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 : bind (MDVSA-2013:058)

A security issue was identified and fixed in ISC BIND : libdns in ISC BIND 9.7.x and 9.8.x before 9.8.4-P2, 9.8.5 before 9.8.5b2, 9.9.x before 9.9.2-P2, and 9.9.3 before 9.9.3b2 on UNIX platforms allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory consumption via a crafted regular...

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...

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 : bip (MDVSA-2013:063)

Updated bip package fixes security vulnerability : Buffer overflow in Bip 0.8.8 and earlier might allow remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code via vectors involving a series of TCP connections that triggers use of many open file descriptors CVE-2012-0806. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenab...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : wireshark (MDVSA-2013:055)

Multiple vulnerabilities has been found and corrected in wireshark : Infinite and large loops in ANSI MAP, BACapp, Bluetooth HCI, IEEE 802.3, LTP, and R3 dissectors have been fixed. Discovered by Laurent Butti http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2012-08.html CVE-2012-2392 The DIAMETER...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : keepalived (MDVSA-2013:096)

Updated keepalived package fixes security vulnerability : The pidfilewrite function in core/pidfile.c in keepalived 1.2.2 and earlier uses 0666 permissions for the 1 keepalived.pid, 2 checkers.pid, and 3 vrrp.pid files in /var/run/, which allows local users to kill arbitrary processes by writing ...

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 : 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 : freetype2 (MDVSA-2013:039)

Updated freetype2 packages fixes security vulnerabilities : A NULL pointer de-reference flaw was found in the way Freetype font rendering engine handled Glyph bitmap distribution format BDF fonts. A remote attacker could provide a specially crafted BDF font file, which once processed in an...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : libytnef (MDVSA-2013:099)

Updated libytnef package fixes security vulnerability : Function DecompressRTF in libytnef 1.5 leads to a buffer overflow on certain TNEF files presumably, on files, generated by some recent versions of MS software. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : vte (MDVSA-2013:135)

Updated vte packages fix security vulnerability : A denial of service flaw was found in the way VTE, a terminal emulator widget, processed certain escape sequences with large repeat counts. A remote attacker could provide a specially crafted file, which once opened in a terminal using the VTE...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : python-httplib2 (MDVSA-2013:119)

python-httplib2 ships its own copy of the Mozilla NSS certificates, but it should use the system-wide ones provided by the rootcerts package instead. This has been corrected. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : php-ZendFramework (MDVSA-2013:115)

Updated php-ZendFramework packages fix security vulnerabilities : ZendDom, ZendFeed, ZendSoap, and ZendXmlRpc in Zend Framework before 1.11.13 and 1.12.0 are vulnerable to XML Entity Expansion XEE vectors, leading to Denial of Service vectors. XEE attacks occur when the XML DOCTYPE declaration...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : cronie (MDVSA-2013:033)

Updated cronie package fixes the following issue : It was reported that cronie 1.4.8 would leak certain file descriptors. On systems where /etc/crontab is not world-readable this could be an information disclosure concern CVE-2012-6097. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : squashfs-tools (MDVSA-2013:128)

Updated squashfs-tools packages fix security vulnerabilities : remote arbitrary code execution via crafted list file CVE-2012-4024. integer overflow in queueinit may lead to arbitrary code execution CVE-2012-4025. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and packa...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : openssh (MDVSA-2013:051)

A vulnerability has been found and corrected in openssh : The default configuration of OpenSSH through 6.1 enforces a fixed time limit between establishing a TCP connection and completing a login, which makes it easier for remote attackers to cause a denial of service connection-slot exhaustion b...

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 : 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 : 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...