Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : arpwatch (MDVSA-2012:113)

A vulnerability has been discovered and corrected in arpwatch : arpwatch 2.1a15, as used by Red Hat, Debian, Fedora, and possibly others, does not properly drop supplementary groups, which might allow attackers to gain root privileges by leveraging other vulnerabilities in the daemon CVE-2012-265...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : usbmuxd (MDVSA-2012:133)

It was discovered that usbmuxd did not correctly perform bounds checking when processing the SerialNumber field of USB devices. An attacker with physical access could use this to crash usbmuxd or potentially execute arbitrary code as the 'usbmux' user CVE-2012-0065. The updated packages have been...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : wireshark (MDVSA-2011:164)

This advisory updates wireshark to the latest version 1.6.3, fixing several security issues : An uninitialized variable in the CSN.1 dissector could cause a crash CVE-2011-4100. Huzaifa Sidhpurwala of Red Hat Security Response Team discovered that the Infiniband dissector could dereference a NULL...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : cups (MDVSA-2011:147)

A vulnerability has been discovered and corrected in cups : The gifreadlzw function in filter/image-gif.c in CUPS 1.4.8 and earlier does not properly handle the first code word in an LZW stream, which allows remote attackers to trigger a heap-based buffer overflow, and possibly execute arbitrary...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : busybox (MDVSA-2012:129-1)

Multiple vulnerabilities was found and corrected in busybox : The decompress function in ncompress allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash, and possibly execute arbitrary code, via crafted data that leads to a buffer underflow CVE-2006-1168. A missing DHCP option checking /...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : gimp (MDVSA-2012:142)

Multiple vulnerabilities has been discovered and corrected in gimp : A heap-based buffer overflow flaw, leading to invalid free, was found in the way KISS CEL file format plug-in of Gimp, the GNU Image Manipulation Program, performed loading of certain palette files. A remote attacker could provi...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : mono (MDVSA-2012:140)

A vulnerability has been discovered and corrected in mono : Cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in the ProcessRequest function in mcs/class/System.Web/System.Web/HttpForbiddenHandler.cs in Mono 2.10.8 and earlier allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a file with a...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : mozilla (MDVSA-2011:192)

Security issues were identified and fixed in mozilla firefox and thunderbird : The SVG implementation in Mozilla Firefox 8.0, Thunderbird 8.0, and SeaMonkey 2.5 does not properly interact with DOMAttrModified event handlers, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service out-of-bounds...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : wireshark (MDVSA-2012:015)

Multiple file parser and NULL pointer vulnerabilities including a RLC dissector buffer overflow was found and corrected in Wireshark. This advisory provides the latest version of Wireshark 1.6.5 which is not vulnerable to these issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : bind (MDVSA-2012:119)

A vulnerability was discovered and corrected in bind : High numbers of queries with DNSSEC validation enabled can cause an assertion failure in named, caused by using a bad cache data structure before it has been initialized CVE-2012-3817. The updated packages have been upgraded to bind 9.7.6-P2...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : krb5 (MDVSA-2011:184)

A vulnerability has been discovered and corrected in krb5 : The processtgsreq function in dotgsreq.c in the Key Distribution Center KDC in MIT Kerberos 5 aka krb5 1.9 through 1.9.2 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash via a craft...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : glibc (MDVSA-2011:179)

Multiple vulnerabilities was discovered and fixed in glibc : The addmntent function in the GNU C Library aka glibc or libc6 2.13 and earlier does not report an error status for failed attempts to write to the /etc/mtab file, which makes it easier for local users to trigger corruption of this file...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : freeradius (MDVSA-2012:047)

A vulnerability has been found and corrected in freeradius : The ocspcheck function in rlmeaptls.c in FreeRADIUS 2.1.11, when OCSP is enabled, does not properly parse replies from OCSP responders, which allows remote attackers to bypass authentication by using the EAP-TLS protocol with a revoked...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : perl-DBD-Pg (MDVSA-2012:112)

A vulnerability has been discovered and corrected in perl-DBD-Pg : Two format string flaws were found in the way perl-DBD-Pg. A rogue server could provide a specially crafted database warning or specially crafted DBD statement, which once processed by the perl-DBD-Pg interface would lead to...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : iproute2 (MDVSA-2011:135)

It was discovered that the iproute2 package was not rebuilt against the latest iptables libraries. This may have security issues, as the current iproute2 should be calling an interface in the iptables libraries with incorrect arguments. The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : firefox (MDVSA-2011:141)

Security issues were identified and fixed in mozilla firefox and thunderbird : Mozilla Firefox before 3.6.23 and 4.x through 6, Thunderbird before 7.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.4 do not prevent the starting of a download in response to the holding of the Enter key, which allows user-assisted remote...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : libreoffice (MDVSA-2012:091)

Security issues were identified and fixed in libreoffice : An integer overflow vulnerability in the libreoffice graphic loading code could allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service application crash or potentially execute arbitrary code CVE-2012-1149. An integer overflow flaw, leading ...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : python-sqlalchemy (MDVSA-2012:059)

It was discovered that SQLAlchemy did not sanitize values for the limit and offset keywords for SQL select statements. If an application using SQLAlchemy accepted values for these keywords, and did not filter or sanitize them before passing them to SQLAlchemy, it could allow an attacker to perfor...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : pidgin (MDVSA-2012:029)

Multiple vulnerabilities has been discovered and corrected in pidgin : The pidginconvchatrenameuser function in gtkconv.c in Pidgin before 2.10.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and application crash by changing a nickname while in an XMPP chat room...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : libxml2 (MDVSA-2012:126)

A vulnerability was found and corrected in libxml2 : Multiple integer overflows in libxml2, on 64-bit Linux platforms allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors CVE-2012-2807. The updated packages have been patched to correct...