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 : squashfs-tools (MDVSA-2013:128)

Updated squashfs-tools packages fix security vulnerabilities : remote arbitrary code execution via crafted list file CVE-2012-4024. integer overflow in queueinit may lead to arbitrary code execution CVE-2012-4025. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and packa...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : glib2.0 (MDVSA-2013:083)

Updated glib2.0 packages fix security vulnerability : It was discovered that the version of glib shipped with MBS 1 does not sanitise certain DBUS related environment variables. When used in combination with a setuid application which utilises dbus via glib, a local user could gain escalated...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : x11-server (MDVSA-2013:139)

This fixes a format string vulnerability in the LogVHdrMessageVerb function in os/log.c when handling input device names in X.Org X11 server CVE-2012-2118. MBS1 is not vulnerable to arbitrary code execution via this vulnerability because of the compiler options that were used to build it, but it...

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 : gegl (MDVSA-2013:081)

Updated gegl packages fix security vulnerability : An integer overflow flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, was found in the way the gegl utility processed .ppm Portable Pixel Map image files. An attacker could create a specially crafted .ppm file that, when opened in gegl, would cause...

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 : 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 : openconnect (MDVSA-2013:108)

Updated openconnect packages fix security vulnerability : A stack-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way OpenConnect, a client for Cisco's AnyConnect VPN, performed processing of certain host names, paths, or cookie lists, received from the VPN gateway. A remote VPN gateway could provide...

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 : viewvc (MDVSA-2013:134)

Updated viewvc packages fix security vulnerabilities : complete authz support for remote SVN views CVE-2012-3356. log msg leak in SVN revision view with unreadable copy source CVE-2012-3357. function name lines returned by diff are not properly escaped, allowing attackers with commit access to...

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 : libssh (MDVSA-2013:045)

Updated libssh packages fix security vulnerabilities : Multiple double free flaws, buffer overflow flaws, invalid free flaws, and improper overflow checks in libssh before 0.5.3 could enable a denial of service attack against libssh clients, or possibly arbitrary code execution CVE-2012-4559,...

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 : dbus (MDVSA-2013:070)

Updated dbus packages fix security vulnerability : It was discovered that the D-Bus library honored environment settings even when running with elevated privileges. A local attacker could possibly use this flaw to escalate their privileges, by setting specific environment variables before running...

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 : 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 : 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...