Updated php packages fix security vulnerability

An out-of-bounds read flaw was found in file's donote function in the way the file utility determined the note headers of a elf file. This could possibly lead to file executable crash CVE-2014-3710. PHP uses an embedded copy of file's libmagic library, and was therefore affected. It has been...

Updated apt packages fix security vulnerability

The Google Security Team discovered a buffer overflow vulnerability in the HTTP transport code in apt-get. An attacker able to man-in-the-middle a HTTP request to an apt repository can trigger the buffer overflow, leading to a crash of the "http" apt method binary, or potentially to arbitrary cod...

Updated pulseaudio package fixes RTP remote crash vulnerability

PulseAudio versions shipped in Mageia 3 and 4 were vulnerable to a remote RTP attack which could crash the PulseAudio server simply by sending an empty UDP packet. Additionally, the version of PulseAudio shipped in Mageia 4 was a pre-release version of PulseAudio v5 and has been updated to the...

Updated [package] package fix CVE-2014-3710

Updated file packages fix security vulnerability: An out-of-bounds read flaw was found in file's donote function in the way the file utility determined the note headers of a elf file. This could possibly lead to file executable crash CVE-2014-3710...

Updated dokuwiki packages fix security vulnerabilities

inc/template.php in DokuWiki before 2014-05-05a only checks for access to the root namespace, which allows remote attackers to access arbitrary images via a media file details ajax call CVE-2014-8761. The ajaxmediadiff function in DokuWiki before 2014-05-05a allows remote attackers to access...

Updated konversation package fixes security vulnerability

Due to and out-of-bounds read issue in Konversation in The ECB Blowfish decryption function, a malicious client can cause either denial of service or disclosure of information from process memory by using an improperly formed message CVE-2014-8483...

Updated KDE 4 and related packages move to KDE 4.12.5

This KDE 4 update provides an upgrade to the last stable version of KDE Applications and Development Platform for the 4.12 series, and updates Plasma Workspaces to 4.11.12. This update fixes several security vulnerabilities - KMail/KIO POP3 SSL MITM Flaw CVE-2014-3494 - mga13545 - KAuth PID Reuse...

Updated zabbix package fixes security vulnerability

It was reported that the Zabbix frontend supported an XML data import feature, where on the server it used DOMDocument to parse the XML. By default, DOMDocument also parses the external DTD, which could allow a remote attacker to use a crafted XML file causing Zabbix to read an arbitrary local...

Updated quassel packages fix security vulnerability

Due to and out-of-bounds read issue in Quassel core in The ECB Blowfish decryption function, a malicious client can cause either denial of service or disclosure of information from process memory by using an improperly formed message CVE-2014-8483...

Updated MythTV packages to harden against SSDP reflection attacks

Updated MythTV packages to harden against SSDP reflection attacks MythTV's UPNP component was suseptable to SSDP reflection attacks and has been hardened to disallow SSDP device discovery from non-local addresses as mitigation. Additionally, a popular schedules retrieval service, Schedules Direct...

Updated php-ZendFramework packages fix security vulnerabilities

Due to a bug in PHP's LDAP extension, when ZendFramework's Zendldap class is used for logins, an attacker can login as any user by using a null byte to bypass the empty password check and perform an unauthenticated LDAP bind CVE-2014-8088. The sqlsrv PHP extension, which provides the ability to...

Updated nginx packages fix CVE-2014-3616

Updated nginx package fixes security vulnerability: Antoine Delignat-Lavaud and Karthikeyan Bhargavan discovered that it was possible to reuse cached SSL sessions in unrelated contexts, allowing virtual host confusion attacks in some configurations by an attacker in a privileged network position...

Updated wpa_supplicant and hostapd packages fix security vulnerability

A vulnerability was found in the mechanism wpacli and hostapdcli use for executing action scripts. An unsanitized string received from a remote device can be passed to a system call resulting in arbitrary command execution under the privileges of the wpacli/hostapdcli process which may be root in...

Updated qemu packages fix multiple security vulnerabilities

Updated qemu packages fix security vulnerabilities: Michael S. Tsirkin discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled vmxnet3 devices. A local guest could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code on the host CVE-2013-4544. Multiple integer overflow, input...

Updated php packages fix security vulnerabilities

An integer overflow flaw in PHP's unserialize function was reported. If unserialize were used on untrusted data, this issue could lead to a crash or potentially information disclosure CVE-2014-3669. A heap corruption issue was reported in PHP's exifthumbnail function. A specially-crafted JPEG ima...

Updated chromium-browser-stable packages fix security vulnerabilities

Several flaws were found in the processing of malformed web content. A web page containing malicious content could cause Chromium to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Chromium CVE-2014-3188, CVE-2014-3189, CVE-2014-3190, CVE-2014-3191,...

Updated wget packages fix CVE-2014-4877

Updated wget package fixes security vulnerability: Wget was susceptible to a symlink attack which could create arbitrary files, directories or symbolic links and set their permissions when retrieving a directory recursively through FTP CVE-2014-4877. The default settings in wget have been changed...

Updated java-1.7.0-openjdk packages fix security vulnerabilities

Multiple flaws were discovered in the Libraries, 2D, and Hotspot components in OpenJDK. An untrusted Java application or applet could use these flaws to bypass certain Java sandbox restrictions CVE-2014-6506, CVE-2014-6531, CVE-2014-6502, CVE-2014-6511, CVE-2014-6504, CVE-2014-6519. It was...

Updated drupal packages fix security vulnerability

An SQL Injection issue exists in Drupal before 7.32 due to the way the Drupal core handles prepared statements. A malicious user can inject arbitrary SQL queries, and thereby completely control the Drupal site. This vulnerability can be exploited by remote attackers without any kind of...

Updated pidgin packages fix security vulnerabilities

In Pidgin before 2.10.10, both of libpurple's bundled SSL/TLS plugins one for GnuTLS and one for NSS failed to check that the Basic Constraints extension allowed intermediate certificates to act as CAs. This allowed anyone with any valid certificate to create a fake certificate for any arbitrary...

Updated mariadb packages fix security vulnerabilities

This update provides MariaDB 5.5.40, which fixes several security issues and other bugs...

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 running it CVE-2014-1574, CVE-2014-1578, CVE-2014-1581, CVE-2014-1576,...

Updated ejabberd packages fix security vulnerability

A flaw was discovered in ejabberd that allows clients to connect with an unencrypted connection even if starttlsrequired is set CVE-2014-8760...

Updated openssl packages fix security vulnerabilities

This update adds support for the TLS Fallback Signaling Cipher Suite Value TLSFALLBACKSCSV, which can be used to prevent protocol downgrade attacks against applications which re-connect using a lower SSL/TLS protocol version when the initial connection indicating the highest supported protocol...

Updated iceape package fixes security vulnerabilities

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the browser engine in Mozilla Firefox before 30.0, Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.6, and Thunderbird before 24.6 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory corruption and application crash or possibly execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors...

Updated ctags package fixes security vulnerability

A denial of service issue was discovered in ctags 5.8. A remote attacker could cause excessive CPU usage and disk space consumption via a crafted JavaScript file by triggering an infinite loop CVE-2014-7204...

Updated lua and lua5.1 packages fix security vulnerability

A heap-based overflow vulnerability was found in the way Lua handles varargs functions with many fixed parameters called with few arguments, leading to application crashes or, potentially, arbitrary code execution CVE-2014-5461...

Updated libxml2 packages fix security vulnerability

A denial of service flaw was found in libxml2, a library providing support to read, modify and write XML and HTML files. A remote attacker could provide a specially crafted XML file that, when processed by an application using libxml2, would lead to excessive CPU consumption denial of service bas...

Updated phpmyadmin package fixes security vulnerability

In phpMyAdmin before 4.1.14.6, with a crafted database or table name it is possible to trigger an XSS in SQL debug output when enabled and in server monitor page when viewing and analysing executed queries CVE-2014-8326...

Updated chromium-browser-stable packages fix security vulnerabilites

Updated chromium-browser-stable packages fix security vulnerabilities: Several security issues and other bugs have been fixed since our previous update. See the upstream release announcements for details. Note that as of version 35, the Chromium browser no longer supports browser plugins, includi...

Updated golang packages fix CVE-2014-7189

Updated golang packages fix security vulnerability: Go 1.1 through 1.3.2 has an issue that affects programs that use crypto/tls to implement a TLS server. If the server enables TLS client authentication using certificates and explicitly sets SessionTicketsDisabled to true in the tls.Config, then ...

Updated bugzilla packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated bugzilla packages fix security vulnerabilities: If a new comment was marked private to the insider group, and a flag was set in the same transaction, the comment would be visible to flag recipients even if they were not in the insider group CVE-2014-1571. An attacker creating a new Bugzil...

Updated rsyslog packages fix CVE-2014-3634

Updated rsyslog packages fix security vulnerability: Rainer Gerhards, the rsyslog project leader, reported a vulnerability in Rsyslog. As a consequence of this vulnerability an attacker can send malformed messages to a server, if this one accepts data from untrusted sources, and trigger a denial ...

Updated python-requests packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated python-requests packages fix security vulnerability: Python-requests was found to have a vulnerability, where the attacker can retrieve the passwords from /.netrc file through redirect requests, if the user has their passwords stored in the /.netrc file CVE-2014-1829. It was discovered th...

Updated perl packages fix CVE-2014-4330

Updated perl package fixes security vulnerability: The Dumper method in Data::Dumper before 2.154, as used in Perl 5.20.1 and earlier, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service stack consumption and crash via an Array-Reference with many nested Array-References, which trigge...

Updated perl-Data-Dumper package fixes CVE-2014-4330

Updated perl-Data-Dumper package fixes security vulnerability: The Dumper method in Data::Dumper before 2.154, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service stack consumption and crash via an Array-Reference with many nested Array-References, which triggers a large number of...

Updated torque packages fix CVE-2014-3684

Updated torque packages fix security vulnerabilities: Chad Vizino reported that within a TORQUE Resource Manager job a non-root user could use a vulnerability in the tmadopt library call to kill processes he/she doesn't own including root-owned ones on any node in a job CVE-2014-3684. This update...

Updated perl package fixes CVE-2014-4330

Updated perl package fixes security vulnerability: The Dumper method in Data::Dumper before 2.154, as used in Perl 5.20.1 and earlier, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service stack consumption and crash via an Array-Reference with many nested Array-References, which trigge...

Updated fish package fixes multiple security vulnerabilities

Updated fish packages fix security vulnerability: fish, from at least version 1.16.0 to version 2.1.0 inclusive, does not check the credentials of processes communicating over the fishd universal variable server UNIX domain socket. This allows a local attacker to elevate their privileges to those...

Updated cacti package fixes multiple security vulnerabilities

Updated cacti package fixes security vulnerabilities: Multiple security issues cross-site scripting, missing input sanitising and SQL injection have been discovered in Cacti, a web interface for graphing of monitoring systems CVE-2014-5025, CVE-2014-5026, CVE-2014-5261, CVE-2014-5262...

Updated libvirt packages fix security vulnerbilities

Updated libvirt packages fix security vulnerabilities: An out-of-bounds read flaw was found in the way libvirt's qemuDomainGetBlockIoTune function looked up the disk index in a non-persistent live disk configuration while a persistent disk configuration was being indexed. A remote attacker able t...

Updated libvncserver & remmina packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated libvncserver and remmina packages fix security vulnerabilities: A malicious VNC server can trigger incorrect memory management handling by advertising a large screen size parameter to the VNC client. This would result in multiple memory corruptions and could allow remote code execution on...

Updated squid packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated squid packages fix security vulnerabilities: Due to incorrect buffer management Squid can be caused by an attacker to write outside its allocated SNMP buffer CVE-2014-6270. Due to incorrect bounds checking Squid pinger binary is vulnerable to denial of service or information leak attack...

Updated xerces-j2 packages fix CVE-2013-4002

Updated xerces-j2 packages fix security vulnerability: A resource consumption issue was found in the way Xerces-J handled XML declarations. A remote attacker could use an XML document with a specially crafted declaration using a long pseudo-attribute name that, when parsed by an application using...

Updated dbus packages fix multiple security vulnerabilities

Updated dbus packages fixes the following security issues: Alban Crequy and Simon McVittie discovered several vulnerabilities in the D-Bus message daemon: On 64-bit platforms, file descriptor passing could be abused by local users to cause heap corruption in dbus-daemon, leading to a crash, or...

Updated python packages fix CVE-2014-7185

Updated python packages fix security vulnerability: Python before 2.7.8 is vulnerable to an integer overflow in the buffer type CVE-2014-7185...

Updated phpmyadmin package fixes security vulnerability

In phpMyAdmin before 4.1.14.4, with a crafted ENUM value it is possible to trigger an XSS in table search and table structure pages CVE-2014-7217...

Updated mediawiki packages fix security vulnerbilities

Updated mediawiki packages fix security vulnerability: MediaWiki before 1.23.4 is vulnerable to cross-site scripting due to JavaScript injection via CSS in uploaded SVG files CVE-2014-7199. MediaWiki before 1.23.5 is vulnerable to cross-site scripting due to JavaScript injection via user-specific...

Updated bash packages fix multiple security vulnerabilities

Updated bash packages fix security vulnerabilities: Bash has been updated to version 4.2 patch level 50, which further mitigates ShellShock-type vulnerabilities. Two such issues have already been discovered CVE-2014-6277, CVE-2014-6278. See the RedHat article on the backward-incompatible changes...

Updated bash packages fix CVE-2014-7169

Updated bash packages fix security vulnerability: It was found that the fix for CVE-2014-6271 was incomplete, and Bash still allowed certain characters to be injected into other environments via specially crafted environment variables. An attacker could potentially use this flaw to override or...