Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : netscape (MDKSA-2000:080)

A buffer overflow exists in the HTML parser code of the Netscape web browser in all versions prior to and including 4.75. This buffer overflow can be exploited by a remote attacker or web site. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : getty_ps (MDKSA-2001:004)

WireX discovered a potential temporary file race condition in the gettyps 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-2001:004. The...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : mgetty (MDKSA-2000:042)

There is a problem in the mgetty package, which contains a number of tools for sending and receiving faxes. The faxrunq tool uses a marker file in the /tmp directory, which is world-writable, in an insecure fashion. This problem, if exploited, allows malicious users to overwrite files on the syst...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : bash1 (MDKSA-2000:075)

The bash1 shell program has the same vulnerability that tcsh has and incorrectly creates temporary files without the OEXCL flag. This vulnerability does not exist in bash2 which uses the OEXCL flag when creating temporary files. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : Zope (MDKSA-2000:043)

The exploit that was not fixed with the previous Zope hotfix involves the getRoles method of user objects contained in the default UserFolder implementation returning a mutable Python type. Because the mutable object is still associated with the persistent User object, users with the ability to...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : xlockmore (MDKSA-2000:011)

Xlock is an X11 utility used to lock X-Window displays until the password of the user running X is entered correctly. Of course, in order to perform the password-check xlock must be setuid root and have access to the shadowed passwd file. In the xlockmore distributions versions prior to 4.16.1, a...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : perl-Digest-MD5 (MDKSA-2002:035)

A bug exists in the UTF8 interaction between the perl-Digest-MD5 module and perl that results in UTF8 strings having improper MD5 digests. The 2.20 version of the module corrects this problem. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : glibc (MDKSA-2000:045-1)

A bug was discovered in ld.so that could allow local users to obtain root privileges. The dynamic loader, ld.so, is responsible for making shared libraries available within a program at run-time. Normally, a user is allowed to load additional shared libraries when executing a program; they can be...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : tetex (MDKSA-2005:044)

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 tetex, that use embedded versions of xpdf. The updated packages are patched to deal with these issues...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : traceroute (MDKSA-2000:053)

There is a bug in the traceroute program which causes segfaults and which could potentially be exploited to provide root privilege because the traceroute command is suid root. There are no known exploits currently, but users are encouraged to upgrade. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Securit...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : xemacs (MDKSA-2000:006)

From the Caldera advisory : under some circumstances, users are able to snoop on other users' keystrokes. This is a serious problems if you use modules that require e.g. input of passwords, such as MailCrypt. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : BitchX (MDKSA-2000:017)

A denial of service vulnerability exists in BitchX. Improper handling of incoming invitation messages can crash the client. Any user on IRC can send the client an invitation message that causes BitchX to segfault. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and packa...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : bind (MDKSA-2000:010)

By default bind is launched as user and group root. This setting can give the possibility to easily exploit vulnerabities in bind. Thanks to Nicolas MONNET for his contribution. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : linuxconf (MDKSA-2001:011)

WireX discovered a potential temporary file race problem in the vpop3d program in the linuxconf package. 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 Adviso...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : rp-pppoe (MDKSA-2000:084)

rp-pppoe is a userspace PPPoE client mainly used with ADSL connections which require PPP. Versions prior to 2.5 have a security problem that, when exploited, causes the connection to be dropped. If rp-pppoe receives a crafted TCP segment with an option where the option-length field is zero illega...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : mod_php3 (MDKSA-2000:048)

"A problem exists with PHP3 and PHP4 scripts regarding RFC 1867-based file uploads. PHP saves uploaded files in a temporary directory on the server, using a temporary name that is referenced as the variable $FOO where 'FOO' is the name of the file input tag in the submitted form. Many PHP scripts...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : exmh (MDKSA-2001:015)

All versions of exmh prior to 2.3.1 use the /tmp directory for storing temporary files. This was done in an insecure manner as exmh did not check to ensure that nobody placed a symlink with the same name in /tmp in the meantime and thus was vulnerable to a symlink attack. This could lead to a...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : mod_perl (MDKSA-2000:046)

The configuration file, /etc/httpd/conf/addon-modules/modperl.conf contained an Options directive that was not entirely secure and allowed people to browse the /perl/ directory. This update adds the '-Indexes' directive to the Options command, thus making the directory non- browseable...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : pine (MDKSA-2000:073-1)

By adding specific headers to messages, the pine mail reader could be made to exit with an error message when users attempted to manipulate mail folders containing those messages. Update : The previous announcement did not make mention of another vulnerability in pine 4.21 and previous in that it...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : MySQL (MDKSA-2001:014-1)

A security problem exists in all versions of MySQL after 3.23.2 and prior to 3.23.31. The problem is that the SHOW GRANTS command could be executed by any user making it possible for anyone with a MySQL account to get the crypted password from the mysql.user table. The new 3.23.31 version fixes...