Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : wget (MDKSA-2007:017)

The ftpsyst function in ftp-basic.c in Free Software Foundation FSF GNU wget 1.10.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service application crash via a malicious FTP server with a large number of blank 220 responses to the SYST command. The updated packages have been patched to correct...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : libksba (MDKSA-2006:183)

The libksba library, as used by gpgsm in the gnupg2 package, allows attackers to cause a denial of service application crash via a malformed X.509 certificate in a signature. libksba-0.9.15 in Mandriva 2007.0 is not affected by this issue. Updated packages have been patched to correct this issue...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : xorg-x11 (MDKSA-2007:005)

Sean Larsson of iDefense Labs discovered several vulnerabilities in X.Org/XFree86 : Local exploitation of a memory corruption vulnerability in the 'ProcRenderAddGlyphs' function in the X.Org and XFree86 X server could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code with privileges of the X server,...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : avahi (MDKSA-2006:215)

Steve Grubb discovered that netlink messages were not being checked for their sender identity. This could lead to local users manipulating the Avahi service. Packages have been patched to correct this issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : samba (MDKSA-2007:034)

A logic error in the deferred open code for smbd may allow an authenticated user to exhaust resources such as memory and CPU on the server by opening multiple CIFS sessions, each of which will normally spawn a new smbd process, and sending each connection into an infinite loop. CVE-2007-0452 The...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : libneon0.26 (MDKSA-2007:013)

An array index error in the URI parser in neon 0.26.0 to 0.26.2 could possibly allow remote malicious servers to cause a crash via a URI with non-ASCII characters. This vulnerability may only exist on 64bit systems. Updated packages are patched to address this issue. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable...

MDKA-2005:054 : autofs

A problem with how autofs was linked with the LDAP libraries would cause autofs to segfault on startup. The updated package has been fixed to correct this problem. %NASLMINLEVEL 999999 @DEPRECATED@ This script has been deprecated as the associated patch is not currently a security fix. Disabled o...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : ntp (MDKSA-2006:178)

Openssl recently had several vulnerabilities which were patched CVE-2006-2937,2940,3738,4339, 4343. Some versions of ntp are built against a static copy of the SSL libraries. As a precaution an updated copy built against the new libraries in being made available. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : mozilla-thunderbird (MDKSA-2007:011)

A number of security vulnerabilities have been discovered and corrected in the latest Mozilla Thunderbird program, version 1.5.0.9. This update provides the latest Thunderbird to correct these issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in...

MDKA-2006:049 : desktop-common-data

There were some problems with the menu system in Mandriva Linux 2007. Some menu categories were not displayed or properly translated, and editing the menus with the GNOME menu editor alacarte was not working. This update fixes these problems. %NASLMINLEVEL 999999 @DEPRECATED@ This script has been...

MDKA-2006:045 : coreutils

The coreutils package lacked several features due to a build deficiency. As a result, the su program was not linked against the PAM library, making it impossible for su to make use of advanced authentication features that rely on the PAM library. As well, the cp system utility did not keep extend...

MDKA-2006:032 : epiphany-extensions

Recently, epiphany was updated to work with the latest Mozilla Firefox however new epiphany-extensions packages were not available. This update provides updated epiphany-extensions for epiphany. %NASLMINLEVEL 999999 @DEPRECATED@ This script has been deprecated as the associated patch is not...

MDKA-2006:006 : xorg-x11

Issues have been reported with display corruption for various cards, including several ATI and Nvidia cards when using the free drivers. There was also an issue with the Greek keyboard layout. These should be corrected by the upstream 6.9.0 final, which this package is based on. Updated packages...

MDKA-2006:057 : clamav

There are no known security issues with clamav-0.88.5, which was included in the last update MDKSA-2006:184. Upstream has released a new stable 0.88.6, with some bugfixes. This update is to address user reports with regards to clamav's behavior of producing output such as: WARNING: Your ClamAV...

MDKA-2007:004 : mesa

There was a problem with mesa, where OpenGL applications would crash for users having some i965G chipsets. Updated packages have been patched to correct this issue. %NASLMINLEVEL 999999 @DEPRECATED@ This script has been deprecated as the associated patch is not currently a security fix. Disabled ...

MDKA-2006:009 : OpenOffice.org

Updated OpenOffice.org package correct a bug that caused a random crash when opening certain sxi files. %NASLMINLEVEL 999999 @DEPRECATED@ This script has been deprecated as the associated patch is not currently a security fix. Disabled on 2012/09/06. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. This script w...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : wxGTK2 (MDKSA-2004:111)

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the libtiff package; wxGTK2 uses a libtiff code tree, so it may have the same vulnerabilities : Chris Evans discovered several problems in the RLE run length encoding decoders that could lead to arbitrary code execution. CVE-2004-0803 Matthias Clase...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : mozilla-firefox (MDKSA-2006:205)

A number of security vulnerabilities have been discovered and corrected in the latest Mozilla Firefox program, version 1.5.0.8. This update provides the latest Firefox to correct these issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : ImageMagick (MDKSA-2006:223)

Multiple buffer overflows in Imagemagick 6.0 before 6.0.6.2, and 6.2 before 6.2.4.5, has unknown impact and user-assisted attack vectors via a crafted SGI image. Updated packages have been patched to correct this issue. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : tar (MDKSA-2006:219)

GNU tar 1.16 and 1.15.1, and possibly other versions, allows user-assisted attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a tar file that contains a GNUTYPENAMES record with a symbolic link, which is not properly handled by the extractarchive function in extract.c and extractmangle function in...