MGASA-2015-0301 Updated pdns package fixes security vulnerability

In MGASA-2015-0189, the pdns and pdns-recursor packages were updated to fix a denial of service issue CVE-2015-1868. The fix was incomplete. The packages have been updated again to versions 3.3.3 and 3.6.4, respectively, to completely fix this issue...

MGASA-2015-0302 Updated moodle package fixes security vulnerabilities

In Moodle before 2.8.7, phishing is possible when redirecting to external site using referer headers in error messages CVE-2015-3272. In Moodle before 2.8.7, several web services returning user information did not clean text in text custom profile fields, leading to possible XSS CVE-2015-3274. In...

MGASA-2015-0299 Updated remind package fixes security vulnerability

Buffer overflow in remind before 3.1.15 in the DumpSysVar function in src/var.c...

MGASA-2015-0298 Updated bind package fixes security vulnerability

An error in the handling of TKEY queries can be exploited by an attacker for use as a denial-of-service vector, as a constructed packet can use the defect to trigger a REQUIRE assertion failure, causing BIND to exit CVE-2015-5477...

MGASA-2015-0295 Updated openssh package fixes security vulnerability

The OpenSSH server, when keyboard-interactive challenge response authentication is enabled and PAM is being used the default configuration in Mageia, can be tricked into allowing more password attempts than the MaxAuthTries setting would normally allow in one connection, which can aid an attacker...

MGASA-2015-0294 Updated springframework package fixes security vulnerability

In Spring Framework before 3.2.14, if DTD is not entirely disabled, inline DTD declarations can be used to perform denial of service attacks known as XML bombs. Such declarations are both well-formed and valid according to XML schema rules but when parsed can cause out of memory errors. To protec...

MGASA-2015-0287 Updated icu package fixes security vulnerability

The ucnviogetConverterName function in common/ucnvio.cpp in International Components for Unicode ICU mishandles converter names with initial x- substrings, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service read of uninitialized memory or possibly have unspecified other impact via a craft...

MGASA-2015-0282 Updated wesnoth packages fix security vulnerability

Toom Lõhmus discovered that the Lua API and preprocessor in the Battle for Wesnoth game up to version 1.12.2 included could lead to client-side authentication information disclosure using maliciously crafted files with the .pdb extension CVE-2015-5069, CVE-2015-5070. This issue has been fixed usi...

MGASA-2015-0284 Updated thunderbird package fixes security vulnerabilities

Several flaws were found in the processing of malformed web content. A web page containing malicious content could cause Thunderbird to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Thunderbird CVE-2015-2724, CVE-2015-2734, CVE-2015-2735, CVE-2015-2736,...

MGASA-2015-0279 Updated mariadb package fixes security vulnerabilities

The mariadb package has been updated to versions 5.5.44 and 10.0.20 in Mageia 4 and Mageia 5, respectively. Both fix an issue where the client is vulnerable to a man-in-the-middle attack when using the --ssl option, where the SSL/TLS protection could be disabled CVE-2015-3152. The Mageia 4 update...

MGASA-2015-0276 Updated php package fixes security vulnerabilities

Segfault in Phar::convertToData on invalid file CVE-2015-5589. Buffer overflow and stack smashing error in pharfixfilepath CVE-2015-5590. The php package has been updated to version 5.5.27, which fixes these issues, as well as other possible bugs and security issues, including the BACKRONYM flaw,...

MGASA-2015-0275 Updated flash-player-plugin package fixes security vulnerabilities

Adobe Flash Player 11.2.202.491 contains fixes to critical security vulnerabilities found in earlier versions that could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system. Adobe is aware of reports that exploits targeting these vulnerabilities have been published publicly. This...

MGASA-2015-0274 Updated openssl package fixes security vulnerability

During certificate verification, OpenSSL starting from version 1.0.1n and 1.0.2b will attempt to find an alternative certificate chain if the first attempt to build such a chain fails. An error in the implementation of this logic can mean that an attacker could cause certain checks on untrusted...

MGASA-2015-0270 Updated cups-filters package fixes security vulnerability

A heap-based buffer overflow was discovered in the way the texttopdf utility of cups-filters processed print jobs with a specially crafted line size. An attacker being able to submit print jobs could exploit this flaw to crash texttopdf or, possibly, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of...

MGASA-2015-0269 Updated virtuoso-opensource package fixes security vulnerabilities

The virtuoso-opensource package has been updated to version 6.1.8 and two additional upstream patches from versions 7.1.0 and 7.2.0 with additional fixes for unspecified security issues have been added...

MGASA-2015-0255 Updated mysql-connector-java package fixes security vulnerability

Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows successful authenticated network attacks via multiple protocols. Successful attack of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized update, insert or delete access to some MySQL Connectors accessible data as well as read access to a subset of MySQL...

MGASA-2015-0260 Updated filezilla package fixes security vulnerability

The filezilla package has been updated to version 3.11.0.2, fixing multiple bugs and one security issue, related to the LOGJAM TLS issue when using FTP...

MGASA-2015-0267 Updated pcre package fixes security vulnerability

PCRE library is prone to a vulnerability which leads to Heap Overflow. During subpattern calculation of a malformed regular expression, an offset that is used as an array index is fully controlled and can be large enough so that unexpected heap memory regions are accessed CVE-2015-5073...

MGASA-2015-0266 Updated pam package fixes security vulnerability

If SELinux is enabled, the unixrunhelperbinary function in Linux-PAM 1.1.8 and earlier hangs indefinitely when verifying a password of 65536 characters, which allows attackers to conduct username enumeration and denial of service attacks CVE-2015-3238...

MGASA-2015-0249 Updated libvpx package fixes security vulnerability

libvpx before 1.4.0 allows remote attackers to trigger a negative value for a size field, and consequently cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact, via a crafted frame size in VP9 video data CVE-2015-1258...

MGASA-2015-0251 Updated python-tornado package fixes security vulnerability

Security fixes CVE-2014-9720 The XSRF token is now encoded with a random mask on each request. This makes it safe to include in compressed pages without being vulnerable to the BREACH attack. This applies to most applications that use both the xsrfcookies and gzip options or have gzip applied by ...

MGASA-2015-0252 Updated p7zip package fixes security vulnerability

Alexander Cherepanov discovered that p7zip is susceptible to a directory traversal vulnerability. While extracting an archive, it will extract symlinks and then follow them if they are referenced in further entries. This can be exploited by a rogue archive to write files outside the current...

MGASA-2015-0246 Updated openssl package fixes security vulnerabilities

A vulnerability in the TLS protocol allows a man-in-the-middle attacker to downgrade vulnerable TLS connections using ephemeral Diffie-Hellman key exchange to 512-bit export-grade cryptography. This vulnerability is known as Logjam CVE-2015-4000. When processing an ECParameters structure OpenSSL...

MGASA-2015-0247 Updated cups package fixes security vulnerabilities

It was discovered that CUPS incorrectly handled reference counting when handling localized strings. A remote attacker could use this issue to escalate permissions, upload a replacement CUPS configuration file, and execute arbitrary code CVE-2015-1158. It was discovered that the CUPS templating...

MGASA-2015-0244 Updated redis package fixes security vulnerability

It was discovered that redis, a persistent key-value database, could execute insecure Lua bytecode by way of the EVAL command. This could allow remote attackers to break out of the Lua sandbox and execute arbitrary code CVE-2015-4335...

MGASA-2015-0241 Updated php-ZendFramework packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated php-ZendFramework packages fix security vulnerability: Filippo Tessarotto and Maks3w reported potential CRLF injection attacks in mail and HTTP headers in ZendFramework before 1.2.12 CVE-2015-3154...

MGASA-2015-0242 Updated jackrabbit packages fix CVE-2015-1833

Updated jackrabbit packages fix security vulnerability: In Apache Jackrabbit before 2.4.6, When processing a WebDAV request body containing XML, the XML parser can be instructed to read content from network resources accessible to the host, identified by URI schemes such as "https" or "file"...

MGASA-2015-0239 Updated fuse packages fix CVE-2015-3202

Updated fuse packages fix security vulnerability: Tavis Ormandy discovered that FUSE incorrectly filtered environment variables. A local attacker could use this issue to gain administrative privileges CVE-2015-3202...

MGASA-2015-0237 Updated kernel-linus packages fix security vulnerabilities and bugs

Updated kernel-linus fixes security, critical data corruption and pdata loss issues This kernel-linus update is based on upstream -longterm 3.14.43 and fixes a security issue, and critical data corruption and data loss issues: drivers/vhost/scsi.c: potential memory corruption CVE-2015-4036 ext4...

MGASA-2015-0238 Updated kernel-tmb packages fix security vulnerabilities and bugs

Updated kernel-tmb fixes security, critical data corruption and pdata loss issues This kernel-tmb update is based on upstream -longterm 3.14.43 and fixes a security issue, and critical data corruption and data loss issues: drivers/vhost/scsi.c: potential memory corruption CVE-2015-4036 ext4...

MGASA-2015-0236 Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerabilities and bugs

Updated kernel fixes security, critical data corruption and pdata loss issues This kernel update is based on upstream -longterm 3.14.43 and fixes a security issue, and critical data corruption and data loss issues: drivers/vhost/scsi.c: potential memory corruption CVE-2015-4036 ext4 filesystem ha...

MGASA-2015-0235 Updated chromium-browser-stable packages fix security vulnerabilities

Chromium-browser 43.0.2357.65 fixes a number of security issues: Use-after-free vulnerability in the SpeechRecognitionClient implementation in the Speech subsystem in Google Chrome before 43.0.2357.65 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted document. CVE-2015-1251...

MGASA-2015-0229 Updated moodle packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated moodle package fixes security vulnerabilities: In Moodle before 2.6.11, leaving gradebook feedback is a trusted action and such capabilities in other modules already have an XSS mask, 'mod/quiz:grade' was missing this flag CVE-2015-3174. In Moodle before 2.6.11, some error messages displa...

MGASA-2015-0233 Updated avidemux packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated avidemux packages fix security vulnerabilities: The mjpegdecodeapp function in libavcodec/mjpegdec.c in FFMpeg before 1.2.11 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service out-of-bounds heap access and possibly have other unspecified impact via vectors related to LJIF tags in an MJP...

MGASA-2015-0232 Updated phpmyadmin packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated phpmyadmin package fixes security vulnerabilities: In phpMyAdmin before 4.2.13.3, by deceiving a user to click on a crafted URL, it is possible to alter the configuration file being generated with phpMyAdmin setup CVE-2015-3902. In phpMyAdmin before 4.2.13.3, a vulnerability in the API ca...

MGASA-2015-0227 Updated ruby-rest-client packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated ruby-rest-client packages fix security vulnerability: When Ruby rest-client processes an HTTP redirection response, it blindly passes along the values from any Set-Cookie headers to the redirection target, regardless of domain, path, or expiration. This can be used in a session fixation...

MGASA-2015-0221 Updated kernel-linus packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel update is based on upstream -longterm 3.14.41 and fixes the following security issues: net/netfilter/nfconntrackprotogeneric.c in the Linux kernel before 3.18 generates incorrect conntrack entries during handling of certain iptables rule sets for the SCTP, DCCP, GRE, and UDP-Lite...

MGASA-2015-0222 Updated darktable packages fix CVE-2015-3885

Updated darktable package fixes security vulnerability The dcraw tool bundled in darktable's libraw copy suffers from an integer overflow condition which leads to a buffer overflow. A maliciously crafted raw image file can be used to trigger the vulnerability, causing a Denial of Service conditio...

MGASA-2015-0224 Updated libraw packages fix CVE-2015-3885

Updated libraw packages fix security vulnerability: The dcraw tool suffers from an integer overflow condition which lead to a buffer overflow. The vulnerability concerns the 'len' variable, parsed without validation from opened images, used in the ljpegstart function. A maliciously crafted raw...

MGASA-2015-0226 Updated rawtherapee packages fix CVE-2015-3885

Updated rawtherapee package fixes security vulnerability: The dcraw tool suffers from an integer overflow condition which lead to a buffer overflow. The vulnerability concerns the 'len' variable, parsed without validation from opened images, used in the ljpegstart function. A maliciously crafted...

MGASA-2015-0225 Updated ufraw & dcraw packages fix CVE-2015-3885

Updated dcraw and ufraw packages fix security vulnerability: The dcraw tool suffers from an integer overflow condition which lead to a buffer overflow. The vulnerability concerns the 'len' variable, parsed without validation from opened images, used in the ljpegstart function. A maliciously craft...

MGASA-2015-0215 Updated netcf packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated netcf packages fix security vulnerability: A denial of service flaw was found in netcf. A specially crafted interface name could cause an application using netcf such as the libvirt daemon to crash. The netcf package has been updated to version 0.2.8, fixing this issue and several other...

MGASA-2015-0214 Updated dnsmasq packages fix CVE-2015-3294

Updated dnsmasq packages fix security vulnerability: Dnsmasq could be made to crash or expose sensitive information if it received specially crafted network traffic CVE-2015-3294...

MGASA-2015-0212 Updated async-http-client packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated async-http-client packages fix security vulnerabilities: It was found that async-http-client would disable SSL/TLS certificate verification under certain conditions, for example if HTTPS communication also uses client certificates. This can be exploited by a Man-in-the-middle MITM attack...

MGASA-2015-0209 Updated libssh packages fix CVE-2015-3146

Updated libssh packages fix security vulnerability: libssh versions 0.5.1 and above, but before 0.6.5, have a logical error in the handling of a SSHMSGNEWKEYS and SSHMSGKEXDHREPLY package. A detected error did not set the session into the error state correctly and further processed the packet whi...

MGASA-2015-0208 Updated libarchive packages fix a security vulnerability

Updated libarchive packages fix security vulnerability: An out-of-bounds read flaw was found in the way libarchive processed certain archives. An attacker could create a specially crafted archive that, when processed by an application using the libarchive library, would cause that application to...

MGASA-2015-0206 Updated ruby-redcarpet packages fix a security vulnerability

Updated ruby-redcarpet packages fix security vulnerability: Redcarpet allows for possible XSS of untrusted markdown if the autolink extension is enabled...

MGASA-2015-0202 Updated wordpress packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated wordpress packages fixes security vulnerabilities: The wordpress package has been updated to version 3.9.6, which fixes multiple cross-site scripting issues, including CVE-2015-3440, and other bugs. Note that upstream has advised us that WordPress 3.9.x is no longer supported. As this...

MGASA-2015-0186 Updated nodejs packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated nodejs package fixes security vulnerability: It was found that libuv does not call setgoups before calling setuid/setgid. This may potentially allow an attacker to gain elevated privileges CVE-2015-0278. The libuv library is bundled with nodejs, and a fixed version of libuv is included wi...

MGASA-2015-0187 Updated net-snmp packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated net-snmp packages fix security vulnerability: It was discovered that the snmppduparse function could leave incompletely parsed varBind variables in the list of variables. A remote, unauthenticated attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code...