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 : libxslt (MDVSA-2013:141)

Updated libxslt packages fix security vulnerability : Nicholas Gregoire discovered that libxslt incorrectly handled certain empty values. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted XSLT document, a remote attacker could cause libxslt to crash, causing a denial ...

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : accountsservice (MDVSA-2013:060)

Updated accountsservice packages fix security vulnerability : Florian Weimer discovered that AccountsService incorrectly handled privileges when copying certain files to the system cache directory. A local attacker could exploit this issue to read arbitrary files, bypassing intended permissions...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : quagga (MDVSA-2013:122)

Updated quagga package fixes security vulnerability : The bgpcapabilityorf function in bgpd in Quagga 0.99.20.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service assertion failure and daemon exit by leveraging a BGP peering relationship and sending a malformed Outbound Route...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : fail2ban (MDVSA-2013:078)

Updated fail2ban package fixes security vulnerability : fail2ban before 0.8.8 didn't escape the content of \ if used in custom action files, which could cause issues on the system running fail2ban as it scans log files, depending on what content is matched, since that content could contain...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : socat (MDVSA-2013:127)

Updated socat package fixes security vulnerability : Heap-based buffer overflow in the xioscanreadline function in xio-readline.c in socat 1.4.0.0 through 1.7.2.0 and 2.0.0-b1 through 2.0.0-b4 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via the READLINE address CVE-2012-0219. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : net-snmp (MDVSA-2013:049)

A vulnerability has been discovered and corrected in net-snmp : An array index error, leading to out-of heap-based buffer read flaw was found in the way net-snmp agent performed entries lookup in the extension table. When certain MIB subtree was handled by the extend directive, a remote attacker...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : openslp (MDVSA-2013:111)

Updated openslp packages fix security vulnerability : The extension parser in slpv2message.c in OpenSLP 1.2.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service infinite loop via a packet with a next extension offset that references this extension or a previous extension CVE-2010-3609...

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 : bash (MDVSA-2013:032)

A vulnerability was found and corrected in bash : A stack-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way bash, the GNU Bourne Again shell, expanded certain /dev/fd file names when checking file names 'test' command and evaluating /dev/fd file names in conditinal command expressions. A remote...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : perl (MDVSA-2013:113)

Updated perl packages fix security vulnerability : It was discovered that Perl's 'x' string repeat operator is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow. An attacker could use this to execute arbitrary code CVE-2012-5195. The compile function in Maketext.pm in the Locale::Maketext implementation...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : html2ps (MDVSA-2013:041)

A vulnerability has been found and corrected in html2ps : Directory traversal vulnerability in html2ps before 1.0b7 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via directory traversal sequences in SSI directives CVE-2009-5067. The updated packages have been upgraded to the 1.0b7 version which...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : python-httplib2 (MDVSA-2013:119)

python-httplib2 ships its own copy of the Mozilla NSS certificates, but it should use the system-wide ones provided by the rootcerts package instead. This has been corrected. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted...