SuSE Essential and Critical Security Patch Updates - Page 1136

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SuSE: Security Advisory for Pine IMAP Package Fix: Critical Update

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On June the 28th SuSE released a new pine package, which fixes a security bug. Unfortunately the patch brokes IMAP support for pine. Now there is a new package available which works correctly.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 08, 1999

SuSE: cron-3.0.1-75 Critical: Local Root Compromise and DoS Attack

Three security threats were found in the vixie crond, which is shipped with SuSE Linux. 1) no boundchecking on a local buffer, while copying data from MAILTO 2) passing invalid options to sendmail 3) it doesn't drop root privileges while sending acknowledge mail to a user

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 08, 1999

SuSE: Urgent Advisory on Rsync Vulnerability Affecting Permissions

The security breach occurs when you try to transfer an empty directory into a non-existent directory. In that case rsync sets the permissions of the working directory to those of the empty directory; this means, that the permissions of your home directory are changed to the file access mode of the empty directory if you do a remote rsync by using ssh/rsh.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 08, 1999

Fedora: Essential Patch Needed for xinetd Remote Exploit Vulnerability

The way in.identd is started by inetd from a standard /etc/inetd.conf on a SuSE Linux distribution may be exploited to mount a Denial-of-Service attack against the system. When inetd starts in.identd with the "wait" flag and the "-w -t120" options, the in.identd will start to listen on the well known port while inetd deactivates its own listener for the time in.identd is alive.