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 : 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 : dhcp (MDVSA-2013:059)

A security issue was identified and fixed in ISC DHCP : libdns in ISC DHCP 4.2.x before 4.2.5-P1 allows remote name servers to cause a denial of service memory consumption via vectors involving a regular expression, as demonstrated by a memory-exhaustion attack against a machine running a dhcpd...

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : openssl (MDVSA-2013:052)

Multiple vulnerabilities has been found and corrected in openssl : OpenSSL before 0.9.8y, 1.0.0 before 1.0.0k, and 1.0.1 before 1.0.1d does not properly perform signature verification for OCSP responses, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : phpmyadmin (MDVSA-2013:144)

Multiple cross-site scripting XSS vulnerabilities in tblgisvisualization.php in phpMyAdmin 3.5.x before 3.5.8 might allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the 1 visualizationSettingswidth or 2 visualizationSettingsheight parameter CVE-2013-1937. This upgrade provides th...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : asterisk (MDVSA-2013:140)

Multiple vulnerablilities was identified and fixed in asterisk : The SIP channel driver in Asterisk Open Source 1.8.x before 1.8.20.2, 10.x before 10.12.2, and 11.x before 11.2.2; Certified Asterisk 1.8.15 before 1.8.15-cert2; Asterisk Business Edition BE C.3.x before C.3.8.1; and Asterisk...

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...

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 : 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 : hplip (MDVSA-2013:088)

This hplip update addresses the folloving issues : Print/Fax queues can now be analyzed by running hp-diagnose-queues fixes some issues and duplex scanning support with newer AIO devices fixes Wireless configuration using hp-wificonfig command for HP Deskjet 3000 J310 series and HP Deskjet 3050...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : rpmdevtools (MDVSA-2013:123)

Updated rpmdevtools package fixes security vulnerability : A TOCTOU race condition was found in the way 'annotate-output' used to execute a program annotating the output linewise with time and stream tool of rpmdevtools before 8.3 performed management of its temporary files used for standard outp...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : stunnel (MDVSA-2013:130)

Updated stunnel packages fix security vulnerability : stunnel 4.21 through 4.54, when CONNECT protocol negotiation and NTLM authentication are enabled, does not correctly perform integer conversion, which allows remote proxy servers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted request that triggers a...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : mesa (MDVSA-2013:103)

Updated mesa packages fix security vulnerability : The glsl shaders are vulnerable to a buffer overrun in parceloutuniformstorage::visitfield. When too many uniforms are used, the error will now be caught in checkresources src/glsl/linker.cpp CVE-2012-2864. Additionally, Mesa has been updated to...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : sudo (MDVSA-2013:054)

Multiple vulnerabilities has been found and corrected in sudo : A flaw exists in the IP network matching code in sudo versions 1.6.9p3 through 1.8.4p4 that may result in the local host being matched even though it is not actually part of the network described by the IP address and associated...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : mosh (MDVSA-2013:104)

Updated mosh package fixes security vulnerability : Mosh versions 1.2 and earlier allow an application to cause the mosh-server to consume large amounts of CPU time with a short ANSI escape sequence. In addition, a malicious mosh-server can cause the mosh-client to consume large amounts of CPU ti...