Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : tmpwatch (MDKSA-2000:056)

Previous versions of tmpwatch contained a local denial of service and root exploits. This is due to using the fork command to recursively process subdirectories which would allow a local user to perform a denial of service attack. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descripti...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : ghostscript (MDKSA-2000:074)

The ghostscript package uses mktemp instead of mkstemp to create temporary files. It also uses improper LDRUNPATH values, which causes it to search for libraries in the current directory. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : cfengine (MDKSA-2000:061)

The GNU cfengine is an abstract programming language for system administrators of large heterogeneous networks, used for maintenance and administration. There are a number of string format vulnerabilities in syslog calls that can be abused to either make the cfengine program segfault and die or t...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : kdesu (MDKSA-2000:008)

A vulnerability in kdesud will allow any user to exploit a buffer overflow. This user then can have a root group access on the machine, by exploiting a bug in the kdesud program. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : licq (MDKSA-2001:032-1)

Versions of Licq prior to 1.0.3 have a vulnerability involving the way Licq parses received URLs. The received URLs are passed to the web browser without any sanity checking by using the system function. Because of the lack of checks on the URL, remote attackers can pipe other commands with the...

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 : 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 : Zope (MDKSA-2000:083)

There is an issue involving security registration of 'legacy' names for certain object constructors such as the constructors for DTML Method Objects. Security was not being applied correctly for the legacy names, making it possible to call those constructors without the permissions that should ha...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : imwheel (MDKSA-2000:001)

A security bug was found in imwheel; the bug can be exploited to provide local users with root access. Version 0.9.8 fixes this problem. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Mandrake Linux Security Advisory...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : ncurses (MDKSA-2001:052)

An overflowable buffer in the part of the ncurses library that handles cursor movement existed in versions of ncurses prior to 5.2. Attackers could force a privileged application to use their own termcap file containing a special terminal entry which would trigger the overflow, allowing them to...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : php (MDKSA-2001:013)

There are two security problems with php4 as shipped in Linux-Mandrake 7.2. It is possible to specify PHP directives on a per-directory basis under Apache and a remote attacker could carefully craft an HTTP request that would cause the next page to be served with the wrong values for these...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : pam (MDKSA-2000:029)

There is a problem with the pamconsole module that incorrectly identifies remote X logins for displays other than :0 for example, :1, :2, etc. as being local displays, thus giving control of the console to the remote user. Because the remote user has control of the console they are able to issue...

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 : MandrakeUpdate (MDKSA-2000:034)

There is a possible race condition in MandrakeUpdate that has the potential for users to tamper with RPMs downloaded by MandrakeUpdate prior to them being installed. This is due to files being stored in the /tmp directory. This is a very low security-risk as most servers that provide user logins...

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Zope (MDKSA-2001:025)

A new Hotfix for Zope has been released that fixes a very important security issue that affects all versions of Zope prior to and including 2.3.1b1. Users can use through-the-web scripting capabilities on a Zope site to view and assign class attributes to ZClasses, possibly allowing them to make...

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...