Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : ctdb (MDVSA-2015:177)

Updated ctdb packages fix security vulnerability : ctdb before 2.5 is vulnerable to symlink attacks to due the use of predictable filenames in /tmp, such as /tmp/ctdb.socket CVE-2013-4159. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin...

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 : libgd (MDVSA-2015:153)

Updated libgd packages fix security vulnerabilities : The gdImageCreateFromXpm function in gdxpm.c in the gd image library allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and application crash via a crafted color table in an XPM file CVE-2014-2497. A buffer read...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : xlockmore (MDVSA-2015:118)

Updated xlockmore packages fix security vulnerability : xlockmore before 5.45 contains a security flaw related to a bad value of fnt for pyro2 which could cause an X error. This update backports the fix for version 5.43. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text an...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : glpi (MDVSA-2015:167)

Updated glpi package fixes security vulnerabilities : Due to a bug in GLPI before 0.84.7, a user without access to cost information can in fact see the information when selecting cost as a search criteria CVE-2014-5032. An issue in GLPI before 0.84.8 may allow arbitrary local files to be included...

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 : cabextract (MDVSA-2015:064)

Updated cabextract packages fix security vulnerabilities : Libmspack, a library to provide compression and decompression of some file formats used by Microsoft, is embedded in cabextract. A specially crafted cab file can cause cabextract to hang forever. If cabextract is exposed to any...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : patch (MDVSA-2015:138)

Updated patch package fixes security vulnerabilities : It was reported that a crafted diff file can make patch eat memory and later segfault CVE-2014-9637. It was reported that the versions of the patch utility that support Git-style patches are vulnerable to a directory traversal flaw. This coul...

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 : python3 (MDVSA-2015:076)

Updated python3 packages fix security vulnerabilities : ZipExtFile.read goes into 100% CPU infinite loop on maliciously binary edited zips CVE-2013-7338. A vulnerability was reported in Python's socket module, due to a boundary error within the sockrecvfrominto function, which could be exploited ...

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 : jython (MDVSA-2015:158)

Updated jython packages fix security vulnerability : There are serveral problems with the way Jython creates class cache files, potentially leading to arbitrary code execution or information disclosure CVE-2013-2027. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : glibc (MDVSA-2015:168)

Updated glibc packages fix security vulnerabilities : Stephane Chazelas discovered that directory traversal issue in locale handling in glibc. glibc accepts relative paths with .. components in the LC and LANG variables. Together with typical OpenSSH configurations with suitable AcceptEnv setting...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : unzip (MDVSA-2015:123)

Updated unzip package fix security vulnerabilities : The unzip command line tool is affected by heap-based buffer overflows within the CRC32 verification CVE-2014-8139, the testcompreb CVE-2014-8140 and the getZip64Data CVE-2014-8141 functions. The input errors may result in in arbitrary code...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : rsync (MDVSA-2015:131)

Updated rsync package fixes security vulnerability : Ryan Finnie discovered that rsync 3.1.0 contains a denial of service issue when attempting to authenticate using a nonexistent username. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause a denial of service via CPU consumption CVE-2014-2855...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : python-lxml (MDVSA-2015:112)

Updated python-lxml packages fix security vulnerability : The cleanhtml function, provided by the lxml.html.clean module, did not properly clean HTML input if it included non-printed characters \x01-\x08. A remote attacker could use this flaw to serve malicious content to an application using the...

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 : gnupg (MDVSA-2015:154)

Updated gnupg, gnupg2 and libgcrypt packages fix security vulnerabilities : GnuPG versions before 1.4.17 and 2.0.24 are vulnerable to a denial of service which can be caused by garbled compressed data packets which may put gpg into an infinite loop CVE-2014-4617. The libgcrypt library before...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : mpfr (MDVSA-2015:143)

Updated mpfr packages fix security vulnerability : A buffer overflow was reported in mpfr. This is due to incorrect GMP documentation for mpnsetstr about the size of a buffer CVE-2014-9474. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : e2fsprogs (MDVSA-2015:067)

Updated e2fsprogs packages fix security vulnerabilities : The libext2fs library, part of e2fsprogs and utilized by its utilities, is affected by a boundary check error on block group descriptor information, leading to a heap based buffer overflow. A specially crafted filesystem image can be used ...