Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : libssh (MDVSA-2015:086)

Updated libssh packages fix security vulnerabilities : When using libssh before 0.6.3, a libssh-based server, when accepting a new connection, forks and the child process handles the request. The RANDbytes function of openssl doesn't reset its state after the fork, but simply adds the current...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : sendmail (MDVSA-2015:128)

Updated sendmail packages fix security vulnerability : Sendmail before 8.14.9 does not properly closing file descriptors before executing programs. This bug could enable local users to interfere with an open SMTP connection if they can execute their own program for mail delivery e.g., via procmai...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : gnutls (MDVSA-2015:072)

Updated gnutls packages fix security vulnerabilities : Suman Jana reported a vulnerability that affects the certificate verification functions of gnutls 3.1.x and gnutls 3.2.x. A version 1 intermediate certificate will be considered as a CA certificate by default something that deviates from the...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : libpng12 (MDVSA-2015:071)

Updated libpng12 package fixes security vulnerabilities : The pngdoexpandpalette function in libpng before 1.6.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and application crash via a PLTE chunk of zero bytes or a NULL palette, related to pngrtran.c and pngset.c...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : jasper (MDVSA-2015:159)

Updated jasper packages fix security vulnerabilities : Josh Duart of the Google Security Team discovered heap-based buffer overflow flaws in JasPer, which could lead to denial of service application crash or the execution of arbitrary code CVE-2014-9029. A double free flaw was found in the way...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : cifs-utils (MDVSA-2015:114)

Updated cifs-utils packages fix security vulnerability : Sebastian Krahmer discovered a stack-based buffer overflow flaw in cifscreds.c CVE-2014-2830. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Mandriva Linux...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : ruby (MDVSA-2015:129)

Updated ruby packages fix security vulnerabilities : Due to unrestricted entity expansion, when reading text nodes from an XML document, the REXML parser in Ruby can be coerced into allocating extremely large string objects which can consume all of the memory on a machine, causing a denial of...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : cups (MDVSA-2015:108)

Updated cups packages fix security vulnerabilities : Cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in scheduler/client.c in Common Unix Printing System CUPS before 1.7.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the URL path, related to the ispathabsolute function CVE-2014-2856...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : jbigkit (MDVSA-2015:101)

Updated jbigkit packages fix security vulnerability : Florian Weimer found a stack-based buffer overflow flaw in the libjbig library part of jbigkit. A specially crafted image file read by libjbig could be used to cause a program linked to libjbig to crash or, potentially, to execute arbitrary co...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : grub2 (MDVSA-2015:163)

Updated grub2 package fixes security vulnerability : An integer overflow in liblzo before 2.07 allows attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly code execution in applications using performing LZO decompression on a compressed payload from the attacker CVE-2014-4607. The grub2 package is...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : lcms2 (MDVSA-2015:107)

Updated lcms2 packages fix security vulnerability : Unspecified vulnerability in Oracle Java SE 7u51 and 8, and Java SE Embedded 7u51, allows remote attackers to affect availability via unknown vectors related to 2D CVE-2014-0459. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descripti...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : readline (MDVSA-2015:132)

Updated readline packages fix security vulnerability : Steve Kemp discovered the rltropen function in readline insecurely handled a temporary file. This could allow a local attacker to perform symbolic link attacks CVE-2014-2524. Also, upstream patches have been added to fix an infinite loop in v...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : gnupg (MDVSA-2015:155)

Updated gnupg and libgcrypt packages fix security vulnerabilities : GnuPG before 1.4.19 is vulnerable to a side-channel attack which can potentially lead to an information leak CVE-2014-3591. GnuPG before 1.4.19 is vulnerable to a side-channel attack on data-dependent timing variations in modular...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : torque (MDVSA-2015:124)

Updated torque packages fix security vulnerabilities : Chad Vizino reported that within a TORQUE Resource Manager job a non-root user could use a vulnerability in the tmadopt library call to kill processes he/she doesn't own including root-owned ones on any node in a job CVE-2014-3684. This updat...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : libtasn1 (MDVSA-2015:116)

Updated libtasn1 packages fix security vulnerabilities : Multiple buffer boundary check issues were discovered in libtasn1 library, causing it to read beyond the boundary of an allocated buffer. An untrusted ASN.1 input could cause an application using the library to crash CVE-2014-3467. It was...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : rsyslog (MDVSA-2015:130)

Updated rsyslog packages fix security vulnerability : Rainer Gerhards, the rsyslog project leader, reported a vulnerability in Rsyslog. As a consequence of this vulnerability an attacker can send malformed messages to a server, if this one accepts data from untrusted sources, and trigger a denial...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : libvncserver (MDVSA-2015:146)

Updated libvncserver packages fix security vulnerabilities : An integer overflow in liblzo before 2.07 allows attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly code execution in applications using performing LZO decompression on a compressed payload from the attacker CVE-2014-4607. The...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : json-c (MDVSA-2015:102)

Updated json-c packages fix security vulnerabilities : Florian Weimer reported that the printbuf APIs used in the json-c library used ints for counting buffer lengths, which is inappropriate for 32bit architectures. These functions need to be changed to using sizet if possible for sizes, or to be...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : libxml2 (MDVSA-2015:111)

Updated libxml2 packages fix security vulnerabilities : It was discovered that libxml2, a library providing support to read, modify and write XML files, incorrectly performs entity substituton in the doctype prolog, even if the application using libxml2 disabled any entity substitution. A remote...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : gtk+3.0 (MDVSA-2015:162)

Updated gtk+3.0 packages fix security vulnerability : Clemens Fries reported that, when using Cinnamon, it was possible to bypass the screensaver lock. An attacker with physical access to the machine could use this flaw to take over the locked desktop session CVE-2014-1949. This was fixed by...