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A tmp race condition and other vulnerabilities exist that may be used to gain unauthorized access to more privileges.
A local attacker could trick mc into executing commands with the privileges of the user running mc
An exploit published by Przemyslaw Frasunek demonstrates a buffer overflow in the control request parsing code of the ntpd.
A bug in joe(1), a userfriendly text editor, was found by Christer Öberg of Wkit Security AB a few weeks ago.
Fumitoshi Ukai and Denis Barbier have found several potential buffer overflows, which could lead to local privilege escalation if installed setuid or to remote compromise.
Two parts of the nkitb/nkitserv package are vulnerable to security related bugs.
The eMail access daemons impad(8), ipop2d(8) and ipop3d(8) of SuSE 6.1 are vulnerable to several buffer overflows.
A SuSE-internal security audit of the cups package conducted by Sebastian Krahmer and Thomas Biege revealed several overflows as well as insecure file handling.
Possible remote root compromise and other issues with previous versions of ssh.
Possible remote root compromise exists with previous versions of ssh. Other issues exist.
bind-8.x in all versions of the SuSE distributions contain a bug in the transaction signature handling code that can allow to remotely over-flow a buffer.
kdesu has a flaw which may allow a malicious user to retrieve the root password by listening to a UNIX socket.
The dynamic linker will add user-defined shared libraries to the memory space of a program to be started.
Michal Zalewski has found a buffer overflow in the html parser code of the Netscape Navigator in all versions before and including 4.75.
Many vulnerabilities have been found in the openssh package, along with a compilation problem in the openssh and ssh packages in the SuSE-7.0 distribution.
Several overflowable buffers have been found in SuSE's version of tcpdump that could allow a remote attacker to crash the local tcpdump process.
BIND, the Berkeley Internet Name Daemon, versions before 8.2.2p7, has been found vulnerable to two denial of service attacks.
This notice addresses the latest security advisories from various Linux vendors as well as private contributors on public security forums.
Newer versions of the modprobe program contain a bug which allows local users to gain root priviledges.
Insufficient boundary checking leads to a buffer overflow if a user supplies a specially drafted terminfo database file.
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