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A buffer overflow has been discovered in lpr, a BSD lpr/lpd line printer spooling system. This problem can be exploited by a local user to gain root privileges, even if the printer system is set up properly.

Updated Kerberos packages for Red Hat Linux 9 fix a number of vulnerabilities found in MIT Kerberos.

Multiple vulnerabilties have been found in the Kerberos network authentication system. The MIT Kerberos team have released an advisory detailing these vulnerabilties, a description of which follows.

Michal Zalweski discovered a vulnerability in sendmail versions earlier than 8.12.9 in the address parser, which performs insufficient bounds checking in certain conditions due to a char to int conversion. This vulnerability makes it poissible for an attacker to take control of sendmail and is thought to be remotely exploitable, and very likely locally exploitable. Updated packages are available with patches applied (the older versions), and the new fixed version is available for Mandrake Linux 9.1 users.

A vulnerability was discovered in the mutt text-mode email client in the IMAP code. This vulnerability can be exploited by a malicious IMAP server to crash mutt or even execute arbitrary code with the privilege of the user running mutt.

Digital Defense Inc. released a paper detailing insecurities in various terminal emulators, including Eterm. Many of the features supported by these programs can be abused when untrusted data is displayed on the screen. This abuse can be anything from garbage data being displayed to the screen or a system compromise.

sendmail is the most widely used mail transport agent (MTA) in the internet. A remotely exploitable buffer overflow has been found in all versions of sendmail that come with SuSE products. These versions include sendmail-8.11 and sendmail-8.12 releases. sendmail is the MTA subsystem that is installed by default on all SuSE products up to and including SuSE Linux 8.0 and the SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 7.

Updated vsftpd packages that re-enable tcp_wrappers support are available for Red Hat Linux 9.

Updated Samba packages are now available to fix security vulnerabilities found during a code audit. [Updated 24 March 2003] Updated Samba packages for Red Hat Linux 6.2, 7, and 7.1 are now included. These packages contain Samba version

Updated OpenSSL packages are available that fix a potential timing-based attack and a modified Bleichenbacher attack.

A potential remote denial of service attack affects version 3 of the ISC DHCPD server. This advisory provides fixed packages for Red Hat Linux 8.0.

Updated Sendmail packages are available to fix a vulnerability that allows local and possibly remote attackers to gain root privileges.

Updated Evolution packages are available which fix several vulnerabilities. [Updated 22 March 2003] New packages are included for Red Hat Linux 7.3 as the previous erratum packages lost support for SSL. [Updated 31 March 2003] New packages included for Red Hat Linux 9.

The mutt mail client packages in Slackware 8.1 and 9.0 have been upgraded to mutt-1.4.1i to fix a security problem discovered by Core Security Technologies. This issue may allow a remote attacker controlling a malicious IMAP server to execute code on your machine as the user running mutt if you connect to the IMAP server using mutt.

The sendmail packages in Slackware 8.0, 8.1, and 9.0 have been patched to fix a security problem. Note that this vulnerablity is NOT the same one that was announced on March 3rd and requires a new fix.

Byrial Jensen discovered a couple of off-by-one buffer overflow in the IMAP code of Mutt, a text-oriented mail reader supporting IMAP, MIME, GPG, PGP and threading. This problem could potentially allow a remote malicious IMAP server to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a specially crafted mail folder.

A cryptographic weakness in version 4 of the Kerberos protocol allows an attacker to use a chosen-plaintext attack to impersonate any principal in a realm. Additional cryptographic weaknesses in the krb4 implementation permit the use of cut-and-paste attacks to fabricate krb4 tickets for unauthorized client principals if triple-DES keys are used to key krb4 services. These attacks can subvert a site's entire Kerberos authentication infrastructure.

eEye Digital Security discovered an integer overflow in the xdrmem_getbytes() function of glibc, that is also present in dietlibc, a small libc useful especially for small and embedded systems. This function is part of the XDR encoder/decoder derived from Sun's RPC implementation. Depending upon the application, this vulnerability can cause buffer overflows and could possibly be exploited to execute arbitray code.

A number of vulnerabilities have been found in the Linux 2.2 kernel that have been addressed with the latest 2.2.25 release.

A bug in the kernel module loader code could allow a local user to gain root privileges. This is done by a local user using ptrace and attaching to a modprobe process that is spawned if the user triggers the loading of a kernel module.