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SuSE alert: suidperl (perl)
suidperl is the perl interpreter for suid perl scripts, a part of the perl package. A maliciously implemented feature causes the interpreter to spawn the /bin/mail program to inform the superuser of its usage, thereby passing on untrusted environment that causes /bin/mail to execute arbitrary commands as user root.
SuSE alert: rpc.kstatd (knfsd)
Due to incorrect string parsing in the code, a remote attacker could gain root priviledges on the machine running the vulnerable rpc.kstatd.
Red Hat alert: Updated mailx and perl packages are now available.
Updated perl and mailx package are now available which fix a potential
exploit made possible by incorrect assumptions made in suidperl.
This advisory contains additional instructions for installing the necessary
updates.
Debian alert: New version of mailx released
mailx is a often used by other programs to send email. Unfortunately
mailx as distributed in Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 has some features that
made it possible to execute system commands if a user can trick a
privileged program to send email using /usr/bin/mail.
Red Hat alert: mopd-linux buffer overflow
A buffer overflow has been discovered in all releases of mopd-linux
included in the 6.0, 6.1, and 6.2 releases of Powertools.
Red Hat alert: Remote file access vulnerability in ntop
The version of ntop which was included in Red Hat Powertools 6.2 has a
remote exploit in which arbitrary files can be read on the host machine.
Red Hat alert: New umb-scheme packages are available.
New umb-scheme packages are available for Red Hat Linux 6.2 that fix a
problem with file permissions.
Red Hat alert: Updated mailx and perl packages are now available.
Updated perl and mailx package are now available which fix a potential
exploit made possible by incorrect assumptions made in suidperl.
SuSE alert: SuSE Security: miscellaneous
This notice addresses the latest security advisories from various
Linux Vendors as well as private contributors.
Debian alert: New verion of dhcp released (updated)
The versions of the ISC DHCP client in debian 2.1 (slink) and debian 2.2
(potato) are vulnerable to a root exploit. The OpenBSD team reports that
the client inappropriately executes commands embedded in replies sent
from a dhcp server. This means that a malicious dhcp server can execute
commands on the client with root privilages. A previous Debian security
advisory addressed this issue with package versions 2.0b1pl6-0.3 and
2.0-3potato1, but ISC has released a newer patch since the original
advisory. You should install the latest packages even if you upgraded
when the last advisory was released.
Debian alert: New version of userv released
The version of userv that was distributed with Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 / slink
had a problem in the fd swapping algorithm: it could sometimes make an
out-of-bounds array reference. It might be possible for local users
to abuse this to carry out unauthorised actions or be able to take
control for service user accounts.
Red Hat alert: Revised advisory: Updated package for nfs-utils available
This is an updated of RHSA-2000:043 that contains further
upgrade instructions.
The rpc.statd daemon in the nfs-utils package shipped in Red Hat
Linux 6.0, 6.1, and 6.2 contains a flaw that could lead to a
remote root break-in.
Red Hat alert: Revised advisory: Updated package for nfs-utils available
This is an updated of RHSA-2000:043 that contains further
upgrade instructions.
The rpc.statd daemon in the nfs-utils package shipped in Red Hat
Linux 6.0, 6.1, and 6.2 contains a flaw that could lead to a
remote root break-in.
SuSE alert: nkitb
The standard ftp server does directly pass untrusted data from a DNS server to the setproctitle() function in a unsecure manner.
Debian alert: New Debian nfs-common packages released
The version of nfs-common distributed in Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 (a.k.a
potato), as well as in the unstable (woody) distribution, is vulnerable to a
remote root compromise. No exploit is known to exist in the wild, but the
vulnerability has been verified.
This has been fixed in version 0.1.9.1-1 of the nfs-common package. We
recommend that you update nfs-common immediately.
Debian alert: New version of cvsweb released
The versions of cvsweb distributed in Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 (aka slink) as
well as in the frozen (potato) and unstable (woody) distributions, are
vulnerable to a remote shell exploit. An attacker with write access to the
cvs repository can execute arbitrary code on the server, as the www-data
user.
SuSE alert: dhclient
The client side program of the ISC DHCP package, dhclient, does not do quoting of server messages before passing them to /sbin/dhclient-script. This script is executed with root privileges.
SuSE alert: tnef
Tnef extracts eMails compressed with MS-Outlook. The compressed file includes the path name to which the decompressed data should be written.
SuSE alert: makewhatis bug
a few days ago a /tmp race condition bug in the makewhatis program was
posted on bugtraq.
We are NOT vulnerable by this bug, because we use different code, which
doesn't touch /tmp in a unsecure way.
Red Hat alert: man package's 'makewhatis' uses insecure handling of files in /tmp
The makewhatis portion of the man package used files in /tmp
in an insecure fashion. It was possible for local users to
exploit this vulnerability to modify files that they normally
could not and gain elevated privilege.
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