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 : man (MDKSA-2000:015)

Internet Security Systems ISS X-Force has identified a vulnerability in the makewhatis Bourne shell script that ships with many Linux distributions. It is found in versions 1.5e and higher of man, and handles temporary files insecurely. Local users may gain a variety of privileges depending on th...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : esound (MDKSA-2000:051)

A problem exists with the esound daemon, which is used in GNOME and responsible for multiplexing access to audio devices. Versions of esound prior to and including 0.2.19 create a world-writable directory in /tmp called .esd which is owned by the user running esound. This directory is used to sto...

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 : 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 : 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 : cups (MDKSA-2000:070-1)

A problem existed with previous versions of CUPS that made CUPS printers accessible from anywhere on the internet. A bug also existed where CUPS would broadcast to everywhere and thus keep open dial-on- demand lines. Both problems have been addressed in this update and by an automatic configurati...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : perl (MDKSA-2000:031)

There is a vulnerability that exists when using setuidperl together with the mailx program. In some cases, setuidperl will warn root that something has going on. The setuidperl program uses /bin/mail to send the message, as root, with the environment preserved. An undocumented feature of /bin/mai...

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : cvsweb (MDKSA-2000:019)

Cvsweb contains a hole that provides attackers who have write access to a cvs repository with shell access. Thus, attackers who have write access to a cvs repository but not shell access can obtain a shell. In addition, anyone with write access to a cvs repository that is viewable with cvsweb can...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : Zope (MDKSA-2000:035)

A problem exists in the Zope package with the getRoles method of user objects contained in the default UserFolder implementation. Users with the ability to edit DTML could arrange to give themselves extra roles for the duration of a single request by mutating the roles list as a part of the reque...