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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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...

Updated moodle packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated moodle package fixes security vulnerabilities: In Moodle before 2.6.9, by modifying URL a logged in user can view the list of another user's contacts, number of unread messages and list of their courses CVE-2015-2266. In Moodle before 2.6.9, authentication in mdeploy can be bypassed. It i...

Updated flash-player-plugin package fixes security vulnerabilities

Adobe Flash Player 11.2.202.451 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 389-ds-base packages fix security vulnerabilities

An information disclosure flaw was found in the way the 389 Directory Server stored information in the Changelog that is exposed via the 'cn=changelog' LDAP sub-tree. An unauthenticated user could in certain cases use this flaw to read data from the Changelog, which could include sensitive...

Updated qt3, qt4 and qtbase5 packages fix security vulnerability

The builtin BMP decoder in QtGui prior to Qt 5.5 contained a bug that would lead to a divsion by zero when loading certain corrupt BMP files CVE-2015-0295. This in turn would cause the application loading these hand crafted BMPs to crash. Qt3, Qt4 and qtbase5 have been patched to prevent this...

Updated libarchive packages fix security vulnerability

Updated libarchive packages fix security vulnerability: Alexander Cherepanov discovered that bsdcpio, an implementation of the "cpio" program part of the libarchive project, is susceptible to a directory traversal vulnerability via absolute paths...

Updated libssh2 packages fix CVE-2015-1782

Updated libssh2 packages fix security vulnerability: Mariusz Ziulek reported that libssh2, a SSH2 client-side library, was reading and using the SSHMSGKEXINIT packet without doing sufficient range checks when negotiating a new SSH session with a remote server. A malicious attacker could man in th...

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 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 vsftpd package fixes security vulnerability

The vsftp daemon was not handling the "denyfile" option properly, allowing unauthorized access in some specific scenarios CVE-2015-1419...

Updated icu packages fix security vulnerability

It was discovered that ICU incorrectly handled memory operations when processing fonts. If an application using ICU processed crafted data, an attacker could cause it to crash or potentially execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program CVE-2014-6585, CVE-2014-6591...

Updated librsvg packages fix security vulnerabilities

Atte Kettunen's fuzz testing found several vulnerabilities in librsvg: - Invalid memory access caused by incorrect handling of a pattern paint server with an xlink:href to a unexpected type bgo744299 - Infinite loop in the handling of gradients bgo738169 - Heap-buffer-overflow when there's a...

Updated apache packages fix CVE-2015-0228

Updated apache packages fix security vulnerability: In the modlua module in the Apache HTTP Server through 2.4.10, a maliciously crafted websockets PING after a script calls r:wsupgrade can cause a child process crash CVE-2015-0228...

Updated jython packages fix CVE-2013-2027

Updated jython packages fix security vulnerability: There are serveral problems with the way Jython creates class cache files, potentially leading to arbitrary code execution or information disclosure CVE-2013-2027...

Updated putty and filezilla packages fix CVE-2015-2157

Updated putty and filezilla packages fix security vulnerability: PuTTY suite versions 0.51 to 0.63 fail to clear SSH-2 private key information from memory when loading and saving key files to disk, leading to potential disclosure. The issue affects keys stored on disk in encrypted and unencrypted...

Updated mapserver packages fix CVE-2013-7262 and packaging issues

Updated mapserver packages fix security vulnerability: SQL injection vulnerability in the msPostGISLayerSetTimeFilter function in mappostgis.c in MapServer before 6.4.1, when a WMS-Time service is used, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via a crafted string in a PostGIS TI...

Updated vlc package fixes security vulnerability

Updated vlc packages 2.1.6 are an upgrade with some fixes. Some of the problems fixed upstream were already fixed by a previous Mageia update to VLC see the link to MGASA-2015-0053. VLC versions before 2.1.5 contain a vulnerability in the transcode module that may allow a corrupted stream to...

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 python packages fix CVE-2014-9365

Updated python packages fix security vulnerability: When Python's standard library HTTP clients httplib, urllib, urllib2, xmlrpclib are used to access resources with HTTPS, by default the certificate is not checked against any trust store, nor is the hostname in the certificate checked against th...

Updated dokuwiki packages fix CVE-2015-2172

Updated dokuwiki package fixes security vulnerability: DokuWiki before 20140929c has a security issue in the ACL plugins remote API component. The plugin failed to check for superuser permissions before executing ACL addition or deletion. This means everybody with permissions to call the XMLRPC A...

Updated vorbis-tools packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated vorbis-tools package fixes security vulnerabilities: oggenc in vorbis-tools 1.4.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service divide-by-zero error and crash via a WAV file with the number of channels set to zero CVE-2014-9638. Integer overflow in oggenc in vorbis-tools 1.4.0 allo...

Updated php packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated php packages fix security vulnerabilities: It was discovered that the PHP opcache component incorrectly handled memory. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause PHP to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code CVE-2015-1351. It was...

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 apache-poi packages fix CVE-2014-9527

Updated apache-poi packages fixes security vulnerability: A denial of service flaw was found in the way the HSLFSlideShow class implementation in Apache POI handled certain PPT files. A remote attacker could submit a specially crafted PPT file that would cause Apache POI to hang indefinitely...

Updated firefox and 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 sympa packages fix CVE-2015-1306

Updated sympa packages fix security vulnerability: A vulnerability have been discovered in Sympa web interface that allows access to files on the server filesystem. This breach allows to send to a list or a user any file readable by the Sympa user, located on the server filesystem, using the Symp...

Updated samba packages fix CVE-2015-0240

Updated samba packages fix security vulnerabilities: An uninitialized pointer use flaw was found in the Samba daemon smbd. A malicious Samba client could send specially crafted netlogon packets that, when processed by smbd, could potentially lead to arbitrary code execution with the privileges of...

Updated freetype2 packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated freetype2 packages fix security vulnerabilities: The ttsbitdecoderloadimage function in sfnt/ttsbit.c in FreeType before 2.5.4 does not properly check for an integer overflow, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service out-of-bounds read or possibly have unspecified other...

Updated bind packages fix CVE-2015-1349

Updated bind packages fix security vulnerability: Jan-Piet Mens discovered that the BIND DNS server would crash when processing an invalid DNSSEC key rollover, either due to an error on the zone operator's part, or due to interference with network traffic by an attacker. This issue affects...