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...

MDVA-2008:033 : rpmdrake

rpmdrake in Mandriva Linux 2007.1 cannot install packages that are excluded by /etc/urpmi/skip.list. This is not how the system is intended to work these packages should be left out of automatic updates, but should be installable manually if the user wishes. This bug made it difficult to install,...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : tomcat5 (MDVSA-2008:188)

A number of vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Apache Tomcat server : The default catalina.policy in the JULI logging component did not restrict certain permissions for web applications which could allow a remote attacker to modify logging configuration options and overwrite arbitrary...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : kernel (MDVSA-2008:044)

The waittaskstopped function in the Linux kernel before 2.6.23.8 checks a TASKTRACED bit instead of an exitstate value, which allows local users to cause a denial of service machine crash via unspecified vectors. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third-party information. CVE-2007-5500...

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 : emacs (MDVSA-2008:216)

A vulnerability was found in how Emacs would import python scripts from the current working directory during the editing of a python file. This could allow a local user to execute arbitrary code via a trojan python file CVE-2008-3949. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : libpng (MDVSA-2008:156)

Tavis Ormandy of the Google Security Team discovered a flaw in how libpng handles zero-length unknown chunks in PNG files, which could lead to memory corruption in applications that make use of certain functions CVE-2008-1382. The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : pidgin (MDVSA-2008:143)

An integer overflow flaw was found in Pidgin's MSN protocol handler that could allow for the execution of arbitrary code if a user received a malicious MSN message CVE-2008-2927. In addition, this update provides the ability to use ICQ networks again on Mandriva Linux 2008.0, as in MDVA-2008:103...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : cups (MDVSA-2008:170)

Thomas Pollet discovered an integer overflow vulnerability in the PNG image handling filter in CUPS. This could allow a malicious user to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running CUPS, or cause a denial of service by sending a specially crafted PNG image to the print server...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : libxml2 (MDVSA-2008:231)

Drew Yao of the Apple Product Security Team found two flaws in libxml2. The first is a denial of service flaw in libxml2's XML parser. If an application linked against libxml2 were to process certain malformed XML content, it cause the application to enter an infinite loop CVE-2008-4225. The seco...

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 : mpg123 (MDVSA-2009:093-1)

A vulnerability has been found and corrected in mpg123 : Integer signedness error in the storeid3text function in the ID3v2 code in mpg123 before 1.7.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service out-of-bounds memory access and possibly execute arbitrary code via an ID3 tag with a negati...

MDVA-2008:083 : GConf2

A missing dependency could prevent gconftool symlink to be create at package install time, when installing a minimal system. This update fixes that issue. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 @DEPRECATED@ This script has been deprecated as the associated patch is not currently a security fix. Disabled on...

MDVA-2008:157 : hplip

It is mandatory to use UTF-8 encoding in communication on newer cups versions. It prevents hplip from working properly in non-UTF-8 environments. The updated packages fix this issue. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 @DEPRECATED@ This script has been deprecated as the associated patch is not currently a securi...

MDVA-2008:151 : timezone

Updated timezone packages are being provided for older Mandriva Linux systems that do not contain new Daylight Savings Time information and Time Zone information for some locations. These updated packages contain the new information. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 @DEPRECATED@ This script has been deprecate...

MDVA-2008:103 : pidgin

A protocol change at the ICQ servers made it impossible to connect with Pidgin. This update adapts Pidgin to the new protocol version. %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 Networ...

MDVA-2008:113 : beagle

Beagle provides extensions for both Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird, that depend on the exact version of these programs. Rebuilding these packages did not occur with the lastest Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird security advisories, so these packages are being provided rebuilt again...

MDVA-2009:001-1 : dos2unix

The dos2unix command removes the last line of a file if no newline characters follow. This package fixes the issue. Update: This update now provides corrected packages for Mandriva Linux 2008.x and Corporate Server 4.0. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 @DEPRECATED@ This script has been deprecated as the...

MDVA-2009:049 : mdkonline

This update fixes an issue which could cause mdkonline to fail when attempting to setup restricted resources. %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, Inc. This...

MDVA-2008:018 : mysql

Updated MySQL packages are being made available that fix a number of upstream bugs, as well as some minor packaging bugs. %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,...