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The modules package is responsible for on-demand loading of kernel modules/drivers. The /sbin/modprobe command, when executed as a new task by the kernel-internal function request_module(), runs with the priviledges of the init process, usually root. Newer versions of the modprobe program contain a bug which allows local users to gain root priviledges. modprobe expands given arguments via /bin/echo and can easily be tricked into executing commands. In order for this bug to be exploitable, a setuid root program must be installed that can trigger the loading of modules (such as ping6).

The version of BIND shipped with Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is vulnerable to a remote denial of service attack, which can cause the nameserver to crash after accessing an uninitialized pointer. This problem is fixed in the current maintenance release of BIND, 8.2.2P7, and in the Debian package version 8.2.2p7-1 for both stable and unstable releases.

A remote DoS (denial of service) attack is possible with bind versions prior to 8.

Proton reported on bugtraq that tcsh did not handle in-here documents correctly. The version of tcsh that is distributed with Debian GNU/Linux 2.2r0 also suffered from this problem.

The version of gnupg that was distributed in Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 had a logic error in the code that checks for valid signatures which could cause false positive results: Jim Small discovered that if the input contained multiple signed sections the exit-code gnupg returned was only valid for the last section, so improperly signed other sections were not noticed.

Updated pine and imap packages are available for Red Hat Linux 5.2, 6.x and 7.

Updated usermode packages are now available for Red Hat Linux 6.x and 7.

(This is a re-release of the previous errata caused by a missing patch). A locally-exploitable security hole was found where a normal user could trick root running GnoRPM into writing to arbitrary files due to a bug in the gnorpm tmp file handling.

The Red Hat 7.0 dump is being released for Red Hat 6.x and Red Hat 5.x in order to remove root setuid bits to prevent a known dump exploit (#20111). The new dump packages also include a fix for a buffer overflow (#9899)

Updated nss_ldap packages are now available for Red Hat Linux 6.1, 6.2, and 7.

Updated Secure Web Server packages are now available for users of Secure Web Server 3.

The ncurses library is used by many text/console based applications such as mail user agents, ftp clients and other command line utilities. A vulnerability has been found by Jouko Pynnönen <jouko@solutions.fi> in the screen handling functions: Insufficient boundary checking leads to a buffer overflow if a user supplies a specially drafted terminfo database file. If an ncurses-linked binary is installed setuid root, it is possible for a local attacker to exploit this hole and gain elevated privileges.

Updated cyrus-sasl packages are now available for Red Hat Linux 7.

A local /tmp bug in the /usr/sbin/ppp-off program was found. This bug could allow a local user to corrupt system files. A fix has been made and an updated package is now available in the -current branch.

A root exploit has been found in xlockmore packaged with Slackware. By providing a carefully crafted display variable to xlock, it is possible for a local attacker to gain root access. Anyone running xlock on a public machine should upgrade to this version of xlock (or disable xlock altogether) immediately.

Updated apache, php, mod_perl, and auth_ldap packages are now available for Red Hat Linux 5.2, 6.0, 6.1, 6.2, and 7.

ypbind as shipped in Red Hat Linux 5.x and 6.x is vulnerable to a local root exploit. All systems making use of NIS services are encouraged to upgrade.

Updated gnupg packages are now available for Red Hat Linux 6.2 and 7.

Security problems have been found in the client code of the NIS (Network Information System, aka yp - yellow pages) subsytem. SuSE distributions before SuSE-6.1 came with the original ypbind program, SuSE-6.2 and later included the ypbind-mt NIS client implementation. ypbind-3.3 (the earlier version) has a format string parsing bug if it is run in debug mode, and (discovered by Olaf Kirch <okir@caldera.de>) leaks file descriptors under certain circumstances which can lead to a DoS. In addition, ypbind-3.3 may suffer from buffer overflows. ypbind-mt, the software shipped with SuSE distributions starting with SuSE-6.2, suffers from a single format string parsing bug. Some of these bugs could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code as root. During code audit and testing it turned out that the ypbind-3.x software in the SuSE-6.1 distribution and earlier needs a major overhaul to make it work both reliable and secure with respect to errors in the code. Basically, this is what happened when Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de> wrote ypbind-mt from scratch in 1998. For the same reason, we are currently unable to produce a working security update package which fixes the known and yet unknown (there may be more) problems in the ypclient packages in the SuSE-6.1 distribution and older. The only efficient workaround for the SuSE-6.1 distribution and older against these bugs for an untrusted, hostile environment is to upgrade to a new distribution base (SuSE-7.0 is recommended) and use the ypclient update packages for this distribution. As of today, there is no exploit known to exist in the wild.

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