Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : kernel (MDKSA-2006:151)

A number of vulnerabilities were discovered and corrected in the Linux 2.6 kernel : Prior to and including 2.6.16-rc2, when running on x8664 systems with preemption enabled, local users can cause a DoS oops via multiple ptrace tasks that perform single steps CVE-2006-1066. Prior to 2.6.16, a...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : krb5 (MDKSA-2006:139)

A flaw was discovered in some bundled Kerberos-aware packages that would fail to check the results of the setuid call. This call can fail in some circumstances on the Linux 2.6 kernel if certain user limits are reached, which could be abused by a local attacker to get the applications to continue...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : MySQL (MDKSA-2006:158)

MySQL before 4.1.13 allows local users to cause a denial of service persistent replication slave crash via a query with multiupdate and subselects. CVE-2006-4380 There is a bug in the MySQL-Max and MySQL init script where the script was not waiting for the mysqld daemon to fully stop. This impact...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : kdelibs (MDKSA-2006:130)

KDE Konqueror 3.5.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service application crash by calling the replaceChild method on a DOM object, which triggers a null dereference, as demonstrated by calling document.replaceChild with a 0 zero argument. This issue does not affect Corpora...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : sudo (MDKSA-2006:159)

Previous sudo updates were made available to sanitize certain environment variables from affecting a sudo call, such as PYTHONINSPECT, PERL5OPT, etc. While those updates were effective in addressing those specific environment variables, other variables that were not blacklisted were being made...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : ruby (MDKSA-2006:134)

A number of flaws were discovered in the safe-level restrictions in the Ruby language. Because of these flaws, it would be possible for an attacker to create a carefully crafted malicious script that could allow them to bypass certain safe-level restrictions. Updated packages have been patched to...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : php (MDKSA-2006:162)

The 1 fileexists and 2 imapreopen functions in PHP before 5.1.5 do not check for the safemode and openbasedir settings, which allows local users to bypass the settings CVE-2006-4481. Buffer overflow in the LWZReadByte function in ext/gd/libgd/gdgifin.c in the GD extension in PHP before 5.1.5 allo...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : ncompress (MDKSA-2006:140)

Tavis Ormandy, of the Google Security Team, discovered that ncompress, when uncompressing data, performed no bounds checking, which could allow a specially crafted datastream to underflow a .bss buffer with attacker controlled data. Updated packages have been patched to correct this issue...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : xorg-x11 (MDKSA-2006:164-1)

Local exploitation of an integer overflow vulnerability in the 'CIDAFM' function in the X.Org and XFree86 X server could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code with privileges of the X server, typically root CVE-2006-3739. Local exploitation of an integer overflow vulnerability in the...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : wireshark (MDKSA-2006:128)

A number of vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Wireshark formerly Ethereal network analyzer. These issues have been corrected in Wireshark version 0.99.2 which is provided with this update. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in th...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : ImageMagick (MDKSA-2006:155)

Multiple buffer overflows in ImageMagick before 6.2.9 allow user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted XCF images. CVE-2006-3743 Multiple integer overflows in ImageMagick before 6.2.9 allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted Sun bitmap images that...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : xorg-x11 (MDKSA-2006:160)

X.Org and XFree86, including libX11, xdm, xf86dga, xinit, xload, xtrans, and xterm, does not check the return values for setuid and seteuid calls when attempting to drop privileges, which might allow local users to gain privileges by causing those calls to fail, such as by exceeding a ulimit. In...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : freeciv (MDKSA-2006:135)

Buffer overflow in Freeciv 2.1.0-beta1 and earlier, and SVN 15 Jul 2006 and earlier, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash and possibly execute arbitrary code via a 1 negative chunklength or a 2 large chunk-offset value in a PACKETPLAYERATTRIBUTECHUNK packet in the...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : MySQL (MDKSA-2006:149)

MySQL 4.1 before 4.1.21 and 5.0 before 5.0.24 allows a local user to access a table through a previously created MERGE table, even after the user's privileges are revoked for the original table, which might violate intended security policy CVE-2006-4031. The update allows the local admin to...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : libtunepimp (MDKSA-2006:126)

Kevin Kofler discovered multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the LookupTRM::lookup function in libtunepimp 0.4.2 that allow remote user-complicit attackers to cause a denial of service application crash and possibly execute code via a long 1 Album release date MBEReleaseGetDate, 2 data, or 3...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : heartbeat (MDKSA-2006:142)

Two vulnerabilities in heartbeat prior to 2.0.6 was discovered by Yan Rong Ge. The first is that heartbeat would set insecure permissions in an shmget call for shared memory, allowing a local attacker to cause an unspecified denial of service via unknown vectors CVE-2006-3815. The second is a...

Mandrake Linux 8.2 /usr/mail local exploit (d86mail.pl)

No description provided by source. !/usr/bin/perl Mandrake 8.2 /usr/mail local exploit Usage: perl d86mail.pl offset Then enter "." dot and press 'Enter' Example: satan@localhost my$ perl d86mail.pl eip: 0xbffffddd .enter Cc: too long to edit sh-2.05$ $shellcode = "\x31\xdb\x89\xd8\xb0\x17\xcd\x8...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : kernel (MDKSA-2006:123)

A number of vulnerabilities were discovered and corrected in the Linux 2.6 kernel : The kernel did not clear sockaddrin.sinzero before returning IPv4 socket names for the getsockopt function, which could allow a local user to obtain portions of potentially sensitive memory if getsockopt is called...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : xine-lib (MDKSA-2006:121)

Stack-based buffer overflow in MiMMS 0.0.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service application crash and possibly execute arbitrary code via the 1 sendcommand, 2 stringutf16, 3 getdata, and 4 getmediapacket functions, and possibly other functions. Xine-lib contains an embedded copy o...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : ppp (MDKSA-2006:119)

Marcus Meissner discovered that pppd's winbind plugin did not check for the result of the setuid call which could allow an attacker to exploit this on systems with certain PAM limits enabled to execute the NTLM authentication helper as root. This could possibly lead to privilege escalation...