Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : clamav (MDVSA-2008:189-1)

Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in ClamAV and corrected with the 0.94 release, including : A vulnerability in ClamAV's chm-parser allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service application crash via a malformed CHM file CVE-2008-1389. A vulnerability in libclamav would allow...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : postfix (MDVSA-2008:171)

Sebastian Krahmer of the SUSE Security Team discovered a flaw in the way Postfix dereferenced symbolic links. If a local user had write access to a mail spool directory without a root mailbox file, it could be possible for them to append arbitrary data to files that root had write permissions to...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : ImageMagick (MDVSA-2008:035)

Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in the image decoders of ImageMagick. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing malicious DCM, DIB, XBM, XCF, or XWD images, a remote attacker could execute arbitrary code with user privileges. The updated packages have been patched to...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : squid (MDVSA-2009:034)

Due to an internal error Squid is vulnerable to a denial of service attack when processing specially crafted requests. This problem allows any client to perform a denial of service attack on the Squid service CVE-2009-0478. The updated packages have been patched to adress this. %NASLMINLEVEL 7030...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : pidgin (MDVSA-2009:025)

The NSS plugin in libpurple in Pidgin 2.4.1 does not verify SSL certificates, which makes it easier for remote attackers to trick a user into accepting an invalid server certificate for a spoofed service. CVE-2008-3532 Pidgin 2.4.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash via a...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : pulseaudio (MDVSA-2008:065)

Luigi Auriemma found a few programming errors in Pulseaudio, that can be used to crash the Pulseaudio daemon, by authenticated and unauthenticated users. The updated packages fix these issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : silc-toolkit (MDVSA-2008:158)

A vulnerability was found in the SILC toolkit before version 1.1.5 that allowed a remote attacker to cause a denial of service crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code via long input data CVE-2008-1227. A vulnerability was found in the SILC toolkit before version 1.1.7 that allowed a remote...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : poppler (MDVSA-2008:146)

A memory management issue was found in libpoppler by Felipe Andres Manzano that could allow for the execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running a poppler-based application, if they opened a specially crafted PDF file CVE-2008-2950. The updated packages have been patched to...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : R-base (MDVSA-2008:198)

A symlink vulnerability was found in the javareconf script in R that allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files CVE-2008-3931. The updated packages have been patched to prevent this issue. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : perl-MDK-Common (MDVSA-2009:072)

Some vulnerabilities were discovered and corrected in perl-MDK-Common : The functions used to write strings into shell like configuration files by Mandriva tools were not taking care of some special characters. This could lead to some bugs like wireless keys containing certain characters not...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : vorbis-tools (MDVSA-2008:093)

A vulnerability in the Speex library was found where it did not properly validate input values read from the Speex files headers. An attacker could create a malicious Speex file that would crash an application or potentially allow the execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : bzip2 (MDVSA-2008:075)

Bzip2 versions before 1.0.5 are vulnerable to a denial of service attack via malicious compressed data. The updated packages have been patched to prevent the issue. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : libsamplerate (MDVSA-2008:238)

A buffer overflow was found by Russell O'Conner in the libsamplerate library versions prior to 0.1.4 that could possibly lead to the execution of arbitrary code via a specially crafted audio file CVE-2008-5008. The updated packages have been patched to prevent this issue. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : libid3tag (MDVSA-2008:103)

field.c in the libid3tag 0.15.0b library allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service CPU and memory consumption via an ID3FIELDTYPESTRINGLIST field that ends in '', which triggers an infinite loop. The updated packages have been patched to correct this. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : squid (MDVSA-2008:134)

An incorrect fix for CVE-2007-6239 resulted in Squid not performing proper bounds checking when processing cache update replies. Because of this, a remote authenticated user might have been able to trigger an assertion error and cause a denial of service CVE-2008-1612. The updated packages have...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : libxfont (MDVSA-2008:024)

A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in how the X.org server handled malformed font files that could allow a malicious local user to potentially execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the X.org server CVE-2008-0006. The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : openldap (MDVSA-2008:144)

A denial of service vulnerability was discovered in the way the OpenLDAP slapd daemon processed certain network messages. An unauthenticated remote attacker could send a specially crafted request that would crash the slapd daemon CVE-2008-2952. The updated packages have been patched to correct th...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : epiphany (MDVSA-2009:048-2)

Python has a variable called sys.path that contains all paths where Python loads modules by using import scripting procedure. A wrong handling of that variable enables local attackers to execute arbitrary code via Python scripting in the current Epiphany working directory CVE-2008-5985. This upda...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : libexif (MDVSA-2008:005)

An infinite recursion flaw was found in the way that libexif parses Exif image tags. A carefully crafted Exif image file opened by an application linked against libexif could cause the application to crash CVE-2007-6351. An integer overflow flaw was also found in how libexif parses Exif image tag...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : net-snmp (MDVSA-2008:118)

A vulnerability was found in how Net-SNMP checked an SNMPv3 packet's Keyed-Hash Message Authentication Code HMAC. An attacker could exploit this flaw to spoof an authenticated SNMPv3 packet CVE-2008-0960. A buffer overflow was found in the perl bindings for Net-SNMP that could be exploited if an...