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 potrace packages fix CVE-2013-7437

Updated potrace packages fix security vulnerability: Multiple integer overflows in potrace 1.11 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash via large dimensions in a BMP image, which triggers a buffer overflow CVE-2013-7437...

Updated python-dulwich packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated python-dulwich package fixes security vulnerabilities: It was discovered that Dulwich allows writing to files under .git/ when checking out working trees. This could lead to the execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running an application based on Dulwich...

Updated java-1.7.0-openjdk packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated java-1.7.0 packages fix security vulnerabilities: An off-by-one flaw, leading to a buffer overflow, was found in the font parsing code in the 2D component in OpenJDK. A specially crafted font file could possibly cause the Java Virtual Machine to execute arbitrary code, allowing an untrust...

Updated mono packages fix security vulnerabilities

A TLS impersonation attack was discovered in Mono's TLS stack by researchers at Inria CVE-2015-2318. During checks on the TLS stack, they have discovered two further issues which have been fixed, a vulnerability to a protocol downgrade attack CVE-2015-2319 and SSLv2 support still being available...

Updated qemu packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated qemu packages fix security vulnerabilities: A denial of service flaw was found in the way QEMU handled malformed Physical Region Descriptor Table PRDT data sent to the host's IDE and/or AHCI controller emulation. A privileged guest user could use this flaw to crash the system rhbz1204919...

Updated librsync packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated librsync packages fix security vulnerability: librsync before 1.0.0 used a truncated MD4 "strong" check sum to match blocks. However, MD4 is not cryptographically strong. It's possible that an attacker who can control the contents of one part of a file could use it to control other region...

Updated arj packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated arj package fixes security vulnerabilities: ARJ follows symlinks when unpacking stuff, even the symlinks that were created during the same unpack process, making it vulnerable to a directory traversal CVE-2015-0556. To protect from directory traversals, ARJ strips leading slash from the...

Updated wesnoth packages fix CVE-2015-0844

Updated wesnoth packages fix security vulnerability A severe security vulnerability in Battle of Wesnoth's game client was found which could allow a malicious user to obtain personal files and information from other players in networked multiplayer games using the built-in WML/Lua API on any...

Updated socat packages fix CVE-2015-1379

Updated socat package fixes security vulnerability: In socat before 2.0.0-b8, signal handler implementations are not async-signal-safe and can cause crash or freeze of socat processes. Mostly this issue occurs when socat is in listening mode with fork option and a couple of child processes...

Updated glusterfs packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated glusterfs packages fix security vulnerability: glusterfs was vulnerable to a fragment header infinite loop denial of service attack CVE-2014-3619. Also, the glusterfsd SysV init script was failing to properly start the service. This was fixed by replacing it with systemd unit files for th...

Updated quassel packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated quassel packages fix security vulnerabilities: Quassel could crash when receiving an overlength CTCP query containing only multibyte characters CVE-2015-2778. Quassel could incorrectly split a message in the middle of a multibyte character, leading to a denial of service CVE-2015-2779...

Updated flash-player-plugin packages fix security vulnerabilities

Adobe Flash Player 11.2.202.457 contains fixes to critical security vulnerabilities found in earlier versions that could cause a crash and potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system. This update resolves memory corruption vulnerabilities that could lead to code execution...

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 asterisk packages fix CVE-2015-3008

Updated asterisk packages fix security vulnerability: When Asterisk registers to a SIP TLS device and verifies the server, Asterisk will accept signed certificates that match a common name other than the one Asterisk is expecting if the signed certificate has a common name containing a null byte...

Updated tor packages fix security vulnerabilities

"disgleirio" discovered that a malicious client could trigger an assertion failure in a Tor instance providing a hidden service, thus rendering the service inaccessible CVE-2015-2928. "DonnchaC" discovered that Tor clients would crash with an assertion failure upon parsing specially crafted hidde...

Updated ntp packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated ntp packages fix security vulnerabilities: The symmetric-key feature in the receive function in ntpproto.c in ntpd in NTP before 4.2.8p2 requires a correct MAC only if the MAC field has a nonzero length, which makes it easier for man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof packets by omitting th...

Updated openldap packages fix CVE-2015-1545

Updated openldap packages fix security vulnerability: The deref overlay in slapd 2.4.13 through 2.4.40 dereferences a NULL pointer when a search request includes the Deref control with an empty list of attributes to return missing input validation. This allows a remote unauthenticated client to...

Updated batik packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated batik packages fix security vulnerability: Nicolas Gregoire and Kevin Schaller discovered that Batik would load XML external entities by default. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted SVG file, an attacker could possibly obtain access to arbitrary fil...

Updated suricata packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated suricata packages fix security vulnerability: It was reported that libhtp handling of streams in error state could lead to NULL pointer dereference, leading to caller crash. Suricata Intrusion Detection System embeds libhtp, and is one of the affected components...

Updated xerces-c packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated xerces-c packages fix security vulnerability: Anton Rager and Jonathan Brossard from the Salesforce.com Product Security Team and Ben Laurie of Google discovered a denial of service vulnerability in xerces-c. The parser mishandles certain kinds of malformed input documents, resulting in a...

Updated qt-creator packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated qt-creator packages fix security vulnerability: Qt Creator does not verify SSH host keys when using the built-in SSH client...

Updated less packages fix CVE-2014-9488

Updated less package fixes security vulnerability: Malformed UTF-8 data could have caused an out of bounds read in the UTF-8 decoding routines, causing an invalid read access CVE-2014-9488...

Updated jakarta-taglibs-standard packages fix CVE-2015-0254

Updated jakarta-taglibs-standard packages fix security vulnerability: David Jorm discovered that the Apache Standard Taglibs incorrectly handled external XML entities. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code or perform other external XML entity attacks...

Updated chromium-browser-stable packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated chromium-browser-stable packages fix security vulnerabilities: Google Chrome before 41.0.2272.118 does not properly handle the interaction of IPC, the Gamepad API, and Google V8, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors CVE-2015-1233. Race condition ...

Updated mediawiki packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated mediawiki packages fix security vulnerabilities: In MediaWiki before 1.23.9, one could circumvent the SVG MIME blacklist for embedded resources. This allowed an attacker to embed JavaScript in the SVG CVE-2015-2931. In MediaWiki before 1.23.9, the SVG filter to prevent injecting JavaScrip...

Updated php and libzip packages fix security vulnerabilities

Heap overflow vulnerability in regcomp.c in the ereg extension in PHP before 5.5.23 on 32-bit systems CVE-2015-2305. Integer overflow in zip extension in PHP before 5.5.23 leads to writing past heap boundary CVE-2015-2331. Use after free vulnerability in unserialize in PHP before 5.5.23...

Updated cups-filters packages fix CVE-2015-2265

Updated cups-filters package fixes security vulnerability: cups-browsed in cups-filters before 1.0.66 contained a bug in the removebadchars function, where it failed to reliably filter out illegal characters if there were two or more subsequent illegal characters, allowing execution of arbitrary...

Updated novnc packages fix CVE-2013-7436

Updated novnc package fixes security vulnerability: noVNC before 0.5.1 allows an attacker to steal insecurely set session token cookies, hijacking active or inactive VNC sessions CVE-2013-7436...

Updated firefox & thunderbird packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated firefox and thunderbird packages fix security vulnerabilities: Several flaws were found in the processing of malformed web content. A web page containing malicious content could cause Firefox or Thunderbird to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user...

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 iceape packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated iceape packages fix security issues: Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the browser engine in Mozilla Firefox before 36.0 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory corruption and application crash or possibly execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors. CVE-2015-0835...

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 python-django packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated python-django and python-django14 packages fix security vulnerabilities: The ModelAdmin.readonlyfields attribute in the Django admin allows displaying model fields and model attributes. While the former were correctly escaped, the latter were not. Thus untrusted content could be injected...

Updated mongodb packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated mongodb packages fix security vulnerability: It was found that the mongod server did not correctly validate certain malformed BSON requests. A remote, unauthenticated attacker could use a specially crafted BSON message to crash a mongod server CVE-2015-1609...

Updated owncloud packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated owncloud package fixes security vulnerabilities: Owncloud version 6.0.7 fixes several unspecified security vulnerabilities, as well as many other bugs. See the upstream Changelog for more information...

Updated chromium-browser-stable packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated chromium-browser packages fix security vulnerabilities: The SkBitmap::ReadRawPixels function in core/SkBitmap.cpp in the filters implementation in Skia, as used in Google Chrome before 41.0.2272.76, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other...

Updated python-rope packages fix security vulnerabilities

The python-rope utility has been caught passing remotely supplied data to pickle.load, enabling possible code-execution attacks. This can happen when the 'performdoa' dynamic object analysis option is enabled, which it previously had been by default. This update changes the default configuration ...

Updated tor packages fix security vulnerabilities

The tor package has been updated to version 0.2.4.26, which fixes possible crashes that may be remotely trigger-able, which would result in a denial of service, and also fixes a few other bugs. See the release announcement for details...

Updated setup package fixes security vulnerability

An issue has been identified in Mageia 4's setup package where the /etc/shadow and /etc/gshadow files containing password hashes were created with incorrect permissions, making them world-readable mga14516. This update fixes this issue by enforcing that those files are owned by the root user and...

Updated wireshark package fixes security vulnerabilies

The WCP dissector could crash CVE-2015-2188. The pcapng file parser could crash CVE-2015-2189. The TNEF dissector could go into an infinite loop CVE-2015-2191...

Updated dokuwiki package fixes security vulnerability

DokuWiki before 20140929d is vulnerable to a cross-site scripting XSS issue in the user manager. The user's details were not properly escaped in the user manager's edit form. This allows a registered user to edit her own name using the change profile option to include malicious JavaScript code. T...

Updated python-requests packages fix security vulnerability

In python-requests before 2.6.0, a cookie without a host value set would use the hostname for the redirected URL exposing requests users to session fixation attacks and potentially cookie stealing CVE-2015-2296...

Updated krb5 package fixes security vulnerability

MIT Kerberos 5 through 1.13.1 incorrectly expects that a krb5readmessage data field is represented as a string ending with a '\0' character, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference via a zero-byte version string or cause a denial of service out-of-bound...

Updated drupal packages fix security vulnerabilities

Password reset URLs can be forged under certain circumstances, allowing an attacker to gain access to another user's account without knowing the account's password CVE-2015-2559. Under certain circumstances, malicious users can construct a URL that will trick users into being redirected to a 3rd...

Updated firefox packages fix security vulnerabilities

A flaw was discovered in the implementation of typed array bounds checking in the Javascript just-in-time compilation. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacked could exploit this to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox...

Updated libxfont package fixes security vulnerabilities

The bdf parser reads a count for the number of properties defined in a font from the font file, and allocates arrays with entries for each property based on that count. It never checked to see if that count was negative, or large enough to overflow when multiplied by the size of the structures...

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 libtiff packages fix security vulnerabilities

The libtiff image decoder library contains several issues that could cause the decoder to crash when reading crafted TIFF images CVE-2014-8127, CVE-2014-8128, CVE-2014-8129, CVE-2014-8130, CVE-2014-9655, CVE-2015-1547...

Updated openssl packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated openssl packages fix security vulnerabilities: The function ASN1TYPEcmp will crash with an invalid read if an attempt is made to compare ASN.1 boolean types. Since ASN1TYPEcmp is used to check certificate signature algorithm consistency this can be used to crash any certificate verificati...