Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : kdegraphics (MDKSA-2004:115)

Chris Evans discovered numerous vulnerabilities in the xpdf package, which also effect software using embedded xpdf code, such as kpdf : Multiple integer overflow issues affecting xpdf-2.0 and xpdf-3.0. Also programs like kpdf which have embedded versions of xpdf. These can result in writing an...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : cvs (MDKSA-2004:108)

iDEFENSE discovered a flaw in CVS versions prior to 1.1.17 in an undocumented switch implemented in CVS' history command. The -X switch specifies the name of the history file which allows an attacker to determine whether arbitrary system files and directories exist and whether or not the CVS...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : mozilla (MDKSA-2004:107)

A number of vulnerabilities were fixed in mozilla 1.7.3, the following of which have been backported to mozilla packages for Mandrakelinux 10.0 : - 'Send page' heap overrun - JavaScript clipboard access - buffer overflow when displaying VCard - BMP integer overflow - javascript: link dragging -...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : libtiff (MDKSA-2004:109)

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the libtiff package : Chris Evans discovered several problems in the RLE run length encoding decoders that could lead to arbitrary code execution. CVE-2004-0803 Matthias Clasen discovered a division by zero through an integer overflow. CVE-2004-0804...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : cyrus-sasl (MDKSA-2004:106)

A vulnerability was discovered in the libsasl library of cyrus-sasl. libsasl honors the SASLPATH environment variable blindly, which could allow a local user to create a malicious 'library' that would get executed with the effective ID of SASL when anything calls libsasl. The provided packages ar...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : samba (MDKSA-2004:104)

Karol Wiesek discovered a bug in the input validation routines used to convert DOS path names to path names on the Samba host's file system. This bug can be exploited to gain access to files outside of the share's path as defined in the smb.conf configuration file. This vulnerability exists in al...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : OpenOffice.org (MDKSA-2004:103)

A vulnerability in OpenOffice.org was reported by pmladek where a local user may be able to obtain and read documents that belong to another user. The way that OpenOffice.org created temporary files, which used the user's umask to create the file, could potentially allow for other users to have...

MyServer 0.7.1 - 'POST' Denial of Service

// PoC to crash the server // / MyServer 0.7.1 POST Denial Of Service vendor URL: http://www.myserverproject.net coded and discovered by: badpack3t for .:sp research labs:. www.security-protocols.com 9.20.2004 Tested on Mandrake 10.0 usage: sp-myserv-0.7.1 targetport default is 80 / include inclu...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : ImageMagick (MDKSA-2004:102)

Several buffer overflow vulnerabilities in ImageMagick were discovered by Marcus Meissner from SUSE. These vulnerabilities would allow an attacker to create a malicious image or video file in AVI, BMP, or DIB formats which could crash the reading process. It may be possible to create malicious...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : webmin (MDKSA-2004:101)

A vulnerability in webmin was discovered by Ludwig Nussel. A temporary directory was used in webmin, however it did not check for the previous owner of the directory. This could allow an attacker to create the directory and place dangerous symbolic links inside. The updated packages are patched t...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : apache (MDKSA-2002:039-2)

Please note that this advisory supersedes the previous MDKSA-2002:039 and MDKSA-2002:039-1 advisories. MandrakeSoft is urging all users of Mandrake Linux to update their Apache installations immediately. What was previously thought to have been a DoS-only condition has now been proven to be more...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : squid (MDKSA-2004:093)

A vulnerability in the NTLM helpers in squid 2.5 could allow for malformed NTLMSSP packets to crash squid, resulting in a DoS. The provided packages have been patched to prevent this problem. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plug...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : printer-drivers (MDKSA-2004:094)

The foomatic-rip filter, which is part of foomatic-filters package, contains a vulnerability that allows anyone with access to CUPS, local or remote, to execute arbitrary commands on the server. The updated packages provide a fixed foomatic-rip filter that prevents this kind of abuse. %NASLMINLEV...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : cups (MDKSA-2004:097)

Alvaro Martinez Echevarria discovered a vulnerability in the CUPS print server where an empty UDP datagram sent to port 631 the default port that cupsd listens to would disable browsing. This would prevent cupsd from seeing any remote printers or any future remote printer changes. The updated...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : libxpm4 (MDKSA-2004:098)

Chris Evans found several stack and integer overflows in the libXpm code of X.Org/XFree86 from which the libxpm code is derived : Stack overflows CVE-2004-0687 : Careless use of strcat in both the XPMv1 and XPMv2/3 xpmParseColors code leads to a stack based overflow parse.c. Stack overflow readin...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : zlib (MDKSA-2004:090)

Due to a Debian bug report, a Denial of Service vulnerability was discovered in the zlib compression library versions 1.2.x, in the inflate and inflateBack functions. Older versions of zlib are not affected. Once the updated packages have been installed, all programs linked against zlib must be...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : imlib2 (MDKSA-2004:089)

Marcus Meissner discovered that the imlib and imlib2 libraries are also affected with a similar BMP-related vulnerability as the recent QT updates. The updated imlib and imlib2 packages are patched to protect against this problem. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descripti...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : cdrecord (MDKSA-2004:091)

Max Vozeler found that the cdrecord program, which is suid root, fails to drop euid=0 when it execs a program specified by the user through the $RSH environment variable. This can be abused by a local attacker to obtain root privileges. The updated packages are patched to fix the vulnerability...

CVE-2003-0094

A patch for mcookie in the util-linux package for Mandrake Linux 8.2 and 9.0 uses /dev/urandom instead of /dev/random, which causes mcookie to use an entropy source that is more predictable than expected, which may make it easier for certain types of attacks to succeed...

CVE-2003-0094

CVE-2003-0094 affects Mandrake Linux 8.2/9.0 util-linux mcookie. The patch changed the entropy source from /dev/random to /dev/urandom, making mcookie output more predictable and potentially aiding certain attacks. The Nessus advisory notes the patch was removed in these updates, restoring a bett...