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 : 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 : 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 : glibc (MDVSA-2011:179)

Multiple vulnerabilities was discovered and fixed in glibc : The addmntent function in the GNU C Library aka glibc or libc6 2.13 and earlier does not report an error status for failed attempts to write to the /etc/mtab file, which makes it easier for local users to trigger corruption of this file...

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 : libxslt (MDVSA-2012:109)

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. The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C...

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...

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 : arpwatch (MDVSA-2012:113)

A vulnerability has been discovered and corrected in arpwatch : arpwatch 2.1a15, as used by Red Hat, Debian, Fedora, and possibly others, does not properly drop supplementary groups, which might allow attackers to gain root privileges by leveraging other vulnerabilities in the daemon CVE-2012-265...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : gimp (MDVSA-2012:142)

Multiple vulnerabilities has been discovered and corrected in gimp : A heap-based buffer overflow flaw, leading to invalid free, was found in the way KISS CEL file format plug-in of Gimp, the GNU Image Manipulation Program, performed loading of certain palette files. A remote attacker could provi...

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-2012:134)

Multiple vulnerabilities was found and corrected in Wireshark : The DCP ETSI dissector could trigger a zero division CVE-2012-4285. The MongoDB dissector could go into a large loop CVE-2012-4287. The XTP dissector could go into an infinite loop CVE-2012-4288. The AFP dissector could go into a lar...

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 : bind (MDVSA-2012:119)

A vulnerability was discovered and corrected in bind : High numbers of queries with DNSSEC validation enabled can cause an assertion failure in named, caused by using a bad cache data structure before it has been initialized CVE-2012-3817. The updated packages have been upgraded to bind 9.7.6-P2...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : mozilla-thunderbird (MDVSA-2012:018)

Use-after-free vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox 10.x before 10.0.1, Thunderbird 10.x before 10.0.1, and SeaMonkey 2.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service application crash or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors that trigger failure of an...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : libreoffice (MDVSA-2012:123)

A Security issue was identified and fixed in libreoffice : Multiple heap-based buffer overflow flaws were found in the XML manifest encryption tag parsing code of LibreOffice. An attacker could create a specially crafted file in the Open Document Format for Office Applications ODF format which wh...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : libotr (MDVSA-2012:131)

A vulnerability was found and corrected in libotr : Just Ferguson discovered that libotr, an off-the-record OTR messaging library, can be forced to perform zero-length allocations for heap buffers that are used in base64 decoding routines. An attacker can exploit this flaw by sending crafted...

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 : 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 : freeradius (MDVSA-2012:047)

A vulnerability has been found and corrected in freeradius : The ocspcheck function in rlmeaptls.c in FreeRADIUS 2.1.11, when OCSP is enabled, does not properly parse replies from OCSP responders, which allows remote attackers to bypass authentication by using the EAP-TLS protocol with a revoked...