Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : cvs (MDKSA-2004:028)

Sebastian Krahmer from the SUSE security team discovered a remotely exploitable vulnerability in the CVS client. When doing a cvs checkout or update over a network, the client accepts absolute pathnames in the RCS diff files. A maliciously configured server could then create any file with content...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : lftp (MDKSA-2003:116)

A buffer overflow vulnerability was discovered by Ulf Harnhammar in the lftp FTP client when connecting to a web server using HTTP or HTTPS and using the 'ls' or 'rels' command on specially prepared directory. This vulnerability exists in lftp versions 2.3.0 through 2.6.9 and is corrected upstrea...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : mc (MDKSA-2004:007)

A buffer overflow was discovered in mc's virtual filesystem code. This vulnerability could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code during symlink conversion. The updated packages have been patched to correct the problem. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptiv...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : kdelibs (MDKSA-2003:079)

A vulnerability in Konqueror was discovered where it could inadvertently send authentication credentials to websites other than the intended site in clear text via the HTTP-referer header when authentication credentials are passed as part of a URL in the form http://user:password@host/. The...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : krb5 (MDKSA-2002:057)

The network authentication system in Kerberos 5 contains an RPC library that includes an XDR decoder derived from Sun's RPC implementation. This implemenation is vulnerable to a heap overflow. With Kerberos, it is believed that an attacker would need to be able to successfully authenticate to...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : mm (MDKSA-2002:045)

Marcus Meissner and Sebastian Krahmer discovered a temporary file vulnerability in the mm library which is used by the Apache webserver. This vulnerability can be exploited to obtain root privilege if shell access to the apache user typically apache or nobody is already obtained. %NASLMINLEVEL...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : krb5 (MDKSA-2003:021)

A vulnerability was discovered in the Kerberos FTP client. When the client retrieves a file that has a filename beginning with a pipe character, the FTP client will pass that filename to the command shell in a system call. This could allow a malicious remote FTP server to write to files outside o...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : webmin (MDKSA-2001:059)

Recently, Caldera found that when webmin starts a system daemon from the web frontend it does not clear its environment variables. Since these variables contain the authorization of the administrator, any daemon would also get these variables. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : gdm (MDKSA-2001:070)

A buffer overrun exists in the XDMCP handling code used in gdm. By sending a properly crafted XDMCP message, it is possible for a remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands as root on the susceptible machine. By default, XDMCP is disabled in gdm.conf on Mandrake Linux. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : apache2 (MDKSA-2004:043)

A memory leak in modssl in the Apache HTTP Server prior to version 2.0.49 allows a remote denial of service attack against an SSL-enabled server. The updated packages provide a patched modssl to correct these problems. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : libxml2 (MDKSA-2004:018)

A flaw in libxml2 versions prior to 2.6.6 was found by Yuuichi Teranishi. When fetching a remote source via FTP or HTTP, libxml2 uses special parsing routines that can overflow a buffer if passed a very long URL. In the event that the attacker can find a program that uses libxml2 which parses...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : ethereal (MDKSA-2004:002)

Two vulnerabilities were discovered in versions of Ethereal prior to 0.10.0 that can be exploited to make Ethereal crash by injecting malformed packets onto the wire or by convincing a user to read a malformed packet trace file. The first vulnerability is in the SMB dissector and the second is in...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : rsync (MDKSA-2004:042)

Rsync before 2.6.1 does not properly sanitize paths when running a read/write daemon without using chroot, allows remote attackers to write files outside of the module's path. The updated packages provide a patched rsync to correct this problem. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : squid (MDKSA-2002:027)

A security issue has recently been found and fixed in the Squid-2.X releases up to and including 2.4.STABLE4. Error and boundary conditions were not checked when handling compressed DNS answer messages in the internal DNS code lib/rfc1035.c. A malicous DNS server could craft a DNS reply that caus...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : screen (MDKSA-2003:113)

A vulnerability was discovered and fixed in screen by Timo Sirainen who found an exploitable buffer overflow that allowed privilege escalation. This vulnerability also has the potential to allow attackers to gain control of another user's screen session. The ability to exploit is not trivial and...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : sendmail (MDKSA-2003:042-1)

Michal Zalweski discovered a vulnerability in sendmail versions earlier than 8.12.9 in the address parser, which performs insufficient bounds checking in certain conditions due to a char to int conversion. This vulnerability makes it poissible for an attacker to take control of sendmail and is...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : sendmail (MDKSA-2001:075)

An input validation error exists in sendmail that may allow local users to write arbitrary data to process memory. This could possibly allow the execute of code or commands with elevated privileges and may also allow a local attacker to gain access to the root account. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenab...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : pwlib (MDKSA-2004:017)

The NISCC uncovered bugs in pwlib prior to version 1.6.0 via a test suite for the H.225 protocol. An attacker could trigger these bugs by sending carefully crafted messages to an application that uses pwlib, and the severity would vary based on the application, but likely would result in a Denial...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : xinetd (MDKSA-2001:076)

An audit has been performed on the xinetd 2.3.0 source code by Solar Designer for many different possible vulnerabilities. The 2.3.1 release incorporated his patches into the xinetd source tree. The audit was very thorough and found and fixed many problems. This xinetd update includes his audit...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : elm (MDKSA-2001:067)

A buffer overflow exists in the elm email client when handling very long message-ids. This would overwrite other header fields and could potentially cause further damage. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted fro...