Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : php-ZendFramework (MDVSA-2013:115)

Updated php-ZendFramework packages fix security vulnerabilities : ZendDom, ZendFeed, ZendSoap, and ZendXmlRpc in Zend Framework before 1.11.13 and 1.12.0 are vulnerable to XML Entity Expansion XEE vectors, leading to Denial of Service vectors. XEE attacks occur when the XML DOCTYPE declaration...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : icecast (MDVSA-2013:091)

Updated icecast package fixes security vulnerability : Icecast didn't strip newlines from log entries, therefore allowing users to forge log entries CVE-2011-4612 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Mandri...

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 : exif (MDVSA-2013:036)

A vulnerability has been discovered and corrected in exif : An integer overflow in the function jpegdataloaddata in the exif program could cause a data read beyond the end of a buffer, causing an application crash or leakage of potentially sensitive information when parsing a crafted JPEG file...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : groff (MDVSA-2013:086)

Multiple vulnerabilities has been found and corrected in groff : contrib/pdfmark/pdfroff.sh in GNU troff aka groff before 1.21 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a pdf.tmp temporary file CVE-2009-5044. The 1 gendef.sh, 2 doc/fixinfo.sh, and 3...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : x11-driver-video-qxl (MDVSA-2013:138)

Updated x11-driver-video-qxl package fixes security vulnerability : A flaw was found in the way the host's qemu-kvm qxl driver and the guest's X.Org qxl driver interacted when a SPICE connection terminated. A user able to initiate a SPICE connection to a guest could use this flaw to make the gues...

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 : perl (MDVSA-2013:113)

Updated perl packages fix security vulnerability : It was discovered that Perl's 'x' string repeat operator is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow. An attacker could use this to execute arbitrary code CVE-2012-5195. The compile function in Maketext.pm in the Locale::Maketext implementation...

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : open-iscsi (MDVSA-2013:109)

Updated open-iscsi package fixes security vulnerability : Colin Watson discovered that iscsidiscovery in Open-iSCSI did not safely create temporary files. A local attacker could exploit this to overwrite arbitrary files with root privileges CVE-2009-1297. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : ncpfs (MDVSA-2013:048)

Multiple vulnerabilities has been discovered and corrected in ncpfs : ncpfs 2.2.6 and earlier attempts to use 1 ncpmount to append to the /etc/mtab file and 2 ncpumount to append to the /etc/mtab.tmp file without first checking whether resource limits would interfere, which allows local users to...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : openslp (MDVSA-2013:111)

Updated openslp packages fix security vulnerability : The extension parser in slpv2message.c in OpenSLP 1.2.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service infinite loop via a packet with a next extension offset that references this extension or a previous extension CVE-2010-3609...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : html2ps (MDVSA-2013:041)

A vulnerability has been found and corrected in html2ps : Directory traversal vulnerability in html2ps before 1.0b7 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via directory traversal sequences in SSI directives CVE-2009-5067. The updated packages have been upgraded to the 1.0b7 version which...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : jakarta-poi (MDVSA-2013:094)

Updated jakarta-poi packages fix security vulnerability : It was discovered that Apache POI, a Java implementation of the Microsoft Office file formats, would allocate arbitrary amounts of memory when processing crafted documents. This could impact the stability of the Java virtual machine...

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...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : ocaml-xml-light (MDVSA-2013:107)

Updated ocaml-xml-light packages fix security vulnerability : OCaml Xml-Light Library before r234 computes hash values without restricting the ability to trigger hash collisions predictably, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service CPU consumption via unspecified...