Linux Advisory Watch - January 31st 2003

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|  LinuxSecurity.com                        Linux Advisory Watch |
|  January 31st, 2002                        Volume 4, Number 5a |
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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 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.

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|  Package:  kdeutils             | ----------------------------//
|  Date: 01-24-2003               |
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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




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|  Package:  noffle               | ----------------------------//
|  Date: 01-27-2003               |
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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





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|  Package:  dhcp3                | ----------------------------//
|  Date: 01-28-2003               |
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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


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|  Package: topcat3               | ----------------------------//
|  Date: 01-28-2003               |
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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


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|  Package:  courier              | ----------------------------//
|  Date: 01-30-2003               |
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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



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|  Package:  mysql                | ----------------------------//
|  Date: 01-27-2003               |
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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



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|  Package:  fetchmail            | ----------------------------//
|  Date: 01-27-2003               |
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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



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|  Package:  vim                  | ----------------------------//
|  Date: 01-27-2003               |
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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



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|  Package:  webalizer            | ----------------------------//
|  Date: 01-27-2003               |
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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



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|  Package:  postgresql           | ----------------------------//
|  Date: 01-27-2003               |
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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



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|  Package:  cvs                  | ----------------------------//
|  Date: 01-27-2003               |
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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

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