Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : gstreamer0.10-plugins-good (MDVSA-2009:035)

Security vulnerabilities have been discovered and corrected in gstreamer0.10-plugins-good, might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed QuickTime media file CVE-2009-0386, CVE-2009-0387, CVE-2009-0397. The updated packages have been patched to prevent this. %NASLMINLEVEL...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : ruby (MDVSA-2008:226)

A denial of service condition was found in Ruby's regular expression engine. If a Ruby script tried to process a large amount of data via a regular expression, it could cause Ruby to enter an infinite loop and crash CVE-2008-3443. A number of flaws were found in Ruby that could allow an attacker ...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : policykit (MDVSA-2008:087)

A format string vulnerability in the grant helper, in PolicyKit 0.7 and earlier, allows attackers to cause a denial of service crash and possibly execute arbitrary code via format strings in a password. The updated package has been patched to correct this issue. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : gd (MDVSA-2008:038)

Buffer overflow in the LWZReadByte function in gdgifin.c in GD prior to 2.0.34 allows remote attackers to have an unknown impact via a GIF file with inputcodesize greater than MAXLWZBITS, which triggers an overflow when initializing the table array. This was originally fixed in PHP's embedded GD...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : libcdaudio (MDVSA-2008:233-1)

A heap overflow was found in the CDDB retrieval code of libcdaudio, which could result in the execution of arbitrary code CVE-2008-5030. In addition, the fixes for CVE-2005-0706 were not applied to newer libcdaudio packages as shipped with Mandriva Linux, so the patch to fix that issue has been...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : samba (MDVSA-2008:108)

Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in Samba, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system. A boundary error within the receivesmbraw function in lib/utilsock.c can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow via an overly large SMB packet receiv...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : rdesktop (MDVSA-2008:101)

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in rdesktop, a Remote Desktop Protocol client. An integer underflow vulnerability allowed attackers to cause a denial of service crash and possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the logged-in user CVE-2008-1801. A buffer overflow vulnerabili...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : samba (MDVSA-2009:042)

Samba 3.2.0 through 3.2.6, when registry shares are enabled, allows remote authenticated users to access the root filesystem via a crafted connection request that specifies a blank share name CVE-2009-0022. This update provides samba 3.2.7 to address this issue. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : pan (MDVSA-2008:201)

Pavel Polischouk found a boundary error in the PartsBatch class in the Pan newsreader when processing .nzb files, which could allow remote attackers to cause a denial of serice application crash or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted .nzb file CVE-2008-2363. The updated packages have be...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : gstreamer0.10-plugins-base (MDVSA-2009:085)

Integer overflows in gstreamer0.10-plugins-base Base64 encoding and decoding functions related with glib2.0 issue CVE-2008-4316 may lead attackers to cause denial of service. Altough vector attacks are not known yet CVE-2009-0586. This update provide the fix for that security issue. %NASLMINLEVEL...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : imlib2 (MDVSA-2008:123)

Stefan Cornelius discovered two buffer overflows in Imlib's image loaders for PNM and XPM images, which could possibly result in the execution of arbitrary code CVE-2008-2426. The updated packages have been patched to prevent this issue. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : bind (MDVSA-2009:037)

Internet Systems Consortium ISC BIND 9.6.0 and earlier does not properly check the return value from the OpenSSL EVPVerifyFinal function, which allows remote attackers to bypass validation of the certificate chain via a malformed SSL/TLS signature, a similar vulnerability to CVE-2008-5077 and...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : clamav (MDVSA-2008:189-1)

Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in ClamAV and corrected with the 0.94 release, including : A vulnerability in ClamAV's chm-parser allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service application crash via a malformed CHM file CVE-2008-1389. A vulnerability in libclamav would allow...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : postfix (MDVSA-2008:171)

Sebastian Krahmer of the SUSE Security Team discovered a flaw in the way Postfix dereferenced symbolic links. If a local user had write access to a mail spool directory without a root mailbox file, it could be possible for them to append arbitrary data to files that root had write permissions to...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : openoffice.org (MDVSA-2008:095)

A vulnerability in HSQLDB before 1.8.0.9 in OpenOffice.org could allow user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary Java code via crafted database documents CVE-2007-4575. A heap overflow was discovered in OpenOffice.org's EMF parser. An attacker could create a carefully crafted EMF file...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : silc-toolkit (MDVSA-2008:158)

A vulnerability was found in the SILC toolkit before version 1.1.5 that allowed a remote attacker to cause a denial of service crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code via long input data CVE-2008-1227. A vulnerability was found in the SILC toolkit before version 1.1.7 that allowed a remote...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : R-base (MDVSA-2008:198)

A symlink vulnerability was found in the javareconf script in R that allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files CVE-2008-3931. The updated packages have been patched to prevent this issue. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : mysql (MDVSA-2008:149)

Sergei Golubchik found that MySQL did not properly validate optional data or index directory paths given in a CREATE TABLE statement; as well it would not, under certain conditions, prevent two databases from using the same paths for data or index files. This could allow an authenticated user wit...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : poppler (MDVSA-2008:146)

A memory management issue was found in libpoppler by Felipe Andres Manzano that could allow for the execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running a poppler-based application, if they opened a specially crafted PDF file CVE-2008-2950. The updated packages have been patched to...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : mpg123 (MDVSA-2009:093-1)

A vulnerability has been found and corrected in mpg123 : Integer signedness error in the storeid3text function in the ID3v2 code in mpg123 before 1.7.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service out-of-bounds memory access and possibly execute arbitrary code via an ID3 tag with a negati...