+----------------------------------------------------------------+ | LinuxSecurity.com Linux Advisory Watch | | February 21st, 2002 Volume 4, Number 8a | +----------------------------------------------------------------+ 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 mod_dav, w3m, cups, php, mysql, openssl, mailman, syslinux, nethack, bitchx, util-linux, apcupdb, pam, shadow-utils, and imp. The distributors include Caldera, Debian, Guardian Digital's EnGarde Secure Linux, Gentoo, Mandrake, Red Hat, and SuSE. --> Free SSL guide from Thawte <-- Security is of the utmost importance when doing business on the Web. 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Winner of the Network Computing Editor's Choice Award, EnGarde "walked away with our Editor's Choice award thanks to the depth of its security strategy..." Find out what the other Linux vendors are not telling you. http://ads.linuxsecurity.com/cgi-bin/ad_redirect.pl?id=engarde2 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Review: Mastering Network Security, Second Edition - The introduction states that this book is aimed at systems administrators who are not security experts, but have some responsibility for ensuring the integrity of their systems. That would seem to cover most sysadmins. http://www.linuxsecurity.com/feature_stories/feature_story-137.html +---------------------------------+ | Package: mod_dav | ----------------------------// | Date: 02-17-2003 | +---------------------------------+ Description: The Apache mod_dav module contains a format string vulnerability in the "ap_log_rerror()" function. Vendor Alerts: Caldera: mod_dav-1.0.2_1.3.6-3.i386.rpm bcb45e6cffe4b274dd2363b6880a9164 ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/OpenLinux/3.1.1/ Server/CSSA-2003-007.0/RPMS Caldera Vendor Advisory: http://www.linuxsecurity.com/advisories/caldera_advisory-2859.html +---------------------------------+ | Package: w3m | ----------------------------// | Date: 02-17-2003 | +---------------------------------+ Description: The w3m browser does not properly escape HTML tags in frame contents and img alt attributes. A malicious HTML frame or img alt attribute may deceive a user to send his local cookies which are used for configuration. The information is not leaked automatically, though. Vendor Alerts: Debian: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/ main/w/w3m/w3m_0.3-2.4_i386.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 536546 403d4d66e4a35b72fde1ca2648477eee http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/ main/w/w3m/w3m-img_0.3-2.4_i386.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 44696 2dea9365153597340338fa6cb3d26a73 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/ main/w/w3m-ssl/w3m-ssl_0.3-2.4_i386.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 378256 f678a241934a5cd884dc08a19602670a Debian Vendor Advisory: http://www.linuxsecurity.com/advisories/debian_advisory-2855.html Gentoo Vendor Advisory: http://www.linuxsecurity.com/advisories/gentoo_advisory-2858.html +---------------------------------+ | Package: cups | ----------------------------// | Date: 02-20-2003 | +---------------------------------+ Description: This update corrects a library dependency for the libcupsys2 package which sneaked in with the last security update to CUPS for the stable distribution. Vendor Alerts: Debian: PLEASE SEE VENDOR ADVISORY FOR UPDATE Debian Vendor Advisory: http://www.linuxsecurity.com/advisories/debian_advisory-2860.html +---------------------------------+ | Package: php | ----------------------------// | Date: 02-19-2003 | +---------------------------------+ Description: A heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability has been found in the wordwrap() function of PHP. This vulnerability may cause a denial of service attack or arbitrary code execution if wordwrap() is used on untrusted input. Vendor Alerts: EnGarde: ftp://ftp.engardelinux.org/pub/engarde/stable/updates/ i386/mod_php-4.2.3-1.0.22.i386.rpm MD5 Sum: 4fb941c9d2d96b448df72e158b1fdb92 i386/php-4.2.3-1.0.22.i386.rpm MD5 Sum: 54b33db7d2bd6203392f7aec91c20aaf i686/mod_php-4.2.3-1.0.22.i686.rpm MD5 Sum: 722a305a2848f1840c92a61c204d932d i686/php-4.2.3-1.0.22.i686.rpm MD5 Sum: aec6f8b625f03b6fff8fa3ebd544dd67 EnGarde Vendor Advisory: http://www.linuxsecurity.com/advisories/engarde_advisory-2870.html Gentoo Vendor Advisory: http://www.linuxsecurity.com/advisories/gentoo_advisory-2867.html Mandrake Vendor Advisory: http://www.linuxsecurity.com/advisories/mandrake_advisory-2877.html SuSE Vendor Advisory: http://www.linuxsecurity.com/advisories/suse_advisory-2863.html +---------------------------------+ | Package: mysql | ----------------------------// | Date: 02-19-2003 | +---------------------------------+ Description: This update fixes a double free() bug in the MySQL daemon that could allow an attacker, with a specially crafted MySQL client, to crash the server. The attacker also requires a valid user account. Vendor Alerts: EnGarde: ftp://ftp.engardelinux.org/pub/engarde/stable/updates/ i386/MySQL-3.23.36-1.0.22.i386.rpm MD5 Sum: 5326e9561a5fa3a4fe141f85eaf952cc i386/MySQL-client-3.23.36-1.0.22.i386.rpm MD5 Sum: d85c85c2e0aaddab775e616208ce81c6 i386/MySQL-shared-3.23.36-1.0.22.i386.rpm MD5 Sum: 0226c8ee2d6d196130f730ce3fed3568 i686/MySQL-3.23.36-1.0.22.i686.rpm MD5 Sum: 8346d78f2a51c24372e0561be75896ce i686/MySQL-client-3.23.36-1.0.22.i686.rpm MD5 Sum: 4a955ebf6e116a5df38653bd9f27d6cd i686/MySQL-shared-3.23.36-1.0.22.i686.rpm MD5 Sum: 2a5a37357c64bb067be740f95aa1b93a EnGarde Vendor Advisory: http://www.linuxsecurity.com/advisories/engarde_advisory-2873.html +---------------------------------+ | Package: openssl | ----------------------------// | Date: 02-20-2003 | +---------------------------------+ Description: In an upcoming paper, Brice Canvel (EPFL), Alain Hiltgen (UBS), Serge Vaudenay (EPFL), and Martin Vuagnoux (EPFL, Ilion) describe and demonstrate a timing-based attack on CBC cipher suites used in SSL and TLS. OpenSSL has been found to vulnerable to this attack. This update fixes these vulnerabilities. Vendor Alerts: EnGarde: ftp://ftp.engardelinux.org/pub/engarde/stable/updates/ i386/openssl-0.9.6-1.0.18.i386.rpm MD5 Sum: df7657e406732b3abc7b7b3414bf07b2 i386/openssl-misc-0.9.6-1.0.18.i386.rpm MD5 Sum: d251465a15f7167dee9a0929af23edd9 i686/openssl-0.9.6-1.0.18.i686.rpm MD5 Sum: 707774a9ad3d06e6596b7389745ee89e i686/openssl-misc-0.9.6-1.0.18.i686.rpm MD5 Sum: e09d2a7e893f12247475a8821abee3da EnGarde Vendor Advisory: http://www.linuxsecurity.com/advisories/engarde_advisory-2874.html Gentoo Vendor Advisory: http://www.linuxsecurity.com/advisories/gentoo_advisory-2875.html +---------------------------------+ | Package: mailman | ----------------------------// | Date: 02-17-2003 | +---------------------------------+ Description: The email variable and the default error page in mailmain 2.1 contains cross site scripting vulnerabilities. Vendor Alerts: Gentoo: PLEASE SEE VENDOR ADVISORY FOR UPDATE Gentoo Vendor Advisory: http://www.linuxsecurity.com/advisories/gentoo_advisory-2856.html +---------------------------------+ | Package: syslinux | ----------------------------// | Date: 02-17-2003 | +---------------------------------+ Description: Security flaws have been found in the SYSLINUX installer when running setuid root. Rewrite the SYSLINUX installer so it uses mtools instead. It therefore now requires mtools (specifically mcopy and mattrib) to exist on your system, but it will not require root privileges and SHOULD NOT be setuid. Vendor Alerts: Gentoo: PLEASE SEE VENDOR ADVISORY FOR UPDATE Gentoo Vendor Advisory: http://www.linuxsecurity.com/advisories/gentoo_advisory-2857.html +---------------------------------+ | Package: nethack | ----------------------------// | Date: 02-18-2003 | +---------------------------------+ Description: Overflowing a buffer in nethack may lead to privelige escalation to games uid. Vendor Alerts: Gentoo: PLEASE SEE VENDOR ADVISORY FOR UPDATE Gentoo Vendor Advisory: http://www.linuxsecurity.com/advisories/gentoo_advisory-2861.html +---------------------------------+ | Package: bitchx | ----------------------------// | Date: 02-20-2003 | +---------------------------------+ Description: A denial of service vulnerability exists in BitchX. Sending a malformed RPL_NAMREPLY numeric 353 causes BitchX to segfault. Vendor Alerts: Gentoo: PLEASE SEE VENDOR ADVISORY FOR UPDATE Gentoo Vendor Advisory: http://www.linuxsecurity.com/advisories/gentoo_advisory-2876.html +---------------------------------+ | Package: util-linux | ----------------------------// | Date: 02-13-2003 | +---------------------------------+ Description: The util-linux package provides the mcookie utility, a tool for generating random cookies that can be used for X authentication. The util-linux packages that were distributed with Mandrake Linux 8.2 and 9.0 had a patch that made it use /dev/urandom instead of /dev/random, which resulted in the mcookie being more predictable than it would otherwise be. This patch has been removed in these updates, giving mcookie a better source of entropy and making the generated cookies less predictable. Thanks to Dirk Mueller for pointing this out. Vendor Alerts: Mandrake: http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/ftp.php 9.0/RPMS/losetup-2.11u-1.1mdk.i586.rpm 09586a3e81b2212b8044445fc4559fc5 9.0/RPMS/mount-2.11u-1.1mdk.i586.rpm be9751b84f20ec4bc1ced03c4004dcb4 9.0/RPMS/util-linux-2.11u-1.1mdk.i586.rpm 613661ae3c324580e653330814f74756 Mandrake Vendor Advisory: http://www.linuxsecurity.com/advisories/mandrake_advisory-2854.html +---------------------------------+ | Package: apcupsd | ----------------------------// | Date: 02-13-2003 | +---------------------------------+ Description: A remote root vulnerability in slave setups and some buffer overflows in the network information server code were discovered by the apcupsd developers. They have been fixed in the latest unstable version, 3.10.5 which contains additional enhancements like USB support, and the latest stable version, 3.8.6. Vendor Alerts: Mandrake: http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/ftp.php 9.0/RPMS/apcupsd-3.10.5-1.1mdk.i586.rpm 9031edab8f3e692b6c5dbc8717819d8b 9.0/SRPMS/apcupsd-3.10.5-1.1mdk.src.rpm cf73f9b746b808c17d55dacb44a2efaa Mandrake Vendor Advisory: http://www.linuxsecurity.com/advisories/mandrake_advisory-2869.html +---------------------------------+ | Package: pam | ----------------------------// | Date: 02-18-2003 | +---------------------------------+ Description: Andreas Beck discovered that the pam_xauth module would forward authorization information from the root account to unprivileged users. This can be exploited by a local attacker to gain access to the root user's X session. In order for it to be successfully exploited, the attacker would have to somehow get the root user to su to the account belonging to the attacker. Vendor Alerts: Mandrake: http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/ftp.php 9.0/RPMS/pam-0.75-25.1mdk.i586.rpm dc82d88d63dafc3668e7ab4f1d09d404 9.0/RPMS/pam-devel-0.75-25.1mdk.i586.rpm ca86fc0f07855ced3f9ed7793608d376 9.0/RPMS/pam-doc-0.75-25.1mdk.i586.rpm 65545ca4597990fb5ccf0218a2b6c922 9.0/RPMS/pam_ldap-156-1.1mdk.i586.rpm b70c25f7b8a3b5f86149dd199003a4ff Mandrake Vendor Advisory: http://www.linuxsecurity.com/advisories/mandrake_advisory-2869.html +---------------------------------+ | Package: shadow-utils | ----------------------------// | Date: 02-18-2003 | +---------------------------------+ Description: Updated shadow-utils packages correct a bug that caused the useradd tool to create mail spools with incorrect permissions. Vendor Alerts: Red Hat: ftp://updates.redhat.com/8.0/en/os/i386/ shadow-utils-20000902-12.8.i386.rpm 6dd61ab968afbc537e25faea914788bc Red Hat Vendor Advisory: http://www.linuxsecurity.com/advisories/redhat_advisory-2878.html +---------------------------------+ | Package: imp | ----------------------------// | Date: 02-18-2003 | +---------------------------------+ Description: An attacker can gain access to protected information or, in conjunction with PostgreSQL, execute shell commands remotely. Vendor Alerts: SuSE: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/8.1/ rpm/i586/imp-2.2.6-248.i586.rpm 17b26d9e48a75cc499b6d4da0c1067c3 SuSE Vendor Advisory: http://www.linuxsecurity.com/advisories/suse_advisory-2862.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Distributed by: Guardian Digital, Inc. 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