Linux Advisory Watch - February 7th 2003

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|  LinuxSecurity.com                        Linux Advisory Watch |
|  February 7th, 2002                        Volume 4, Number 6a |
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  Editors:     Dave Wreski                Benjamin Thomas
               dave () linuxsecurity com     ben () linuxsecurity com

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 cvs, mcrypt, slocate, qt-dcgui,
bladeenc, cim, mysql, kernel, kerberos, php, OpenLDAP, windowmaker, xpdf.
The distributors include Caldera, Conectiva, FreeBSD, Gentoo, Mandrake,
and Red Hat.

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|  Package:  cvs                  | ----------------------------//
|  Date: 01-31-2003               |
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Description:
Double-free vulnerabiity in CVS allows remote attackers to cause a denial
of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a malformed Directory
request.

Vendor Alerts:

 Caldera:
  ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/OpenLinux/3.1.1/
  Workstation/CSSA-2003-006.0/RPMS
  adbac35ec6 cvs-1.11-9.i386.rpm
  73dee39f6543079466e6d7

  Caldera Vendor Advisory:
  http://www.linuxsecurity.com/advisories/caldera_advisory-2826.html


  FreeBSD Vendor Advisory:
  http://www.linuxsecurity.com/advisories/freebsd_advisory-2833.html



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|  Package:  mcrypt               | ----------------------------//
|  Date: 02-02-2003               |
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Description:
Ilia Alshanetsky found[1] several buffer overflows vulnerabilities[2] in
libmcrypt. These vulnerabilities basically consist of improper or lack of
validation for some input (which in some scenarios can came from a local
user or from a network connection).

Vendor Alerts:

 Conectiva:
  ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/8/RPMS/
  mcrypt-2.4.18-3U80_1cl.i386.rpm

  Conectiva Vendor Advisory:

  http://www.linuxsecurity.com/advisories/connectiva_advisory-2836.html




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|  Package:  slocate              | ----------------------------//
|  Date: 02-02-2003               |
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Description:
"The overflow appears when the slocate is runned with two parameters: -c
and -r, using as arguments a 1024 (or 10240, as Knight420 has informed us
earlier) bytes string."

Vendor Alerts:

 Gentoo:
  PLEASE SEE VENDOR ADVISORY FOR UPDATE

  Gentoo Vendor Advisory:
  http://www.linuxsecurity.com/advisories/gentoo_advisory-2828.html

  Mandrake Vendor Advisory:
  http://www.linuxsecurity.com/advisories/mandrake_advisory-2838.html




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|  Package:  qt-dcgui             | ----------------------------//
|  Date: 02-02-2003               |
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Description:
"All versions < 0.2.2 have a major security vulnerability in the directory
parser. This bug allow a remote attacker to download files outside the
sharelist. It's recommend that you upgrade the packages immediatly."

Vendor Alerts:

 Gentoo:
  PLEASE SEE VENDOR ADVISORY FOR UPDATE

  Gentoo Vendor Advisory:
  http://www.linuxsecurity.com/advisories/gentoo_advisory-2831.html




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|  Package:  bladeenc             | ----------------------------//
|  Date: 02-05-2003               |
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Description:
"A wave file let the attacker to execute all the code he want on the
victim"

Vendor Alerts:

 Gentoo:
  PLEASE SEE VENDOR ADVISORY FOR UPDATE

  Gentoo Vendor Advisory:
  http://www.linuxsecurity.com/advisories/gentoo_advisory-2834.html



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|  Package:  vim                  | ----------------------------//
|  Date: 02-03-2003               |
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Description:
A vulnerability was discovered in vim by Georgi Guninski that allows
arbitrary command execution using the libcall feature found in modelines.
A patch to fix this problem was introduced in vim 6.1 patchlevel 265.
This patch has been applied to the provided update packages.

Vendor Alerts:

 Mandrake:
  PLEASE SEE VENDOR ADVISORY FOR UPDATE

  Mandrake Vendor Advisory:
  http://www.linuxsecurity.com/advisories/mandrake_advisory-2829.html



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|  Package:  mysql                | ----------------------------//
|  Date: 02-03-2003               |
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Description:
Aleksander Adamowski informed MandrakeSoft that the MySQL developers fixed
a DoS vulnerability in the recently released 3.23.55 version of MySQL.  A
double free() pointer bug in the ysql_change_user() handling would allow a
specially hacked mysql client to crash the main mysqld server.  This
vulnerability can only be exploited by first logging in with a valid user
account.

Vendor Alerts:

 Mandrake:
  PLEASE SEE VENDOR ADVISORY FOR UPDATE

  Mandrake Vendor Advisory:
  http://www.linuxsecurity.com/advisories/mandrake_advisory-2829.html




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|  Package:  kernel               | ----------------------------//
|  Date: 02-05-2003               |
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Description:
An updated kernel for 9.0 is available with a number of bug fixes.
Supermount has been completely overhauled and should be solid on all
systems.  Other fixes include XFS with high memory, a netfilter fix, a fix
for Sony VAIO DMI, i845 should now work with UDMA, and new support for VIA
C3 is included.  Prism24 has been updated so it now works properly on HP
laptops and a new ACPI is included, although it is disabled by default for
broader compatibility.

Vendor Alerts:

 Mandrake:
  PLEASE SEE VENDOR ADVISORY FOR UPDATE

  Mandrake Vendor Advisory:
  http://www.linuxsecurity.com/advisories/mandrake_advisory-2837.html


  Red Hat Vendor Advisory:
  http://www.linuxsecurity.com/advisories/redhat_advisory-2832.html




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|  Package:  kerberos             | ----------------------------//
|  Date: 02-05-2003               |
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Description:
A problem has been found in the Kerberos ftp client. When retrieving a
file with a filename beginning with a pipe character, the ftp client will
pass the filename to the command shell in a system() call. This could
allow a malicious ftp server to write to files outside of the current
directory or execute commands as the user running the ftp client.

Vendor Alerts:

 Red Hat:
  ftp://updates.redhat.com/8.0/en/os/i386/
  krb5-devel-1.2.5-8.i386.rpm
  9e91371e397a6eec059a1b5e3139f3ef

  ftp://updates.redhat.com/8.0/en/os/i386/
  krb5-libs-1.2.5-8.i386.rpm
  a830d26d187e18be678ee12722eec485

  ftp://updates.redhat.com/8.0/en/os/i386/
  krb5-server-1.2.5-8.i386.rpm
  fd353f875ea9edc4375af13ba80ae38f

  ftp://updates.redhat.com/8.0/en/os/i386/
  krb5-workstation-1.2.5-8.i386.rpm
  70b04bf0aa7662af6704ce0223ebb914

  Red Hat Vendor Advisory:
  http://www.linuxsecurity.com/advisories/redhat_advisory-2825.html




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|  Package:  php                  | ----------------------------//
|  Date: 02-04-2003               |
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Description:
A heap-based buffer overflow was found in the wordwrap() function in PHP
versions after 4.1.2 and before 4.3.0.  If wordwrap() is used on
user-supplied input this could allow remote attackers to cause a denial of
service or execute arbitrary code.

Vendor Alerts:

 Red Hat:
  PLEASE SEE VENDOR ADVISORY FOR UPDATE

  Red Hat Vendor Advisory:
  http://www.linuxsecurity.com/advisories/redhat_advisory-2835.html



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|  Package:  OpenLDAP             | ----------------------------//
|  Date: 02-05-2003               |
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Description:
Updated openldap packages are available which fix a number of local and
remote buffer overflows in libldap and the slapd and slurpd servers, and
potential issues stemming from using user-specified LDAP configuration
files.

Vendor Alerts:

 Red Hat:
  ftp://updates.redhat.com/8.0/en/os/i386/
  openldap-2.0.27-2.8.0.i386.rpm
  f6ffab19ae521c65396cc76d0a64c2c9

  ftp://updates.redhat.com/8.0/en/os/i386/
  openldap-clients-2.0.27-2.8.0.i386.rpm
  3e12f7f0aacca920d60fc39766b7d3e5

  ftp://updates.redhat.com/8.0/en/os/i386/
  openldap-devel-2.0.27-2.8.0.i386.rpm
  351bd4cea012a1517ded0c03a4512c48

  ftp://updates.redhat.com/8.0/en/os/i386/
  openldap-servers-2.0.27-2.8.0.i386.rpm
  a5b8e07d9f13a98aaf1bf999d6672efc

  ftp://updates.redhat.com/8.0/en/os/i386/
  openldap12-1.2.13-9.i386.rpm
  0e5cbc3c9eb9136169caefed4dadd7c6

  Red Hat Vendor Advisory:
  http://www.linuxsecurity.com/advisories/redhat_advisory-2839.html




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|  Package:  windowmaker          | ----------------------------//
|  Date: 02-05-2003               |
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Description:
Al Viro found a buffer overflow in Window Maker 0.80.0 and earlier which
may allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a certain image
file that is not properly handled when Window Maker uses width and height
information to allocate a buffer.  This could be exploited for example by
a user opening a malicious theme.

Vendor Alerts:

 Red Hat:
  ftp://updates.redhat.com/8.0/en/os/i386/
  WindowMaker-0.80.1-5.i386.rpm
  b141fe5b3e1ab0d2d41f4e77e1ce8fe0

  ftp://updates.redhat.com/8.0/en/os/i386/
  WindowMaker-libs-0.80.1-5.i386.rpm
  a440f228734840d5ce3f25e9f3ef465c

  Red Hat Vendor Advisory:
  http://www.linuxsecurity.com/advisories/redhat_advisory-2840.html




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|  Package:  xpdf                 | ----------------------------//
|  Date: 02-06-2003               |
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Description:
During an audit of CUPS, a printing system, Zen Parsec found an integer
overflow vulnerability in the pdftops filter.  Since the code for pdftops
is taken from the Xpdf project, all versions of Xpdf including 2.01 are
also vulnerable to this issue.  An attacker could create a PDF file that
could execute arbitrary code.  This could would have the same access
privileges as the user who viewed the file with Xpdf.

Vendor Alerts:

 Red Hat:
  PLEASE SEE VENDOR ADVISORY FOR UPDATE

  Red Hat Vendor Advisory:
  http://www.linuxsecurity.com/advisories/redhat_advisory-2841.html

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