Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : openvpn (MDVSA-2015:139)

Updated openvpn packages fix security vulnerability : Dragana Damjanovic discovered that OpenVPN incorrectly handled certain control channel packets. An authenticated attacker could use this issue to cause an OpenVPN server to crash, resulting in a denial of service CVE-2014-8104. %NASLMINLEVEL...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : udisks2 (MDVSA-2015:088)

Updated udisks2 packages fixes security vulnerability : A flaw was found in the way udisks and udisks2 handled long path names. A malicious, local user could use this flaw to create a specially crafted directory structure that could lead to arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the udis...

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 : 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 : stunnel (MDVSA-2015:096)

Updated stunnel package fixes security vulnerability : A flaw was found in the way stunnel, a socket wrapper which can provide SSL support to ordinary applications, performed reinitialization of PRNG after fork. When accepting a new connection, the server forks and the child process handles the...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : pulseaudio (MDVSA-2015:134)

Updated pulseaudio package fixes RTP remote crash vulnerability : PulseAudio versions shipped in mbs2 were vulnerable to a remote RTP attack which could crash the PulseAudio server simply by sending an empty UDP packet. Additionally, the version of PulseAudio shipped in mbs2 was a pre-release...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : emacs (MDVSA-2015:117)

Updated emacs packages fix security vulnerabilities : Steve Kemp discovered multiple temporary file handling issues in Emacs. A local attacker could use these flaws to perform symbolic link attacks against users running Emacs CVE-2014-3421, CVE-2014-3422, CVE-2014-3423, CVE-2014-3424. %NASLMINLEV...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : sudo (MDVSA-2015:126)

Updated sudo packages fix security vulnerability : Prior to sudo 1.8.12, the TZ environment variable was passed through unchecked. Most libc tzset implementations support passing an absolute pathname in the time zone to point to an arbitrary, user-controlled file. This may be used to exploit bugs...

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 : libssh2 (MDVSA-2015:148-1)

Updated libssh2 packages fix security vulnerability : Mariusz Ziulek reported that libssh2, a SSH2 client-side library, was reading and using the SSHMSGKEXINIT packet without doing sufficient range checks when negotiating a new SSH session with a remote server. A malicious attacker could man in t...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : libpng (MDVSA-2015:090)

Updated libpng package fixes security vulnerabilities : The pngpushreadchunk function in pngpread.c in the progressive decoder in libpng 1.6.x through 1.6.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service infinite loop and CPU consumption via an IDAT chunk with a length of zero CVE-2014-0333...

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 : torque (MDVSA-2015:124)

Updated torque packages fix security vulnerabilities : Chad Vizino reported that within a TORQUE Resource Manager job a non-root user could use a vulnerability in the tmadopt library call to kill processes he/she doesn't own including root-owned ones on any node in a job CVE-2014-3684. This updat...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : jbigkit (MDVSA-2015:101)

Updated jbigkit packages fix security vulnerability : Florian Weimer found a stack-based buffer overflow flaw in the libjbig library part of jbigkit. A specially crafted image file read by libjbig could be used to cause a program linked to libjbig to crash or, potentially, to execute arbitrary co...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : rsyslog (MDVSA-2015:130)

Updated rsyslog packages fix security vulnerability : Rainer Gerhards, the rsyslog project leader, reported a vulnerability in Rsyslog. As a consequence of this vulnerability an attacker can send malformed messages to a server, if this one accepts data from untrusted sources, and trigger a denial...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : libvncserver (MDVSA-2015:146)

Updated libvncserver packages fix security vulnerabilities : An integer overflow in liblzo before 2.07 allows attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly code execution in applications using performing LZO decompression on a compressed payload from the attacker CVE-2014-4607. The...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : cups (MDVSA-2015:108)

Updated cups packages fix security vulnerabilities : Cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in scheduler/client.c in Common Unix Printing System CUPS before 1.7.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the URL path, related to the ispathabsolute function CVE-2014-2856...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : libtasn1 (MDVSA-2015:116)

Updated libtasn1 packages fix security vulnerabilities : Multiple buffer boundary check issues were discovered in libtasn1 library, causing it to read beyond the boundary of an allocated buffer. An untrusted ASN.1 input could cause an application using the library to crash CVE-2014-3467. It was...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : e2fsprogs (MDVSA-2015:068)

Updated e2fsprogs packages fix security vulnerability : 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 to...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : gtk+3.0 (MDVSA-2015:162)

Updated gtk+3.0 packages fix security vulnerability : Clemens Fries reported that, when using Cinnamon, it was possible to bypass the screensaver lock. An attacker with physical access to the machine could use this flaw to take over the locked desktop session CVE-2014-1949. This was fixed by...