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Security hole in netcfg  08 December 1999 
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.
 
Security hole in trn  08 December 1999 
The news reader trn uses a hardcoded temporary file, which resides in /tmp.
 
Security hole in termcap  08 December 1999 
A buffer overflow has been found in libtermcap's tgetent() function. If a setuid root program uses this function, the user could execute arbitrary code. SuSE Linux 6.0, 6.1 and 6.2 are not affected, since the only program using libtermcap is bc. This program is not setuid root.
 
Security hole in i4l (xmonisdn)  08 December 1999 
xmonisdn which is part of the i4l package is installed setuid root by default. To control and display the status of the ISDN network connections xmonisdn uses external programs, which are executed by the system() systemcall, without taking care of a safe environment. The problem arises by old libc, that don't overwrite the IFS environment variable.
 
Security hole in samba  08 December 1999 
a) A setuid root installed smbmnt could lead to a security breach due to a race condition. b) The NetBIOS name server nmbd is vulnerable to a denial-of-service attack. c) The message service of the SMB-/CIFS-server has got a buffer overflow.
 
Security hole in Klock  08 December 1999 
The KDE screensaver klock includes a bug, which allows to bypass the password authentication. While klock waits for kcheckpass to verify the password a timer is triggered and the dialog box is deleted. After kcheckpass completes klock crashs.
 
Security hole in Man (man_db)  08 December 1999 
The zsoelim program, which is part of the man package, creates files in /tmp without security checkings.
 
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