Adobe Acrobat Reader (UNIX) 5.0 6,Xpdf 0.9x Hyperlinks Arbitrary Command Execution

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7912/info A vulnerability has been reported for multiple PDF viewers for Unix variant operating systems. The problem is said to occur when hyperlinks have been enabled within the viewer. Allegedly, by placing a specially...

Mandriva Linux Mandrake 6.0,Gnome Libs 1.0.8 espeaker Local Buffer Overflow

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/663/info A buffer overflow vulnerabilityin GNOME's shared libraries handling of the 'espeaker' command line argument may allow local users to attack setuid binaries linked against these libraries to obtain root access...

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : arpwatch (MDKSA-2001:002)

WireX discovered a potential temporary file race condition in the arpwatch program. This problem has been corrected in arpwatch version 2.1a10. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Mandrake Linux Security...

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 : webmin (MDKSA-2001:016)

Previous versions of webmin would create temporary files insecurely on several occasions. This could be exploited by a local attacker to overwrite or create arbitrary files and possibly gain root privileges. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : kernel (MDKSA-2001:037)

A number of security problems have been found in the Linux kernels prior to the latest 2.2.19 kernel. Following is a list of problems based on the 2.2.19 release notes as found on http://www.linux.org.uk/ - binfmtmisc used user pages directly - the CPIA driver had an off-by-one error in the buffe...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : ed (MDKSA-2000:076)

Alan Cox discovered that GNU ed a classed line editor tool creates temporary files unsafely. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Mandrake Linux Security Advisory MDKSA-2000:076. The text itself is copyrigh...

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : xinitrc (MDKSA-2000:052)

A problem exists in the /etc/X11/Xsession file which disables the Xauthority mechanism of the localhost. This means that anyone logged into the localhost can arbitrarily connect to an X server running on the localhost. This is only a problem with systems that allow remote logins and is not a...