Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : openssl (MDKSA-2007:193)

A flaw in how OpenSSL performed Montgomery multiplications was discovered %that could allow a local attacker to reconstruct RSA private keys by examining another user's OpenSSL processes CVE-2007-3108. Moritz Jodeit found that OpenSSL's SSLgetsharedciphers function did not correctly check the siz...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : t1lib (MDKSA-2007:189)

A buffer overflow vulnerability was discovered in t1lib due to improper bounds checking. An attacker could send specially crafted input to an application linked against t1lib which could lead to a denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code. Updated packages have been patched to prevent...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : libsndfile (MDKSA-2007:191)

A heap-based buffer overflow in libsndfile could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a FLAC file with crafted PCM data which contains a block with a size exceeding that of the previous block. Updated packages have been patched to prevent this issue. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : kdebase (MDKSA-2007:190)

A vulnerability was discovered in KDM by Kees Huijgen where under certain circumstances and in particular configurations, KDM could be tricked into allowing users to login without a password. Updated packages have been patched to prevent this issue. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security,...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : mplayer (MDKSA-2007:192)

A heap-based buffer overflow was found in MPlayer's AVI handling that could allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted .avi file. Updated packages have been patched to prevent this issue. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, In...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : postgresql (MDKSA-2007:188)

PostgreSQL 8.1 and probably later and earlier versions, when local trust authentication is enabled and the Database Link library dblink is installed, allows remote attackers to access arbitrary accounts and execute arbitrary SQL queries via a dblink host parameter that proxies the connection from...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : openoffice.org (MDKSA-2007:186)

An integer overflow in the TIFF parser in OpenOffice.org prior to version 2.3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a TIFF file with crafted values which triggers the allocation of an incorrect amount of memory which results in a heap-based buffer overflow. Updated packages have...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : avahi (MDKSA-2007:185)

The Avahi daemon in 0.6.20 and previous allows attackers to cause a denial of service via empty TXT data over D-Bus, which triggers an assert error. Updated packages have been patched to prevent this issue. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package chec...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : qt (MDKSA-2007:183)

A buffer overflow was found in how Qt expanded malformed Unicode strings. If an application linked against Qt parsed a malicious Unicode string, it could lead to a denial of service or potentially allow for the execution of arbitrary code. Updated packages have been patched to prevent this issue...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : fetchmail (MDKSA-2007:179)

A vulnerability in fetchmail was found where it could crash when attempting to deliver an internal warning or error message through an untrusted or compromised SMTP server, leading to a denial of service. Updated packages have been patched to prevent these issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : id3lib (MDKSA-2007:180)

A programming error was found in id3lib by Nikolaus Schulz that could lead to a denial of service through symlink attacks. Updated packages have been patched to prevent these issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : x11-server (MDKSA-2007:178)

Aaron Plattner discovered a buffer overflow in the Composite extension of the X.org X server, which if exploited could lead to local privilege escalation. Updated packages have been patched to prevent these issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : librpcsecgss (MDKSA-2007:181)

A stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability was discovered in the RPCSECGSS RPC library by Tenable Network Security that could potentially allow for the execution of arbitrary code. Updated packages have been patched to prevent these issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. Th...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : konqueror (MDKSA-2007:176)

konqueror/konqcombo.cc in Konqueror 3.5.7 allows remote attackers to spoof the data: URI scheme in the address bar via a long URI with trailing whitespace, which prevents the beginning of the URI from being displayed. CVE-2007-3820 KDE Konqueror 3.5.7 allows remote attackers to spoof the URL...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : MySQL (MDKSA-2007:177)

A vulnerability was found in MySQL's authentication protocol, making it possible for a remote unauthenticated attacker to send a specially crafted authentication request to the MySQL server causing it to crash CVE-2007-3780. Another flaw was discovered in MySQL that allowed remote authenticated...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : eggdrop (MDKSA-2007:175)

A stack-based buffer overflow in mod/server.mod/servrmsg.c in Eggdrop 1.6.18, and possibly earlier, allows user-assisted, malicious remote IRC servers to execute arbitrary code via a long private message. Updated packages fix this issue. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The...

MDKA-2007:089 : proftpd

A bug in ProFTPD, when run on an IPv6-capable host, causes ProFTPD to generate an excessive number of error messages to syslog. As well, LDAP TLS support was incorrectly setup during compilation and as a result LDAP TLS support was disabled. The updated packages correct these issues. %NASLMINLEVE...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : tar (MDKSA-2007:173)

Dmitry V. Levin discovered a path traversal flaw in how GNU tar extracted archives. A malicious user could create a tar archive that could write to arbitrary fiels that the user running tar has write access to. Updated packages have been patched to prevent these issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : clamav (MDKSA-2007:172)

A vulnerability in ClamAV was discovered that could allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted RTF file or a crafted HTML document with a data: URI, both of which trigger a NULL dereference CVE-2007-4510. A vulnerability in clamav-milter, when run in black hole mode, could...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : vim (MDKSA-2007:168)

A format string vulnerability in the helptags support in vim allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in a help-tags tag in a help file. Updated packages have been patched to prevent this issue. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, In...