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 : wireshark (MDVSA-2012:042)

Multiple vulnerabilities was found and corrected in Wireshark : - The ANSI A dissector could dereference a NULL pointer and crash. - The IEEE 802.11 dissector could go into an infinite loop. - The pcap and pcap-ng file parsers could crash trying to read ERF data. - The MP2T dissector could try to...

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 : 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 : 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 : pidgin (MDVSA-2012:082)

Multiple vulnerabilities has been discovered and corrected in pidgin : A series of specially crafted file transfer requests can cause clients to reference invalid memory. The user must have accepted one of the file transfer requests CVE-2012-2214. Incoming messages with certain characters or...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : libxslt (MDVSA-2012:109)

A vulnerability has been discovered and corrected in libxslt : The XSL implementation in libxslt allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service incorrect read operation via unspecified vectors CVE-2012-2825. The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : ffmpeg (MDVSA-2012:148)

Multiple vulnerabilities has been found and corrected in ffmpeg. This advisory provides updated versions which resolves various security issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Mandriva Linux Security...

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 : 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 : 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 : squid (MDVSA-2011:193)

A vulnerability has been discovered and corrected in squid : The idnsGrokReply function in Squid before 3.1.16 does not properly free memory, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service daemon abort via a DNS reply containing a CNAME record that references another CNAME record that...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : wireshark (MDVSA-2012:134)

Multiple vulnerabilities was found and corrected in Wireshark : The DCP ETSI dissector could trigger a zero division CVE-2012-4285. The MongoDB dissector could go into a large loop CVE-2012-4287. The XTP dissector could go into an infinite loop CVE-2012-4288. The AFP dissector could go into a lar...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : pidgin (MDVSA-2012:105)

A vulnerability has been discovered and corrected in pidgin : Incorrect handing of inline images in incoming instant messages can cause a buffer overflow and in some cases can be exploited to execute arbitrary code CVE-2012-3374. This update provides pidgin 2.10.6, which is not vulnerable to this...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : openslp (MDVSA-2012:141)

A vulnerability has been discovered and corrected in openslp : 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 : networkmanager (MDVSA-2011:171)

Security issues were identified and fixed in networkmanager : GNOME NetworkManager before 0.8.6 does not properly enforce the authadmin element in PolicyKit, which allows local users to bypass intended wireless network sharing restrictions via unspecified vectors CVE-2011-2176. Incomplete blackli...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : wireshark (MDVSA-2012:125)

Multiple vulnerabilities was found and corrected in Wireshark : It may be possible to make Wireshark crash by injecting a malformed packet onto the wire or by convincing someone to read a malformed packet trace file CVE-2012-4048. It may be possible to make Wireshark consume excessive CPU resourc...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : graphite2 (MDVSA-2011:174)

Unspecified vulnerabilities were discovered in graphite2 conserning specially crafted TTF fonts and which has unknown impact. As a preemptive measure the new 1.0.3 version is being provided where this is fixed. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package...

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 /...