Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : emacs (MDVSA-2008:153)

A vulnerability in emacs was found where an attacker could provide a group of files containing local variable definitions and arbitrary Lisp code to be executed when one of the provided files is opened by emacs CVE-2008-2142. The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : libneon0.27 (MDVSA-2009:074)

A security vulnerability has been identified and fixed in neon : neon 0.28.0 through 0.28.2 allows remote servers to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and crash via vectors related to Digest authentication and Digest domain parameter support CVE-2008-3746. The updated packages ha...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : mozilla-thunderbird (MDVSA-2009:083)

A number of security vulnerabilities have been discovered in previous versions, and corrected in the latest Mozilla Thunderbird program, version 2.0.0.21 CVE-2009-0040, CVE-2009-0776, CVE-2009-0771, CVE-2009-0772, CVE-2009-0773, CVE-2009-0774, CVE-2009-0352, CVE-2009-0353. This update provides th...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : exiv2 (MDVSA-2008:006)

An integer overflow in the Exiv2 library allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted EXIF file that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow. The updated packages have been patched to correct these issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : openssl (MDVSA-2009:001)

A vulnerability was found by the Google Security Team with how OpenSSL checked the verification of certificates. An attacker in control of a malicious server or able to effect a man-in-the-middle attack, could present a malformed SSL/TLS signature from a certificate chain to a vulnerable client,...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : ImageMagick (MDVSA-2008:035)

Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in the image decoders of ImageMagick. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing malicious DCM, DIB, XBM, XCF, or XWD images, a remote attacker could execute arbitrary code with user privileges. The updated packages have been patched to...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : cairo (MDVSA-2008:019)

Peter Valchev discovered that Cairo did not correctly decode PNG image data. By tricking a user or automated system into processing a specially crafted PNG with Cairo, a remote attacker could execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user opening the file. The updated packages have been...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : libxslt (MDVSA-2008:160)

Chris Evans of the Google Security Team found a vulnerability in the RC4 processing code in libxslt that did not properly handle corrupted key information. A remote attacker able to make an application linked against libxslt process malicious XML input could cause the application to crash or...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : pam_krb5 (MDVSA-2008:209-1)

Stphane Bertin discovered a flaw in the pamkrb5 existingticket configuration option where, if enabled and using an existing credential cache, it was possible for a local user to gain elevated privileges by using a different, local user's credential cache CVE-2008-3825. The updated packages have...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : kernel (MDVSA-2008:234)

Some vulnerabilities were discovered and corrected in the Linux 2.6 kernel : Buffer overflow in the hfsplusfindcat function in fs/hfsplus/catalog.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.28-rc1 allows attackers to cause a denial of service memory corruption or system crash via an hfsplus filesystem image...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : perl-Net-DNS (MDVSA-2008:073)

A vulnerability in the Net::DNS perl module was found that could allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted DNS response. The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package chec...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : ntp (MDVSA-2009:007)

A flaw was found in how NTP checked the return value of signature verification. A remote attacker could use this to bypass certificate validation by using a malformed SSL/TLS signature CVE-2009-0021. The updated packages have been patched to prevent this issue. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Netwo...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : kernel (MDVSA-2008:223)

Some vulnerabilities were discovered and corrected in the Linux 2.6 kernel : Buffer overflow in format descriptor parsing in the uvcparseformat function in drivers/media/video/uvc/uvcdriver.c in uvcvideo in the video4linux V4L implementation in the Linux kernel before 2.6.26.1 has unknown impact...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : gnumeric (MDVSA-2009:043)

Python has a variable called sys.path that contains all paths where Python loads modules by using import scripting procedure. A wrong handling of that variable enables local attackers to execute arbitrary code via Python scripting in the current Gnumeric working directory CVE-2009-0318. This upda...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : openoffice.org (MDVSA-2008:137)

Integer overflow in the rtlallocateMemory function in sal/rtl/source/allocglobal.c in OpenOffice.org OOo 2.0 through 2.4 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted file that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow. CVE-2008-2152 Also, according to bug 38874 decimal numbers on...

MDVA-2009:034 : alsa

This update upgrades ALSA packages to version 1.0.18, with minor bug fixes and enhancements, which can be looked in detail at http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Changesv1.0.18rc3v1.0.18 . Updated libalsa2 also contains fixes affecting, for example, the speaker-testing tool not working...

MDVA-2008:117 : x11-server

This update fixes an X server crash with multiple indirect rendering clients and software rendering. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 @DEPRECATED@ This script has been deprecated as the associated patch is not currently a security fix. Disabled on 2012/09/06. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. This script was...

MDVA-2008:157 : hplip

It is mandatory to use UTF-8 encoding in communication on newer cups versions. It prevents hplip from working properly in non-UTF-8 environments. The updated packages fix this issue. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 @DEPRECATED@ This script has been deprecated as the associated patch is not currently a securi...

MDVA-2008:049 : drakxtools

A new version of drakxtools is available that fixes detecting device.map inconsistencies when /boot and / are not on the same physical drive, especially when / is LVM and /boot is not. As well, it fixes an inconsistency in device.map detection when /boot, or /, is on Linux software RAID /dev/mdX...

MDVA-2008:103 : pidgin

A protocol change at the ICQ servers made it impossible to connect with Pidgin. This update adapts Pidgin to the new protocol version. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 @DEPRECATED@ This script has been deprecated as the associated patch is not currently a security fix. Disabled on 2012/09/06. C Tenable Networ...