MGASA-2014-0547 Updated resteasy package fix CVE-2014-3490

Updated resteasy packages fixes security vulnerability: It was found that the fix for CVE-2012-0818 was incomplete: external parameter entities were not disabled when the resteasy.document.expand.entity.references parameter was set to false. A remote attacker able to send XML requests to a RESTEa...

MGASA-2014-0552 Updated wss4j packages fix CVE-2014-3623

Updated wss4j packages fixes security vulnerability: Apache WSS4J before 1.6.17, when using TransportBinding, does not properly enforce the SAML SubjectConfirmation method security semantics, which allows remote attackers to conduct spoofing attacks via unspecified vectors CVE-2014-3623...

MGASA-2014-0549 Updated axis packages fix CVE-2014-3596

Updated axis packages fixes security vulnerability: It was discovered that Axis incorrectly extracted the host name from an X.509 certificate subject's Common Name CN field. A man-in-the-middle attacker could use this flaw to spoof an SSL server using a specially crafted X.509 certificate...

MGASA-2014-0544 Updated libjpeg packages fix security vulnerability

Passing a specially crafted jpeg file to libjpeg-turbo could lead to stack smashing CVE-2014-9092...

MGASA-2014-0546 Updated git packages fix security vulnerability

It was reported that git, when used as a client on a case-insensitive filesystem, could allow the overwrite of the .git/config file when the client performed a "git pull". Because git permitted committing .Git/config or any case variation, on the pull this would replace the user's .git/config. If...

MGASA-2014-0545 Updated subversion packages fix security vulnerabilities

A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the way moddavsvn handled REPORT requests. A remote, unauthenticated attacker could use a crafted REPORT request to crash moddavsvn CVE-2014-3580. A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the way moddavsvn handled URIs for virtual transaction names...

MGASA-2014-0543 Updated znc package fixes CVE-2014-9403

Updated znc packages fix security vulnerability: Adding an already existing channel to a user/network via web admin in ZNC causes a crash if the channel name isn't prefixed with '' CVE-2014-9403...

MGASA-2014-0542 Updated php packages fix CVE-2014-8142

Updated php packages fix security vulnerability: A use-after-free flaw was found in PHP unserialize. An untrusted input could cause PHP interpreter to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code when processed using unserialize CVE-2014-8142. PHP has been updated to version 5.5.20, which fixes the...

MGASA-2014-0541 Updated ntp packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated ntp packages fix security vulnerabilities: If no authentication key is defined in the ntp.conf file, a cryptographically-weak default key is generated CVE-2014-9293. ntp-keygen before 4.2.7p230 uses a non-cryptographic random number generator with a weak seed to generate symmetric keys...

MGASA-2014-0540 Updated docuwiki package fixes CVE-2014-9253

Updated dokuwiki package fix a security vulnerability: Our current dokuwiki-20140929-1.1.mga4 package uses dokuwiki-2014-09-29a source which allows swf application/x-shockwave-flash uploads by default. This may be used for Cross-site scripting XSS attack which enables attackers to inject...

MGASA-2014-0535 Updated pwgen package fixes security vulnerabilities

Updated pwgen package fixes security vulnerabilities: Pwgen was found to generate weak non-tty passwords by default, which could be brute-forced with a commendable success rate, which could raise security concerns CVE-2013-4440. Pwgen was found to silently falling back to use standard pseudo...

MGASA-2014-0538 Updated nail package fixes security vulnerabilities

Updated nail package fixes security vulnerabilities: A flaw was found in the way mailx handled the parsing of email addresses. A syntactically valid email address could allow a local attacker to cause mailx to execute arbitrary shell commands through shell meta-characters and the direct command...

MGASA-2014-0532 Updated x11-server packages fix security vulnerabilities

Ilja van Sprundel of IOActive discovered several security issues in the X.org X server, which may lead to privilege escalation or denial of service CVE-2014-8091, CVE-2014-8092, CVE-2014-8093, CVE-2014-8094, CVE-2014-8095, CVE-2014-8096, CVE-2014-8097, CVE-2014-8098, CVE-2014-8099, CVE-2014-8100,...

MGASA-2014-0539 Updated jasper packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated jasper packages fix security vulnerabilities: A double free flaw was found in the way JasPer parsed ICC color profiles in JPEG 2000 image files. A specially crafted file could cause an application using JasPer to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code CVE-2014-8137. A heap-based buffe...

MGASA-2014-0530 Updated c-icap packages fix security vulnerabilities

Several vulnerabilities were found in c-icap, which could allow a remote attacker to cause c-icap to crash, or have other, unspecified impacts CVE-2013-7401, CVE-2013-7402...

MGASA-2014-0533 Updated unrtf package fixes security vulnerabilities

Updated unrtf package fixes security vulnerabilities: Michal Zalewski reported an out-of-bounds memory access vulnerability in unrtf. Processing a malformed RTF file could lead to a segfault while accessing a pointer that may be under the attacker's control. This would lead to a denial of service...

MGASA-2014-0537 Updated file packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated file packages fix security vulnerabilities: Thomas Jarosch of Intra2net AG reported that using the file command on a specially-crafted ELF binary could lead to a denial of service due to uncontrolled resource consumption CVE-2014-8116. Thomas Jarosch of Intra2net AG reported that using th...

MGASA-2014-0531 Updated claws-mail packages fix security vulnerability

Off-by-one error in the DecompressRTF function in ytnef.c in Yerase's TNEF Stream Reader allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash via a crafted TNEF file, which triggers a buffer overflow CVE-2010-5109. The claws-mail package contains an embedded copf of libytnef, which has been...

MGASA-2014-0534 Updated pcre packages fix security vulnerability

A flaw was found in the way PCRE handled certain malformed regular expressions. This issue could cause an application linked against PCRE to crash while parsing malicious regular expressions CVE-2014-8964...

MGASA-2014-0536 Updated krb5 packages fix CVE-2014-5353

Updated krb5 packages fix security vulnerability: In MIT krb5, when kadmind is configured to use LDAP for the KDC database, an authenticated remote attacker can cause a NULL dereference by attempting to use a named ticket policy object as a password policy for a principal. The attacker needs to b...

MGASA-2014-0529 Updated rpm packages fix security vulnerabilities

It was found that RPM wrote file contents to the target installation directory under a temporary name, and verified its cryptographic signature only after the temporary file has been written completely. Under certain conditions, the system interprets the unverified temporary file contents and...

MGASA-2014-0528 Updated cpio package fixes security vulnerability

Heap-based buffer overflow in the processcopyin function in GNU Cpio 2.11 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a large block value in a cpio archive CVE-2014-9112. Additionally, a null pointer dereference in the copyinlink function which could cause a denial of service has als...

MGASA-2014-0525 Updated qemu packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated qemu packages fix security vulnerabilities: During migration, the values read from migration stream during ram load are not validated. Especially offset in hostfromstreamoffset and also the length of the writes in the callers of the said function. A user able to alter the savevm data eith...

MGASA-2014-0526 Updated freetype2 packages fix security vulnerability

Updated freetype2 packages fix security vulnerability: It was reported that Freetype before 2.5.4 suffers from an out-of-bounds stack-based read/write flaw in cf2hintmapbuild in the CFF rasterizing code, which could lead to a buffer overflow. This is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2014-2240...

MGASA-2014-0527 Updated apache packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated apache packages fix security vulnerabilities: A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the way the modcache httpd module handled Content-Type headers. A malicious HTTP server could cause the httpd child process to crash when the Apache HTTP server was configured to proxy to a server...

MGASA-2014-0523 Updated firebird packages fix a remote denial of service vulnerability

These update fix the recently discovered security vulnerability CORE-4630 that may be used for a remote DoS attack performed by unauthorized users...

MGASA-2014-0524 Updated bind packages fix CVE-2014-8500

Updated bind packages fix security vulnerability: By making use of maliciously-constructed zones or a rogue server, an attacker can exploit an oversight in the code BIND 9 uses to follow delegations in the Domain Name Service, causing BIND to issue unlimited queries in an attempt to follow the...

MGASA-2014-0522 Updated pdns-recursor packages fix CVE-2014-8601

Updated pdns-recursor package fixes security vulnerability: PowerDNS Recursor before version 3.6.2, could be negatively impacted by specially configured, hard to resolve domain names. A remote attacker, by sending a query for such a domain name, could cause severe performance degradation in...

MGASA-2014-0517 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...

MGASA-2014-0516 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...

MGASA-2014-0521 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,...

MGASA-2014-0519 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...

MGASA-2014-0520 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...

MGASA-2014-0518 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...

MGASA-2014-0515 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...

MGASA-2014-0512 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...

MGASA-2014-0514 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...

MGASA-2014-0513 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...

MGASA-2014-0508 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...

MGASA-2014-0511 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...

MGASA-2014-0509 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...

MGASA-2014-0510 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...

MGASA-2014-0506 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...

MGASA-2014-0505 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...

MGASA-2014-0507 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...

MGASA-2014-0504 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...

MGASA-2014-0502 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...

MGASA-2014-0503 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...

MGASA-2014-0501 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...

MGASA-2014-0500 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...