Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : cups-pk-helper (MDVSA-2013:069)

Updated cups-pk-helper package fixes security vulnerability : cups-pk-helper, a PolicyKit helper to configure CUPS with fine-grained privileges, wraps CUPS function calls in an insecure way. This could lead to uploading sensitive data to a CUPS resource, or overwriting specific files with the...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : bogofilter (MDVSA-2013:064)

Updated bogofilter package fixes security vulnerability : In bogofilter before 1.2.3, bogofilter's/bogolexer's base64 could overwrite heap memory in the character set conversion in certain pathological cases of invalid base64 code that decodes to incomplete multibyte characters CVE-2012-5468...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : clamav (MDVSA-2013:027-1)

ClamAV 0.97.7 addresses several reported potential security bugs. Thanks to Felix Groebert, Mateusz Jurczyk and Gynvael Coldwind of the Google Security Team for finding and reporting these issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : bip (MDVSA-2013:063)

Updated bip package fixes security vulnerability : Buffer overflow in Bip 0.8.8 and earlier might allow remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code via vectors involving a series of TCP connections that triggers use of many open file descriptors CVE-2012-0806. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenab...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : openjpeg (MDVSA-2013:110)

Updated openjpeg packages fix security vulnerability : An out-of heap-based buffer bounds read and write flaw, leading to invalid free, was found in the way a tile coder / decoder TCD implementation of OpenJPEG, an open source JPEG 2000 codec written in C language, performed releasing of previous...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : keepalived (MDVSA-2013:096)

Updated keepalived package fixes security vulnerability : The pidfilewrite function in core/pidfile.c in keepalived 1.2.2 and earlier uses 0666 permissions for the 1 keepalived.pid, 2 checkers.pid, and 3 vrrp.pid files in /var/run/, which allows local users to kill arbitrary processes by writing ...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : libarchive (MDVSA-2013:147)

A vulnerability has been found and corrected in libarchive : Fabian Yamaguchi reported a read buffer overflow flaw in libarchive on 64-bit systems where sizeofsizet is equal to 8. In the archivewritezipdata function in libarchive/ archivewritesetformatzip.c, the 's' parameter is of type sizet 64...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : gegl (MDVSA-2013:081)

Updated gegl packages fix security vulnerability : An integer overflow flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, was found in the way the gegl utility processed .ppm Portable Pixel Map image files. An attacker could create a specially crafted .ppm file that, when opened in gegl, would cause...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : bind (MDVSA-2013:058)

A security issue was identified and fixed in ISC BIND : libdns in ISC BIND 9.7.x and 9.8.x before 9.8.4-P2, 9.8.5 before 9.8.5b2, 9.9.x before 9.9.2-P2, and 9.9.3 before 9.9.3b2 on UNIX platforms allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory consumption via a crafted regular...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : xinetd (MDVSA-2013:057)

A security issue was identified and fixed in xinetd : builtins.c in Xinetd before 2.3.15 does not check the service type when the tcpmux-server service is enabled, which exposes all enabled services and allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions via a request to tcpmux port 1...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : openssh (MDVSA-2013:051)

A vulnerability has been found and corrected in openssh : The default configuration of OpenSSH through 6.1 enforces a fixed time limit between establishing a TCP connection and completing a login, which makes it easier for remote attackers to cause a denial of service connection-slot exhaustion b...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : ncpfs (MDVSA-2013:048)

Multiple vulnerabilities has been discovered and corrected in ncpfs : ncpfs 2.2.6 and earlier attempts to use 1 ncpmount to append to the /etc/mtab file and 2 ncpumount to append to the /etc/mtab.tmp file without first checking whether resource limits would interfere, which allows local users to...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : ircd-hybrid (MDVSA-2013:093)

Updated ircd-hybrid packages fix security vulnerability : Bob Nomnomnom reported a Denial of Service vulnerability in IRCD-Hybrid, an Internet Relay Chat server. A remote attacker may use an error in the masks validation and crash the server CVE-2013-0238. Please note that due to the previously...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : weechat (MDVSA-2013:136)

Updated weechat packages fix security vulnerability : A buffer overflow is causing a crash or freeze of WeeChat 0.36 to 0.39 when decoding IRC colors in strings. The packages have been patched to fix this problem CVE-2012-5854. Untrusted command for function hookprocess in WeeChat before 0.3.9.2...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : libytnef (MDVSA-2013:099)

Updated libytnef package fixes security vulnerability : Function DecompressRTF in libytnef 1.5 leads to a buffer overflow on certain TNEF files presumably, on files, generated by some recent versions of MS software. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : apache-mod_security (MDVSA-2013:029)

A vulnerability has been discovered and corrected in apache-modsecurity : ModSecurity = 2.6.8 is vulnerable to multipart/invalid part ruleset bypass, this was fixed in 2.7.0 released on2012-10-16 CVE-2012-4528. The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue. NOTE: This advisory was...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : exif (MDVSA-2013:036)

A vulnerability has been discovered and corrected in exif : An integer overflow in the function jpegdataloaddata in the exif program could cause a data read beyond the end of a buffer, causing an application crash or leakage of potentially sensitive information when parsing a crafted JPEG file...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : courier-authlib (MDVSA-2013:068)

When using the authpgsql module and if the Postgres server goes down, authpgsql will start leaking memory. A packaging flaw was discovered that caused the courier-authlib-devel package to be installed when installing for example maildrop. This update fixes both of these issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 7030...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : open-iscsi (MDVSA-2013:109)

Updated open-iscsi package fixes security vulnerability : Colin Watson discovered that iscsidiscovery in Open-iSCSI did not safely create temporary files. A local attacker could exploit this to overwrite arbitrary files with root privileges CVE-2009-1297. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : freetype2 (MDVSA-2013:039)

Updated freetype2 packages fixes security vulnerabilities : A NULL pointer de-reference flaw was found in the way Freetype font rendering engine handled Glyph bitmap distribution format BDF fonts. A remote attacker could provide a specially crafted BDF font file, which once processed in an...