Updated vlc packages fix security vulnerability

avcodec 2.2.x, as used in VideoLAN VLC media player before 2.2.7, allows out-of-bounds heap memory write due to calling memcpy with a wrong size, leading to a denial of service application crash or possibly code execution CVE-2017-10699. The VLC packages have been updated to version 2.2.8, which...

Updated flightgear packages fix security vulnerability

In FlightGear before version 2017.3.1, Main/logger.cxx in the FGLogger subsystem allows one to overwrite any file via a resource that affects the contents of the global Property Tree. Mageia provides 2017.3.1 version as a security and bugfix update, allowing to connect to latest multiplayer serve...

Updated libwmf packages fix security vulnerability

Double free vulnerability in the gdImagePngPtr function in libgd2 before 2.2.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via vectors related to a palette with no colors. CVE-2017-6362...

Updated potrace packages fix security vulnerability

Potrace 1.14 has a heap-based buffer over-read in the interpolatecubic function in mkbitmap.c CVE-2017-12067...

Updated ruby-rubyzip packages fix security vulnerability

A directory traversal vulnerability could lead to access and overwrite files that are outside of the restricted directory CVE-2017-5946...

Updated perl-SOAP-Lite packages fix security vulnerability

It was discovered that there was a "Billion Laughs" 0 XML expansion vulnerability in SOAP::Lite CVE-2015-8978...

Updated swftools package fixes security vulnerability

In SWFTools 0.9.2, an out-of-bounds write of heap data can occur in the function pngload in lib/png.c. This issue can be triggered by a malformed PNG file that is mishandled by png2swf. Attackers could exploit this issue for DoS; it might cause arbitrary code execution CVE-2017-8400...

Updated libcryptopp packages fix security vulnerability

Crypto++'s Zinflate class, used by classes like Gunzip and Inflator, could perform an out-of-bounds read when decompressing data CVE-2017-9434...

Updated git packages fix security vulnerability

Timo Schmid of ERNW GmbH discovered that the Git git-shell, a restricted login shell for Git-only SSH access, allows a user to run an interactive pager by causing it to spawn "git upload-pack --help" CVE-2017-8386...

Updated texlive packages fix security vulnerability

It was discovered that texlive whitelists mpost as an external program to be run from within the TeX source code called \write18. Since mpost allows to specify other programs to be run, an attacker can take advantage of this flaw for arbitrary code execution when compiling a TeX document...

Updated putty packages fix security vulnerability

In PuTTY before 0.68, if SSH agent forwarding is enabled, local attackers that are also able to connect to the UNIX domain socket could have overwritten heap data CVE-2017-6542...

Updated php-tcpdf packages fix security vulnerability

A local file inclusion vulnerability in TCPDF allows to upload files from the server generating PDF files to an external FTP server CVE-2017-6100. The updated php-tcpdf-6.0.098-1.1.mga5 package fixes this issue by setting KTCPDFCALLSINHTML configuration parameter to false by default...

Updated viewvc packages fix security vulnerability

Thomas Gerbet discovered that viewvc, a web interface for CVS and Subversion repositories, did not properly sanitize user input. This problem resulted in a potential Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability CVE-2017-5938. The viewvc package has been updated to version 1.1.26 which fixes this issue...

Updated lighttpd packages fix security vulnerability

Dominic Scheirlinck and Scott Geary of Vend reported an insecure behaviour in the lighttpd web server. Lighttpd assigned Proxy header values from client requests to internal HTTPPROXY environment variables. This could be used to carry out Man in the Middle Attacks MIDM or create connections to...

Updated mailman package fixes security vulnerability

Cross-site request forgery CSRF vulnerability in the user options page in GNU Mailman 2.1.x before 2.1.23 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of arbitrary users for requests that modify an option, as demonstrated by gaining access to the credentials of a victim's account...

Applications using libtorrent-rasterbar are vulnerable to denial of service

Applications using libtorrent-rasterbar are vulnerable to denial of service. An attacker-controlled torrent tracker can crash victim torrent clients by sending malformed GZIP responses CVE-2016-7164...

Updated perl-DBD-mysql packages fix security vulnerability

Two use-after-free vulnerabilities were discovered in DBD::mysql. A remote attacker can take advantage of these flaws to cause a denial-of-service against an application using DBD::mysql application crash, or potentially to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the...

Updated tcpreplay packages fixes CVE-2016-6160

Updated tcpreplay package fixes security vulnerability: The tcprewrite program, part of the tcpreplay suite, does not check the size of the frames it processes. Huge frames may trigger a segmentation fault, and they occur on interfaces with an MTU of or close to 65536. For example, the loopback...

Updated pidgin packages fix security vulnerability

A buffer overflows vulnerability exists in the handling of the MXIT protocol in Pidgin. Specially crafted MXIT data sent from the server could potentially result in arbitrary code execution. A malicious server or an attacker who intercepts the network traffic can send an invalid size for a packet...

Updated libreoffice packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated libreoffice packages fix security vulnerabilities: The lwp filter in LibreOffice before 5.0.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory corruption or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted LotusWordPro lwp document CVE-2016-0794. LibreOffice before 5.0.5...

Updated subversion packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated subversion packages fix security vulnerabilities: Daniel Shahaf and James McCoy discovered that an implementation error in the authentication against the Cyrus SASL library would permit a remote user to specify a realm string which is a prefix of the expected realm string and potentially...

Updated file packages fix security vulnerability

The file command was vulnerable to a buffer over-write in with a malformed magic file...

Updated quagga packages fix security vulnerability

A vulnerability was found in a way VPNv4 NLRI parser copied packet data to the stack. Memcpy to stack data structure based on length field from packet data whose length field upper-bound was not properly checked CVE-2016-2342...

Updated samba packages fix security vulnerability

Jeremy Allison discovered that Samba incorrectly handled ACLs on symlink paths. A remote attacker could use this issue to overwrite the ownership of ACLs using symlinks CVE-2015-7560...

Updated thunar packages fix CVE-2013-7447

Updated thunar packages fix security vulnerability: Due to a logic error, an attempt to allocate a large block of memory fails in thunargdkcairosetsurface, leading to a crash of thunar CVE-2013-7447...

Updated radicale packages fix CVE-2015-8748

Updated radicale package fixes security vulnerabilities: If an attacker is able to authenticate with a user name like .', he can bypass read/write limitations imposed by regex-based rules, including the built-in rules ownerwrite' read for everybody, write for the calendar owner and owneronly' rea...

Updated cyrus-imapd packages fix security vulnerability

Cyrus-imapd versions 2.4.18 and earlier are vulnerable to potential integer and buffer overflows CVE-2015-8077, CVE-2015-8078...

Updated quassel packages fix security vulnerability

The Quassel core could be crashed by a client using the op command, causing a denial of service CVE-2015-8547...

Updated libidn packages fix CVE-2015-2059

Updated libidn packages fix security vulnerability: In libidn before 1.31, stringpreputf8toucs4 did not validate that the input UTF-8 string was actually valid UTF-8, which could lead to out-of-bounds reads CVE-2015-2059...

Updated vlc packages fix security vulnerability

Loren Maggiore of Trail of Bits discovered that the 3GP parser of VLC, a multimedia player and streamer, could dereference an arbitrary pointer due to insufficient restrictions on a writable buffer. This could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted 3GP files CVE-2015-5949...

Updated libuser package fixes security vulnerabilities

Two flaws were found in the way the libuser library handled the /etc/passwd file. A local attacker could use an application compiled against libuser for example, userhelper to manipulate the /etc/passwd file, which could result in a denial of service or possibly allow the attacker to escalate the...

Updated mailman packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated mailman packages fix security vulnerability: A path traversal vulnerability was discovered in Mailman. Installations using a transport script such as postfix-to-mailman.py to interface with their MTA instead of static aliases were vulnerable to a path traversal attack. To successfully...

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 shibboleth-sp packages fix CVE-2015-2684

Updated shibboleth-sp package fixes security vulnerability: A denial of service vulnerability was found in the Shibboleth Service Provider. When processing certain malformed SAML message generated by an authenticated attacker, the daemon could crash CVE-2015-2684...

Updated e2fsprogs packages fix CVE-2015-1572

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 cabextract packages fix CVE-2015-2060

A directory traversal issue in cabextract allows writing to locations outside of the current working directory, when extracting a crafted cab file that encodes the filenames in a certain manner CVE-2015-2060...

Updated aircrack-ng packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated aircrack-ng package fixes security vulnerabilities: A length parameter inconsistency in Aircrack-ng before 1.2-rc1 at aireplay tcptest which may lead to remote code execution CVE-2014-8322. A missing check for data format in Aircrack-ng before 1.2-rc1 at buddy-ng which may lead to denial ...

Updated geary package fixes security vulnerability

Geary before 0.6.3 does not present the user with a warning when a TLS certificate error is detected, which makes it easier for remote attackers to conduct man-in-the-middle attacks via a crafted certificate CVE-2014-5444...

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...

Updated procmail packages fix CVE-2014-3618

Updated procmail package fixes security vulnerability: A heap-based buffer overflow was reported in procmail's formail utility when parsing addresses with unbalanced quotes CVE-2014-3618...

Updated busybox packages fix CVE-2014-4607

Updated busybox packages fix 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. Busybox bundles part ...

Updated libgadu package fixes CVE-2014-3775

Updated libgadu packages fix security vulnerability: It was discovered that libgadu incorrectly handled certain messages from file relay servers. A malicious remote server or a man in the middle could use this issue to cause applications using libgadu to crash, resulting in a denial of service, o...

Updated mumble packages fix two security vulnervabilitites

Updated mumble packages fix security vulnerabilities: In Mumble before 1.2.6, the Mumble client is vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack when rendering crafted SVG files that contain references to files on the local computer, due to an issue in Qt's SVG renderer module. This issue can be...

Updated cifs-utils packages fix CVE-2014-2830

Updated cifs-utils packages fix security vulnerability: Sebastian Krahmer discovered a stack-based buffer overflow flaw in cifscreds.c CVE-2014-2830...

Updated dovecot packages fix security vulnerability

Updated dovecot packages fix security vulnerability. Dovecot before 2.2.13 is vulnerable to a DoS attack against imap/pop3-login processes. If SSL/TLS handshake was started but wasn't finished, the login process attempted to eventually forcibly disconnect the client, but failed to do it correctly...

Updated libmms packages fix CVE-2014-2892

Updated libmms packages fix security vulnerability: The libmms library before 0.6.4 is vulnerable to a buffer overflow in getanswer in src/mmsh.c. It may be triggered via an overly long line of a MMSH MMS over HTTP server response, effectively overflowing the buffer which has a static size...

Updated cups-filters packages fix security vulnerability

Updated cups-filters packages fix security vulnerability: Sebastian Krahmer discovered it was possible to use malicious broadcast packets to execute arbitrary commands on a server running the cups- browsed daemon CVE-2014-2707. Note that only systems that have enabled the affected feature by usin...

Updated wireshark packages fix multiple vulnerabilies

Updated wireshark packages fix security vulnerabilities: The NFS dissector could crash CVE-2014-2281. The RLC dissector could crash CVE-2014-2283. The MPEG file parser could overflow a buffer CVE-2014-2299...

Updated graphviz packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated graphviz packages fix security vulnerabilities: Multiple buffer overflow vulnerabilities in graphviz due to an error within the "yyerror" function lib/cgraph/scan.l which can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted file CVE-2014-0978 and the acceptance ...

Updated samba package fixes multiple vulnerabilities

Updated samba packages fix security vulnerabilities: Samba before 3.6.22 incorrectly allows login from authenticated users if the requiremembershipof parameter of pamwinbind specifies only invalid group names CVE-2012-6150. It was discovered that multiple buffer overflows in the processing of...