Posts Tagged Fedora Linux Distribution – Security Advisories

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Fedora: GnuPG Signing key vulnerability

Dec11
by Ike on December 11, 2003 at 10:32 am
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Phong Nguyen identified a severe bug in the way GnuPG creates anduses ElGamal keys, when those keys are used both to sign and encryptdata. This vulnerability can be used to trivially recover theprivate key.

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Fedora: Xboard predictable file-write exploit

Dec04
by Ike on December 4, 2003 at 6:20 pm
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XBoard 4.2.6 and older contains a script which writes to a file in /tmp with a predictable filename. Malicious users could use this vulnerability to force XBoard users to overwrite any file writableby them.

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Fedora: rsync heap overflow vulnerability

Dec04
by Ike on December 4, 2003 at 5:09 pm
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A heap overflow bug exists in rsync versions prior to 2.5.7. Onmachines where the rsync server has been enabled, a remote attackercould use this flaw to execute arbitrary code as an unprivileged user.

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