Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : rpmdevtools (MDVSA-2013:123)

Updated rpmdevtools package fixes security vulnerability : A TOCTOU race condition was found in the way 'annotate-output' used to execute a program annotating the output linewise with time and stream tool of rpmdevtools before 8.3 performed management of its temporary files used for standard outp...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : sleuthkit (MDVSA-2013:125)

Updated sleuthkit packages fix security vulnerabilities : A security flaw was found in the way the Sleuth Kit TSK, a collection of UNIX-based command line tools allowing to investigate a computer, performed management of '.' dotfile file system entry. An attacker could use this flaw to evade...

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...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : pixman (MDVSA-2013:116)

Updated pixman packages fix security vulnerability : Stack-based buffer overflow in libpixman has unspecified impact and attack vectors CVE-2013-1591. %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 : freeradius (MDVSA-2013:038)

Updated freeradius packages fixes security vulnerabilities : It was found that the unix module ignored the password expiration setting in /etc/shadow. If FreeRADIUS was configured to use this module for user authentication, this flaw could allow users with an expired password to successfully...

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 : gimp (MDVSA-2013:082)

Updated gimp packages fix security vulnerabilities : An integer overflow flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, was found in the GIMP's GIF image format plug-in. An attacker could create a specially crafted GIF image file that, when opened, could cause the GIF plug-in to crash or,...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : stunnel (MDVSA-2013:130)

Updated stunnel packages fix security vulnerability : stunnel 4.21 through 4.54, when CONNECT protocol negotiation and NTLM authentication are enabled, does not correctly perform integer conversion, which allows remote proxy servers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted request that triggers a...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : courier-authlib (MDVSA-2013:068)

When using the authpgsql module and if the Postgres server goes down, authpgsql will start leaking memory. A packaging flaw was discovered that caused the courier-authlib-devel package to be installed when installing for example maildrop. This update fixes both of these issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 7030...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : open-iscsi (MDVSA-2013:109)

Updated open-iscsi package fixes security vulnerability : Colin Watson discovered that iscsidiscovery in Open-iSCSI did not safely create temporary files. A local attacker could exploit this to overwrite arbitrary files with root privileges CVE-2009-1297. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : emacs (MDVSA-2013:076)

Updated emacs packages fix security vulnerabilities : Untrusted search path vulnerability in EDE in CEDET before 1.0.1, as used in GNU Emacs before 23.4 and other products, allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted Lisp expression in a Project.ede file in the directory, or a parent...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : openslp (MDVSA-2013:111)

Updated openslp packages fix security vulnerability : The extension parser in slpv2message.c in OpenSLP 1.2.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service infinite loop via a packet with a next extension offset that references this extension or a previous extension CVE-2010-3609...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : ircd-hybrid (MDVSA-2013:093)

Updated ircd-hybrid packages fix security vulnerability : Bob Nomnomnom reported a Denial of Service vulnerability in IRCD-Hybrid, an Internet Relay Chat server. A remote attacker may use an error in the masks validation and crash the server CVE-2013-0238. Please note that due to the previously...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : html2ps (MDVSA-2013:041)

A vulnerability has been found and corrected in html2ps : Directory traversal vulnerability in html2ps before 1.0b7 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via directory traversal sequences in SSI directives CVE-2009-5067. The updated packages have been upgraded to the 1.0b7 version which...

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 : 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 : nss-pam-ldapd (MDVSA-2013:106)

Updated nss-pam-ldapd packages fixes the following security vulnerability : Garth Mollett discovered that a file descriptor overflow issue in the use of FDSET in nss-pam-ldapd can lead to a stack-based buffer overflow. An attacker could, under some circumstances, use this flaw to cause a process...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : weechat (MDVSA-2013:136)

Updated weechat packages fix security vulnerability : A buffer overflow is causing a crash or freeze of WeeChat 0.36 to 0.39 when decoding IRC colors in strings. The packages have been patched to fix this problem CVE-2012-5854. Untrusted command for function hookprocess in WeeChat before 0.3.9.2...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : exif (MDVSA-2013:036)

A vulnerability has been discovered and corrected in exif : An integer overflow in the function jpegdataloaddata in the exif program could cause a data read beyond the end of a buffer, causing an application crash or leakage of potentially sensitive information when parsing a crafted JPEG file...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : asterisk (MDVSA-2013:140)

Multiple vulnerablilities was identified and fixed in asterisk : The SIP channel driver in Asterisk Open Source 1.8.x before 1.8.20.2, 10.x before 10.12.2, and 11.x before 11.2.2; Certified Asterisk 1.8.15 before 1.8.15-cert2; Asterisk Business Edition BE C.3.x before C.3.8.1; and Asterisk...