Debian Essential And Critical Security Patch Updates - Page 326

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Debian 2.1 Critical Advisory: Local Buffer Overflow in Mailx

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The version of mailx distributed in Debian GNU/Linux 2.1, the frozen (potato) and unstable (woody) distributions is vulnerable to a local buffer overflow.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 05, 2000

Debian 2.1: Security Advisory on Majordomo Local Exploit Risk

Any local user can trick majordomo into executing arbitrary code or to create or write files as the majordomo user anywhere on the filesystem.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 03, 2000

Debian GNU/Linux: Mtr Security Advisory March 2000 Local Exploit Risk

The version of mtr as distributed in Debian GNU/Linux 2l1 (aka slink) did not drop root privileges correctly. While there are no known exploits it is conceivable that a weakness in gtk or ncurses could be used to exploit this.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 09, 2000

Debian 2.1: nmh Remote Exploit Advisory - February 28, 2000

nmh did not check incoming mail messages properly. This could be exploited byusing carefully designed MIME headers to trick mhshow into executing arbitrary shell code. [Found on LWN]

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 28, 2000

Debian 2.1 Security Advisory: Make Package Symlink Attack Risk

The make package as shipped in Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 is vulnerable to arace condition that can be exploited with a symlink attack. make usedmktemp while creating temporary files in /tmp. and that is a knownpotential security hole, as documented in the man page of mktemp.