MGASA-2014-0449 Updated claws-mail package fixes security vulnerability

This update provides claws-mail version 3.11.1, which includes several fixes and improvements related to SSL/TLS, and fixes other bugs as well. See the upstream news for more details...

MGASA-2014-0450 Updated getmail package fixes security vulnerabilities

The IMAP-over-SSL implementation in getmail 4.0.0 through 4.43.0 does not verify X.509 certificates from SSL servers, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof IMAP servers and obtain sensitive information via a crafted certificate CVE-2014-7273. The IMAP-over-SSL implementation in getmai...

MGASA-2014-0448 Updated flash-player-plugin packages fix multiple security vulnerabilities

Adobe Flash Player 11.2.202.418 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-2014-0558,...

MGASA-2014-0446 Updated libreoffice packages fix security vulnerability

A vulnerability in LibreOffice allows an attacker to send a document which when opened will trigger the prompt to "Update Links" but if the user cancels that prompt may still generate and insert into the document an OLE2 preview image of a file on the victims filesystem, Data exposure is possible...

MGASA-2014-0447 Updated libreoffice packages fix security vulnerabilities

It was discovered during routine code review that LibreOffice unconditionally executed certain VBA macros on loading Microsoft Office documents, contrary to user expectations CVE-2014-0247. A vulnerability in LibreOffice allows an attacker to send a document which when opened will trigger the...

MGASA-2014-0444 Updated curl packages fix CVE-2014-3707

Updated curl packages fix security vulnerability: Symeon Paraschoudis discovered that the curleasyduphandle function in cURL has a bug that can lead to libcurl eventually sending off sensitive data that was not intended for sending, while performing a HTTP POST operation. This bug requires...

MGASA-2014-0443 Updated ruby packages fix CVE-2014-8080

Updated ruby packages fix security vulnerability: Due to unrestricted entity expansion, when reading text nodes from an XML document, the REXML parser in Ruby can be coerced into allocating extremely large string objects which can consume all of the memory on a machine, causing a denial of servic...

MGASA-2014-0445 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, mga14487, and fixes some additional issues: - fix kcm botching unrelated user settings mga3310, bko254430, - do not popup during initialization 0 B Removable media...

MGASA-2014-0441 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...

MGASA-2014-0442 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...

MGASA-2014-0440 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...

MGASA-2014-0438 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...

MGASA-2014-0439 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...

MGASA-2014-0434 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...

MGASA-2014-0435 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...

MGASA-2014-0436 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...

MGASA-2014-0433 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...

MGASA-2014-0432 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...

MGASA-2014-0437 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...

MGASA-2014-0430 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...

MGASA-2014-0429 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...

MGASA-2014-0428 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,...

MGASA-2014-0431 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...

MGASA-2014-0427 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...

MGASA-2014-0426 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...

MGASA-2014-0421 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,...

MGASA-2014-0422 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...

MGASA-2014-0424 Updated mariadb packages fix security vulnerabilities

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

MGASA-2014-0423 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...

MGASA-2014-0425 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...

MGASA-2014-0415 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...

MGASA-2014-0417 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...

MGASA-2014-0418 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...

MGASA-2014-0420 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...

MGASA-2014-0419 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...

MGASA-2014-0416 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...

MGASA-2014-0414 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...

MGASA-2014-0413 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...

MGASA-2014-0410 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 ...

MGASA-2014-0411 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 ...

MGASA-2014-0409 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...

MGASA-2014-0412 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...

MGASA-2014-0407 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...

MGASA-2014-0403 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...

MGASA-2014-0408 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...

MGASA-2014-0406 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...

MGASA-2014-0405 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...

MGASA-2014-0404 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...

MGASA-2014-0401 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...

MGASA-2014-0402 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...