Updated flash-player-plugin packages fix security vulnerabilities

Adobe Flash Player 24.0.0.194 contains fixes to critical security vulnerabilities found in earlier versions that could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system. Adobe is aware of a report that an exploit for CVE-2016-7892 exists in the wild, and is being used in limite...

Updated libxslt packages fix security vulnerability

A heap overread bug was found in libxslt, which can cause arbitrary code execution or denial of service CVE-2016-4738...

Updated wireshark packages fix security vulnerability

The wireshark package has been updated to version 2.0.8, which fixes several security issues where a malformed packet trace could cause it to crash or go into an infinite loop, and fixes several other bugs as well. See the release notes for details...

Updated memcached packages fix security vulnerability

Aleksandar Nikolic discovered that Memcached incorrectly handled certain malformed commands. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause Memcached to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code CVE-2016-8704, CVE-2016-8705, CVE-2016-8706...

Updated flash-player-plugin packages fix security vulnerabilities

Adobe Flash Player 11.2.202.644 contains fixes to critical security vulnerabilities found in earlier versions that could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system. This update resolves type confusion vulnerabilities that could lead to code execution CVE-2016-7860,...

Updated chromium-browser-stable packages fix security vulnerability

Chromium-browser-stable 53.0.2785.143 provides fixes for security issues: a use-after-free bug in V8 CVE-2016-5177 and various problems found in upstream's internal audits, fuzzing, and other initiatives CVE-2016-5178...

Updated mediawiki packages fix security vulnerability

Check read permission when loading page content in ApiParse CVE-2016-6331 Make blocks log users out if $wgBlockDisablesLogin is true CVE-2016-6332 Make $wgBlockDisablesLogin also restrict logged in permissions CVE-2016-6332 Require login to preview user CSS pages CVE-2016-6333 Escape '' in inline...

Updated nettle/nettle2.7 packages fix security vulnerability

The cryptographic library nettle had a potential information leak problem reported. RSA code is vulnerable to cache sharing related attacks CVE-2016-6489...

Updated quagga packages fix CVE-2016-4049

Updated quagga packages fix security vulnerability: A denial of dervice vulnerability have been found in BGP daemon from Quagga routing software bgpd: if the following conditions are satisfied: - regular dumping is enabled - bgpd instance has many BGP peers then BGP message packets that are big...

Updated proftpd packages fix security vulnerability

A bug with security implications was found in the modtls module in ProFTPD before 1.3.5b. This module has a configuration option TLSDHParamFile to specify user-defined Diffie Hellman parameters. The software would ignore the user-defined parameters and use Diffie Hellman key exchanges with 1024...

Updated xerces-c packages fix CVE-2016-0729

Updated xerces-c packages fix security vulnerability: The Xerces-C XML parser mishandles certain kinds of malformed input documents, resulting in buffer overlows during processing and error reporting. The overflows can manifest as a segmentation fault or as memory corruption during a parse...

Updated 389-ds-base packages fix security vulnerability

An infinite-loop vulnerability was discovered in the 389 directory server, where the server failed to correctly handle unexpectedly closed client connections. A remote attacker able to connect to the server could use this flaw to make the directory server consume an excessive amount of CPU and st...

Updated curl packages fix security vulnerability

libcurl before 7.47.0 will reuse NTLM-authenticated proxy connections without properly making sure that the connection was authenticated with the same credentials as set for this transfer. The effect of this flaw is that the application could be reusing a proxy connection using the previously use...

Updated php-phpmailer packages fix CVE-2015-8476

Updated php-phpmailer package fixes security vulnerability: Takeshi Terada discovered that PHPMailer accepted addresses containing line breaks. This is valid in RFC5322, but allowing such addresses resulted in invalid RFC5321 SMTP commands, permitting a kind of message injection attack...

Updated cups-filters packages fix CVE-2015-8560

Updated cups-filters package fixes security vulnerability: Adam Chester discovered that missing input sanitising in the foomatic-rip print filter might result in the execution of arbitrary commands CVE-2015-8560...

Updated kernel packages fixes security vulnerability

This kernel update is based on the upstream 4.1.12 longterm kernel and fixes at least the following security issue: Moein Ghasemzadeh discovered that the USB WhiteHEAT serial driver contained hardcoded attributes about the USB devices. An attacker could construct a fake WhiteHEAT USB device that,...

Updated owncloud packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated owncloud package fixes security vulnerabilities: In ownCloud before 8.0.6, due to an incorrect usage of an ownCloud internal file system function the passed path to the file scanner was resolved relatively. An authenticated adversary may thus be able to get a listing of directories but no...

Updated libgcrypt packages fix CVE-2015-0837

Updated libgcrypt packages fix security vulnerability: Daniel Genkin, Adi Shamir, and Eran Tromer discovered that Libgcrypt was susceptible to an attack via physical side channels. A local attacker could use this attack to possibly recover private keys CVE-2015-0837...

Updated x11-server packages fix security vulnerability

The authentication setup in XWayland 1.16.x and 1.17.x before 1.17.2 starts the server in non-authenticating mode, which allows local users to read from or send information to arbitrary X11 clients via vectors involving a UNIX socket CVE-2015-3164...

Updated kdepim package fixes security vulnerability

This update fixes a security vulnerability in kdepim : kmail doesn't encrypt attachments when "automatic encryption" is selected CVE-2014-8878...

Updated libvpx package fixes security vulnerability

libvpx before 1.4.0 allows remote attackers to trigger a negative value for a size field, and consequently cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact, via a crafted frame size in VP9 video data CVE-2015-1258...

Updated virtualbox packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated virtualbox packages fixes security vulnerability This update provides the 4.3.28 maintenance release fixing the following security issue: The Floppy Disk Controller FDC in QEMU, XEN, KVM and virtualbox allows local guest users to cause a denial of service out-of-bounds write and guest cra...

Updated 389-ds-base packages fix CVE-2015-1854

Updated 389-ds-base packages fix security vulnerability: A flaw was found in the way Red Hat Directory Server performed authorization of modrdn operations. An unauthenticated attacker able to issue an ldapmodrdn call to the directory server could use this flaw to perform unauthorized modification...

Updated ntop packages fix CVE-2014-4165

Updated ntop package fixes security vulnerability: Lack of filtering in the title parameter of links to rrdPlugin allowed cross-site-scripting XSS attacks against users of the web interface CVE-2014-4165...

Updated perl-DBD-Firebird packages fix CVE-2015-2788

Updated perl-DBD-Firebird packages fix security vulnerability: Stefan Roas discovered a way to cause a buffer overflow in DBD::FireBird in certain error conditions, due to the use of the sprintf function to write to a fixed-size memory buffer CVE-2015-2788...

Updated mercurial packages fix CVE-2014-9462

Updated mercurial packages fix security vulnerability: The mercurial source code management system suffers from a code-injection flaw due to insufficient shell quoting in sshpeer.validaterepo CVE-2014-9462...

Updated tcpdump package fixes security vulnerabilities

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in tcpdump. These vulnerabilities might result in denial of service application crash or, potentially, execution of arbitrary code CVE-2015-0261, CVE-2015-2153, CVE-2015-2154, CVE-2015-2155...

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 exponentiation, which can potentially lead to an information leak...

Updated dbus packages fix security vulnerabilities

non-systemd processes can make dbus-daemon think systemd failed to activate a system service, resulting in an error reply back to the requester, causing a local denial of service CVE-2015-0245...

Updated e2fsprogs packages fix CVE-2015-0247

Updated e2fsprogs packages fix security vulnerability: 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 to...

Updated flash-player-plugin packages fix multiple security vulnerabilities

Adobe Flash Player 11.2.202.425 contains fixes to critical security vulnerabilities found in earlier versions that could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system. This update resolves memory corruption vulnerabilities that could lead to code execution CVE-2014-0587,...

Updated mutt packages fix CVE-2014-9116

Updated mutt packages fix security vulnerability: A flaw was discovered in mutt. A specially crafted mail header could cause mutt to crash, leading to a denial of service condition CVE-2014-9116. The mutt package has been updated to version 1.5.23 and patched to fix this issue...

Updated glibc packages fix CVE-2014-7817

The function wordexp fails to properly handle the WRDENOCMD flag when processing arithmetic inputs in the form of "$... " where "..." can be anything valid. The backticks in the arithmetic epxression are evaluated by in a shell even if WRDENOCMD forbade command substitution. This allows an attack...

Updated wireshark packages fix security vulnerabilities

SigComp UDVM buffer overflow CVE-2014-8710. AMQP crash CVE-2014-8711. NCP crashes CVE-2014-8712, CVE-2014-8713. TN5250 infinite loops CVE-2014-8714...

Updated nginx packages fix CVE-2014-3616

Updated nginx package fixes security vulnerability: Antoine Delignat-Lavaud and Karthikeyan Bhargavan discovered that it was possible to reuse cached SSL sessions in unrelated contexts, allowing virtual host confusion attacks in some configurations by an attacker in a privileged network position...

Updated wireshark package fix security vulnerabilities

The Catapult DCT2000 and IrDA dissectors could underrun a buffer CVE-2014-5161, CVE-2014-5162. The GSM Management dissector could crash CVE-2014-5163. The RLC dissector could crash CVE-2014-5164. The ASN.1 BER dissector could crash CVE-2014-5165. The wireshark package has been updated to version...

Updated dbus packages fix multiple vulnerabilities

Updated dbus packages fix security vulnerabilities: A flaw was reported in D-Bus's file descriptor passing feature. A local attacker could use this flaw to cause a service or application to disconnect from the bus, typically resulting in that service or application exiting CVE-2014-3532. A flaw w...

Updated sendmail packages fix CVE-2014-3956

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 procmail...

Updated dbus packages fix security vulnerability

Updated dbus packages fix security vulnerability: A denial of service vulnerability in D-Bus before 1.6.20 allows a local attacker to cause a bus-activated service that is not currently running to attempt to start, and fail, denying other users access to this service Additionally, in highly unusu...

Updated libcap-ng packages fix CVE-2014-3215

Updated libcap-ng packages fix security vulnerability: capnglock in libcap-ng before 0.7.4 sets securebits in an attempt to prevent regaining capabilities using setuid-root programs. This allows a user to run setuid programs, such as seunshare from policycoreutils, as uid 0 but without...

Updated bugzilla package fixes CVE-2014-1517

Updated bugzilla packages fix security vulnerability: The login form in Bugzilla 2.x, 3.x, 4.x before 4.4.3, and 4.5.x before 4.5.3 does not properly handle a correctly authenticated but unintended login attempt, which makes it easier for remote authenticated users to obtain sensitive information...

Updated mediawiki packages fix security vulnerability

Updated mediawiki packages fix security vulnerability: XSS vulnerability in MediaWiki before 1.22.6, where if the default sort key is set to a string containing a script, the script will be executed when the page is viewed using the info action CVE-2014-2853...

Updated samba packages fix security vulnerability

In Samba before 3.6.23, the SAMR server neglects to ensure that attempted password changes will update the bad password count, and does not set the lockout flags. This would allow a user unlimited attempts against the password by simply calling ChangePasswordUser2 repeatedly. This is available...

Updated udisks and 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 udisks daemon root CVE-2014-0004...

Updated flash-player-plugin fixes security vulnerabilities

Adobe Flash Player 11.2.202.335 contains fixes to critical security vulnerabilities found in earlier versions. These vulnerabilities could cause a crash and potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system. This update resolves a vulnerability that could be used to bypass Flas...

Updated nagios package fixes security vulnerability

A flaw was reported and fixed in Nagios, which can be exploited to cause a denial of service. This vulnerability is caused due to an off-by-one error within the processcgivars function, which can be exploited to cause an out-of-bounds read by sending a specially-crafted key value to the Nagios we...

Updated qt4 package fixes security vulnerability

It was discovered that QXmlSimpleReader in Qt incorrectly handled XML entity expansion. An attacker could use this flaw to cause Qt applications to consume large amounts of resources, resulting in a denial of service CVE-2013-4549...

Updated quassel package fixes security vulnerability

Security vulnerability in Quassel before 0.9.2 through which a manipulated, but properly authenticated client was able to retrieve the backlog of other users on the same core in some cases CVE-2013-6404...

Updated 389-ds-base package fixes CVE-2013-4485

Updated 389-ds-base packages fix security vulnerability: It was discovered that the 389 Directory Server did not properly handle certain Get Effective Rights GER search queries when the attribute list, which is a part of the query, included several names using the '@' character. An attacker able ...

Updated perl-HTTP-Body packages fix CVE-2013-4407

Updated perl-HTTP-Body package fixes security vulnerability: Jonathan Dolle reported a design error in HTTP::Body, a Perl module for processing data from HTTP POST requests. The HTTP body multipart parser creates temporary files which preserve the suffix of the uploaded file. An attacker able to...