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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : gnupg (MDVSA-2015:155)

Updated gnupg and libgcrypt packages fix security vulnerabilities : GnuPG before 1.4.19 is vulnerable to a side-channel attack which can potentially lead to an information leak CVE-2014-3591. GnuPG before 1.4.19 is vulnerable to a side-channel attack on data-dependent timing variations in modular...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : readline (MDVSA-2015:132)

Updated readline packages fix security vulnerability : Steve Kemp discovered the rltropen function in readline insecurely handled a temporary file. This could allow a local attacker to perform symbolic link attacks CVE-2014-2524. Also, upstream patches have been added to fix an infinite loop in v...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : ruby (MDVSA-2015:129)

Updated ruby packages fix security vulnerabilities : Due to unrestricted entity expansion, when reading text nodes from an XML document, the REXML parser in Ruby can be coerced into allocating extremely large string objects which can consume all of the memory on a machine, causing a denial of...

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...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : jasper (MDVSA-2015:159)

Updated jasper packages fix security vulnerabilities : Josh Duart of the Google Security Team discovered heap-based buffer overflow flaws in JasPer, which could lead to denial of service application crash or the execution of arbitrary code CVE-2014-9029. A double free flaw was found in the way...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : ppp (MDVSA-2015:135)

Updated ppp packages fix security vulnerability : A vulnerability in ppp before 2.4.7 may enable an unprivileged attacker to access privileged options CVE-2014-3158. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : grub2 (MDVSA-2015:163)

Updated grub2 package fixes security vulnerability : 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 grub2 package is...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : cifs-utils (MDVSA-2015:114)

Updated cifs-utils packages fix security vulnerability : Sebastian Krahmer discovered a stack-based buffer overflow flaw in cifscreds.c CVE-2014-2830. %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 : jbigkit (MDVSA-2015:101)

Updated jbigkit packages fix security vulnerability : Florian Weimer found a stack-based buffer overflow flaw in the libjbig library part of jbigkit. A specially crafted image file read by libjbig could be used to cause a program linked to libjbig to crash or, potentially, to execute arbitrary co...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : libtasn1 (MDVSA-2015:116)

Updated libtasn1 packages fix security vulnerabilities : Multiple buffer boundary check issues were discovered in libtasn1 library, causing it to read beyond the boundary of an allocated buffer. An untrusted ASN.1 input could cause an application using the library to crash CVE-2014-3467. It was...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : rsyslog (MDVSA-2015:130)

Updated rsyslog packages fix security vulnerability : Rainer Gerhards, the rsyslog project leader, reported a vulnerability in Rsyslog. As a consequence of this vulnerability an attacker can send malformed messages to a server, if this one accepts data from untrusted sources, and trigger a denial...