Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : setup (MDVSA-2015:184)

Updated setup package fixes security vulnerability : An issue has been identified in Mandriva Business Server 2's setup package where the /etc/shadow and /etc/gshadow files containing password hashes were created with incorrect permissions, making them world-readable mga14516. This update fixes...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : mpfr (MDVSA-2015:143)

Updated mpfr packages fix security vulnerability : A buffer overflow was reported in mpfr. This is due to incorrect GMP documentation for mpnsetstr about the size of a buffer CVE-2014-9474. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : samba (MDVSA-2015:081)

Updated samba packages fix security vulnerabilities : An uninitialized pointer use flaw was found in the Samba daemon smbd. A malicious Samba client could send specially crafted netlogon packets that, when processed by smbd, could potentially lead to arbitrary code execution with the privileges o...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : liblzo (MDVSA-2015:150)

Updated liblzo packages fix security vulnerability : An integer overflow in liblzo before 2.07 allows attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly code execution in applications performing LZO decompression on a compressed payload from the attacker CVE-2014-4607. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenab...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : python-lxml (MDVSA-2015:112)

Updated python-lxml packages fix security vulnerability : The cleanhtml function, provided by the lxml.html.clean module, did not properly clean HTML input if it included non-printed characters \x01-\x08. A remote attacker could use this flaw to serve malicious content to an application using the...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : util-linux (MDVSA-2015:122)

Updated util-linux packages fix security vulnerability : Sebastian Krahmer reported a command injection flaw in blkid. This could possibly result in command execution with root privileges CVE-2014-9114. The util-linux package has been updated to version 2.24.2 and patched to fix this issue and...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : ntp (MDVSA-2015:140)

Updated ntp packages fix security vulnerabilities : If no authentication key is defined in the ntp.conf file, a cryptographically-weak default key is generated CVE-2014-9293. ntp-keygen before 4.2.7p230 uses a non-cryptographic random number generator with a weak seed to generate symmetric keys...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : stunnel (MDVSA-2015:096)

Updated stunnel package fixes security vulnerability : A flaw was found in the way stunnel, a socket wrapper which can provide SSL support to ordinary applications, performed reinitialization of PRNG after fork. When accepting a new connection, the server forks and the child process handles the...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : libssh2 (MDVSA-2015:148-1)

Updated libssh2 packages fix security vulnerability : Mariusz Ziulek reported that libssh2, a SSH2 client-side library, was reading and using the SSHMSGKEXINIT packet without doing sufficient range checks when negotiating a new SSH session with a remote server. A malicious attacker could man in t...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : pulseaudio (MDVSA-2015:134)

Updated pulseaudio package fixes RTP remote crash vulnerability : PulseAudio versions shipped in mbs2 were vulnerable to a remote RTP attack which could crash the PulseAudio server simply by sending an empty UDP packet. Additionally, the version of PulseAudio shipped in mbs2 was a pre-release...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : sudo (MDVSA-2015:126)

Updated sudo packages fix security vulnerability : Prior to sudo 1.8.12, the TZ environment variable was passed through unchecked. Most libc tzset implementations support passing an absolute pathname in the time zone to point to an arbitrary, user-controlled file. This may be used to exploit bugs...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : emacs (MDVSA-2015:117)

Updated emacs packages fix security vulnerabilities : Steve Kemp discovered multiple temporary file handling issues in Emacs. A local attacker could use these flaws to perform symbolic link attacks against users running Emacs CVE-2014-3421, CVE-2014-3422, CVE-2014-3423, CVE-2014-3424. %NASLMINLEV...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : ipython (MDVSA-2015:160)

Updated ipython package fixes security vulnerability : In IPython before 1.2, the origin of websocket requests was not verified within the IPython notebook server. If an attacker has knowledge of an IPython kernel id they can run arbitrary code on a user's machine when the client visits a crafted...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : libjpeg (MDVSA-2015:152)

Updated libjpeg packages fix security vulnerability : Passing a specially crafted jpeg file to libjpeg-turbo could lead to stack smashing CVE-2014-9092. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Mandriva Linux...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : libarchive (MDVSA-2015:157)

Updated libarchive packages fix security vulnerability : Alexander Cherepanov discovered that bsdcpio, an implementation of the cpio program part of the libarchive project, is susceptible to a directory traversal vulnerability via absolute paths CVE-2015-2304. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Networ...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : cpio (MDVSA-2015:066)

Updated cpio package fixes security vulnerability : In GNU Cpio 2.11, the --no-absolute-filenames option limits extracting contents of an archive to be strictly inside a current directory. However, it can be bypassed with symlinks. While extracting an archive, it will extract symlinks and then...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : php (MDVSA-2015:080)

Multiple vulnerabilities has been discovered and corrected in php : It was discovered that the file utility contains a flaw in the handling of indirect magic rules in the libmagic library, which leads to an infinite recursion when trying to determine the file type of certain files CVE-2014-1943. ...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : cpio (MDVSA-2015:065)

Updated cpio package fixes security vulnerabilities : Heap-based buffer overflow in the processcopyin function in GNU Cpio 2.11 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a large block value in a cpio archive CVE-2014-9112. Additionally, a NULL pointer dereference in the copyinlink...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : libpng (MDVSA-2015:090)

Updated libpng package fixes security vulnerabilities : The pngpushreadchunk function in pngpread.c in the progressive decoder in libpng 1.6.x through 1.6.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service infinite loop and CPU consumption via an IDAT chunk with a length of zero CVE-2014-0333...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : openldap (MDVSA-2015:074)

A vulnerability has been discovered and corrected in openldap : The derefparseCtrl function in servers/slapd/overlays/deref.c in OpenLDAP 2.4.13 through 2.4.40 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and crash via an empty attribute list in a deref control in...