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 : 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 : udisks2 (MDVSA-2015:088)

Updated udisks2 packages fixes security vulnerability : A flaw was found in the way udisks and udisks2 handled long path names. A malicious, local user could use this flaw to create a specially crafted directory structure that could lead to arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the udis...

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 : 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 : patch (MDVSA-2015:138)

Updated patch package fixes security vulnerabilities : It was reported that a crafted diff file can make patch eat memory and later segfault CVE-2014-9637. It was reported that the versions of the patch utility that support Git-style patches are vulnerable to a directory traversal flaw. This coul...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : jython (MDVSA-2015:158)

Updated jython packages fix security vulnerability : There are serveral problems with the way Jython creates class cache files, potentially leading to arbitrary code execution or information disclosure CVE-2013-2027. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : python3 (MDVSA-2015:076)

Updated python3 packages fix security vulnerabilities : ZipExtFile.read goes into 100% CPU infinite loop on maliciously binary edited zips CVE-2013-7338. A vulnerability was reported in Python's socket module, due to a boundary error within the sockrecvfrominto function, which could be exploited ...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : squid (MDVSA-2015:103)

Updated squid packages fix security vulnerabilities : Due to incorrect state management, Squid before 3.3.12 is vulnerable to a denial of service attack when processing certain HTTPS requests if the SSL-Bump feature is enabled CVE-2014-0128. Matthew Daley discovered that Squid 3 did not properly...

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 : 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 : libpng12 (MDVSA-2015:071)

Updated libpng12 package fixes security vulnerabilities : The pngdoexpandpalette function in libpng before 1.6.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and application crash via a PLTE chunk of zero bytes or a NULL palette, related to pngrtran.c and pngset.c...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : e2fsprogs (MDVSA-2015:067)

Updated e2fsprogs packages fix security vulnerabilities : The libext2fs library, part of e2fsprogs and utilized by its utilities, is affected by a boundary check error on block group descriptor information, leading to a heap based buffer overflow. A specially crafted filesystem image can be used ...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : pcre (MDVSA-2015:137)

Updated pcre packages fix security vulnerability : A flaw was found in the way PCRE handled certain malformed regular expressions. This issue could cause an application linked against PCRE to crash while parsing malicious regular expressions CVE-2014-8964. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : sendmail (MDVSA-2015:128)

Updated sendmail packages fix security vulnerability : Sendmail before 8.14.9 does not properly closing file descriptors before executing programs. This bug could enable local users to interfere with an open SMTP connection if they can execute their own program for mail delivery e.g., via procmai...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : rsync (MDVSA-2015:131)

Updated rsync package fixes security vulnerability : Ryan Finnie discovered that rsync 3.1.0 contains a denial of service issue when attempting to authenticate using a nonexistent username. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause a denial of service via CPU consumption CVE-2014-2855...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : gnutls (MDVSA-2015:072)

Updated gnutls packages fix security vulnerabilities : Suman Jana reported a vulnerability that affects the certificate verification functions of gnutls 3.1.x and gnutls 3.2.x. A version 1 intermediate certificate will be considered as a CA certificate by default something that deviates from the...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : nginx (MDVSA-2015:094)

Updated nginx package fixes security vulnerabilities : A bug in the experimental SPDY implementation in nginx was found, which might allow an attacker to cause a heap memory buffer overflow in a worker process by using a specially crafted request, potentially resulting in arbitrary code execution...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : dovecot (MDVSA-2015:113)

Updated dovecot packages fix security vulnerability. Dovecot before 2.2.13 is vulnerable to a DoS attack against imap/pop3-login processes. If SSL/TLS handshake was started but wasn't finished, the login process attempted to eventually forcibly disconnect the client, but failed to do it correctly...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : libvncserver (MDVSA-2015:146)

Updated libvncserver packages fix security vulnerabilities : An integer overflow in liblzo before 2.07 allows attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly code execution in applications using performing LZO decompression on a compressed payload from the attacker CVE-2014-4607. The...