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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : libksba (MDVSA-2015:151)

Updated libksba packages fix security vulnerability : By using special crafted S/MIME messages or ECC based OpenPGP data, it is possible to create a buffer overflow, which could lead to a denial of service CVE-2014-9087. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text an...

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 : libarchive (MDVSA-2015:157)

Updated libarchive packages fix security vulnerability : Alexander Cherepanov discovered that bsdcpio, an implementation of the cpio program part of the libarchive project, is susceptible to a directory traversal vulnerability via absolute paths CVE-2015-2304. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Networ...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : lua (MDVSA-2015:144)

Updated lua and lua5.1 packages fix security vulnerability : A heap-based overflow vulnerability was found in the way Lua handles varargs functions with many fixed parameters called with few arguments, leading to application crashes or, potentially, arbitrary code execution CVE-2014-5461...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : cups (MDVSA-2015:108)

Updated cups packages fix security vulnerabilities : Cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in scheduler/client.c in Common Unix Printing System CUPS before 1.7.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the URL path, related to the ispathabsolute function CVE-2014-2856...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : torque (MDVSA-2015:124)

Updated torque packages fix security vulnerabilities : Chad Vizino reported that within a TORQUE Resource Manager job a non-root user could use a vulnerability in the tmadopt library call to kill processes he/she doesn't own including root-owned ones on any node in a job CVE-2014-3684. This updat...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : libvirt (MDVSA-2015:070)

Updated libvirt packages fixes security vulnerabilities : The qemuDomainMigratePerform and qemuDomainMigrateFinish2 functions in qemu/qemudriver.c in libvirt do not unlock the domain when an ACL check fails, which allow local users to cause a denial of service via unspecified vectors CVE-2014-813...

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...