SuSE Essential and Critical Security Patch Updates - Page 1163

SuSE: 2000:0001 Moderate: gpm Escalation Risk for Local Users

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Local users may gain access to group id 0 and hence may modify files owned and writable by the gid 0.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 05, 2000

SUSE: Security Advisory for ircii 4.4M Buffer Overflow Issue

The package ircii is an irc client which is used to connect to irc servers and chat with other users. A buffer overflow in the dcc chat feature was found which is exploitable by remote users

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 30, 2000

SuSE: IMAP Server Critical Advisory for Remote Access Threat

A vulnerability in the SuSE Linux IMAP Server - which is unrelated to the SuSE Linux Distribution (which is unaffected) - was found which allows remote users to circumvented the imap authentication.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 15, 2000

SuSE: htdig Critical Advisory Addressing Remote Compromise Risks

htsearch, a CGI program which is part of htdig, doesn't do proper checking on user input.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 01, 2000

SuSE: 2000-02-11 Critical: mysql Remote Access Authentication Flaw

A bug in the authentication function of mysql allows anyone who knows a valid username to successfully authenticate as that users in no more than 32 tries.