Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : gaim (MDKSA-2004:081)

Sebastian Krahmer discovered two remotely exploitable buffer overflow vulnerabilities in the gaim instant messenger. The updated packages are patched to correct the problems. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : rsync (MDKSA-2004:083)

An advisory was sent out by the rsync team regarding a security vulnerability in all versions of rsync prior to and including 2.6.2. If rsync is running in daemon mode, and not in a chrooted environment, it is possible for a remote attacker to trick rsyncd into creating an absolute pathname while...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : shorewall (MDKSA-2004:080)

The shorewall package has a vulnerability when creating temporary files and directories, which could allow non-root users to overwrite arbitrary files on the system. The updated packages are patched to fix the problem. As well, for Mandrakelinux 10.0, the updated packages have been fixed to start...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : spamassassin (MDKSA-2004:084)

Security fix prevents a denial of service attack open to certain malformed messages; this DoS affects all SpamAssassin 2.5x and 2.6x versions to date. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Mandrake Linux...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : libpng (MDKSA-2004:079)

Chris Evans discovered numerous vulnerabilities in the libpng graphics library, including a remotely exploitable stack-based buffer overrun in the pnghandletRNS function, dangerous code in pnghandlesBIT, a possible NULL pointer crash in pnghandleiCCP which is also duplicated in multiple other...

CVE-2004-0581

ksymoops-gznm script in Mandrake Linux 9.1 through 10.0, and Corporate Server 2.1, allows local users to delete arbitrary files via a symlink attack on files in /tmp...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : cups (MDKSA-2003:104)

A bug in versions of CUPS prior to 1.1.19 was reported by Paul Mitcheson in the Internet Printing Protocol IPP implementation would result in CUPS going into a busy loop, which could result in a Denial of Service DoS condition. To be able to exploit this problem, an attacker would need to be able...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : sudo (MDKSA-2002:003)

The SuSE Security Team discovered a vulnerability in sudo that can be exploited to obtain root privilege because sudo is installed setuid root. An attacker could trick sudo to log failed sudo calls executing the sendmail or equivalent mailer program with root privileges and an environment that is...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : php (MDKSA-2002:017)

Several flaws exist in various versions of PHP in the way it handles multipart/form-data POST requests, which are used for file uploads. The phpmimesplit function could be used by an attacker to execute arbitrary code on the server. This affects both PHP4 and PHP3. The authors have fixed this in...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : at (MDKSA-2002:007)

zen-parse discovered a problem in the at command containing an extra call to free which can lead to a segfault with a carefully crafted, but incorrect, format. This is caused due to a heap corruption that can be exploited under certain circumstances because the at command is installed setuid root...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : mutt (MDKSA-2003:041-1)

A vulnerability was discovered in the mutt text-mode email client in the IMAP code. This vulnerability can be exploited by a malicious IMAP server to crash mutt or even execute arbitrary code with the privilege of the user running mutt. Update : The packages for Mandrake Linux 9.1 and 9.1/PPC wer...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : nfs-utils (MDKSA-2003:076)

An off-by-one buffer overflow was found in the logging code in nfs-utils when adding a newline to the string being logged. This could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code or cause a DoS Denial of Service on the server by sending certain RPC requests. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : vnc (MDKSA-2003:022)

A vulnerability was discovered in the VNC server script that generates an X cookie, used by X authentication. The script generated a cookie that was not strong enough and allow an attacker to more easily guess the authentication cookie, thus obtaining unauthorized access to the VNC server...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : ghostscript (MDKSA-2003:065)

A vulnerability was discovered in Ghostscript versions prior to 7.07 that allowed malicious postscript files to execute arbitrary commands even when -dSAFER is enabled. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : mplayer (MDKSA-2003:097)

A buffer overflow vulnerability was found in MPlayer that is remotely exploitable. A malicious host can craft a harmful ASX header and trick MPlayer into executing arbitrary code when it parses that particular header. The provided packages have been patched to fix the problem. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : eog (MDKSA-2003:048)

A vulnerability was discovered in the Eye of GNOME EOG program, version 2.2.0 and earlier, that is used for displaying graphics. A carefully crafted filename passed to eog could lead to the execution of arbitrary code as the user executing eog. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : minicom (MDKSA-2001:051)

Several format string vulnerabilities exist in the minicom program. These bugs can be exploited to obtain group uucp privilege. A simple fix is to simply remove the setgid bit on /usr/bin/minicom, however these new packages introduce some fixes for the vulnerabilities through a patch from Red Hat...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : glibc (MDKSA-2003:037)

An integer overflow was discovered by eEye Digital Security in the xdrmemgetbytes function of glibc 2.3.1 and earlier. This function is part of the XDR encoder/decoder derived from Sun's RPC implementation. Depending upon the application, this vulnerability can cause buffer overflows and could...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : kernel (MDKSA-2004:001)

A flaw in bounds checking in mremap in the Linux kernel versions 2.4.23 and previous was discovered by Paul Starzetz. This flaw may be used to allow a local attacker to obtain root privilege. Another minor information leak in the RTC real time clock routines was fixed as well. All Mandrake Linux...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : gftp (MDKSA-2001:044)

A format string vulnerability exists in all versions of gftp prior to version 2.0.8. This vulnerability has been fixed upstream in version 2.0.8. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Mandrake Linux Security...