Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : perl-Compress-Zlib (MDKSA-2005:196)

The perl Compress::Zlib module contains an internal copy of the zlib library that was vulnerable to CVE-2005-1849 and CVE-2005-2096. This library was updated with version 1.35 of Compress::Zlib. An updated perl-Compress-Zlib package is now available to provide the fixed module. %NASLMINLEVEL 7030...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : apache-mod_auth_shadow (MDKSA-2005:200)

The modauthshadow module 1.0 through 1.5 and 2.0 for Apache with AuthShadow enabled uses shadow authentication for all locations that use the require group directive, even when other authentication mechanisms are specified, which might allow remote authenticated users to bypass security...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : openssl (MDKSA-2005:179)

Yutaka Oiwa discovered vulnerability potentially affects applications that use the SSL/TLS server implementation provided by OpenSSL. Such applications are affected if they use the option SSLOPMSIESSLV2RSAPADDING. This option is implied by use of SSLOPALL, which is intended to work around various...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : cfengine (MDKSA-2005:184)

Javier Fernndez-Sanguino Pea discovered several insecure temporary file uses in cfengine = 1.6.5 and = 2.1.16 which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files used by vicf.in. CVE-2005-2960 In addition, Javier discovered the cfmailfilter and cfcron.in...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : curl (MDKSA-2005:182)

A vulnerability in libcurl's NTLM function can overflow a stack-based buffer if given too long a user name or domain name in NTLM authentication is enabled and either a pass a user and domain name to libcurl that together are longer than 192 bytes or b allow libcurl to follow HTTP redirects and t...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : xine-lib (MDKSA-2005:180)

When playing an Audio CD, a xine-lib based media application contacts a CDDB server to retrieve metadata like the title and artist's name. During processing of this data, a response from the server, which is located in memory on the stack, is passed to the fprintf function as a format string. An...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : hylafax (MDKSA-2005:177)

faxcron, recvstats, and xferfaxstats in HylaFax 4.2.1 and earlier allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files. CVE-2005-3069 In addition, HylaFax has some provisional support for Unix domain sockets, which is disabled in the default compile configuratio...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : texinfo (MDKSA-2005:175)

Frank Lichtenheld has discovered that texindex insecurely creates temporary files with predictable filenames. This is exploitable if a local attacker were to create symbolic links in the temporary files directory, pointing to a valid file on the filesystem. When texindex is executed, the file wou...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : kdegraphics (MDKSA-2005:143)

Wouter Hanegraaff discovered that the TIFF library did not sufficiently validate the 'YCbCr subsampling' value in TIFF image headers. Decoding a malicious image with a zero value resulted in an arithmetic exception, which can cause a program that uses the TIFF library to crash. Kdegraphics 3.3 us...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : XFree86 (MDKSA-2005:164)

A vulnerability was discovered in the pixmap allocation handling of the X server that can lead to local privilege escalation. By allocating a huge pixmap, a local user could trigger an integer overflow that resulted in a memory allocation that was too small for the requested pixmap, leading to a...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : smb4k (MDKSA-2005:157)

A severe security issue has been discovered in Smb4K. By linking a simple text file FILE to /tmp/smb4k.tmp or /tmp/sudoers, an attacker could get access to the full contents of the /etc/super.tab or /etc/sudoers file, respectively, because Smb4K didn't check for the existance of these files befor...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : php (MDKSA-2005:152)

Integer overflow in pcrecompile.c in Perl Compatible Regular Expressions PCRE before 6.2, as used in multiple products, allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via quantifier values in regular expressions, which leads to a heap-based buffer overflow. The php packages, as shipped, were built...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : vim (MDKSA-2005:148)

A vulnerability was discovered in the way that vim processed modelines. If a user with modelines enabled opened a textfile with a specially crafted modeline, arbitrary commands could be executed. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : zlib (MDKSA-2005:124)

A previous zlib update MDKSA-2005:112; CVE-2005-2096 fixed an overflow flaw in the zlib program. While that update did indeed fix the reported overflow issue, Markus Oberhumber discovered additional ways that a specially crafted compressed stream could trigger an overflow. An attacker could creat...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : slocate (MDKSA-2005:147)

A bug was discovered in the way that slocate processes very long paths. A local user could create a carefully crafted directory structure that would prevent updatedb from completing its filesystem scan, resulting in an incomplete database. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : xpdf (MDKSA-2005:134)

A vulnerability in the xpdf PDF viewer was discovered. An attacker could construct a malicious PDF file that would cause xpdf to consume all available disk space in /tmp when opened. The updated packages have been patched to correct this problem. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, In...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : cups (MDKSA-2005:138-1)

A vulnerability was discovered in the CUPS printing package where when processing a PDF file, bounds checking was not correctly performed on some fields. As a result, this could cause the pdtops filter to crash. Update : The patch to correct this problem was not properly applied to the Mandriva...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : lm_sensors (MDKSA-2005:149)

Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pena discovered that the pwmconfig script in the lmsensors package created temporary files in an insecure manner. This could allow a symlink attack to create or overwrite arbitrary files with full root privileges because pwmconfig is typically executed by root. The updat...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : kdeedu (MDKSA-2005:159)

Ben Burton notified the KDE security team about several tempfile handling related vulnerabilities in langen2kvtml, a conversion script for kvoctrain. This vulnerability was initially discovered by Javier Fernndez-Sanguino Pea. The script uses known filenames in /tmp which allow an local attacker ...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : proftpd (MDKSA-2005:140)

Two format string vulnerabilities were discovered in ProFTPD. The first exists when displaying a shutdown message containin the name of the current directory. This could be exploited by a user who creates a directory containing format specifiers and sets the directory as the current directory whe...