Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : clamav (MDVSA-2008:229)

An off-by-one error was found in ClamAV versions prior to 0.94.1 that could allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted VBA project file CVE-2008-5050. Other bugs have also been corrected in 0.94.1 which is being provided with this update...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : hplip (MDVSA-2008:169)

Marc Schoenefeld of the Red Hat Security Response Team discovered a vulnerability in the hplip alert-mailing functionality that could allow a local attacker to elevate their privileges by using specially crafted packets to trigger alert mails that are sent by the root account CVE-2008-2940. Anoth...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : libtiff (MDVSA-2008:184)

Drew Yao of the Apple Product Security Team reported multiple uses of uninitialized values in libtiff's LZW compression algorithm decoder. An attacker could create a carefully crafted LZW-encoded TIFF file that would cause an application linked to libtiff to crash or potentially execute arbitrary...

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 : 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 : clamav (MDVSA-2008:003)

An integer overflow vulnerability was reported by iDefense with clamav when parsing Portable Executable PE files packed in he MEW format. This could be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow CVE-2007-6335. Toeroek Edwin reported an off-by-one error when decompressing MS-ZIP compressed CA...

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 : 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 : gnutls (MDVSA-2008:106)

Flaws discovered in versions prior to 2.2.4 stable and 2.3.10 development of GnuTLS allow an attacker to cause denial of service application crash, and maybe so far undetermined execute arbitrary code. The updated packages have been patched to fix these flaws. Note that any applications using thi...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : opensc (MDVSA-2008:183)

Chaskiel M Grundman found that OpenSC would initialize smart cards with the Siemens CardOS M4 card operating system without proper access rights. This allowed everyone to change the card's PIN without first having the PIN or PUK, or the superuser's PIN or PUK CVE-2008-2235. Please note that this...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : php (MDVSA-2008:126)

A number of vulnerabilities have been found and corrected in PHP : PHP 5.2.1 would allow context-dependent attackers to read portions of heap memory by executing certain scripts with a serialized data input string beginning with 'S:', which did not properly track the number of input bytes being...

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : python (MDVSA-2008:163)

Multiple integer overflows in the imageop module in Python prior to 2.5.3 allowed context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service crash or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted images that trigger heap-based buffer overflows CVE-2008-1679. This was due to an incomplete fix for...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : tcl (MDVSA-2008:059)

A flaw in the Tcl regular expression handling engine was originally discovered by Will Drewry in the PostgreSQL database server's Tcl regular expression engine. This flaw can result in an infinite loop when processing certain regular expressions. The updated packages have been patched to correct...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : libcdio (MDVSA-2008:037)

A stack-based buffer overflow was discovered in libcdio that allowed context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service core dump and possibly execute arbitrary code via a disk or image file that contains a long joliet file name. In addition, a fix for failed UTF-8 conversions that would...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : wordnet (MDVSA-2008:182-1)

Rob Holland found several programming errors in WordNet which could lead to the execution or arbitrary code when used with untrusted input CVE-2008-2149, CVE-2008-3908. Update : The previous patch had a typo that caused incorrect behaviour in WordNet. This update uses an update patch that correct...