MGASA-2014-0250 Updated emacs packages fix CVE-2014-3421-4

Updated emacs packages fix security vulnerabilities: Steve Kemp discovered multiple temporary file handling issues in Emacs. A local attacker could use these flaws to perform symbolic link attacks against users running Emacs CVE-2014-3421, CVE-2014-3422, CVE-2014-3423, CVE-2014-3424...

MGASA-2014-0249 Updated chkrootkit packages fix CVE-2014-0476 and a false positive

Updated chkrootkit package fixes security vulnerability: The chkrootkit script contains a flaw that allows a local attacker to create an executable in /tmp that will be run by the user running chkrootkit usually root, allowing the attacker to escalate privileges CVE-2014-0476. The Mageia 3 update...

MGASA-2014-0248 Updated gnutls packages fix CVE-2104-3465-6

Updated gnutls packages fix security vulnerabilities: A NULL pointer dereference flaw was discovered in GnuTLS's gnutlsx509dnoidname. The function, when called with the GNUTLSX509DNOIDRETURNOID flag, should not return NULL to its caller. However, it could previously return NULL when parsed X.509...

MGASA-2014-0247 Updated libtasn1 packages fix CVE-2014-3467-9

Updated libtasn1 packages fix security vulnerabilities: Multiple buffer boundary check issues were discovered in libtasn1 library, causing it to read beyond the boundary of an allocated buffer. An untrusted ASN.1 input could cause an application using the library to crash CVE-2014-3467. It was...

MGASA-2014-0246 Updated libgadu package fixes CVE-2014-3775

Updated libgadu 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, o...

MGASA-2014-0245 Updated mumble packages fix two security vulnervabilitites

Updated mumble packages fix security vulnerabilities: In Mumble before 1.2.6, the Mumble client is vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack when rendering crafted SVG files that contain references to files on the local computer, due to an issue in Qt's SVG renderer module. This issue can be...

MGASA-2014-0244 Updated mono packages fix security vulnerability

Mono 2.10.9 does not properly randomize hash functions for form posts to protect against hash collision attacks. A remote attacker could send specially crafted parameters, possibly resulting in a Denial of Service condition CVE-2012-3543...

MGASA-2014-0243 Updated libvirt packages fix multiple vulnerabilities

Updated libvirt packages fix security vulnerabilities: The LXC driver lxc/lxcdriver.c in libvirt 1.0.1 through 1.2.1 allows local users to 1 delete arbitrary host devices via the virDomainDeviceDettach API and a symlink attack on /dev in the container; 2 create arbitrary nodes mknod via the...

MGASA-2014-0242 Updated cifs-utils packages fix CVE-2014-2830

Updated cifs-utils packages fix security vulnerability: Sebastian Krahmer discovered a stack-based buffer overflow flaw in cifscreds.c CVE-2014-2830...

MGASA-2014-0241 Updated qt4 and qtbase5 packages fix security vulnerability

A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in QGIFFormat::fillRect in QtGui. If an application using the qt-x11 libraries opened a malicious GIF file with invalid width and height values, it could cause the application to crash CVE-2014-0190. Qt4 has been patched to correct this flaw and has been...

MGASA-2014-0240 Updated qt4 packages fix security vulnerability

A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in QGIFFormat::fillRect in QtGui. If an application using the qt-x11 libraries opened a malicious GIF file with invalid width and height values, it could cause the application to crash CVE-2014-0190. Qt4 has been patched to correct this flaw and has been...

MGASA-2014-0239 Updated mariadb packages fix security vulnerabilities

Unspecified vulnerability in the MySQL Server component in Oracle MySQL 5.5.35 and earlier and 5.6.15 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to affect availability via vectors related to XML CVE-2014-0384. Unspecified vulnerability in Oracle MySQL Server 5.5.35 and earlier and 5.6.15 and...

MGASA-2014-0238 Updated kernel-vserver packages fix multiple vulnerabilities

Updated kernel-vserver provides upstream 3.10.40 kernel and fixes the following security issues: The microcode on AMD 16h 00h through 0Fh processors does not properly handle the interaction between locked instructions and write-combined memory types, which allows local users to cause a denial of...

MGASA-2014-0237 Updated kernel-rt packages fix multiple vulnerabilities

Updated kernel-rt provides upstream 3.10.40 kernel and fixes the following security issues: The microcode on AMD 16h 00h through 0Fh processors does not properly handle the interaction between locked instructions and write-combined memory types, which allows local users to cause a denial of servi...

MGASA-2014-0236 Updated kernel-tmb packages fix multiple vulnerabilities

Updated kernel-tmb provides upstream 3.10.40 kernel and fixes the following security issues: The microcode on AMD 16h 00h through 0Fh processors does not properly handle the interaction between locked instructions and write-combined memory types, which allows local users to cause a denial of...

MGASA-2014-0235 Updated kernel-linus packages fix multiple security vulnerabilities

Updated kernel-linus provides upstream 3.10.40 kernel and fixes the following security issues: The microcode on AMD 16h 00h through 0Fh processors does not properly handle the interaction between locked instructions and write-combined memory types, which allows local users to cause a denial of...

MGASA-2014-0234 Updated kernel-tmb packages fix multiple bugs and vulnerabilities

Updated kernel-tmb provides upstream 3.12.20 kernel and fixes the following security issues: Buffer overflow in the completeemulatedmmio function in arch/x86/kvm/ x86.c in the Linux kernel before 3.13.6 allows guest OS users to execute arbitrary code on the host OS by leveraging a loop that...

MGASA-2014-0233 Updated webmin package fixes security vulnerabilities

Updated webmin package fix security vulnerabilities: Webmin has been updated to version 1.690, which fixes a security issue in the cron module and several XSS issues in pop-up windows...

MGASA-2014-0232 Updated chromium-browser-stable packages fix multiple vulnerabilities

Updated chromium-browser-stable packages fix security vulnerabilities: Collin Payne discovered a use-after-free issue in chromium's WebSockets implementation CVE-2014-1740. John Butler discovered multiple integer overflow issues in the Blink/Webkit document object model implementation...

MGASA-2014-0231 Updated python-django package fix two vulnerabilities

Updated python-django and python-dgango14 packages fix security vulnerabilities: Stephen Stewart, Michael Nelson, Natalia Bidart and James Westby discovered that Django improperly removed Vary and Cache-Control headers from HTTP responses when replying to a request from an Internet Explorer or...

MGASA-2014-0230 Updated moodle packages fix multiple vulnerabilities

Updated moodle package fixes security vulnerabilities: In Moodle before 2.6.3, Session checking was not being performed correctly in Assignment's quick-grading, allowing forged requests to be made unknowingly by authenticated users CVE-2014-0213. In Moodle before 2.6.3, MoodleMobile web service...

MGASA-2014-0229 Updated kernel-vserver packages fix multiple vulnerabilities

Updated kernel-vserver provides upstream 3.10.40 kernel and fixes the following security issues: The microcode on AMD 16h 00h through 0Fh processors does not properly handle the interaction between locked instructions and write-combined memory types, which allows local users to cause a denial of...

MGASA-2014-0228 Updated kernel packages fix multiple vulnerabilities

Updated kernel provides upstream 3.10.40 kernel and fixes the following security issues: The microcode on AMD 16h 00h through 0Fh processors does not properly handle the interaction between locked instructions and write-combined memory types, which allows local users to cause a denial of service...

MGASA-2014-0227 Updated kernel-rt packages fix multiple vulnerabilities

Updated kernel-rt provides upstream 3.12.20 kernel and fixes the following security issues: The ioapicdeliver function in virt/kvm/ioapic.c in the Linux kernel through 3.14.1 does not properly validate the kvmirqdeliverytoapic return value, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service...

MGASA-2014-0226 Updated kernel-linus packages fix multiple vulnerabilities

Updated kernel-linus provides upstream 3.12.20 kernel and fixes the following security issues: The ioapicdeliver function in virt/kvm/ioapic.c in the Linux kernel through 3.14.1 does not properly validate the kvmirqdeliverytoapic return value, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of...

MGASA-2014-0225 Updated kernel packages fix multiple vulnerabilities

Updated kernel provides upstream 3.12.20 kernel and fixes the following security issues: The ioapicdeliver function in virt/kvm/ioapic.c in the Linux kernel through 3.14.1 does not properly validate the kvmirqdeliverytoapic return value, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service ho...

MGASA-2014-0224 Updated miniupnpc packages fix a buffer overrun

Updated miniupnpc packages fix security vulnerability: The miniupnpc library before 1.9 may be vulnerable to a denial of service due to a buffer overrun that can be triggered by something on the network...

MGASA-2014-0223 Updated dovecot packages fix security vulnerability

Updated dovecot packages fix security vulnerability. Dovecot before 2.2.13 is vulnerable to a DoS attack against imap/pop3-login processes. If SSL/TLS handshake was started but wasn't finished, the login process attempted to eventually forcibly disconnect the client, but failed to do it correctly...

MGASA-2014-0222 Updated postgresql packages fix multiple vulnerabilities

Updated postgresql packages fix security vulnerabilities: Granting a role without ADMIN OPTION is supposed to prevent the grantee from adding or removing members from the granted role, but this restriction was easily bypassed by doing SET ROLE first. The security impact is mostly that a role memb...

MGASA-2014-0221 Updated egroupware packages fix a cross site request forgery

Updated egroupware packages fix security vulnerabilities: eGroupWare before 1.8.007 allows logged in users with administrative priviledges to remotely execute arbitrary commands on the server. It is also vulnerable to a cross site request forgery vulnerability that allows creating new...

MGASA-2014-0220 Updated flash-player-plugin packages fix multiple vulnerabilities

Adobe Flash Player 11.2.202.359 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 a use-after-free vulnerability that could result in arbitrary code execution...

MGASA-2014-0219 Updated struts packages fix CVE-2014-0114

Updated struts packages fix security vulnerability: It was found that the Struts 1 ActionForm object allowed access to the 'class' parameter, which is directly mapped to the getClass method. A remote attacker could use this flaw to manipulate the ClassLoader used by an application server running...

MGASA-2014-0218 Updated python-lxml package fix CVE-2014-3146

Updated python-lxml packages fix security vulnerability: The cleanhtml function, provided by the lxml.html.clean module, did not properly clean HTML input if it included non-printed characters \x01-\x08. A remote attacker could use this flaw to serve malicious content to an application using the...

MGASA-2014-0217 Updated nrpe packages fix CVE-2014-2913

Updated nrpe packages fix security vulnerability: A remote, command execution flaw was discovered in Nagios NRPE when command arguments are enabled. A remote attacker could use this flaw to execute arbitrary commands CVE-2014-2913...

MGASA-2014-0216 Updated python3 packages fix security vulnerability

It was reported that a patch added to Python 3.2 caused a race condition where a file created could be created with world read/write permissions instead of the permissions dictated by the original umask of the process. This could allow a local attacker that could win the race to view and edit fil...

MGASA-2014-0215 Updated php packages fix CVE-2014-0185

Updated php packages fix security vulnerability: PHP FPM in PHP versions before 5.4.28 and 5.5.12 uses a UNIX domain socket with world-writable permissions by default, which allows any local user to connect to it and execute PHP scripts as the apache user CVE-2014-0185. Additionally updated...

MGASA-2014-0214 Updated libxml2 packages fix CVE-2014-0191

Updated libxml2 packages fix security vulnerability: It was discovered that libxml2, a library providing support to read, modify and write XML files, incorrectly performs entity substituton in the doctype prolog, even if the application using libxml2 disabled any entity substitution. A remote...

MGASA-2014-0213 Updated chromium-browser-stable packages fix multiple vulnerabilities

Updated chromium-browser-stable packages fix security vulnerabilities: A type confusion issue was discovered in the v8 javascript library CVE-2014-1730. John Butler discovered a type confusion issue in the WebKit/Blink document object model implementation CVE-2014-1731. Khalil Zhani discovered a...

MGASA-2014-0212 Updated ldns package fixes CVE-2014-3209

Updated ldns packages fix security vulnerability: ldns-keygen creates a private key with the default permissions according to the users umask, which in most cases will cause the private key to be world-readable CVE-2014-3209...

MGASA-2014-0211 Updated libpng packages fix two security vulnerabilities

Updated libpng12 packages fix security vulnerabilities: An integer overflow leading to a heap-based buffer overflow was found in the pngsetsPLT and pngsettext2 API functions of libpng. An attacker could create a specially-crafted image file and render it with an application written to explicitly...

MGASA-2014-0210 Updated libpng packages fix two security vulnerabilities

Updated libpng12 and libpng packages fix security vulnerabilities: An integer overflow leading to a heap-based buffer overflow was found in the pngsetsPLT and pngsettext2 API functions of libpng. An attacker could create a specially-crafted image file and render it with an application written to...

MGASA-2014-0209 Updated owncloud packages fix several security vulnerabilities

Updated owncloud packages fix security vulnerabilities: Owncloud versions 5.0.16 and 6.0.3 fix several unspecified security vulnerabilities, as well as many other bugs. See the upstream Changelog for more information...

MGASA-2014-0208 Updated kernel-rt packages fixes multiple bugs and vulneraabilities

Updated kernel-rt provides upstream 3.12.18 kernel and fixes the following security issues: Buffer overflow in the completeemulatedmmio function in arch/x86/kvm/ x86.c in the Linux kernel before 3.13.6 allows guest OS users to execute arbitrary code on the host OS by leveraging a loop that trigge...

MGASA-2014-0207 Updated kernel-linus packages fixes multiple bugs and vulnerabilities

Updated kernel-linus provides upstream 3.12.18 kernel and fixes the following security issues: Buffer overflow in the completeemulatedmmio function in arch/x86/kvm/ x86.c in the Linux kernel before 3.13.6 allows guest OS users to execute arbitrary code on the host OS by leveraging a loop that...

MGASA-2014-0206 Updated kernel packages fixes multiple bugs and vulnerabilities

Updated kernel provides upstream 3.12.18 kernel and fixes the following security issues: Buffer overflow in the completeemulatedmmio function in arch/x86/kvm/ x86.c in the Linux kernel before 3.13.6 allows guest OS users to execute arbitrary code on the host OS by leveraging a loop that triggers ...

MGASA-2014-0205 Updated postgresql packages fix multiple security vulnerabilities

Updated postgresql packages fix security vulnerabilities: Granting a role without ADMIN OPTION is supposed to prevent the grantee from adding or removing members from the granted role, but this restriction was easily bypassed by doing SET ROLE first. The security impact is mostly that a role memb...

MGASA-2014-0204 Updated openssl packages fix CVE-2014-0198

Updated openssl packages fix security vulnerability: A null pointer dereference bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1g and earlier in sossl3write could possibly allow an attacker to cause generate an SSL alert which would cause OpenSSL to crash, resulting in a denial of service CVE-2014-0198...

MGASA-2014-0203 Updated couchdb packages fix CVE-2014-2668

Updated couchdb packages fix security vulnerability: Apache CouchDB 1.5.0 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service CPU and memory consumption via the count parameter to /uuids CVE-2014-2668...

MGASA-2014-0202 Updated rxvt-unicode packages fix CVE-2014-3121

Updated rxvt-unicode package fixes security vulnerability: rxvt-unicode aka urxvt before 9.20 is vulnerable to a user-assisted arbitrary commands execution issue. This can be exploited by the unprocessed display of certain escape sequences in a crafted text file or program output. Arbitrary comma...

MGASA-2014-0201 Updated firefox & thunderbird packages fix multiple 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...