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The new OpenSSH 3.0.2 fixes a vulnerability in the UseLogin option. By default, Mandrake Linux does not enable UseLogin, but if the administrator enables it, local users are able to pass environment variables to the login process. This update also fixes a security hole in the KerberosV support that is present in versions 2.9.9 and 3.0.0.

The default pam files for the passwd program did not include support for md5 passwords, thus any password changes or post-install added users would not have md5 passwords.

Wietse Venema reported he found a denial of service vulnerability in postfix. The SMTP session log that postfix keeps for debugging purposes could grow to an unreasonable size.

Updated packages are now available for Red Hat Secure Web Server 3.2 (U.S.). These updates close a potential security hole which would present clients with a listing of the contents of a directory instead of the contents of an index file or the proper error message. The previous revision of this errata advisory included incorrect URLs. This revision lists the correct location of the updated packages.

Updated packages are now available for Red Hat Secure Web Server 3.2 (U.S.). These updates close a potential security hole which would present clients with a listing of the contents of a directory instead of the contents of an index file or the proper error message.

This is a re-release of the SuSE Security Announcement SuSE-SA:2001:044, adding another bugfix for the openssh package as well as more detailed information about the vulnerabilities to prevent misunderstandings.

Nicolas Boullis found a nasty security problem in the wmtv (a dockable video4linux tv player for windowmaker) package as distributed in Debian GNU/Linux 2.2.

If the UseLogin feature is enabled in for ssh local users could pass environment variables (including variables like LD_PRELOAD) to the login process. This has been fixed by not copying the environment of UseLogin is enabled.

The xtel (a X emulator for minitel) package as distributed with Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 has two possible symlink attacks:

The icecast-server (a streaming music server) package as distributed in Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 has several security problems:

The fml (a mailing list package) as distributed in Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 suffers from a cross-site scripting problem. When generating index pages for list archives the `<' and `>' characters were not properly escaped for subjects.

Updated OpenSSH packages are now available for Red Hat Linux 7, 7.1, and 7.

Updated Apache packages are now available for Red Hat Linux 6.2, 7, 7.1, and 7.

The OpenSSH daemon shipped with SuSE distributions contains various minor bugs which allows bypassing of IP-access control in some circumstances or the deletion of files named "cookies" if X11 forwarding is enabled. It has also been verified that the recent remotely exploitable crc32 bug as well as the logging-bug has been fixed in our latest ssh packages. We strongly recommend to update to OpenSSH version 2.9.9p2. Please download and update the packages as described in section 3. Then invoke

CORE ST reports that an exploit has been found for a bug in the wu-ftpd glob code (this is the code that handles filename wildcard expansion). Any logged in user (including anonymous ftp users) can exploit the bug to gain root privilege on the server.

Updated OpenSSH packages are now available for Red Hat Linux 7, 7.1, and 7.

Updated Cyrus-SASL packages are now available for Red Hat Linux 7, 7.1, and 7.

Updated Cyrus-SASL packages are now available for Red Hat Power Tools 6.

The wuftpd package as shipped with SuSE Linux distributions comes with two versions of wuftpd: wuftpd-2.4.2, installed as /usr/sbin/wuftpd, and wuftpd-2.6.0, installed as /usr/sbin/wuftpd-2.6. The admin decides which version to use by the inetd/xinetd configuration.

Updated postfix packages are now availble that will fix a possible denial of service attack.