Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : cups (MDVSA-2008:211)

A buffer overflow in the SGI image format decoding routines used by the CUPS image converting filter imagetops was discovered. An attacker could create malicious SGI image files that could possibly execute arbitrary code if the file was printed CVE-2008-3639. An integer overflow flaw leading to a...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : php (MDVSA-2009:021)

A buffer overflow in the imageloadfont function in PHP allowed context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service crash and potentially execute arbitrary code via a crafted font file CVE-2008-3658. A buffer overflow in the memnstr function allowed context-dependent attackers to cause a deni...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : php (MDVSA-2009:045)

A number of vulnerabilities have been found and corrected in PHP : improve mbflfiltconvhtmldecflush error handling in ext/mbstring/libmbfl/filters/mbfilterhtmlent.c CVE-2008-5557. Additionally on Mandriva Linux 2009.0 and up the php-mbstring module is linked against a separate shared libmbfl...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : libcdaudio (MDVSA-2008:233-1)

A heap overflow was found in the CDDB retrieval code of libcdaudio, which could result in the execution of arbitrary code CVE-2008-5030. In addition, the fixes for CVE-2005-0706 were not applied to newer libcdaudio packages as shipped with Mandriva Linux, so the patch to fix that issue has been...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : gstreamer0.10-plugins-good (MDVSA-2009:035)

Security vulnerabilities have been discovered and corrected in gstreamer0.10-plugins-good, might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed QuickTime media file CVE-2009-0386, CVE-2009-0387, CVE-2009-0397. The updated packages have been patched to prevent this. %NASLMINLEVEL...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : gd (MDVSA-2008:038)

Buffer overflow in the LWZReadByte function in gdgifin.c in GD prior to 2.0.34 allows remote attackers to have an unknown impact via a GIF file with inputcodesize greater than MAXLWZBITS, which triggers an overflow when initializing the table array. This was originally fixed in PHP's embedded GD...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : samba (MDVSA-2008:108)

Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in Samba, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system. A boundary error within the receivesmbraw function in lib/utilsock.c can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow via an overly large SMB packet receiv...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : xterm (MDVSA-2009:005)

A vulnerability has been discovered in xterm, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system. The vulnerability is caused due to xterm not properly processing the DECRQSS Device Control Request Status String escape sequence. This can be exploited to inject and execute...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : ghostscript (MDVSA-2008:055)

Chris Evans found a buffer overflow condition in Ghostscript, which can lead to arbitrary code execution as the user running any application using it to process a maliciously crafted Postscript file. The updated packages have been patched to prevent this issue. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Netwo...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : net-snmp (MDVSA-2008:225)

A denial of service vulnerability was discovered in how Net-SNMP processed GETBULK requests. A remote attacker with read access to the SNMP server could issue a specially crafted request which would cause snmpd to crash CVE-2008-4309. Please note that for this to be successfully exploited, an...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : pam (MDVSA-2009:077)

A security vulnerability has been identified and fixed in pam : Integer signedness error in the pamStrTok function in libpam/pammisc.c in Linux-PAM aka pam 1.0.3 and earlier, when a configuration file contains non-ASCII usernames, might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service, and mig...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : ruby (MDVSA-2008:029)

Ruby network libraries Net::HTTP, Net::IMAP, Net::FTPTLS, Net::Telnet, Net::POP3, and Net::SMTP, up to Ruby version 1.8.6 are affected by a possible man-in-the-middle attack, when using SSL, due to a missing check of the CN common name attribute in SSL certificates against the server's hostname...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : freetype2 (MDVSA-2008:121)

Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in FreeType's Printer Font Binary PFB font-file format parser. If a user were to load a carefully crafted font file with a program linked against FreeType, it could cause the application to crash or potentially execute arbitrary code CVE-2008-1806,...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : sarg (MDVSA-2009:073)

Various stack-based buffer overflows were discovered and corrected in sarg : Additionally the previous release fixed CVE-2008-1922, CVE-2008-7249, CVE-2008-7250 The updated packages have been patched to correct these issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive tex...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : python (MDVSA-2008:013)

Multiple integer overflows were found in python's imageop module. If an application written in python used the imageop module to process untrusted images, it could cause the application to crash, enter an infinite loop, or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the python...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : clamav (MDVSA-2008:166)

An incomplete fix for CVE-2008-2713 resulted in remote attackers being able to cause a denial of service via a malformed Petite file that triggered an out-of-bounds memory access CVE-2008-3215. This issue is corrected with the 0.93.3 release which is being provided. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable...

MDVA-2008:040 : monitor-edid

This update adds support for getting EDID information from a different DDC port and uses it by default to also get port 1. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 @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,...

MDVA-2009:041 : php

The previous fix for addressing Bug 43486 XML parsing ignores encoded elements in character data e.g. etc. broke the php-wddx extension. This bugfix release uses backported upstream fixes for both php and libxml2 to addres...

MDVA-2008:184 : kdevelop

KDevelop as shipped in Mandriva Linux 2009.0 contains a build time bug, which led to subversion support not being correctly compiled. As a result, it was not possible to use subversion as the version control system for projects in KDevelop. The updated package fixes this problem. %NASLMINLEVEL...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : emacs (MDVSA-2008:034)

The hack-local-variable function in Emacs 22 prior to version 22.2, when enable-local-variables is set to ':safe', did not properly search lists of unsafe or risky variables, which could allow user-assisted attackers to bypass intended restrictions and modify critical program variables via a file...