Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : libtiff (MDVSA-2012:127)

A vulnerability was found and corrected in libtiff : A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way tiff2pdf, a TIFF image to a PDF document conversion tool, of libtiff, a library of functions for manipulating TIFF Tagged Image File Format image format files, performed write of TIFF image...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : python (MDVSA-2012:097)

Multiple vulnerabilities has been discovered and corrected in python : The ssl module would always disable the CBC IV attack countermeasure CVE-2011-3389. 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 use...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : krb5 (MDVSA-2011:184)

A vulnerability has been discovered and corrected in krb5 : The processtgsreq function in dotgsreq.c in the Key Distribution Center KDC in MIT Kerberos 5 aka krb5 1.9 through 1.9.2 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash via a craft...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : squid (MDVSA-2011:193)

A vulnerability has been discovered and corrected in squid : The idnsGrokReply function in Squid before 3.1.16 does not properly free memory, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service daemon abort via a DNS reply containing a CNAME record that references another CNAME record that...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : wireshark (MDVSA-2012:042)

Multiple vulnerabilities was found and corrected in Wireshark : - The ANSI A dissector could dereference a NULL pointer and crash. - The IEEE 802.11 dissector could go into an infinite loop. - The pcap and pcap-ng file parsers could crash trying to read ERF data. - The MP2T dissector could try to...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : openslp (MDVSA-2012:141)

A vulnerability has been discovered and corrected in openslp : 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 : exif (MDVSA-2012:107)

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 : wireshark (MDVSA-2012:125)

Multiple vulnerabilities was found and corrected in Wireshark : It may be possible to make Wireshark crash by injecting a malformed packet onto the wire or by convincing someone to read a malformed packet trace file CVE-2012-4048. It may be possible to make Wireshark consume excessive CPU resourc...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : python-sqlalchemy (MDVSA-2012:059)

It was discovered that SQLAlchemy did not sanitize values for the limit and offset keywords for SQL select statements. If an application using SQLAlchemy accepted values for these keywords, and did not filter or sanitize them before passing them to SQLAlchemy, it could allow an attacker to perfor...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : libreoffice (MDVSA-2012:091)

Security issues were identified and fixed in libreoffice : An integer overflow vulnerability in the libreoffice graphic loading code could allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service application crash or potentially execute arbitrary code CVE-2012-1149. An integer overflow flaw, leading ...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : libxml2 (MDVSA-2012:126)

A vulnerability was found and corrected in libxml2 : Multiple integer overflows in libxml2, on 64-bit Linux platforms allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors CVE-2012-2807. The updated packages have been patched to correct...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : pidgin (MDVSA-2012:082)

Multiple vulnerabilities has been discovered and corrected in pidgin : A series of specially crafted file transfer requests can cause clients to reference invalid memory. The user must have accepted one of the file transfer requests CVE-2012-2214. Incoming messages with certain characters or...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : wireshark (MDVSA-2012:015)

Multiple file parser and NULL pointer vulnerabilities including a RLC dissector buffer overflow was found and corrected in Wireshark. This advisory provides the latest version of Wireshark 1.6.5 which is not vulnerable to these issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : mozilla (MDVSA-2011:192)

Security issues were identified and fixed in mozilla firefox and thunderbird : The SVG implementation in Mozilla Firefox 8.0, Thunderbird 8.0, and SeaMonkey 2.5 does not properly interact with DOMAttrModified event handlers, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service out-of-bounds...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : wireshark (MDVSA-2011:164)

This advisory updates wireshark to the latest version 1.6.3, fixing several security issues : An uninitialized variable in the CSN.1 dissector could cause a crash CVE-2011-4100. Huzaifa Sidhpurwala of Red Hat Security Response Team discovered that the Infiniband dissector could dereference a NULL...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : usbmuxd (MDVSA-2012:133)

It was discovered that usbmuxd did not correctly perform bounds checking when processing the SerialNumber field of USB devices. An attacker with physical access could use this to crash usbmuxd or potentially execute arbitrary code as the 'usbmux' user CVE-2012-0065. The updated packages have been...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : perl-DBD-Pg (MDVSA-2012:112)

A vulnerability has been discovered and corrected in perl-DBD-Pg : Two format string flaws were found in the way perl-DBD-Pg. A rogue server could provide a specially crafted database warning or specially crafted DBD statement, which once processed by the perl-DBD-Pg interface would lead to...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : mono (MDVSA-2012:140)

A vulnerability has been discovered and corrected in mono : Cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in the ProcessRequest function in mcs/class/System.Web/System.Web/HttpForbiddenHandler.cs in Mono 2.10.8 and earlier allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a file with a...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : systemtap (MDVSA-2011:155)

Multiple vulnerabilities has been discovered and corrected in systemtap : SystemTap 1.4 and earlier, when unprivileged aka stapusr mode is enabled, allows local users to cause a denial of service divide-by-zero error and OOPS via a crafted ELF program with DWARF expressions that are not properly...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : ffmpeg (MDVSA-2012:148)

Multiple vulnerabilities has been found and corrected in ffmpeg. This advisory provides updated versions which resolves various security issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Mandriva Linux Security...