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 : 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 : libxml2 (MDVSA-2015:111)

Updated libxml2 packages fix security vulnerabilities : It was discovered that libxml2, a library providing support to read, modify and write XML files, incorrectly performs entity substituton in the doctype prolog, even if the application using libxml2 disabled any entity substitution. A remote...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : patch (MDVSA-2015:138)

Updated patch package fixes security vulnerabilities : It was reported that a crafted diff file can make patch eat memory and later segfault CVE-2014-9637. It was reported that the versions of the patch utility that support Git-style patches are vulnerable to a directory traversal flaw. This coul...

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 : cpio (MDVSA-2015:066)

Updated cpio package fixes security vulnerability : In GNU Cpio 2.11, the --no-absolute-filenames option limits extracting contents of an archive to be strictly inside a current directory. However, it can be bypassed with symlinks. While extracting an archive, it will extract symlinks and then...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : lcms2 (MDVSA-2015:107)

Updated lcms2 packages fix security vulnerability : Unspecified vulnerability in Oracle Java SE 7u51 and 8, and Java SE Embedded 7u51, allows remote attackers to affect availability via unknown vectors related to 2D CVE-2014-0459. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descripti...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : readline (MDVSA-2015:132)

Updated readline packages fix security vulnerability : Steve Kemp discovered the rltropen function in readline insecurely handled a temporary file. This could allow a local attacker to perform symbolic link attacks CVE-2014-2524. Also, upstream patches have been added to fix an infinite loop in v...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : cifs-utils (MDVSA-2015:114)

Updated cifs-utils packages fix security vulnerability : Sebastian Krahmer discovered a stack-based buffer overflow flaw in cifscreds.c CVE-2014-2830. %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 : 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 : gnupg (MDVSA-2015:155)

Updated gnupg and libgcrypt packages fix security vulnerabilities : GnuPG before 1.4.19 is vulnerable to a side-channel attack which can potentially lead to an information leak CVE-2014-3591. GnuPG before 1.4.19 is vulnerable to a side-channel attack on data-dependent timing variations in modular...

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 : php (MDVSA-2015:080)

Multiple vulnerabilities has been discovered and corrected in php : It was discovered that the file utility contains a flaw in the handling of indirect magic rules in the libmagic library, which leads to an infinite recursion when trying to determine the file type of certain files CVE-2014-1943. ...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : grub2 (MDVSA-2015:163)

Updated grub2 package fixes security vulnerability : 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 grub2 package is...

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 : 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 : 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...

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 : ppp (MDVSA-2015:135)

Updated ppp packages fix security vulnerability : A vulnerability in ppp before 2.4.7 may enable an unprivileged attacker to access privileged options CVE-2014-3158. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : git (MDVSA-2015:169)

Updated git packages fix security vulnerability : It was reported that git, when used as a client on a case-insensitive filesystem, could allow the overwrite of the .git/config file when the client performed a git pull. Because git permitted committing .Git/config or any case variation, on the pu...