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Some of the changes made in the DSA-111-1 security fix for SNMP changed the API and ABI for the SNMP library which broke some other applications.

We re-release SuSE Security Announcement SuSE-SA:2002:005 with the new announcement ID SuSE-SA:2002:006 due to minor packaging errors that can result in a malfunction of the printing subsystem. The erroneous packages have been removed from the ftp server. The new packages are in place as announced in the URL list below.

The Linux Netfilter team has found a problem in the "IRC connection tracking" component of the firewall within the linux kernel. This problem affects Red Hat Linux versions 7.1 and 7.

Three security issues were found in the 2.x versions of the Squid proxy server up to and including 2.4.STABLE3.

New squid packages are available that fix various vulnerabilities. Some of these vulnerabilities could be used to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack or allow remote users to execute code as the user squid.

We have retracted the security update packages for cups as announced by SuSE Security announcement SuSE-SA:2002:005 due to errors in the binary packages.

The well known Common Unix Printing System (CUPS) was found vulnerable to a buffer overflow in the Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) handling code. The buffer overflow could be exploited by a remote attacker as long as their IP address is allowed to connect to the CUPS server.

Three security issues were found in the 2.x versions of the Squid proxy server up to and including 2.4.STABLE3. The first is a memory leak in the optional SNMP interface to Squid which could allow a malicious user who can send packets to the Squid SNMP port to possibly perform a Denial of Service attack on ther server if the SNMP interface is enabled. The next is a buffer overflow in the implementation of ftp:// URLs where allowed users could possibly perform a DoS on the server, and may be able to trigger remote execution of code (which the authors have not yet confirmed). The final issue is with the HTCP interface which cannot be properly disabled from squid.conf; HTCP is enabled by default on Mandrake Linux systems.

Updated ncurses4 compatability packages which fix a potential security problem are available.

Thomas Springer found a vulnerability in GNUJSP, a Java servlet that allows you to insert Java source code into HTML files. The problem can be used to bypass access restrictions in the web server. An attacker can view the contents of directories and download files directly rather then receiving their HTML output. This means that the source code of scripts could also be revealed.

Several buffer overflows were fixed in the "ncurses" library in November 2000. Unfortunately, one was missed. This can lead to crashes when using ncurses applications in large windows.

A set of buffer overflow problems have been found in hanterm, a Hangul terminal for X11 derived from xterm, that will read and display Korean characters in its terminal window. The font handling code in hanterm uses hard limited string variables but didn't check for boundaries.

There is a potential buffer overflow vulnerability in CUPS when reading the names of attributes. This bug affects all versions of CUPS and is fixed upstream in version 1.1.14.

The Oulu University Secure Programming Group (OUSPG) has identified numerous vulnerabilities in multiple vendor SNMPv1 implementations. These vulnerabilities may allow unauthorized privileged access, denial of service attacks, or unstable behaviour.

The Secure Programming Group of the Oulu University did a study on SNMP implementations and uncovered multiple problems which can cause problems ranging from Denial of Service attacks to remote exploits.

The authors of CUPS, the Common UNIX Printing System, have found a potential buffer overflow bug in the code of the CUPS daemon where it reads the names of attributes. This affects all versions of CUPS.

Due to unescaped HTML code Faq-O-Matic returned unverified scripting code to the browser. With some tweaking this enables an attacker to steal cookies from one of the Faq-O-Matic moderators or the admin.

Updated ucd-snmp packages are now available for Red Hat Linux 6.2, 7, 7.1, and 7.

A problem exists in all versions of OpenLDAP from 2.0.0 through 2.0.19 where permissions are not properly checked using access control lists when a user tries to remove an attribute from an object in the directory by replacing it's values with an empty list. Schema checking is still enforced, so a user can only remove attributes that the schema does not require the object to possess.

Zenith Parsec discovered a security hole in Taylor UUCP 1.06.1. It permits a local user to copy any file to anywhere which is writable by the uucp uid, which effectively means that a local user can completely subvert the UUCP subsystem, including stealing mail, etc.