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 : libgssglue (MDVSA-2013:043)

This update fixes insecure getenv usage in libgssglue, which could be used under some circumstances by local attackers do gain root privileges CVE-2011-2709. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Mandriva...

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 : gnutls (MDVSA-2013:040)

Nadhem Alfardan and Kenny Paterson devised an attack that recovers some bits of the plaintext of a GnuTLS session that utilizes that CBC ciphersuites, by using timing information CVE-2013-1619. The gnutls package has been updated to latest 3.0.28 version to fix above problem. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 ...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : snack (MDVSA-2013:126)

Updated snack packages fix security vulnerability : Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in Snack Sound Toolkit, which are caused due to missing boundary checks in the GetWavHeader function generic/jkSoundFile.c when parsing either format sub-chunks or unknown sub-chunks. This can be exploite...

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : squid (MDVSA-2013:129)

Updated squid packages fix security vulnerability : Due to missing input validation, the Squid cachemgr.cgi tool in Squid before 3.1.22 and 3.2.4 is vulnerable to a denial of service attack when processing specially crafted requests CVE-2012-5643. It was discovered that the patch for CVE-2012-564...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : jakarta-poi (MDVSA-2013:094)

Updated jakarta-poi packages fix security vulnerability : It was discovered that Apache POI, a Java implementation of the Microsoft Office file formats, would allocate arbitrary amounts of memory when processing crafted documents. This could impact the stability of the Java virtual machine...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : sudo (MDVSA-2013:054)

Multiple vulnerabilities has been found and corrected in sudo : A flaw exists in the IP network matching code in sudo versions 1.6.9p3 through 1.8.4p4 that may result in the local host being matched even though it is not actually part of the network described by the IP address and associated...

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 : 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 : quagga (MDVSA-2013:122)

Updated quagga package fixes security vulnerability : The bgpcapabilityorf function in bgpd in Quagga 0.99.20.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service assertion failure and daemon exit by leveraging a BGP peering relationship and sending a malformed Outbound Route...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : fail2ban (MDVSA-2013:078)

Updated fail2ban package fixes security vulnerability : fail2ban before 0.8.8 didn't escape the content of \ if used in custom action files, which could cause issues on the system running fail2ban as it scans log files, depending on what content is matched, since that content could contain...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : awstats (MDVSA-2013:061)

Multiple XXS vulnerabilities was found and corrected in awstats CVE-2012-4547. The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Mandriva Linux Security...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : qemu (MDVSA-2013:121)

Updated qemu packages fix security vulnerability : A flaw was found in how qemu, in snapshot mode -snapshot command line argument, handled the creation and opening of the temporary file used to store the difference of the virtualized guest's read-only image and the current state. In snapshot mode...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : argyllcms (MDVSA-2013:090)

A security issue was identified and fixed in argyllcms : An integer overflow flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, was found in Ghostscript's International Color Consortium Format library icclib. An attacker could create a specially crafted PostScript or PDF file with embedded images tha...