Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : gstreamer-plugins-good (MDVSA-2008:092)

A vulnerability in the Speex library was found where it did not properly validate input values read from the Speex files headers. An attacker could create a malicious Speex file that would crash an application or potentially allow the execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : cups (MDVSA-2008:211)

A buffer overflow in the SGI image format decoding routines used by the CUPS image converting filter imagetops was discovered. An attacker could create malicious SGI image files that could possibly execute arbitrary code if the file was printed CVE-2008-3639. An integer overflow flaw leading to a...

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 : cups (MDVSA-2009:028)

Security vulnerabilities have been discovered and corrected in CUPS. CUPS before 1.3.8 allows local users, and possibly remote attackers, to cause a denial of service daemon crash by adding a large number of RSS Subscriptions, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference CVE-2008-5183. The web...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : xchat (MDVSA-2009:059-1)

Python has a variable called sys.path that contains all paths where Python loads modules by using import scripting procedure. A wrong handling of that variable enables local attackers to execute arbitrary code via Python scripting in the current X-Chat working directory CVE-2009-0315. This update...

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...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : xine-lib (MDVSA-2008:124)

A vulnerability in the Speex library was found where it did not properly validate input values read from the Speex files headers. An attacker could create a malicious Speex file that would crash an application or potentially allow the execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : wml (MDVSA-2008:076)

Two vulnerabilities were found in the Website META Language WML package that allowed local users to overwrite arbitrary files via symlink attacks. The updated packages have been patched to correct these issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : wireshark (MDVSA-2009:088)

Multiple vulnerabilities has been identified and corrected in wireshark : o The PROFINET dissector was vulnerable to a format string overflow CVE-2009-1210. o The Check Point High-Availability Protocol CPHAP dissecto could crash CVE-2009-1268. o Wireshark could crash while loading a Tektronix .rf...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : mozilla-firefox (MDVSA-2008:110)

Security vulnerabilities have been discovered and corrected in the latest Mozilla Firefox program, version 2.0.0.14. This update provides the latest Firefox to correct these issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : perl-Net-DNS (MDVSA-2008:073)

A vulnerability in the Net::DNS perl module was found that could allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted DNS response. The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package chec...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : cairo (MDVSA-2008:019)

Peter Valchev discovered that Cairo did not correctly decode PNG image data. By tricking a user or automated system into processing a specially crafted PNG with Cairo, a remote attacker could execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user opening the file. The updated packages have been...

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 : python (MDVSA-2009:003)

Multiple integer overflows in imageop.c in the imageop module in Python 1.5.2 through 2.5.1 allow context-dependent attackers to break out of the Python VM and execute arbitrary code via large integer values in certain arguments to the crop function, leading to a buffer overflow, a different...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : xine-lib (MDVSA-2008:020)

Two vulnerabilities discovered in xine-lib allow remote execution of arbitrary code : Heap-based buffer overflow in the rmffdumpcont function in input/libreal/rmff.c in xine-lib 1.1.9 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via the SDP Abstract attribute, related to the...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : lynx (MDVSA-2008:218)

A vulnerability was found in the Lynxcgi: URI handler that could allow an attacker to create a web page redirecting to a malicious URL that would execute arbitrary code as the user running Lynx, if they were using the non-default Advanced user mode CVE-2008-4690. This update corrects these issues...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : sarg (MDVSA-2009:073)

Various stack-based buffer overflows were discovered and corrected in sarg : Additionally the previous release fixed CVE-2008-1922, CVE-2008-7249, CVE-2008-7250 The updated packages have been patched to correct these issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive tex...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : curl (MDVSA-2009:069)

A security vulnerability has been identified and fixed in curl, which could allow remote HTTP servers to 1 trigger arbitrary requests to intranet servers, 2 read or overwrite arbitrary files via a redirect to a file: URL, or 3 execute arbitrary commands via a redirect to an scp: URL CVE-2009-0037...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : clamav (MDVSA-2008:166)

An incomplete fix for CVE-2008-2713 resulted in remote attackers being able to cause a denial of service via a malformed Petite file that triggered an out-of-bounds memory access CVE-2008-3215. This issue is corrected with the 0.93.3 release which is being provided. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : poppler (MDVSA-2009:068-1)

A crafted PDF file that triggers a parsing error allows remote attackers to cause definal of service. This bug is consequence of a wrong processing on FormWidgetChoice::loadDefaults method CVE-2009-0755. A crafted PDF file that triggers a parsing error allows remote attackers to cause definal of...