Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : jython (MDVSA-2015:158)

Updated jython packages fix security vulnerability : There are serveral problems with the way Jython creates class cache files, potentially leading to arbitrary code execution or information disclosure CVE-2013-2027. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : cpio (MDVSA-2015:065)

Updated cpio package fixes security vulnerabilities : Heap-based buffer overflow in the processcopyin function in GNU Cpio 2.11 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a large block value in a cpio archive CVE-2014-9112. Additionally, a NULL pointer dereference in the copyinlink...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : libxfont (MDVSA-2015:145-1)

Updated libxfont packages fix security vulnerabilities : Ilja van Sprundel discovered that libXfont incorrectly handled font metadata file parsing. A local attacker could use this issue to cause libXfont to crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code in order to gain privileges CVE-2014-0209. Ilja...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : libjpeg (MDVSA-2015:152)

Updated libjpeg packages fix security vulnerability : Passing a specially crafted jpeg file to libjpeg-turbo could lead to stack smashing CVE-2014-9092. %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 : libarchive (MDVSA-2015:157)

Updated libarchive packages fix security vulnerability : Alexander Cherepanov discovered that bsdcpio, an implementation of the cpio program part of the libarchive project, is susceptible to a directory traversal vulnerability via absolute paths CVE-2015-2304. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Networ...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : squid (MDVSA-2015:103)

Updated squid packages fix security vulnerabilities : Due to incorrect state management, Squid before 3.3.12 is vulnerable to a denial of service attack when processing certain HTTPS requests if the SSL-Bump feature is enabled CVE-2014-0128. Matthew Daley discovered that Squid 3 did not properly...

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 : 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...