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 util-linux packages fix CVE-2014-9114

Updated util-linux packages fix security vulnerability: Sebastian Krahmer reported a command injection flaw in blkid. This could possibly result in command execution with root privileges CVE-2014-9114. The util-linux package has been updated to version 2.24.2 and patched to fix this issue and oth...

Updated nodejs package fixes security vulnerabilities

Updated nodejs package fixes security vulnerabilities: A memory corruption vulnerability, which results in a denial-of-service, was identified in the versions of V8 that ship with Node.js 0.8 and 0.10. In certain circumstances, a particularly deep recursive workload that may trigger a GC and...

Updated php-pear-HTML_AJAX package fixes security vulnerability

Updated php-pear-HTMLAJAX package fixes security vulnerability: The HTMLAJAX pear module before version 0.5.7 is vulnerable to a bug that can allow for remote code execution through unspecified vectors...

Updated openafs packages fix security vulnerabilies

Updated openafs packages fix security vulnerabilities: Buffer overflow in the GetStatistics64 remote procedure call RPC in OpenAFS before 1.6.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash via a crafted statsVersion argument CVE-2014-0159. OpenAFS before 1.6.7 delays the listen thre...

Updated graphviz packages fix CVE-2014-9157

Updated graphviz packages fix security vulnerability: Format string vulnerability in the yyerror function in lib/cgraph/scan.l in Graphviz allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via format string specifiers in unknown vector, which are not properly handled in an error string...

Updated iceape package fixes security vulnerabilities

When the oxygen-gtk was active and iceape tried to draw a menu for example after a mouse down event on the menu bar, a segmentation fault was triggered causing iceape to crash. The oxygen-gtk theme engine contains a solution for this problem, this is now enabled for iceape. MGA 12978 Mozilla...

Updated jasper packages fix CVE-2014-9029

Updated jasper packages fix security vulnerability: Josh Duart of the Google Security Team discovered heap-based buffer overflow flaws in JasPer, which could lead to denial of service application crash or the execution of arbitrary code CVE-2014-9029...

Updated apache-mod_wsgi package fixes security vulnerability

It was discovered that modwsgi incorrectly handled errors when setting up the working directory and group access rights. A malicious application could possibly use this issue to cause a local privilege escalation when using daemon mode CVE-2014-8583...

Updated openvpn package fixes CVE-2014-8104

Updated openvpn packages fix security vulnerability: Dragana Damjanovic discovered that OpenVPN incorrectly handled certain control channel packets. An authenticated attacker could use this issue to cause an OpenVPN server to crash, resulting in a denial of service CVE-2014-8104...

Updated tcpdump package fixes security vulnerability

It was discovered that tcpdump incorrectly handled printing PPP packets. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause tcpdump to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code CVE-2014-9140...

Updated yaml & perl-YAML-LibYAML packages fix CVE-2014-9130

Updated yaml and perl-YAML-LibYAML packages fix security vulnerability: An assertion failure was found in the way the libyaml library parsed wrapped strings. An attacker able to load specially crafted YAML input into an application using libyaml could cause the application to crash CVE-2014-9130...

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 phpmyadmin package fixes CVE-2014-9218

Updated phpmyadmin package fixes security vulnerabilities: In phpMyAdmin before 4.1.14.8, with very long passwords it was possible to initiate a denial of service attack on phpMyAdmin CVE-2014-9218...

Updated sddm packages fix security vulnerabilities

Sddm may in some cases allow unauthenticated logins as the sddm user CVE-2014-7271. Sddm is vulnerable to a race condition in XAUTHORITY file generation CVE-2014-7272. Sddm has been updated to version 0.10.0, fixing these issues and several other bugs, and adding new functionality. libxcb package...

Updated firefox & thunderbird packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated nss, firefox, and thunderbird packages fix security vulnerabilities: In the QuickDER decoder in NSS before 3.17.3, ASN.1 DER decoding of lengths is too permissive, allowing undetected smuggling of arbitrary data CVE-2014-1569. Several flaws were found in the processing of malformed web...

Updated libreoffice packages fix security vulnerability

"Document as E-mail" vulnerability bnc900218. It was discovered that LibreOffice incorrectly handled the Impress remote control port. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Impress to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code CVE-2014-3693...

Updated mediawiki packages fix security vulnerabilies

In MediaWiki before 1.23.7, a missing CSRF check could allow reflected XSS on wikis that allow raw HTML CVE-2014-9276. MediaWiki's mangling, in MediaWiki before 1.23.7, could allow an article editor to inject code into API consumers that blindly unserialize PHP representations of the page from th...

Updated teeworlds packages fix security vulnerability

A security flaw was found in the teeworlds server prior to 0.6.3 where an incorrect offset check could enable an attacker to read the memory or trigger a segmentation fault. The teeworlds package in Mageia 4 has been update to version 0.6.3, thus providing the fix for this security flaw and a...

Updated gnome-shell and gnome-settings-daemon packages fix security vulnerability

The lock screen in gnome-shell does not disable taking screenshots via the Print Screen key, and several consecutive screenshot requests can trigger an out-of-memory situation, causing the lock screen to be killed, thus allowing it to be bypassed CVE-2014-7300...

Updated tcpdump package fixes security vulnerabilities

The Tcpdump program could crash when processing a malformed OLSR payload when the verbose output flag was set CVE-2014-8767. The application decoder for the Ad hoc On-Demand Distance Vector AODV protocol in Tcpdump fails to perform input validation and performs unsafe out-of-bound accesses. The...

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 flac packages fix security vulnerabilities

In libFLAC before 1.3.1, a stack overflow CVE-2014-8962 and a heap overflow CVE-2014-9028, which may result in arbitrary code execution, can be triggered by passing a maliciously crafted .flac file to the libFLAC decoder...

Updated ruby-httpclient package enables SSL negotiation

This new version enables SSL negotiation instead of hardcoding SSLv3...

Updated icecast package fixes security vulnerability

Icecast did not properly handle the launching of "scripts" on connect or disconnect of sources. This could result in sensitive information from these scripts leaking to external clients. CVE-2014-9018...

Updated drupal packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated drupal packages fix security vulnerability: Aaron Averill discovered that a specially crafted request can give a user access to another user's session, allowing an attacker to hijack a random session CVE-2014-9015. Michael Cullum, Javier Nieto and Andres Rojas Guerrero discovered that the...

Updated wordpress package fixes security vulnerabilities

XSS in wptexturize via comments or posts, exploitable for unauthenticated users CVE-2014-9031. XSS in media playlists CVE-2014-9032. CSRF in the password reset process CVE-2014-9033. Denial of service for giant passwords. The phpass library by Solar Designer was used in both projects without...

Updated flash-player-plugin packages fix CVE-2014-8439

Adobe Flash Player 11.2.202.424 contains additional hardening against a vulnerability in the handling of a dereferenced memory pointer that could lead to code execution CVE-2014-8439. A mitigation was previously introduced for this issue in a previous update MGASA-2014-0448...

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 perl-Mojolicious packages fix a security vulnerability

Updated perl-Mojolicious package fixes security vulnerability: An assumption in Mojolicious before 5.48 CGI parameter handling that can result in parameter injection attacks...

Updated avidemux packages fix security vulnerabilities

A heap-based buffer overflow in the encodeslice function in libavcodec/proresenckostya.c in FFmpeg before 1.2.9 can cause a crash, allowing a malicious image file to cause a denial of service CVE-2014-5271. libavcodec/iff.c in FFmpeg before 1.2.9 allows an attacker to have an unspecified impact v...

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 asterisk packages fix CVE-2014-6610 and mitigate POODLE

Updated asterisk packages fix security vulnerabilities: In Asterisk Open Source 11.x before 11.12.1, when an out of call message, delivered by either the SIP or PJSIP channel driver or the XMPP stack, is handled in Asterisk, a crash can occur if the channel servicing the message is sent into the...

Updated phpmyadmin packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated phpmyadmin package fixes security vulnerabilities: In phpMyAdmin before 4.1.14.7, with a crafted database, table or column name it is possible to trigger an XSS attack in the table browse page, with a crafted ENUM value it is possible to trigger XSS attacks in the table print view and zoo...

Updated perl-Plack package fixes security vulnerability

Plack::App::File would previously strip trailing slashes off provided paths. This in combination with the common pattern of serving files with Plack::Middleware::Static could allow an attacker to bypass a whitelist of generated files CVE-2014-5269...

Updated clamav packages fix security vulnerabilities

Certain javascript files causes ClamAV to segfault when scanned with the -a list archived files CVE-2013-6497. A heap buffer overflow was reported in ClamAV when scanning a specially crafted y0da Crypter obfuscated PE file CVE-2014-9050. ClamAV has been updated to version 0.98.5 to address these...

Updated chromium-browser-stable fixes multiple security vulnerabilities

Updated chromium-browser-stable packages fix security vulnerabilities: Buffer overflow in Skia, as used in Google Chrome before 39.0.2171.65, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors CVE-2014-7904. Use-after-free...

Updated graphicsmagick packages fix security vulnerability

GraphicsMagick is vulnerable to an out of bounds read / heap Overflow in the function ReadPCXImage in the file pcx.c. This can be exploited by a crafted image file to cause a denial of service CVE-2014-8355...

Updated moodle package fixes security vulnerabilities

In Moodle before 2.6.5, without forcing encoding, it was possible that UTF7 characters could be used to force cross-site scripts to AJAX scripts although this is unlikely on modern browsers and on most Moodle pages MSA-14-0035. In Moodle before 2.6.5, an XSS issue through $searchcourse in...

Updated polarssl package fix security vulnerabilities

A regression in PolarSSL 1.3.8 resulted in servers negotiating a weaker signature algorithm than available. This has been fixed in PolarSSL 1.3.9 CVE-2014-8627. Two remotely-triggerable memory leaks were found by the Codenomicon Defensics tool and fixed in PolarSSL 1.3.9 CVE-2014-8628...

Updated imagemagick packages fix security vulnerabilities

ImageMagick is vulnerable to a denial of service due to out-of-bounds memory accesses in the resize code CVE-2014-8354, PCX parser CVE-2014-8355, DCM decoder CVE-2014-8562, and JPEG decoder CVE-2014-8716...

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 kernel-vserver packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel-vserver update is based on upstream -longterm 3.10.58 and fixes the following security issues: The kvmiommumappages function in virt/kvm/iommu.c in the Linux kernel through 3.16.1 miscalculates the number of pages during the handling of a mapping failure, which allows guest OS users t...

Updated ffmpeg packages fix security vulnerabilities

A heap-based buffer overflow in the encodeslice function in libavcodec/proresenckostya.c in FFmpeg before 2.0.6 can cause a crash, allowing a malicious image file to cause a denial of service CVE-2014-5271. libavcodec/iff.c in FFmpeg before 2.0.6 allows an attacker to have an unspecified impact v...

Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel update is based on upstream -longterm 3.10.60 and fixes the following security issues: The WRMSR processing functionality in the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel through 3.17.2 does not properly handle the writing of a non- canonical address to a model-specific register, which allows...

Updated krb5 packages fix security vulnerability

The kadm5randkeyprincipal3 function in lib/kadm5/srv/svrprincipal.c in kadmind in MIT Kerberos 5 aka krb5 before 1.13 sends old keys in a response to a -randkey -keepold request, which allows remote authenticated users to forge tickets by leveraging administrative access CVE-2014-5351...

Updated privoxy package fixes security vulnerability

The logrotate configuration of the privoxy package did not function properly, causing its log files not to be rotated. The log files could potentially fill up the disk...

Updated boinc-client packages fix security vulnerability

Multiple stack overflow flaws were found in the way the XML parser of boinc-client, a Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing BOINC client for distributed computing, performed processing of certain XML files. A rogue BOINC server could provide a specially-crafted XML file that, when...

Updated python-imaging and python-pillow packages fix security vulnerability

Python Image Library PIL 1.1.7 and earlier and Pillow 2.3 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters, due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2014-1932 CVE-2014-3007...

Updated kdebase4-runtime and kwebkitpart packages fix security vulnerability

kwebkitpart and the bookmarks:// io slave were not sanitizing input correctly allowing to some javascript being executed on the context of the referenced hostname CVE-2014-8600...