+----------------------------------------------------------------+ | LinuxSecurity.com Linux Advisory Watch | | January 31st, 2002 Volume 4, Number 5a | +----------------------------------------------------------------+ Editors: Dave Wreski Benjamin Thomas daveat_private benat_private Linux Advisory Watch is a comprehensive newsletter that outlines the security vulnerabilitiaes that have been announced throughout the week. It includes pointers to updated packages and descriptions of each vulnerability. This week, advisories were released for kdeutils, noffle, dhcp3, tomcat3, courier, mysql, fetchmail, vim, webalizer, postgresql, and cvs. The distributors include Debian, Guardian Digital's EnGarde Secure Linux, Mandrake, and Yellow Dog. ENCRYPTION + AUTHENTICATION = TRUST You may think people will regard your business as trustworthy because you.ve got a 128-bit encryption certificate, but encryption does not guarantee trust. 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Find out what the other Linux vendors are not telling you. http://ads.linuxsecurity.com/cgi-bin/ad_redirect.pl?id=engarde2 --------------------------------------------------------------------- LINUXSECURITY.COM FEATURE: Newest Members of the Team Just to give everyone an idea about who writes these articles and feature stories that we spend so much of our time reading each day, I have decided to ask Brian Hatch and Duane Dunston, the newest members of the LinuxSecurity.com team, a few questions. http://www.linuxsecurity.com/feature_stories/feature_story-134.html +---------------------------------+ | Package: kdeutils | ----------------------------// | Date: 01-24-2003 | +---------------------------------+ Description: The KDE team discovered several vulnerabilities in the K Desktop Environment. In some instances KDE fails to properly quote parameters of instructions passed to a command shell for execution. These parameters may incorporate data such as URLs, filenames and e-mail addresses, and this data may be provided remotely to a victim in an e-mail, a webpage or files on a network filesystem or other untrusted source. Vendor Alerts: Debian: PLEASE SEE VENDOR ADVISORY FOR UPDATE Debian Vendor Advisory: http://www.linuxsecurity.com/advisories/debian_advisory-2809.html http://www.linuxsecurity.com/advisories/debian_advisory-2810.html http://www.linuxsecurity.com/advisories/debian_advisory-2811.html +---------------------------------+ | Package: noffle | ----------------------------// | Date: 01-27-2003 | +---------------------------------+ Description: Dan Jacobson noticed a problem in noffle, an offline news server, that leads to a segmentation fault. It is not yet clear whether this problem is exploitable. However, if it is, a remote attacker could trigger arbitrary code execution under the user that calls noffle, probably news. Vendor Alerts: Debian: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noffle/ noffle_1.0.1-1.1_i386.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 76410 2363f56a8ec52a321cb963771135271e Debian Vendor Advisory: http://www.linuxsecurity.com/advisories/debian_advisory-2816.html +---------------------------------+ | Package: dhcp3 | ----------------------------// | Date: 01-28-2003 | +---------------------------------+ Description: Florian Lohoff discovered a bug in the dhcrelay causing it to send a continuing packet storm towards the configured DHCP server(s) in case of a malicious BOOTP packet, such as sent from buggy Cisco switches. Vendor Alerts: Debian: PLEASE SEE VENDOR ADVISORY FOR UPDATE Debian Vendor Advisory: http://www.linuxsecurity.com/advisories/debian_advisory-2820.html +---------------------------------+ | Package: topcat3 | ----------------------------// | Date: 01-28-2003 | +---------------------------------+ Description: A maliciously crafted request could return a directory listing even when an index.html, index.jsp, or other welcome file is present. File contents can be returned as well. Vendor Alerts: Debian: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/contrib/t/tomcat/ libapache-mod-jk_3.3a-4woody1_i386.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 51522 1e11d6a43654fc6d921c8bc90ad15b4b Debian Vendor Advisory: http://www.linuxsecurity.com/advisories/debian_advisory-2823.html +---------------------------------+ | Package: courier | ----------------------------// | Date: 01-30-2003 | +---------------------------------+ Description: The developers of courier, an integrated user side mail server, discovered a problem in the PostgreSQL auth module. Not all potentially malicious characters were sanitized before the username was passed to the PostgreSQL engine. An attacker could inject arbitrary SQL commands and queries exploiting this vulnerability. The MySQL auth module is not affected. Vendor Alerts: Debian: PLEASE SEE VENDOR ADVISORY FOR UPDATE Debian Vendor Advisory: http://www.linuxsecurity.com/advisories/debian_advisory-2824.html +---------------------------------+ | Package: mysql | ----------------------------// | Date: 01-27-2003 | +---------------------------------+ Description: Update for the COM_TABLE_DUMP vulnerability. Vendor Alerts: EnGarde: ftp://ftp.engardelinux.org/pub/engarde/stable/updates/ i386/MySQL-3.23.36-1.0.21.i386.rpm MD5 Sum: 36113d7995b6ebf09aabbb1970e9a203 i386/MySQL-client-3.23.36-1.0.21.i386.rpm MD5 Sum: 4a765f412de0ae0f9f5abfb58812c4fe i386/MySQL-shared-3.23.36-1.0.21.i386.rpm MD5 Sum: 7b5b90da33569f3be8be9bb5d2134533 EnGarde Vendor Advisory: http://www.linuxsecurity.com/advisories/engarde_advisory-2817.html +---------------------------------+ | Package: fetchmail | ----------------------------// | Date: 01-27-2003 | +---------------------------------+ Description: Stefan Esser of e-matters, while re-auditing the Fetchmail package, found another vulnerability. This heap overflow vulnerability allows a malicious remote attacker to crash Fetchmail or potentially execute arbitrary code as the user under which Fetchmail is being run. Vendor Alerts: EnGarde: ftp://ftp.engardelinux.org/pub/engarde/stable/updates/ i386/fetchmail-ssl-6.1.0-1.0.6.i386.rpm MD5 Sum: a28aa248c0b262ec8745a7c776b8584b EnGarde Vendor Advisory: http://www.linuxsecurity.com/advisories/engarde_advisory-2818.html Mandrake Vendor Advisory: http://www.linuxsecurity.com/advisories/mandrake_advisory-2819.html +---------------------------------+ | Package: vim | ----------------------------// | Date: 01-27-2003 | +---------------------------------+ Description: VIM allows a user to set the modeline differently for each edited text file by placing special comments in the files. Georgi Guninski found that these comments can be carefully crafted in order to call external programs. This could allow an attacker to create a text file such that when it is opened arbitrary commands are executed. Vendor Alerts: Yellow Dog: ftp://ftp.yellowdoglinux.com/pub/yellowdog/updates/yellowdog-2.3/ ppc/vim-common-6.1-18.7x.2a.ppc.rpm b286bd901010634b69a8fd09e7dfb785 ppc/vim-enhanced-6.1-18.7x.2a.ppc.rpm 804e3f6b21255656acaa07b48bff276e ppc/vim-minimal-6.1-18.7x.2a.ppc.rpm d525f6f668095b93f4d7cfa9194fff5c ppc/vim-X11-6.1-18.7x.2a.ppc.rpm f9da0f1d03ece2214b80b6558bb7cc8f Yellow Dog Vendor Advisory: http://www.linuxsecurity.com/advisories/yellowdog_advisory-2812.html +---------------------------------+ | Package: webalizer | ----------------------------// | Date: 01-27-2003 | +---------------------------------+ Description: A buffer overflow in Webalizer versions prior to 2.01-10, when configured to use reverse DNS lookups, may allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by connecting to the monitored Web server from an IP address that resolves to a long hostname. Vendor Alerts: Yellow Dog: ftp://ftp.yellowdoglinux.com/pub/yellowdog/updates/yellowdog-2.3/ ppc/webalizer-2.01_09-1.72.ppc.rpm c15f69de408b21dbb01075c449e7d2a7 Yellow Dog Vendor Advisory: http://www.linuxsecurity.com/advisories/yellowdog_advisory-2813.html +---------------------------------+ | Package: postgresql | ----------------------------// | Date: 01-27-2003 | +---------------------------------+ Description: Buffer overflows in PostgreSQL 7.2 allow attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via long arguments to the lpad or rpad functions. CAN-2002-0972 Vendor Alerts: Yellow Dog: ftp://ftp.yellowdoglinux.com/pub/yellowdog/updates/yellowdog-2.3/ PLEASE SEE VENDOR ADVISORY FOR UPDATE Yellow Dog Vendor Advisory: http://www.linuxsecurity.com/advisories/yellowdog_advisory-2814.html +---------------------------------+ | Package: cvs | ----------------------------// | Date: 01-27-2003 | +---------------------------------+ Description: On servers which are configured to allow anonymous read-only access, this bug could be used by anonymous users to gain write privileges. Users with CVS write privileges can then use the Update-prog and Checkin-prog features to execute arbitrary commands on the server. Vendor Alerts: Yellow Dog: ftp://ftp.yellowdoglinux.com/pub/yellowdog/updates/yellowdog-2.3/ ppc/cvs-1.11.1p1-8.7.ppc.rpm 9652be9c12995d3873d20b7ce24ff3d6 Yellow Dog Vendor Advisory: http://www.linuxsecurity.com/advisories/yellowdog_advisory-2815.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Distributed by: Guardian Digital, Inc. LinuxSecurity.com To unsubscribe email vuln-newsletter-requestat_private with "unsubscribe" in the subject of the message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - ISN is currently hosted by Attrition.org To unsubscribe email majordomoat_private with 'unsubscribe isn' in the BODY of the mail.
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