Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : openoffice.org (MDVSA-2008:137)

Integer overflow in the rtlallocateMemory function in sal/rtl/source/allocglobal.c in OpenOffice.org OOo 2.0 through 2.4 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted file that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow. CVE-2008-2152 Also, according to bug 38874 decimal numbers on...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : krb5 (MDVSA-2008:069)

Multiple memory management flaws were found in the GSSAPI library used by Kerberos that could result in the use of already freed memory or an attempt to free already freed memory, possibly leading to a crash or allowing the execution of arbitrary code CVE-2007-5901, CVE-2007-5971. A flaw was...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : boost (MDVSA-2008:032)

Tavis Ormandy and Will Drewry found that the bost library did not properly perform input validation on regular expressions. An attacker could exploit this by sening a specially crafted regular expression to an application linked against boost and cause a denial of service via an application crash...

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 : fetchmail (MDVSA-2008:117)

A flaw in fetchmail was discovered that allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash and persistent mail failure via a malformed message with long headers. The crash only occured when fetchmail was called in '-v -v' mode CVE-2008-2711. The updated packages have been patched to...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : openssl (MDVSA-2009:001)

A vulnerability was found by the Google Security Team with how OpenSSL checked the verification of certificates. An attacker in control of a malicious server or able to effect a man-in-the-middle attack, could present a malformed SSL/TLS signature from a certificate chain to a vulnerable client,...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : pidgin (MDVSA-2008:143)

An integer overflow flaw was found in Pidgin's MSN protocol handler that could allow for the execution of arbitrary code if a user received a malicious MSN message CVE-2008-2927. In addition, this update provides the ability to use ICQ networks again on Mandriva Linux 2008.0, as in MDVA-2008:103...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : freetype2 (MDVSA-2008:121)

Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in FreeType's Printer Font Binary PFB font-file format parser. If a user were to load a carefully crafted font file with a program linked against FreeType, it could cause the application to crash or potentially execute arbitrary code CVE-2008-1806,...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : bind (MDVSA-2009:037)

Internet Systems Consortium ISC BIND 9.6.0 and earlier does not properly check the return value from the OpenSSL EVPVerifyFinal function, which allows remote attackers to bypass validation of the certificate chain via a malformed SSL/TLS signature, a similar vulnerability to CVE-2008-5077 and...

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 : evolution-data-server (MDVSA-2009:078)

A wrong handling of signed Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions S/MIME e-mail messages enables attackers to spoof its signatures by modifying the latter copy CVE-2009-0547. Crafted authentication challange packets NT Lan Manager type 2 sent by a malicious remote mail server enables remote...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : libxml2 (MDVSA-2008:231)

Drew Yao of the Apple Product Security Team found two flaws in libxml2. The first is a denial of service flaw in libxml2's XML parser. If an application linked against libxml2 were to process certain malformed XML content, it cause the application to enter an infinite loop CVE-2008-4225. The seco...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : php (MDVSA-2009:045)

A number of vulnerabilities have been found and corrected in PHP : improve mbflfiltconvhtmldecflush error handling in ext/mbstring/libmbfl/filters/mbfilterhtmlent.c CVE-2008-5557. Additionally on Mandriva Linux 2009.0 and up the php-mbstring module is linked against a separate shared libmbfl...

MDVA-2008:056 : rhythmbox

Amazon.com has removed support for the cover image fetching API used in rhythmbox. This updates to the new API to make cover image support work again. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 @DEPRECATED@ This script has been deprecated as the associated patch is not currently a security fix. Disabled on 2012/09/06. ...

MDVA-2009:005 : x11-server

This updated x11-server-xorg package provides the following fixes: The OpenOffice.org application menu would trigger a bug in the X server's xkb cache code causing it to crash segfault. Fake key events generated by the XTest extension would not change the state of the keyboard leds. This would...

MDVA-2008:156 : kdebase4-workspace

This update adds the auto-hide feature to the KDE4 desktop panel. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 @DEPRECATED@ This script has been deprecated as the associated patch is not currently a security fix. Disabled on 2012/09/06. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. This script was automatically generated from Mandriv...

MDVA-2008:113 : beagle

Beagle provides extensions for both Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird, that depend on the exact version of these programs. Rebuilding these packages did not occur with the lastest Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird security advisories, so these packages are being provided rebuilt again...

MDKA-2007:062 : rpmdrake

The rpmdrake package, which provides the graphical software installation and update tools rpmdrake, drakrpm-edit-media and MandrivaUpdate, included with Mandriva Linux 2007 Spring contains several bugs. These include: When installing software with rpmdrake, if packages are selected for installati...

MDVA-2008:179 : graphviz

The graphviz package shipped in Mandriva Linux 2008.1 has a bug in its builtin ps renderer: included images are displayed as blank area. An upstream patch fixes the issue. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 @DEPRECATED@ This script has been deprecated as the associated patch is not currently a security fix...

MDVA-2008:168 : sound-scripts

The sound initialization scripts provided with Mandriva Linux 2009 activate the Analog Loopback channel when it is present. This channel is present on most audio chipsets supported by the snd-hda-intel driver, which are commonly used on recent systems. When active, this channel plays back the sou...