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 : samba4 (MDVSA-2015:083)

Multiple vulnerabilities has been discovered and corrected in samba4 : Samba 4.0.x before 4.0.24, 4.1.x before 4.1.16, and 4.2.x before 4.2rc4, when an Active Directory Domain Controller AD DC is configured, allows remote authenticated users to set the LDB userAccountControl UFSERVERTRUSTACCOUNT...

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 : libksba (MDVSA-2015:151)

Updated libksba packages fix security vulnerability : By using special crafted S/MIME messages or ECC based OpenPGP data, it is possible to create a buffer overflow, which could lead to a denial of service CVE-2014-9087. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text an...

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 : 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 : 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 : egroupware (MDVSA-2015:087)

Updated egroupware packages fix security vulnerabilities : eGroupware prior to 1.8.006.20140217 is vulnerable to remote file deletion and possible remote code execution due to user input being passed to PHP's unserialize method CVE-2014-2027. eGroupWare before 1.8.007 allows logged in users with...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : glibc (MDVSA-2015:168)

Updated glibc packages fix security vulnerabilities : Stephane Chazelas discovered that directory traversal issue in locale handling in glibc. glibc accepts relative paths with .. components in the LC and LANG variables. Together with typical OpenSSH configurations with suitable AcceptEnv setting...

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 : 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 : python-numpy (MDVSA-2015:077)

Updated python-numpy packages fix security vulnerabilities : f2py insecurely used a temporary file. A local attacker could use this flaw to perform a symbolic link attack to modify an arbitrary file accessible to the user running f2py CVE-2014-1858, CVE-2014-1859. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : libxfont (MDVSA-2015:145-1)

Updated libxfont packages fix security vulnerabilities : Ilja van Sprundel discovered that libXfont incorrectly handled font metadata file parsing. A local attacker could use this issue to cause libXfont to crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code in order to gain privileges CVE-2014-0209. Ilja...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : wpa_supplicant (MDVSA-2015:120)

Updated wpasupplicant and hostapd packages fix security vulnerability : A vulnerability was found in the mechanism wpacli and hostapdcli use for executing action scripts. An unsanitized string received from a remote device can be passed to a system call resulting in arbitrary command execution...

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...

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 : 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 : openvpn (MDVSA-2015:139)

Updated openvpn packages fix security vulnerability : Dragana Damjanovic discovered that OpenVPN incorrectly handled certain control channel packets. An authenticated attacker could use this issue to cause an OpenVPN server to crash, resulting in a denial of service CVE-2014-8104. %NASLMINLEVEL...

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. ...