Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : gnutls (MDVSA-2013:040)

Nadhem Alfardan and Kenny Paterson devised an attack that recovers some bits of the plaintext of a GnuTLS session that utilizes that CBC ciphersuites, by using timing information CVE-2013-1619. The gnutls package has been updated to latest 3.0.28 version to fix above problem. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 ...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : libotr (MDVSA-2013:097)

A vulnerability was found and corrected in libotr : Just Ferguson discovered that libotr, an off-the-record OTR messaging library, can be forced to perform zero-length allocations for heap buffers that are used in base64 decoding routines. An attacker can exploit this flaw by sending crafted...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : openslp (MDVSA-2013:111)

Updated openslp packages fix security vulnerability : 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 : open-iscsi (MDVSA-2013:109)

Updated open-iscsi package fixes security vulnerability : Colin Watson discovered that iscsidiscovery in Open-iSCSI did not safely create temporary files. A local attacker could exploit this to overwrite arbitrary files with root privileges CVE-2009-1297. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : ncpfs (MDVSA-2013:048)

Multiple vulnerabilities has been discovered and corrected in ncpfs : ncpfs 2.2.6 and earlier attempts to use 1 ncpmount to append to the /etc/mtab file and 2 ncpumount to append to the /etc/mtab.tmp file without first checking whether resource limits would interfere, which allows local users to...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : dbus-glib (MDVSA-2013:071)

Updated dbus-glib packages fix security vulnerability : A privilege escalation flaw was found in the way dbus-glib, the D-Bus add-on library to integrate the standard D-Bus library with the GLib thread abstraction and main loop, performed filtering of the message sender message source subject, wh...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : python-httplib2 (MDVSA-2013:119)

python-httplib2 ships its own copy of the Mozilla NSS certificates, but it should use the system-wide ones provided by the rootcerts package instead. This has been corrected. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : socat (MDVSA-2013:127)

Updated socat package fixes security vulnerability : Heap-based buffer overflow in the xioscanreadline function in xio-readline.c in socat 1.4.0.0 through 1.7.2.0 and 2.0.0-b1 through 2.0.0-b4 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via the READLINE address CVE-2012-0219. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : python-pycrypto (MDVSA-2013:120)

Updated python-pycrypto package fixes security vulnerability : PyCrypto before 2.6 does not produce appropriate prime numbers when using an ElGamal scheme to generate a key, which reduces the signature space or public key space and makes it easier for attackers to conduct brute-force attacks to...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : argyllcms (MDVSA-2013:090)

A security issue was identified and fixed in argyllcms : An integer overflow flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, was found in Ghostscript's International Color Consortium Format library icclib. An attacker could create a specially crafted PostScript or PDF file with embedded images tha...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : apache-mod_security (MDVSA-2013:029)

A vulnerability has been discovered and corrected in apache-modsecurity : ModSecurity = 2.6.8 is vulnerable to multipart/invalid part ruleset bypass, this was fixed in 2.7.0 released on2012-10-16 CVE-2012-4528. The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue. NOTE: This advisory was...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : python (MDVSA-2013:117)

Updated python packages fix security vulnerabilities : A race condition was found in the way the Python distutils module set file permissions during the creation of the .pypirc file. If a local user had access to the home directory of another user who is running distutils, they could use this fla...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : html2ps (MDVSA-2013:041)

A vulnerability has been found and corrected in html2ps : Directory traversal vulnerability in html2ps before 1.0b7 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via directory traversal sequences in SSI directives CVE-2009-5067. The updated packages have been upgraded to the 1.0b7 version which...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : squashfs-tools (MDVSA-2013:128)

Updated squashfs-tools packages fix security vulnerabilities : remote arbitrary code execution via crafted list file CVE-2012-4024. integer overflow in queueinit may lead to arbitrary code execution CVE-2012-4025. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and packa...

[ MDVSA-2013:043 ] libgssglue

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDVSA-2013:043 http://www.mandriva.com/en/support/security/ Package : libgssglue Date : April 5, 2013 Affected: Business Server 1.0 Problem Description: This update fixes insecure getenv usage in libgssglue, which coul...

[ MDVSA-2013:019 ] bash

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDVSA-2013:019 http://www.mandriva.com/en/support/security/ Package : bash Date : April 4, 2013 Affected: Business Server 1.0 Problem Description: A vulnerability was found and corrected in bash: A stack-based buffer...

[ MDVSA-2013:022 ] openssh

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDVSA-2013:022 http://www.mandriva.com/en/support/security/ Package : openssh Date : March 13, 2013 Affected: Enterprise Server 5.0 Problem Description: Multiple vulnerabilities has been found and corrected in openssh:...

[ MDVSA-2013:023 ] coreutils

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDVSA-2013:023 http://www.mandriva.com/en/support/security/ Package : coreutils Date : March 13, 2013 Affected: Enterprise Server 5.0 Problem Description: Multiple vulnerabilities has been found and corrected in...

[ MDVSA-2013:017 ] libxml2

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDVSA-2013:017 http://www.mandriva.com/security/ Package : libxml2 Date : March 5, 2013 Affected: Enterprise Server 5.0 Problem Description: A vulnerability has been found and corrected in libxml2: A denial of service...

[ MDVSA-2013:016 ] php

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDVSA-2013:016 http://www.mandriva.com/security/ Package : php Date : February 28, 2013 Affected: 2011., Enterprise Server 5.0 Problem Description: Multiple vulnerabilities has been discovered and corrected in php: PHP...