Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : emacs (MDKSA-2007:133)

A vulnerability in emacs was discovered where it would crash when processing certain types of images. Updated packages have been patched to prevent this issue. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Mandrake...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : openoffice.org (MDKSA-2007:073)

Stack-based buffer overflow in the StarCalc parser in OpenOffice.org OOo Office Suite allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted document. CVE-2007-0238 OpenOffice.org OOo Office Suite allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : openoffice.org (MDKSA-2007:064)

iDefense reported several overflow bugs in libwpd. An attacker could create a carefully crafted Word Perfect file that could cause an application linked with libwpd, such as OpenOffice, to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code if the file was opened by a victim. OpenOffice.org-2.X contains an...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : openssh (MDKSA-2006:204)

A vulnerability in the privilege separation functionality in OpenSSH was discovered, caused by an incorrect checking for bad signatures in sshd's privsep monitor. As a result, the monitor and the unprivileged process can get out sync. The OpenSSH team indicated that this bug is not known to be...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : squid (MDKSA-2007:026)

A vulnerability in squid was discovered that could be remotely exploited by using a special ftp:// URL CVE-2007-0247. Another Denial of Service vulnerability was discovered in squid 2.6 that allows remote attackers to crash the server by causing an externalaclqueue overload CVE-2007-0248...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : pxelinux (MDKSA-2006:211)

PXELINUX is a PXE bootloader. It is built with a private copy of libpng, and as such could be susceptible to some of the same vulnerabilities : Buffer overflow in the pngdecompresschunk function in pngrutil.c in libpng before 1.2.12 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : kdenetwork (MDKSA-2007:009)

KsIRC 1.3.12 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash via a long PRIVMSG string when connecting to an Internet Relay Chat IRC server, which causes an assertion failure and results in a NULL pointer dereference. Updated packages are patched to address this issue. %NASLMINLEVEL...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : MySQL (MDKSA-2006:177)

Openssl recently had several vulnerabilities which were patched CVE-2006-2937,2940,3738,4339, 4343. Some MySQL versions are built against a static copy of the SSL libraries. As a precaution an updated copy built against the new libraries in being made available. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable...

MDKA-2006:057 : clamav

There are no known security issues with clamav-0.88.5, which was included in the last update MDKSA-2006:184. Upstream has released a new stable 0.88.6, with some bugfixes. This update is to address user reports with regards to clamav's behavior of producing output such as: WARNING: Your ClamAV...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : libgtop2 (MDKSA-2007:023)

Stack-based buffer overflow in the glibtopgetprocmaps function in libgtop before 2.14.6 libgtop2 allows local users to cause a denial of service crash and possibly execute arbitrary code via a process with a long filename that is mapped in its address space, which triggers the overflow in...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : mozilla-thunderbird (MDKSA-2006:146)

A number of security vulnerabilities have been discovered and corrected in the latest Mozilla Thunderbird program. Corporate 3 had contained the Mozilla suite however, due to the support cycle for Mozilla, it was felt that upgrading Mozilla to Firefox and Thunderbird would allow for better future...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : sendmail (MDKSA-2006:156)

Moritz Jodeit discovered a vulnerability in sendmail when processing very long header lines that could be exploited to cause a Denial of Service by crashing sendmail. The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : tetex (MDKSA-2006:113)

Integer overflows were reported in the GD Graphics Library libgd 2.0.28, and possibly other versions. These overflows allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via PNG image files with large image rows values that lead to a heap-based buffer overflow ...

MDKSA-2006:090 : shadow-utils

A potential security problem was found in the useradd tool when it creates a new user's mailbox due to a missing argument to the open call, resulting in the first permissions of the file being some random garbage found on the stack, which could possibly be held open for reading or writing before...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : mozilla-thunderbird (MDKSA-2006:078)

A number of vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Mozilla Thunderbird email client that could allow a remote attacker to craft malicious web emails that could take advantage of these issues to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges, spoof content, and steal local files, or other...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : gzip (MDKSA-2006:027)

Zgrep in gzip before 1.3.5 does not properly sanitize arguments, which allows local users to execute arbitrary commands via filenames that are injected into a sed script. This was previously corrected in MDKSA-2005:092, however the fix was incomplete. These updated packages provide a more...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : apache2 (MDKSA-2005:233)

A memory leak in the worker MPM in Apache 2 could allow remote attackers to cause a Denial of Service memory consumption via aborted commands in certain circumstances, which prevents the memory for the transaction pool from being reused for other connections. As well, this update addresses two bu...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : php-imap (MDKSA-2005:194)

'infamous41md' discovered a buffer overflow in uw-imap, the University of Washington's IMAP Server that allows attackers to execute arbitrary code. php-imap is compiled against the static c-client libs from imap. These packages have been recompiled against the updated imap development packages...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : openssl (MDKSA-2005:179)

Yutaka Oiwa discovered vulnerability potentially affects applications that use the SSL/TLS server implementation provided by OpenSSL. Such applications are affected if they use the option SSLOPMSIESSLV2RSAPADDING. This option is implied by use of SSLOPALL, which is intended to work around various...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : wxPythonGTK (MDKSA-2005:144)

Wouter Hanegraaff discovered that the TIFF library did not sufficiently validate the 'YCbCr subsampling' value in TIFF image headers. Decoding a malicious image with a zero value resulted in an arithmetic exception, which can cause a program that uses the TIFF library to crash. wxPythonGTK uses a...