MGASA-2014-0300 Updated asterisk packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated asterisk packages fix security vulnerabilities: Asterisk Open Source 11.x before 11.10.1 and 12.x before 12.3.1 and Certified Asterisk 11.6 before 11.6-cert3 allows remote authenticated Manager users to execute arbitrary shell commands via a MixMonitor action CVE-2014-4046. Asterisk Open...

MGASA-2014-0299 Updated mariadb package fixes security vulnerabilities

This update provides MariaDB 5.5.38, which fixes several security issues and other bugs...

MGASA-2014-0298 Updated transmission package fixes security vulnerability

Ben Hawkes discovered that Transmission incorrectly handled certain peer messages. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code CVE-2014-4909...

MGASA-2014-0297 Updated avidemux packages fix security issues in the bundles ffmpeg

Updated avidemux packages fix security vulnerabilities: Avidemux built with a bundled set of FFmpeg libraries. The bundled FFmpeg versions have been updated to 0.9.4 in Mageia 3 and 1.2.7 in Mageia 4 to fix several security issues and other bugs fixed upstream in FFmpeg. For the Mageia 3 update,...

MGASA-2014-0296 Updated live555, vlc & mplayer packages fix several issues

Updated live, mplayer, and vlc packages fix security vulnerabilities: The live555 RTSP streaming server and client libraries before 2013.11.29 are vulnerable to buffer overflows in RTSP command parsing that potentially allow for arbitrary code execution when connected to a malicious client or...

MGASA-2014-0295 Updated pidgin packages fix CVE-2014-3775

Updated pidgin packages fix security vulnerability: It was discovered that libgadu incorrectly handled certain messages from file relay servers. A malicious remote server or a man in the middle could use this issue to cause applications using libgadu to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or...

MGASA-2014-0294 Updated dbus packages fix multiple vulnerabilities

Updated dbus packages fix security vulnerabilities: A flaw was reported in D-Bus's file descriptor passing feature. A local attacker could use this flaw to cause a service or application to disconnect from the bus, typically resulting in that service or application exiting CVE-2014-3532. A flaw w...

MGASA-2014-0293 Updated nss, firefox and thunderbird packages fix security vulnerabilities

A race condition was found in the way NSS verified certain certificates. A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash an application using NSS or, possibly, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running that application CVE-2014-1544. Several flaws were found in the processing ...

MGASA-2014-0292 Updated java-1.7.0-openjdk packages fix multiple vulnerabilities

Updated java-1.7.0-openjdk packages fix security vulnerabilities: It was discovered that the Hotspot component in OpenJDK did not properly verify bytecode from the class files. An untrusted Java application or applet could possibly use these flaws to bypass Java sandbox restrictions CVE-2014-4216...

MGASA-2014-0291 Updated flash-player-plugin packages fix multiple vulnerabilities

Adobe Flash Player 11.2.202.394 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 includes additional validation checks to ensure that Flash Player rejects malicious content fr...

MGASA-2014-0290 Updated liblzo packages fix CVE-2014-4607

Updated liblzo packages fix security vulnerability: An integer overflow in liblzo before 2.07 allows attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly code execution in applications performing LZO decompression on a compressed payload from the attacker CVE-2014-4607...

MGASA-2014-0289 Updated dpkg packages fixes security vulnerabilities

Jakub Wilk discovered that dpkg did not correctly parse C-style filename quoting, allowing for paths to be traversed when unpacking a source package, leading to the creation of files outside the directory of the source being unpacked CVE-2014-0471. Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in dpkg...

MGASA-2014-0288 Updated gd and libgd packages fix security vulnerability

The gdImageCreateFromXpm function in gdxpm.c in the gd image library allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and application crash via a crafted color table in an XPM file CVE-2014-2497...

MGASA-2014-0287 Updated freerdp packages fix two vulnerabilities

Updated freerdp packages fix security vulnerabilities: Integer overflows in memory allocations in client/X11/xfgraphics.c in FreeRDP through 1.0.2 allows remote RDP servers to have an unspecified impact through unspecified vectors CVE-2014-0250. Integer overflow in the licensereadscopelist functi...

MGASA-2014-0286 Updated python-simplejson package fixes security vulnerability

Python 2 and 3 are susceptible to arbitrary process memory reading by a user or adversary due to a bug in the json module caused by insufficient bounds checking. The bug is caused by allowing the user to supply a negative value that is used as an array index, causing the scanstring function to...

MGASA-2014-0285 Updated python & python3 packages fix two vulnerabilities

Updated python and python3 packages fix security vulnerabilities: Python 2 and 3 are susceptible to arbitrary process memory reading by a user or adversary due to a bug in the json module caused by insufficient bounds checking. The bug is caused by allowing the user to supply a negative value tha...

MGASA-2014-0284 Updated php packages fix multiple vulnerabilities

Updated php packages fix security vulnerabilities: The unserialize function in PHP before 5.4.30 and 5.5.14 has a Type Confusion issue related to the SPL ArrayObject and SPLObjectStorage Types CVE-2014-3515. It was discovered that PHP is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow in the DNS TXT...

MGASA-2014-0283 Updated php packages fix multiple vulnerabilities

Updated php packages fix security vulnerabilities: The unserialize function in PHP before 5.4.30 and 5.5.14 has a Type Confusion issue related to the SPL ArrayObject and SPLObjectStorage Types CVE-2014-3515. It was discovered that PHP is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow in the DNS TXT...

MGASA-2014-0282 Updated file packages fix security vulnerabilities

A flaw was found in the way file parsed property information from Composite Document Files CDF files, where the mconvert function did not correctly compute the truncated pascal string size CVE-2014-3478. Multiple flaws were found in the way file parsed property information from Composite Document...

MGASA-2014-0281 Updated ffmpeg packages fix security vulnerabilities

A use-after-free vulnerability in FFmpeg before 1.1.9 involving seek operations on video data could allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service CVE-2012-5150. The takdecodeframe function in libavcodec/takdec.c in FFmpeg before 1.1.9 does not properly validate a certain bits-per-sample...

MGASA-2014-0280 Updated ffmpeg packages fix security vulnerabilities

The takdecodeframe function in libavcodec/takdec.c in FFmpeg before 2.0.4 does not properly validate a certain bits-per-sample value, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service out-of-bounds array access or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted TAK aka Tom's lossless...

MGASA-2014-0279 Updated samba packages fix multiple vulnerabilities

Updated samba packages fix security vulnerabilities: Information leak vulnerability in the VFS code, allowing an authenticated user to retrieve eight bytes of uninitialized memory when shadow copy is enabled CVE-2014-0178. Samba versions before 3.6.24, 4.0.19, and 4.1.9 are vulnerable to a denial...

MGASA-2014-0278 Updated libxfont packages fix security vulnerabilities

Ilja van Sprundel discovered that libXfont incorrectly handled font metadata file parsing. A local attacker could use this issue to cause libXfont to crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code in order to gain privileges CVE-2014-0209. Ilja van Sprundel discovered that libXfont incorrectly handled...

MGASA-2014-0277 Updated iodine packages fix CVE-2014-4168

Updated iodine packages fix security vulnerability: Oscar Reparaz discovered an authentication bypass vulnerability in iodine, a tool for tunneling IPv4 data through a DNS server. A remote attacker could provoke a server to accept the rest of the setup or also network traffic by exploiting this...

MGASA-2014-0276 Updated gnupg & gnupg2 packages fixes CVE-2014-4617

Updated gnupg and gnupg2 packages fix security vulnerability: GnuPG versions before 1.4.17 and 2.0.24 are vulnerable to a denial of service which can be caused by garbled compressed data packets which may put gpg into an infinite loop CVE-2014-4617...

MGASA-2014-0275 Updated phpmyadmin packages fix CVE-2014-4349

Updated phpmyadmin packages fix security vulnerability: In phpMyAdmin before 4.1.14, it is possible to trigger an XSS when hiding or unhiding a crafted table name in the navigation, due to unescaped HTML output in the navigation items hiding feature. Note that this vulnerability can only be...

MGASA-2014-0274 Updated ctdb package fixes CVE-2013-4159

Updated ctdb packages fix security vulnerability: ctdb before 2.5 is vulnerable to symlink attacks to due the use of predictable filenames in /tmp, such as /tmp/ctdb.socket CVE-2013-4159...

MGASA-2014-0273 Updated kernel packages fixes security vulnerabilities

The kernel has been updated to the upstream 3.10.44 longterm kernel, and fixes the following security issues: The Netlink implementation in the Linux kernel through 3.14.1 does not provide a mechanism for authorizing socket operations based on the opener of a socket, which allows local users to...

MGASA-2014-0272 Updated pdns & pdns-recursor packages fix a denial of service vulnerability

Updated pdns and pdns-recursor packages fix security vulnerability: PowerDNS recursor is vulnerable to a denial of service due to a bug that causes it to exhaust the maximum number of file descriptors that are available to a process. The pdns and pdns-recursor packages have been patched to fix th...

MGASA-2014-0271 Updated smb4k packages fix CVE-2014-2581

Updated smb4k packages fix security vulnerability: Smb4k before 1.1.1 allows the cruid CIFS mount option to be specified by the user CVE-2014-2581. The smb4k package has been updated to version 1.1.2, which fixes this issue and also contains several other bug fixes and additions...

MGASA-2014-0270 Updated sendmail packages fix CVE-2014-3956

Updated sendmail packages fix security vulnerability: Sendmail before 8.14.9 does not properly closing file descriptors before executing programs. This bug could enable local users to interfere with an open SMTP connection if they can execute their own program for mail delivery e.g., via procmail...

MGASA-2014-0269 Updated ansible package provides minor security fixes

Ansible has been patched with minor security fixes to safeeval and aptrepository that were fixed upstream in version 1.5.5...

MGASA-2014-0268 Updated tomcat and tomcat6 packages fix security vulnerabilities

Integer overflow in the parseChunkHeader function in java/org/apache/coyote/http11/filters/ChunkedInputFilter.java in Apache Tomcat before 6.0.40 and 7.x before 7.0.53 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service resource consumption via a malformed chunk size in chunked transfer coding o...

MGASA-2014-0267 Updated cups-filter packages fix security vulnerabilities

In cups-filters before 1.0.53, out-of-bounds accesses in the processbrowsedata function when reading the packet variable could leading to a crash, thus resulting in a denial of service CVE-2014-4337. In cups-filters before 1.0.53, if there was only a single BrowseAllow line in cups-browsed.conf a...

MGASA-2014-0265 Updated kernel packages fixes security vulnerabilities.

Updated kernel packages fixes security vulnerabilities. The kernel has been updated to the upstream 3.12.21 longterm kernel, and fixes the following security issues: media-device: fix infoleak in ioctl mediaenumentities CVE-2014-1739 The futexrequeue function in kernel/futex.c in the Linux kernel...

MGASA-2014-0266 Updated dbus packages fix security vulnerability

Updated dbus packages fix security vulnerability: A denial of service vulnerability in D-Bus before 1.6.20 allows a local attacker to cause a bus-activated service that is not currently running to attempt to start, and fail, denying other users access to this service Additionally, in highly unusu...

MGASA-2014-0264 Updated wireshark packages fix CVE-2014-4020

Updated wireshark packages fix security vulnerabilities: The frame metadissector could crash CVE-2014-4020...

MGASA-2014-0263 Updated qt3 packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated qt3 packages fix security vulnerabilities: QXmlSimpleReader in Qt versions prior to 5.2 supports expansion of internal entities in XML documents without placing restrictions to ensure the document does not cause excessive memory usage. If an application using this API processes untrusted...

MGASA-2014-0262 Updated musl package fixes CVE-2014-3484

Updated musl package fixes security vulnerability: A remote stack-based buffer overflow has been found in musl libc's dns response parsing code. The overflow can be triggered in programs linked against musl libc and making dns queries via one of the standard interfaces getaddrinfo, getnameinfo,...

MGASA-2014-0261 Updated flash-player-plugin packages fix multiple vulnerabilities

Adobe Flash Player 11.2.202.378 contains fixes to critical security vulnerabilities found in earlier versions that could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system. This updates resolves cross-site-scripting vulnerabilities CVE-2014-0531, CVE-2014-0532, CVE-2014-0533. Th...

MGASA-2014-0260 Updated firefox & thunderbird packages fix multiple 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...

MGASA-2014-0259 Updated iceape packages fix multiple vulnerabilities

Updated iceape packages fix security issues: Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the browser engine in Mozilla Firefox before 29.0, Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.5, Thunderbird before 24.5, and SeaMonkey before 2.26 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory corruption and...

MGASA-2014-0258 Updated php packages fix CVE-2014-0237-8

Updated php packages fix security vulnerabilities: A flaw was found in the way file's Composite Document Files CDF format parser handle CDF files with many summary info entries. The cdfunpacksummaryinfo function unnecessarily repeatedly read the info from the same offset. This led to many...

MGASA-2014-0257 Updated perl-LWP-Protocol-https package fixes CVE-2014-3230

Updated perl-LWP-Protocol-https package fixes security vulnerability: It was reported that libwww-perl LWP, when using IO::Socket::SSL the default and when the HTTPSCADIR or HTTPSCAFILE environment variables were set, would disable server certificate verification, when the intent was to only...

MGASA-2014-0256 Updated tor packages fix multiple vulnerabilities

Update to version 0.2.4.22 which solves these major and security problems: - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL CVE-2014-0160. - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse fails during the tokenizing step. -...

MGASA-2014-0255 Updated openssl packages fix multiple vulnerabilties

Updated openssl packages fix security vulnerabilities: It was found that OpenSSL clients and servers could be forced, via a specially crafted handshake packet, to use weak keying material for communication. A man-in-the-middle attacker could use this flaw to decrypt and modify traffic between a...

MGASA-2014-0254 Updated wordpress package fixes multiple vulnerabilities

Updated wordpress package fixes security vulnerabilities: WordPress before 3.7.2 allows remote authenticated users to publish posts by leveraging the Contributor role, related to wp-admin/includes/post.php and wp-admin/includes/class-wp-posts-list-table.php CVE-2014-0165. The wpvalidateauthcookie...

MGASA-2014-0253 Updated mediawiki packages fix security vulnerability

XSS vulnerability in MediaWiki before 1.22.7, due to usernames on Special:PasswordReset being parsed as wikitext. The username on Special:PasswordReset can be supplied by anyone and will be parsed with wgRawHtml enabled. Since Special:PasswordReset is whitelisted by default on private wikis, this...

MGASA-2014-0252 Updated file packages fix CVE-2014-0237-8

Updated file packages fix security vulnerabilities: A flaw was found in the way file's Composite Document Files CDF format parser handle CDF files with many summary info entries. The cdfunpacksummaryinfo function unnecessarily repeatedly read the info from the same offset. This led to many...

MGASA-2014-0251 Updated libcap-ng packages fix CVE-2014-3215

Updated libcap-ng packages fix security vulnerability: capnglock in libcap-ng before 0.7.4 sets securebits in an attempt to prevent regaining capabilities using setuid-root programs. This allows a user to run setuid programs, such as seunshare from policycoreutils, as uid 0 but without...