Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : awstats (MDVSA-2013:061)

Multiple XXS vulnerabilities was found and corrected in awstats CVE-2012-4547. The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Mandriva Linux Security...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : viewvc (MDVSA-2013:134)

Updated viewvc packages fix security vulnerabilities : complete authz support for remote SVN views CVE-2012-3356. log msg leak in SVN revision view with unreadable copy source CVE-2012-3357. function name lines returned by diff are not properly escaped, allowing attackers with commit access to...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : bogofilter (MDVSA-2013:064)

Updated bogofilter package fixes security vulnerability : In bogofilter before 1.2.3, bogofilter's/bogolexer's base64 could overwrite heap memory in the character set conversion in certain pathological cases of invalid base64 code that decodes to incomplete multibyte characters CVE-2012-5468...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : dnsmasq (MDVSA-2013:072)

Updated dnsmasq packages fix security vulnerabilities : When dnsmasq before 2.63 is used in conjunctions with certain configurations of libvirtd, network packets from prohibited networks e.g. packets that should not be passed in may be sent to the dnsmasq application and processed. This can resul...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : perl (MDVSA-2013:113)

Updated perl packages fix security vulnerability : It was discovered that Perl's 'x' string repeat operator is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow. An attacker could use this to execute arbitrary code CVE-2012-5195. The compile function in Maketext.pm in the Locale::Maketext implementation...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : arpwatch (MDVSA-2013:030)

A vulnerability has been discovered and corrected in arpwatch : arpwatch 2.1a15, as used by Red Hat, Debian, Fedora, and possibly others, does not properly drop supplementary groups, which might allow attackers to gain root privileges by leveraging other vulnerabilities in the daemon CVE-2012-265...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : lynx (MDVSA-2013:101)

Updated lynx package fixes security vulnerability : Lynx does not verify that the server's certificate is signed by a trusted certification authority, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof SSL servers via a crafted certificate, related to improper use of a certain GnuTLS function...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : mariadb (MDVSA-2013:102)

Updated mariadb packages includes fixes for the following security vulnerabilities : Unspecified vulnerability in the MySQL Server component in Oracle MySQL 5.5.26 and earlier allows remote attackers to affect integrity and availability, related to MySQL Client CVE-2012-3147. Unspecified...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : ocaml-xml-light (MDVSA-2013:107)

Updated ocaml-xml-light packages fix security vulnerability : OCaml Xml-Light Library before r234 computes hash values without restricting the ability to trigger hash collisions predictably, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service CPU consumption via unspecified...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : squid (MDVSA-2013:129)

Updated squid packages fix security vulnerability : Due to missing input validation, the Squid cachemgr.cgi tool in Squid before 3.1.22 and 3.2.4 is vulnerable to a denial of service attack when processing specially crafted requests CVE-2012-5643. It was discovered that the patch for CVE-2012-564...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : snack (MDVSA-2013:126)

Updated snack packages fix security vulnerability : Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in Snack Sound Toolkit, which are caused due to missing boundary checks in the GetWavHeader function generic/jkSoundFile.c when parsing either format sub-chunks or unknown sub-chunks. This can be exploite...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : libexif (MDVSA-2013:035)

Multiple vulnerabilities has been discovered and corrected in libexif : A heap-based out-of-bounds array read in the exifentrygetvalue function in libexif/exif-entry.c in libexif 0.6.20 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly obtain potentially sensitive...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : dbus (MDVSA-2013:070)

Updated dbus packages fix security vulnerability : It was discovered that the D-Bus library honored environment settings even when running with elevated privileges. A local attacker could possibly use this flaw to escalate their privileges, by setting specific environment variables before running...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : automake (MDVSA-2013:031)

A vulnerability has been discovered and corrected in automake : A race condition in automake lib/am/distdir.am could allow a local attacker to run arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running make distcheck CVE-2012-3386. The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue. NOT...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : mosh (MDVSA-2013:104)

Updated mosh package fixes security vulnerability : Mosh versions 1.2 and earlier allow an application to cause the mosh-server to consume large amounts of CPU time with a short ANSI escape sequence. In addition, a malicious mosh-server can cause the mosh-client to consume large amounts of CPU ti...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : elinks (MDVSA-2013:075)

Updated elinks package fixes security vulnerability : Marko Myllynen discovered that ELinks, a powerful text-mode browser, incorrectly delegates user credentials during GSS-Negotiate CVE-2012-4545. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in thi...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : accountsservice (MDVSA-2013:060)

Updated accountsservice packages fix security vulnerability : Florian Weimer discovered that AccountsService incorrectly handled privileges when copying certain files to the system cache directory. A local attacker could exploit this issue to read arbitrary files, bypassing intended permissions...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : bash (MDVSA-2013:032)

A vulnerability was found and corrected in bash : A stack-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way bash, the GNU Bourne Again shell, expanded certain /dev/fd file names when checking file names 'test' command and evaluating /dev/fd file names in conditinal command expressions. A remote...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : mesa (MDVSA-2013:103)

Updated mesa packages fix security vulnerability : The glsl shaders are vulnerable to a buffer overrun in parceloutuniformstorage::visitfield. When too many uniforms are used, the error will now be caught in checkresources src/glsl/linker.cpp CVE-2012-2864. Additionally, Mesa has been updated to...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : libupnp (MDVSA-2013:098)

Updated libupnp packages fix security vulnerabilities : The Portable SDK for UPnP Devices libupnp library contains multiple buffer overflow vulnerabilities. Devices that use libupnp may also accept UPnP queries over the WAN interface, therefore exposing the vulnerabilities to the internet...