Fedora 24 : php-pecl-zip (2016-b9cb75981a)

Version 1.13.5 - Fixed bug php72660 NULL pointer dereference in zendvirtualcwd. Laruence - Fixed bug php68302 impossible to compile php with zip support. cmb - Fixed bug php70752 Depacking with wrong password leaves 0 length files. cmb Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the precedin...

Debian DLA-668-1 : libass security update

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in libass, a library for manipulating the SubStation Alpha SSA subtitle file format. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following issues. CVE-2016-7969 Mode 0/3 line wrapping equalization in specific cases which could result in...

Debian DLA-669-1 : dwarfutils security update

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in dwarfutils, a tool and library for reading/consuming and writing/producing DWARF debugging information. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following issues : CVE-2015-8538 A specially crafted ELF file can cause a segmentation...

Debian DLA-666-1 : guile-2.0 security update

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in GNU Guile, an implementation of the Scheme programming language. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following issues. CVE-2016-8605: The mkdir procedure of GNU Guile temporarily changed the process' umask to zero. During that...

Debian DLA-663-1 : tor security update

It has been discovered that Tor treats the contents of some buffer chunks as if they were a NUL-terminated string. This issue could enable a remote attacker to crash a Tor client, hidden service, relay, or authority. This update aims to defend against this general class of security bugs. For Debi...

Debian DLA-655-1 : mpg123 security update

Several security vulnerabilities have been discovered in mpg123, an MPEG layer 1/2/3 audio decoder and player. An attacker could take advantage of these flaws to cause a denial of service against mpg123 or applications using the libmpg123 library with a carefully crafted input file. CVE-2014-9497...

Debian DLA-661-1 : libarchive security update

Agostino Sarubbo of Gentoo discovered several security vulnerabilities in libarchive, a multi-format archive and compression library. An attacker could take advantage of these flaws to cause a buffer overflow or an out of bounds read using a carefully crafted input file. CVE-2016-8687 Agostino...

SUSE SLES11 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2016:2507-1) (Bunker Buster)

This update for xen fixes several issues. These security issues were fixed : - CVE-2016-7092: The getpagefroml3e function in arch/x86/mm.c in Xen allowed local 32-bit PV guest OS administrators to gain host OS privileges via vectors related to L3 recursive pagetables bsc995785 - CVE-2016-7093: Xe...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : X Window System client libraries (SUSE-SU-2016:2505-1)

This update for the X Window System client libraries fixes a class of privilege escalation issues. A malicious X Server could send specially crafted data to X clients, which allowed for triggering crashes, or privilege escalation if this relationship was untrusted or crossed user or permission...

Fedora 24 : libdwarf (2016-328754be1c)

Update to 20160929 upstream release Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. %NASLMINLEVEL...

Fedora 24 : libXfixes (2016-ff5a2f4839)

Security fix for CVE-2016-7944 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300...

SUSE SLED12 Security Update : libreoffice (SUSE-SU-2016:2472-1)

LibreOffice was updated to version 5.1.5.2, bringing enhancements and bug fixes. - CVE-2016-4324: Parsing the Rich Text Format character style index was insufficiently checked for validity. Documents could be constructed which dereference an iterator to the first entry of an empty STL container...

Debian DLA-648-1 : c-ares security update

Gzob Qq discovered that the query-building functions in c-ares, an asynchronous DNS request library would not correctly process crafted query names, resulting in a heap buffer overflow and potentially leading to arbitrary code execution. For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in...

Fedora 23 : curl (2016-80f4f71eff)

reject negative string lengths in curleasyunescape CVE-2016-7167 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing...

Debian DLA-644-1 : libav security update

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in libav : CVE-2015-1872 The ffmjpegdecodesof function in libavcodec/mjpegdec.c in Libav before 0.8.18 does not validate the number of components in a JPEG-LS Start Of Frame segment, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service out-of-bounds...

Debian DLA-641-1 : ruby-activesupport-3.2 security update

Active Support in Ruby on Rails 4.1.x before 4.1.14.1, 4.2.x before 4.2.5.1, and 5.x before 5.0.0.beta1.1 supports the use of instance-level writers for class accessors, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended validation steps via crafted parameters. For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems...

SUSE SLES11 Security Update : postgresql94 (SUSE-SU-2016:2418-1)

This update for postgresql94 to version 9.4.9 fixes the several issues. These security issues were fixed : - CVE-2016-5423: CASE/WHEN with inlining can cause untrusted pointer dereference bsc993454. - CVE-2016-5424: Fix client programs' handling of special characters in database and role names...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : bind (SUSE-SU-2016:2399-1)

The nameserver bind was updated to fix a remote denial of service vulnerability, where a crafted packet could cause the nameserver to abort. CVE-2016-2776, bsc1000362 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : flex, at, bogofilter, cyrus-imapd, kdelibs4, libQtWebKit4, libbonobo, mdbtools, netpbm, openslp, sgmltool, virtuoso, libqt5-qtwebkit (SUSE-SU-2016:2397-1)

Various packages included vulnerable parsers generated by 'flex'. This update provides a fixed 'flex' package and also rebuilds of packages that might have security issues caused by the auto generated code. Flex itself was updated to fix a buffer overflow in the generated scanner bsc990856,...

Debian DLA-639-1 : mactelnet security update

CVE-2016-7115 Buffer overflow in the handlepacket function in mactelnet.c in the client in MAC-Telnet 0.4.3 and earlier allows remote TELNET servers to execute arbitrary code via a long string in an MTCPTYPEENCRYPTIONKEY control packet. For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in...