MGASA-2014-0048 Updated seamonkey packages fix multiple vulnerabilities

Updated iceape packages fix security issues: Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the browser engine in Mozilla Firefox before 26.0, Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.2, Thunderbird before 24.2, and SeaMonkey before 2.23 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory corruption and...

MGASA-2014-0047 Updated flite package fixes CVE-2014-0027

Updated flite packages fix security vulnerability: The playwavefromsocket function in audio/auserver.c in Flite 1.4 allows local users to modify arbitrary files via a symlink attack on /tmp/awb.wav CVE-2014-0027...

MGASA-2014-0046 Updated kernel-tmb packages fix CVE-2014-0038

This kernel update provides an update to 3.12.9 and fixes the following critical security issue: Pageexec reported a bug in the Linux kernel's recvmmsg syscall when called from code using the x32 ABI. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash or...

MGASA-2014-0045 Updated kernel-tmb packages fix multiple vulnerabilities

This kernel update provides an update to the 3.10 longterm branch, currently 3.10.28 and fixes the following security issues: The ath9khtcsetbssidmask function in drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htcdrvmain.c in the Linux kernel through 3.12 uses a BSSID masking approach to determine the set of MAC...

MGASA-2014-0044 Updated kernel-rt packages fix multiple vulnerabilities

This kernel update provides an update to the 3.10 longterm branch, currently 3.10.28 and fixes the following security issues: The ath9khtcsetbssidmask function in drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htcdrvmain.c in the Linux kernel through 3.12 uses a BSSID masking approach to determine the set of MAC...

MGASA-2014-0043 Updated kernel-linus package fixes multiple vulnerabilities

This kernel update provides an update to the 3.10 longterm branch, currently 3.10.28 and fixes the following security issues: The ath9khtcsetbssidmask function in drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htcdrvmain.c in the Linux kernel through 3.12 uses a BSSID masking approach to determine the set of MAC...

MGASA-2014-0042 Updated springframework packages fix CVE-2013-4152

Updated springframework packages fix security vulnerability: Alvaro Munoz discovered a XML External Entity XXE injection in the Spring Framework which can be used for conducting CSRF and DoS attacks on other sites CVE-2013-4152...

MGASA-2014-0041 Updated mupdf packages fix a buffer overflow

Updated mupdf packages fix security vulnerability: A stack-based buffer overflow was found in mupdf's xpsparsecolor function. An attacker could create a specially crafted XPS file that, when opened, could cause mupdf or an application using mupdf to crash...

MGASA-2014-0040 Updated yaml packages fix CVE-2013-6393

Updated libyaml packages fix security vulnerabilities: Florian Weimer of the Red Hat Product Security Team discovered a heap-based buffer overflow flaw in LibYAML, a fast YAML 1.1 parser and emitter library. A remote attacker could provide a YAML document with a specially-crafted tag that, when...

MGASA-2014-0039 Updated kernel package fixes a critical security issue

This kernel update provides an update to 3.12.9 and fixes the following critical security issue: Pageexec reported a bug in the Linux kernel's recvmmsg syscall when called from code using the x32 ABI. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash or...

MGASA-2014-0038 Updated kernel package fixes one critical and a few other security issues

This kernel update provides an update to the 3.10 longterm branch, currently 3.10.28 and fixes the following security issues: The ath9khtcsetbssidmask function in drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htcdrvmain.c in the Linux kernel through 3.12 uses a BSSID masking approach to determine the set of MAC...

MGASA-2014-0037 Updated chromium-browser-stable package fixes multiple vulnerabilities

Use-after-free related to forms CVE-2013-6641. Unprompted sync with an attackers Google account CVE-2013-6643. Various fixes from internal audits, fuzzing and other initiatives CVE-2013-6644. Use-after-free related to speech input elements CVE-2013-6645. Use-after-free in web workers CVE-2013-664...

MGASA-2014-0036 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-2014-0035 Updated flash-player-plugin packages fix CVE-2014-0497

Adobe Flash Player 11.2.202.336 contains a fix to a critical security vulnerability found in earlier versions that could cause a crash and potentially allow an attacker to remotely take control of the affected system. This update resolves an integer underflow vulnerability that could be exploited...

MGASA-2014-0034 Updated pidgin package fixes security vulnerabilities

Many places in the Yahoo! protocol plugin assumed incoming strings were UTF-8 and failed to transcode from non-UTF-8 encodings. This can lead to a crash when receiving strings that aren't UTF-8 CVE-2012-6152. A remote XMPP user can trigger a crash on some systems by sending a message with a...

MGASA-2014-0033 Updated hplip package fixes security vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the HPLIP Polkit daemon incorrectly handled temporary files. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to overwrite arbitrary files. CVE-2013-6402 It was discovered that HPLIP contained an upgrade tool that would download code in an unsafe fashion. If a remote attacker...

MGASA-2014-0032 Updated ntp packages work around security vulnerability

The "monlist" command of the NTP protocol is currently abused in a DDoS reflection attack. This is done by spoofing packets from addresses to which the attack is directed to. The ntp installations itself are not target of the attack, but they are part of the DDoS network which the attacker is...

MGASA-2014-0031 Updated drupal package fixes security vulnerabilities

Christian Mainka and Vladislav Mladenov reported a vulnerability in the OpenID module that allows a malicious user to log in as other users on the site, including administrators, and hijack their accounts CVE-2014-1475. Matt Vance and Damien Tournoud reported an access bypass vulnerability in the...

MGASA-2014-0030 Updated libmicrohttpd package fixes security vulnerabilities

The MHDhttpunescape function in libmicrohttpd before 0.9.32 might allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information or cause a denial of service crash via unspecified vectors that trigger an out-of-bounds read CVE-2013-7038. Stack-based buffer overflow in the MHDdigestauthcheck function in...

MGASA-2014-0029 Updated flash-player-plugin fixes security vulnerabilities

Adobe Flash Player 11.2.202.335 contains fixes to critical security vulnerabilities found in earlier versions. These vulnerabilities could cause a crash and potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system. This update resolves a vulnerability that could be used to bypass Flas...

MGASA-2014-0028 Updated python-jinja2 package fixes two security vulnerabilities

Updated python-jinja2 packages fix security vulnerability: Jinja2, a template engine written in pure python, was found to use /tmp as a default directory for jinja2.bccache.FileSystemBytecodeCache, which is insecure because the /tmp directory is world-writable and the filenames used like...

MGASA-2014-0027 Updated graphviz packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated graphviz packages fix security vulnerabilities: Multiple buffer overflow vulnerabilities in graphviz due to an error within the "yyerror" function lib/cgraph/scan.l which can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted file CVE-2014-0978 and the acceptance ...

MGASA-2014-0026 Updated lightdm-gtk-greeter fixes CVE-2014-0979

Updated lightdm-gtk-greeter package fixes security vulnerability: lightdm-gtk-greeter uses the lightdm-gobject API incorrectly and does not handle lightdmgreetergetauthenticationuser returning NULL when the username of the previous authentication is invalid resulting in a NULL pointer dereference...

MGASA-2014-0025 Updated perl-Proc-Daemon package fixes CVE-2013-7135

Updated perl-Proc-Daemon package fixes security vulnerability: It was reported that perl-Proc-Daemon, when instructed to write a pid file, does that with a umask set to 0, so the pid file ends up with mode 666, allowing any user on the system to overwrite it CVE-2013-7135...

MGASA-2014-0024 Updated nss packages fix security vulnerability

Updated nss packages fix security vulnerability: The sslDo1stHandshake function in sslsecur.c in libssl in Mozilla Network Security Services NSS before 3.15.4, when the TLS False Start feature is enabled, allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof SSL servers by using an arbitrary X.509...

MGASA-2014-0023 Updated java-1.7.0-openjdk package fixes multiple security vulnerabilities

Updated java-1.7.0-openjdk packages fix security vulnerabilities: An input validation flaw was discovered in the font layout engine in the 2D component. A specially crafted font file could trigger Java Virtual Machine memory corruption when processed. An untrusted Java application or applet could...

MGASA-2014-0022 Updated spice packages fix a security vulnerability

Updated spice packages fix security vulnerability: A stack-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way the redshandleticket function in the spice-server library handled decryption of ticket data provided by the client. A remote user able to initiate a SPICE connection to an application acting...

MGASA-2014-0021 Updated cups packages fix a security vulverability

Updated cups packages fix security vulnerability: Jann Horn discovered that the CUPS lppasswd tool incorrectly read a user configuration file in certain configurations. A local attacker could use this to read sensitive information from certain files, bypassing access restrictions CVE-2013-6891...

MGASA-2014-0020 Updated libxfont packages fix security vulnerability

Updated libxfont packages fix security vulnerability: It was discovered that a buffer overflow in the processing of Glyph Bitmap Distribution fonts BDF could result in the execution of arbitrary code CVE-2013-6462...

MGASA-2014-0019 Updated net-snmp packages fix CVE-2012-6151

Updated net-snmp packages fix security vulnerability: Net-SNMP 5.7.1 and earlier, when AgentX is registering to handle a MIB and processing GETNEXT requests, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash or infinite loop, CPU consumption, and hang by causing the AgentX subagent to...

MGASA-2014-0018 Updated memcached package fixes multiple security vulnerabilities

Updated memcached packages fix security vulnerability: It was reported that SASL authentication could be bypassed due to a flaw related to the managment of the SASL authentication state. With a specially crafted request, a remote attacker may be able to authenticate with invalid SASL credentials...

MGASA-2014-0017 Updated ruby-i18n package fixes security vulnerability

Cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in exceptions.rb in the i18n gem before 0.6.6 for Ruby allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted I18n::MissingTranslationData.new call CVE-2013-4492...

MGASA-2014-0016 Updated x11-server package fixes security vulnerability

Bryan Quigley discovered an integer underflow in the Xorg X server which could lead to denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code CVE-2013-6424...

MGASA-2014-0015 Updated zabbix packages fix two security vulnerabilities

Updated zabbix packages fixes security vulnerability: This update multiples vulnerabilities. - Fix vulnerability for remote command execution injection ZBX-7479, CVE-2013-6824 - Fix SQL injection vulnerability ZBX-7091, CVE-2013-5743 - Fix XSS issues ZBX-6952...

MGASA-2014-0014 Updated elinks package fixes a security vulnerability

Updated elinks package fixes security vulnerability: When verifying SSL certificates, elinks fails to warn the user if the hostname of the certificate does not match the hostname of the website. The elinks package has been updated to version 0.12-pre6 and patched to fix this issue...

MGASA-2014-0013 Updated bind package fixes security vulnerability

Updated bind packages fix security vulnerability: Because of a defect in handling queries for NSEC3-signed zones, BIND can crash with an "INSIST" failure in name.c when processing queries possessing certain properties. By exploiting this defect an attacker deliberately constructing a query with t...

MGASA-2014-0012 Updated openssl package fixes security vulnerabilities

Updated openssl packages fix security vulnerabilities: The DTLS retransmission implementation in OpenSSL through 1.0.1e does not properly maintain data structures for digest and encryption contexts, which might allow man-in-the-middle attackers to trigger the use of a different context by...

MGASA-2014-0011 Updated dcraw and ufraw package fix security vulnerability

Due to flaws in the embedded copy of LibRaw in dcraw and ufraw, corrupt input files might trigger a division by zero, an infinite loop, or a null pointer dereference CVE-2013-1438. The dcraw and ufraw packages have been updated to their newest versions and patched to fix the flaws in the embedded...

MGASA-2014-0010 Updated nagios package fixes security vulnerability

A flaw was reported and fixed in Nagios, which can be exploited to cause a denial of service. This vulnerability is caused due to an off-by-one error within the processcgivars function, which can be exploited to cause an out-of-bounds read by sending a specially-crafted key value to the Nagios we...

MGASA-2014-0009 Updated qt4 package fixes security vulnerability

It was discovered that QXmlSimpleReader in Qt incorrectly handled XML entity expansion. An attacker could use this flaw to cause Qt applications to consume large amounts of resources, resulting in a denial of service CVE-2013-4549...

MGASA-2014-0008 Updated openssl package fixes security vulnerability

A flaw was reported for OpenSSL 1.0.1e, that can cause application using OpenSSL to crash when using TLS version 1.2 CVE-2013-6449. Also, a NULL pointer reference issue has been fixed in SSLgetcertificate mga11549...

MGASA-2014-0007 Updated nodejs package fixes security vulnerabilities

A denial of service flaw was found in the way Node.js handled pipelined HTTP requests. A remote attacker could use this flaw to send an excessive amount of HTTP requests over a network connection, causing Node.js to use an excessive amount of memory and possibly exit when all available memory is...

MGASA-2014-0006 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 terminate unexpectedly or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Firefox or Thunderbird CVE-2013-5609,...

MGASA-2014-0005 Updated openjpeg package fixes security vulnerabilities

Multiple heap-based buffer overflow flaws were found in OpenJPEG. An attacker could create a specially crafted OpenJPEG image that, when opened, could cause an application using openjpeg to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application...

MGASA-2014-0004 Updated librsvg and gtk+3.0 packages fix security vulnerability

librsvg before version 2.39.0 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via an XML document containing an external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference CVE-2013-1881. gtk+3.0 has been patched to cope with the changes in SVG loading due to the fix in librsvg...

MGASA-2014-0003 Updated ruby package fixes security vulnerability

Charlie Somerville discovered that Ruby incorrectly handled floating point number conversion. An attacker could possibly use this issue with an application that converts text to floating point numbers to cause the application to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitra...

MGASA-2014-0002 Updated xml-security package fixes security vulnerability

James Forshaw discovered that Apache XML Security for Java incorrectly validated CanonicalizationMethod parameters. An attacker could use this flaw to spoof XML signatures CVE-2013-2172...

MGASA-2014-0001 Updated cxf, wss4j, and jacorb packages fix security vulnerability

Multiple denial of service flaws were found in the way StAX parser implementation of Apache CXF, an open-source web services framework, performed processing of certain XML files. If a web service application utilized the services of the StAX parser, a remote attacker could provide a...

MGASA-2013-0385 Updated libkdcraw packages fix CVE-2013-1438 & CVE-2013-1439

Updated libkdcraw packages fix libraw security vulnerabilities: It was discovered that LibRaw incorrectly handled photo files. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted photo file, applications linked against LibRaw could be made to crash, resulting in a denia...

MGASA-2013-0384 Updated asterisk packages fix CVE-2013-7100

Updated asterisk packages fix security vulnerability: Buffer overflow in the unpacksms16 function in apps/appsms.c in Asterisk Open Source 1.8.x before 1.8.24.1, 10.x before 10.12.4, and 11.x before 11.6.1; Asterisk with Digiumphones 10.x-digiumphones before 10.12.4-digiumphones; and Certified...