Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : xinetd (MDVSA-2013:057)

A security issue was identified and fixed in xinetd : builtins.c in Xinetd before 2.3.15 does not check the service type when the tcpmux-server service is enabled, which exposes all enabled services and allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions via a request to tcpmux port 1...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : openconnect (MDVSA-2013:108)

Updated openconnect packages fix security vulnerability : A stack-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way OpenConnect, a client for Cisco's AnyConnect VPN, performed processing of certain host names, paths, or cookie lists, received from the VPN gateway. A remote VPN gateway could provide...

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 : libssh (MDVSA-2013:045)

Updated libssh packages fix security vulnerabilities : Multiple double free flaws, buffer overflow flaws, invalid free flaws, and improper overflow checks in libssh before 0.5.3 could enable a denial of service attack against libssh clients, or possibly arbitrary code execution CVE-2012-4559,...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : libarchive (MDVSA-2013:147)

A vulnerability has been found and corrected in libarchive : Fabian Yamaguchi reported a read buffer overflow flaw in libarchive on 64-bit systems where sizeofsizet is equal to 8. In the archivewritezipdata function in libarchive/ archivewritesetformatzip.c, the 's' parameter is of type sizet 64...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : ruby (MDVSA-2013:124)

Updated ruby packages fix security vulnerabilities : Shugo Maedo and Vit Ondruch discovered that Ruby incorrectly allowed untainted strings to be modified in protective safe levels. An attacker could use this flaw to bypass intended access restrictions CVE-2012-4466, CVE-2012-4481. It was...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : groff (MDVSA-2013:086)

Multiple vulnerabilities has been found and corrected in groff : contrib/pdfmark/pdfroff.sh in GNU troff aka groff before 1.21 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a pdf.tmp temporary file CVE-2009-5044. The 1 gendef.sh, 2 doc/fixinfo.sh, and 3...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : libxslt (MDVSA-2013:047)

A vulnerability has been discovered and corrected in libxslt : The XSL implementation in libxslt allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service incorrect read operation via unspecified vectors CVE-2012-2825. libxslt 1.1.26 and earlier does not properly manage memory, which might allow remot...

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 : icecast (MDVSA-2013:091)

Updated icecast package fixes security vulnerability : Icecast didn't strip newlines from log entries, therefore allowing users to forge log entries CVE-2011-4612 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Mandri...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : apache-mod_security (MDVSA-2013:029)

A vulnerability has been discovered and corrected in apache-modsecurity : ModSecurity = 2.6.8 is vulnerable to multipart/invalid part ruleset bypass, this was fixed in 2.7.0 released on2012-10-16 CVE-2012-4528. The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue. NOTE: This advisory was...

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 : socat (MDVSA-2013:127)

Updated socat package fixes security vulnerability : Heap-based buffer overflow in the xioscanreadline function in xio-readline.c in socat 1.4.0.0 through 1.7.2.0 and 2.0.0-b1 through 2.0.0-b4 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via the READLINE address CVE-2012-0219. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : python-pycrypto (MDVSA-2013:120)

Updated python-pycrypto package fixes security vulnerability : PyCrypto before 2.6 does not produce appropriate prime numbers when using an ElGamal scheme to generate a key, which reduces the signature space or public key space and makes it easier for attackers to conduct brute-force attacks to...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : ncpfs (MDVSA-2013:048)

Multiple vulnerabilities has been discovered and corrected in ncpfs : ncpfs 2.2.6 and earlier attempts to use 1 ncpmount to append to the /etc/mtab file and 2 ncpumount to append to the /etc/mtab.tmp file without first checking whether resource limits would interfere, which allows local users to...

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 : 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 : python (MDVSA-2013:117)

Updated python packages fix security vulnerabilities : A race condition was found in the way the Python distutils module set file permissions during the creation of the .pypirc file. If a local user had access to the home directory of another user who is running distutils, they could use this fla...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : otrs (MDVSA-2013:112)

Updated otrs package fixes security vulnerabilities : Multiple cross-site scripting XSS vulnerabilities in Open Ticket Request System OTRS Help Desk 2.4.x before 2.4.13, 3.0.x before 3.0.15, and 3.1.x before 3.1.9, and OTRS ITSM 2.1.x before 2.1.5, 3.0.x before 3.0.6, and 3.1.x before 3.1.6, allo...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : ettercap (MDVSA-2013:077)

Updated ettercap package fixes security vulnerability : The GTK version of ettercap uses a global settings file at /tmp/.ettercapgtk and does not verify ownership of this file. When parsing this file for settings in gtkuiconfread\ src/interfaces/gtk/ecgtkconf.c, an unchecked sscanf\ call allows a...