- - -------------------------------------------------------------------- GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200212-3 - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- PACKAGE : fetchmail SUMMARY : buffer overflow DATE : 2002-12-15 13:12 UTC EXPLOIT : remote - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- - From e-matters advisory: "In the light of recent discoveries we reaudited Fetchmail and found another bufferoverflow within the default configuration. This heap overflow can be used by remote attackers to crash it or to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running fetchmail. Depending on the configuration this allows a remote root compromise." Read the full advisory at http://security.e-matters.de/advisories/052002.html SOLUTION It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running net-mail/fetchmail-6.1.2 and earlier update their systems as follows: emerge rsync emerge fetchmail emerge clean - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- [email protected] - GnuPG key is available at www.gentoo.org/~aliz [email protected] - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200212-2 - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- PACKAGE : mysql SUMMARY : remote DOS and arbitrary code execution DATE : 2002-12-15 12:12 UTC EXPLOIT : remote - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- - From e-matters advisory: "We have discovered two flaws within the MySQL server that can be used by any MySQL user to crash the server. Furthermore one of the flaws can be used to bypass the MySQL password check or to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running mysqld. We have also discovered an arbitrary size heap overflow within the mysql client library and another vulnerability that allows to write ' ' to any memory address. Both flaws could allow DOS attacks against or arbitrary code execution within anything linked against libmysqlclient." Read the full advisory at http://security.e-matters.de/advisories/042002.html SOLUTION It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running net-misc/freeswan-3.23.53 and earlier update their systems as follows: emerge rsync emerge mysql emerge clean - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- [email protected] - GnuPG key is available at www.gentoo.org/~aliz [email protected] - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200212-4 - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- PACKAGE : squirrelmail SUMMARY : cross site scripting DATE : 2002-12-15 14:12 UTC EXPLOIT : remote - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- euronymous <[email protected]> found that read_body.php didn't filter out user input for 'filter_dir' and 'mailbox', making a xss attack possible. Read the full advisory at http://f0kp.iplus.ru/bz/008.txt SOLUTION It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running net-mail/squirrelmail-1.2.9 and earlier update their systems as follows: emerge rsync emerge squirrelmail emerge clean - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- [email protected] - GnuPG key is available at www.gentoo.org/~aliz - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200212-2.1 - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- PACKAGE : mysql SUMMARY : remote DOS and arbitrary code execution DATE : 2002-12-15 12:12 UTC EXPLOIT : remote - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- The original advisory sent by me contained a typo (net-misc/freeswan should have been dev-db/mysql). This re-issue has the correct text. - From e-matters advisory: "We have discovered two flaws within the MySQL server that can be used by any MySQL user to crash the server. Furthermore one of the flaws can be used to bypass the MySQL password check or to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running mysqld. We have also discovered an arbitrary size heap overflow within the mysql client library and another vulnerability that allows to write ' ' to any memory address. Both flaws could allow DOS attacks against or arbitrary code execution within anything linked against libmysqlclient." Read the full advisory at http://security.e-matters.de/advisories/042002.html SOLUTION It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running dev-db/mysql-3.23.53 and earlier update their systems as follows: emerge rsync emerge mysql emerge clean - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- [email protected] - GnuPG key is available at www.gentoo.org/~aliz [email protected] - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200212-5 - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- PACKAGE : exim SUMMARY : local root vulnerability DATE : 2002-12-16 16:12 UTC EXPLOIT : local - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- - From advisory: "This is a format string bug in daemon.c, line 976: sprintf(CS buff, CS pid_file_path, ""); /* Backward compatibility */ pid_file_path can be changed on the command line. This line is in the function daemon_go(), which only gets executed when the user is an exim-admin-user." Read the full advisory at http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=103903403527788&w=2 SOLUTION It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running net-mail/exim-4.05 and earlier update their systems as follows: emerge rsync emerge exim emerge clean - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- [email protected] - GnuPG key is available at www.gentoo.org/~aliz [email protected] - - --------------------------------------------------------------------
Gentoo Linux Advisories: fetchmail, mysql, squirrelmail, exim
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