Updated git packages fix security vulnerability

Git through 2.14.2 mishandles layers of tree objects, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory consumption via a crafted repository, aka a Git bomb. This can also have an impact of disk consumption; however, an affected process typically would not survive its attempt to...

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 x11-server packages fix security vulnerabilities & bugs

The upstream 1.19.4 update we pushed as: http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2017-0366.html introduced a regression in PRIME syncronization. Upstream released a 1.19.5 that fixes that and a lot of security fixes: CVE-2017-12176 to CVE-2017-12187 Also added a fix for "XShmGetImage: fix censoring"...

Updated ansible package fixes security vulnerability

A flaw was found in the way Ansible passed certain parameters to the jenkinsplugin module. A remote attacker could use this flaw to expose sensitive information from a remote host's logs. This flaw was fixed by not allowing passwords to be specified in the "params" argument, and noting this in th...

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 mpg123 packages fix security vulnerabilities

mpg123 version 1.25.6 fix two buffer overflows, and several other non-security bugs...

Updated 389-ds-base packages fix security vulnerability

The directory server password lockout policy prevents binds from operating once a threshold of failed passwords has been met. During this lockout, if you bind with a successful password, a different error code is returned. This means that an attacker has no ratelimit or penalty during an account...

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 sudo packages fix security vulnerability

A flaw was found in the way sudo parsed tty information from the process status file in the proc filesystem. A local user with privileges to execute commands via sudo could use this flaw to escalate their privileges to root. CVE-2017-1000367...

Updated catdoc packages fix security vulnerability

Various issues found during fuzzing which may lead to an application crash or have unspecified further impact when the user is tricked into opening specially crafted files boo919228. A lot of segfaults on incorrect or corrupted data...

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 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 openafs packages fix security vulnerability

Due to incomplete initialization or clearing of reused memory, OpenAFS directory objects are likely to contain "dead" directory entry information. This extraneous information is not active - that is, it is logically invisible to the fileserver and client. However, the leaked information is...

Updated sudo packages fix security vulnerability

It was discovered that the sudo noexec restriction could have been bypassed if application run via sudo executed wordexp C library function with a user supplied argument. A local user permitted to run such application via sudo with noexec restriction could possibly use this flaw to execute...

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...

Updated mupdf packages fix security vulnerability

Use-after-free issue in mupdf in pdfloadxref can cause a denial of service CVE-2016-6265...

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 botan packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated botan packages fix security vulnerabilities: During RSA decryption, how long decoding of PKCS 1 v1.5 padding took was input dependent. If these differences could be measured by an attacker, it could be used to mount a Bleichenbacher million-message attack CVE-2015-7827. ECDSA and DSA...

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 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 cpio packages fix CVE-2016-2037

Updated cpio package fixes security vulnerability: An out-of-bounds write in cpio was found in the parsing of cpio files, in the processcopyin function in src/copyin.c CVE-2016-2037...

Updated php-ZendFramework/php-ZendFramework2 packages fixe security vulnerabilities

Zend Framework contained several instances where it was using incorrect permissions masks, which could lead to local privilege escalation issues CVE-2015-5723. The PDO adapters of Zend Framework 1 do not filter null bytes values in SQL statements. A PDO adapter can treat null bytes in a query as ...

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 libcryptopp package fixes security vulnerability

Evgeny Sidorov discovered that libcryptopp did not properly implement blinding to mask private key operations for the Rabin-Williams digital signature algorithm. This could allow remote attackers to mount a timing attack and retrieve the user's private key CVE-2015-2141...

Updated dpkg packages fix CVE-2015-0840

Updated dpkg packages fix security vulnerability: The dpkg-source command in Debian dpkg before 1.17.25 allows remote attackers to bypass signature verification via a crafted Debian source control file .dsc CVE-2015-0840...

Updated fcgi packages fix CVE-2012-6687

Updated fcgi packages fix security vulnerability: FCGI does not perform range checks for file descriptors before use of the FDSET macro. This FDSET macro could allow for more than 1024 total file descriptors to be monitored in the closing state. This may allow remote attackers to cause a denial o...

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 libtasn1 packages fix CVE-2015-2806

Updated libtasn1 packages fix security vulnerability: The libtasn1 library before version 4.4 is vulnerable to a two-byte stack overflow in asn1derdecoding CVE-2015-2806...

Updated pngcrush package fixes security vulnerability

pngcrush-1.7.84 fixes defects reported by Coverity-scan, so it should be more resistant to crashes due to malformed input files, such as the one presented in CVE-2015-2158...

Updated maradns packages fix a security vulnerability

maradns versions prior to 1.4.16 are vulnerable to a DoS-vulnerability through which a malicious authorative DNS-server can cause an infinite chain of referrals. For further details on the vulnerability, see references...

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 kdebase4-workspace packages fix security vulnerability and various bugs

This update fixes a security vulnerability in the KDE workspace configuration module for setting the date and time CVE-2014-8651, mga14578, and fixes some additional issues: - fix foreground color for GTK2 menus bko127861, - improve contrast for rendering checkbox marks, arrows, etc. bko337433,...

Updated php-smarty packages fix security vulnerability

Smarty before 3.1.21 allows remote attackers to bypass the secure mode restrictions and execute arbitrary PHP code as demonstrated by "literal" in a template CVE-2014-8350...

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 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 a2ps packages fix CVE-2014-0466

Updated a2ps packages fix security vulnerability: Brian M. Carlson reported that a2ps's fixps script does not invoke gs with the -dSAFER option. Consequently executing fixps on a malicious PostScript file could result in files being deleted or arbitrary commands being executed with the privileges...

Updated mutt package fixes security vulnerability

A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way mutt processed certain email headers. A remote attacker could use this flaw to send an email with specially crafted headers that, when processed, could cause mutt to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the us...

Updated imapsync packages fix an information disclosure

Updated imapsync package fixes security vulnerability: Imapsync, by default, runs a "release check" when executed, which causes imapsync to connect to http://imapsync.lamiral.info and send information about the version of imapsync, the operating system and perl CVE-2013-4279. The imapsync package...

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 tntnet packages fix security vulnerability

A flaw in Tntnet before 2.2.1 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a header that ends in \n instead of \r\n, which prevents a null terminator from being added and causes Tntnet to include headers from other requests CVE-2013-7299...

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 libxfont packages fix security vulnerability

Updated libxfont packages fix security vulnerability: It was discovered that a buffer overflow in the processing of Glyph Bitmap Distribution fonts BDF could result in the execution of arbitrary code CVE-2013-6462...

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...