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Security Linux News for May 29, 2002

  • Conectiva Linux Advisory: mozilla (Feb 14, 2003, 18:57)
    "This update addresses several vulnerabilities found after the mozilla 1.0rc2 release, wich was the last version sent as an official update for Conectiva Linux distributions..."

  • Conectiva Linux Advisory: mozilla (May 29, 2002, 20:44)
    "GreyMagic Security found[1] a vulnerability[2] in mozilla prior to version 1.0rc1 which allows a hostile site to read and list user files. The vulnerability was related to the XMLHTTP, a component that is primarily used for retrieving XML documents from a web server..."

  • SuSE Linux Advisory: tcpdump/libpcap (May 29, 2002, 12:59)
    " The tcpdump program may be used to capture and decode network traffic. Tcpdump decodes certain packets such as AFS requests in a wrong way resulting in a buffer overflow. Since running tcpdump requires root privileges this may lead to a root compromise of the system running tcpdump..."