audit of the CUPS printing package. These problems have been resolved with the latest CUPS release which include temp file creation vulnerabilities, potential buffer overflows, and other security enhancements. I...

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 : glibc (MDKSA-2001:012)

The LDPRELOAD variable in the GNU C Library is honoured normally even for SUID/SGID applications but removed afterwards from the environment if it does not contain '/' characters. There is a special check which only preloads found libraries if they have the SUID bit set. However, if a library has...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : sudo (MDKSA-2001:024-1)

A buffer overflow exists in the sudo program which could be used by an attacker to obtain higher privileges. sudo is a program used to delegate superuser privileges to ordinary users and only for specific commands. Update : The sudo package for 7.1 used the system-auth facility of newer pam...

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 : eperl (MDKSA-2001:027)

Several potential buffer overflows in the ePerl package have been found by Fumitoshi Ukai and Denis Barbier. When eperl is installed setuid root, it can switch to the UID/GID of the script's owner. Although Linux-Mandrake does not ship the program setuid root, this is a useful feature which some...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : cups (MDKSA-2005:041)

Previous updates to correct integer overflow issues affecting xpdf overlooked certain conditions when built for a 64 bit platform. formerly CVE-2004-0888. This also affects applications like cups, that use embedded versions of xpdf. The updated packages are patched to deal with these issues...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : lpr (MDKSA-2003:059)

A buffer overflow was discovered in the lpr printer spooling system that can be exploited by a local user to gain root privileges. This can be done even if the printer is configured properly. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plug...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : emacs (MDKSA-2000:088)

A vulnerability exists in Emacs 20.6 and prior that allows any user on a multiuser system to eavesdrop on, or forge responses to, an Emacs client. The vulnerability stems from Emacs' failure to properly set permissions for slave PTY devices. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. Th...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : vixie-cron (MDKSA-2001:022)

A buffer overflow exists in the 'crontab' command if it was called by a user with a username longer than 20 characters. If the system administrator has created usernames of that length, it would be possible for those users to gain elevated privileges. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Securit...

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 : vim (MDKSA-2001:035)

Users could embed malicious VIM control codes into a file, and as soon as any user opened that file in vim-enhanced or vim-X11 with the status line option enabled in .vimrc, the commands would be executed as that user. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : bind (MDKSA-2001:017)

Four problems exists in all versions of ISC BIND 4.9.x prior to 4.9.8 and 8.2.x prior to 8.2.3 9.x is not affected. Version 8.2.x contains a buffer overflow in transaction signature TSIG handling code that can be exploited by an attacker to gain unauthorized privileged access to the system,...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : lpr (MDKSA-2000:054)

There is a format string bug in lpr with its calls to the syslog facility. There are no known exploits at ths time, but it may be possible for a user to gain local root access. This new lpr fixes this problem. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : wu-ftpd (MDKSA-2001:001-2)

WireX discovered a temporary file creation bug in the 2.6.1 release of wu-ftpd. The problem exists in the privatepw helper program. As well, Linux-Mandrake 7.2 users must update to this package as it fixes security problems as discussed in the prior advisory, MDKSA-2000:014, which had not been...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : apcupsd (MDKSA-2000:077)

A problem exists with the apcupsd daemon. During startup, apcupsd creates a PID file in /var/run with the ID of the daemon process. This file is used by the shutdown script to kill the daemon process. The /var/run/apcupsd.pid file is created with mode 666 permissions, meaning it is world-writeabl...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : gpm (MDKSA-2000:002)

A security bug was found in gpm-root; the bug can be exploited to provide local users with root access. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Mandrake Linux Security Advisory MDKSA-2000:002. The text itself ...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : slocate (MDKSA-2000:085)

Michael Kaempf reported a security problem in slocate a secure version of locate, a tool to quickly locate files on a filesystem on bugtraq which was originally discovered by zorgon. He discovered that there was a bug in the database reading code which made it overwrite an internal structure with...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : Zope (MDKSA-2001:049)

Another problem was discovered in Zope that fixes a problem with ZClasses. Any user can visit a ZClass declaration and change the ZClass permission mappings for methods and other objects defined within the ZClass, possibly allowing for unauthorized access within the Zope instance. The Zope Hotfix...

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...