A flaw in Mailman 2.1.* allows a remote attacker to retrieve the mailman password of any subscriber by sending a carefully crafted email request to the mailman server.
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This vulnerability could potentially be exploited by a local user to execute arbitrary code with root privileges.
The problemcan be used to bypass access restrictions in the web server. Anattacker can view the contents of directories and download filesdirectly rather then receiving their HTML output.
Several buffer overflows were found which allow an attacker to make tcpdump crash.
Sebastian Krahmer found a problem in the modprobe utility that could beexploited by local users to run arbitrary commands as root if themachine is running a kernel with kmod enabled.
Debian: ‘tcsh’ update
Nov10
Proton reported on bugtraq that tcsh did not handle in-here documentscorrectly. The version of tcsh that is distributed with Debian GNU/Linux2.2r0 also suffered from this problem.
Debian: ‘gnupg’ update
Nov10
The version of gnupg that was distributed in Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 hada logic error in the code that checks for valid signatures which couldcause false positive results:
In versions of the PHP 3 packages before version 3.0.17, several formatstring bugs could allow properly crafted requests to execute code as theuser running PHP scripts on the web server, particularly if error loggingwas enabled.
libpam-smb contains a buffer overflow that can be used to execute arbitrary commands with root privilege.
Recently two problems have been found in the glibc suite, which could beused to trick setuid applications to run arbitrary code.
A format string bug was recently discovered in screen which can be used to gain elevated privilages if screen is setuid.