MGASA-2017-0040 Updated php packages fix security vulnerabilities

Floating-point exception in php-exif when parsing a tag format CVE-2016-10158. Crash in php-phar while loading hostile phar archive CVE-2016-10159. Memory corruption in php-phar when loading hostile phar CVE-2016-10160. Heap out of bounds read on unserialize in finishnesteddata CVE-2016-10161...

MGASA-2017-0039 Updated thunderbird packages fix security vulnerabilities

JIT code allocation can allow for a bypass of ASLR and DEP protections leading to potential memory corruption attacks. CVE-2017-5375 Use-after-free while manipulating XSL in XSLT documents. CVE-2017-5376 Hashed codes of JavaScript objects are shared between pages. This allows for pointer leaks...

MGASA-2017-0033 Updated pdns packages fix security vulnerabilities

Mathieu Lafon discovered that pdns does not properly validate records in zones. An authorized user can take advantage of this flaw to crash server by inserting a specially crafted record in a zone under their control and then sending a DNS query for that record CVE-2016-2120. Florian Heinz and...

MGASA-2017-0034 Updated wireshark packages fix security vulnerabilities

The wireshark package has been updated to version 2.0.10, which fixes two security issues where a malformed packet trace could cause it to go into an infinite loop, and fixes several other bugs as well. See the release notes for details...

MGASA-2017-0025 Updated nvidia-current & ldetect-lst packages fix security vulnerabilities

This proprietary nvidia-current driver update provides an upgrade to the new R375 long lived branch adding support for nVidia Geforce 10 GTX10xx, Pascal series hardware and fixes the following security issues: NVIDIA GPU Display Driver contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer nvidia.ko...

MGASA-2017-0024 Updated shadow-utils packages fix security vulnerabilities

It was found that shadow-utils-4.2.1 had a potentially unsafe use of getlogin with the concern that the utmp entry might have a spoofed username associated with a correct uid CVE-2016-6251. It was found that shadow-utils-4.2.1 had an incorrect integer handling problem where it looks like the int...

MGASA-2017-0027 Updated libvncserver packages fix security vulnerability

It was discovered that there were two vulnerabilities in libvncserver, a library to create/embed a VNC server: A heap-based buffer overflow that allows remote servers to cause a denial of service via a crafted FramebufferUpdate message containing a subrectangle outside of the drawing area...

MGASA-2017-0021 Updated gstreamer packages fix security vulnerability

Out of bounds heap read in windowsicontypefind in gst/typefind/gsttypefindfunctions.c CVE-2016-9811...

MGASA-2017-0023 Updated firefox packages fix security vulnerability

Multiple flaws were found in the processing of malformed web content. A web page containing malicious content could cause Firefox to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Firefox CVE-2017-5373, CVE-2017-5375, CVE-2017-5376, CVE-2017-5378,...

MGASA-2017-0020 Updated libpng and libpng12 packages fix security vulnerability

This security update fixes a NULL pointer dereference bug in libpng and libpng12 CVE-2016-10087...

MGASA-2017-0019 Updated golang package fixes security vulnerability

The net/http package's Request.ParseMultipartForm method starts writing to temporary files once the request body size surpasses the given "maxMemory" limit. It was possible for an attacker to generate a multipart request crafted such that the server ran out of file descriptors...

MGASA-2017-0017 Updated webmin package fixes security vulnerability

The webmin package has been updated to version 1.831, fixing possible security issues in the Authentic theme fixed in 1.801 and/or 1.810, and containing several other bug fixes and enhancements. See the upstream release announcements and change log for details...

MGASA-2017-0016 Updated php-ZendFramework2 packages fix security vulnerability

When using the zend-mail component to send email via the Zend\Mail\Transport\Sendmail transport, a malicious user may be able to inject arbitrary parameters to the system sendmail program. The attack is performed by providing additional quote characters within an address; when unsanitized, they c...

MGASA-2017-0014 Updated flash-player-plugin packages fix security vulnerabilities

Adobe Flash Player 24.0.0.194 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 a report that an exploit for CVE-2016-7892 exists in the wild, and is being used in limite...

MGASA-2017-0012 Updated xen packages fix security vulnerability

This xen update is based on upstream 4.5.5 maintenance release, and fixes the following security issues: The qemu implementation in libvirt before 1.3.0 and Xen allows local guest OS users to cause a denial of service host disk consumption by writing to stdout or stderr CVE-2014-3672 The xrstor...

MGASA-2017-0011 Updated flightgear packages fix security vulnerability

A security bug CVE-2016-9956 was found in all FlightGear versions since 2009, that allow an attacker to overwrite any file the flightgear user owns. The Debian adaptation of upstream patch was applied to the Mageia FlightGear package...

MGASA-2017-0010 Updated libcryptopp packages fix security vulnerability

When Crypto++ library parses an ASN.1 data value, the library allocates for the content octets based on the length octets. Later, if there's too few or too little content octets, the library throws a BERDecodeErr exception. The memory for the content octets will be zeroized even if unused, which...

MGASA-2016-0430 Updated roundcubemail packages fix security vulnerability

Users can execute commands on the server by writing e-mails, due to insufficient sanitation of the from field when calling PHP's mail function CVE-2016-9920. Note that only roundcubemail installations that don't have an SMTP server configured for mail delivery are affected...

MGASA-2016-0429 Updated kernel and kmod packages fix security vulnerabilities

This update is based on upstream 4.4.39 and fixes at least the following security issues: Due to lack of size checking on ICMP header length, it is possible to cause out-of-bounds read on stack CVE-2016-8399 A use-after-free vulnerability in the SCSI generic driver allows users with write access ...

MGASA-2016-0425 Updated hdf5 packages fix security vulnerabilities

In the HDF5 1.8.16 library's failure to check if the number of dimensions for an array read from the file is within the bounds of the space allocated for it, a heap-based buffer overflow will occur, potentially leading to arbitrary code execution CVE-2016-4330. When decoding data out of a dataset...

MGASA-2016-0421 Updated libgd packages fixe security vulnerabilities

Ibrahim El-Sayed discovered that the GD library incorrectly handled certain malformed Tiff images. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted Tiff image, an attacker could cause a denial of service CVE-2016-6911. Emmanuel Law discovered that the GD library...

MGASA-2016-0419 Updated chromium-browser-stable packages fix security vulnerabilities

Multiple flaws were found in the way Chromium 54 processes various types of web content, where loading a web page containing malicious content could cause Chromium to crash, execute arbitrary code, or disclose sensitive information. CVE-2016-5203, CVE-2016-5204, CVE-2016-5205, CVE-2016-5206,...

MGASA-2016-0418 Updated python-tornado package fixes security vulnerability

A difference in cookie parsing between Tornado and web browsers especially when combined with Google Analytics could allow an attacker to set arbitrary cookies and bypass XSRF protection. The cookie parser has been rewritten to fix this attack...

MGASA-2016-0413 Updated drupal packages fix security vulnerability

Inconsistent name for term access query; information on taxonomy terms might have been disclosed to unprivileged users CVE-2016-9449. Confirmation forms allow external URLs to be injected CVE-2016-9451...

MGASA-2016-0410 Updated firefox packages fix security vulnerability

A flaw was found in the processing of malformed web content. A web page containing malicious content could cause Firefox to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Firefox CVE-2016-9079...

MGASA-2016-0409 Updated thunderbird packages fix security vulnerabilities

A heap-buffer-overflow in Cairo when processing SVG content caused by compiler optimization, resulting in a potentially exploitable crash CVE-2016-5296. The Mozilla Updater can be made to choose an arbitrary target working directory for output files resulting from the update process. This...

MGASA-2016-0407 Updated teeworlds package fixes security vulnerability

A security vulnerability was found in the Teeworlds client logic that could enable remote code execution on the client by malicious servers CVE-2016-9400. This maintenance release fixes it...

MGASA-2016-0402 Updated clamav packages fix security vulnerability

ClamAV aka Clam AntiVirus before 0.99.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service application crash via a crafted mew packer executable CVE-2016-1371. ClamAV aka Clam AntiVirus before 0.99.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service application crash via a crafted 7z file...

MGASA-2016-0404 Updated icu packages fix security vulnerability

Stack overflow in uresgetByKeyWithFallback in ICU before 54.1 could lead to a crash CVE-2014-9911. It was found that a big locale string causes a stack based overflow inside libicu in locid.cpp CVE-2016-7415...

MGASA-2016-0399 Updated giflib packages fix security vulnerability

A heap buffer overflow vulnerability was found in giflib. A maliciously crafted gif file could cause the gif2rgb tool to crash CVE-2016-3977...

MGASA-2016-0398 Updated lighttpd packages fix security vulnerability

Dominic Scheirlinck and Scott Geary of Vend reported an insecure behaviour in the lighttpd web server. Lighttpd assigned Proxy header values from client requests to internal HTTPPROXY environment variables. This could be used to carry out Man in the Middle Attacks MIDM or create connections to...

MGASA-2016-0392 Updated libssh2 packages fix security vulnerability

Andreas Schneider reported that libssh2 passes the number of bytes to a function that expects number of bits during the SSHv2 handshake when libssh2 is to get a suitable value for 'group order' in the Diffie-Hellman negotiation. This weakens significantly the handshake security, potentially...

MGASA-2016-0393 Updated bash packages fix security vulnerability

A vulnerability was found in a way bash expands the $HOSTNAME. Injecting the hostname with malicious code would cause it to run each time bash expanded \h in the prompt string CVE-2016-0634. Shells running as root inherited PS4 from the environment, allowing PS4 expansion performing command...

MGASA-2016-0386 Updated tar packages fix security vulnerability

Harry Sintonen discovered that GNU tar does not properly handle member names containing '..', thus allowing an attacker to bypass the path names specified on the command line and replace files and directories in the target directory CVE-2016-6321...

MGASA-2016-0390 Updated gnuchess packages fix security vulnerability

gnuchess before 6.2.4 is vulnerable to a stack buffer overflow related to user move input, where 160 characters of input can crash gnuchess CVE-2015-8972...

MGASA-2016-0388 Updated libtiff packages fix security vulnerability

A read outside of array in tiffsplit or other utilities using TIFFNumberOfStrips CVE-2016-9273. A potential read outside buffer in TIFFPrintField CVE-2016-9297. Multiple uint32 overflows in writeBufferToSeparateStrips, writeBufferToContigTiles and writeBufferToSeparateTiles that could cause heap...

MGASA-2016-0391 Updated wireshark packages fix security vulnerability

The wireshark package has been updated to version 2.0.8, which fixes several security issues where a malformed packet trace could cause it to crash or go into an infinite loop, and fixes several other bugs as well. See the release notes for details...

MGASA-2016-0381 Updated memcached packages fix security vulnerability

Aleksandar Nikolic discovered that Memcached incorrectly handled certain malformed commands. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause Memcached to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code CVE-2016-8704, CVE-2016-8705, CVE-2016-8706...

MGASA-2016-0378 Updated libarchive packages fix security vulnerability

The updated packages might contain additional security fixes if we missed some other ones when we cherry-picked patches against version 3.2.1...

MGASA-2016-0375 Updated monit packages fix security vulnerability

The forms in Monit's Service Manager are vulnerable to a cross site request forgery attack. Successful exploitation will enable an attacker to disable/enable all monitoring for a particular host, disable/enable monitoring for a specific service CVE-2016-7067...

MGASA-2016-0373 Updated freeimage packages fix security vulnerability

Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in the FreeImage multimedia library, which might result in denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code if a malformed XMP or RAW image is processed. CVE-2015-3885, CVE-2016-5684...

MGASA-2016-0371 Updated mariadb packages fix security vulnerabilities

A race condition was found in the way MariaDB performed MyISAM engine table repair. A database user with shell access to the server running mysqld could use this flaw to change permissions of arbitrary files writable by the mysql system user CVE-2016-6663. This update fixes several vulnerabilitie...

MGASA-2016-0370 Updated flash-player-plugin packages fix security vulnerabilities

Adobe Flash Player 11.2.202.644 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 type confusion vulnerabilities that could lead to code execution CVE-2016-7860,...

MGASA-2016-0364 Updated kernel-tmb package fixes security issues

This update is based on the upstream 4.4.26 kernel and fixes at least these security issues: sound/core/timer.c in the Linux kernel through 4.6 does not initialize certain r1 data structures, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory via crafted use of the...

MGASA-2016-0363 Updated php-adodb packages fix security vulnerabilities

The qstr method in the PDO driver in the ADOdb Library for PHP before 5.x before 5.20.7 might allow remote attackers to conduct SQL injection attacks via vectors related to incorrect quoting. CVE-2016-7405 Cross Site Scripting vulnerability in test script CVE-2016-4855...

MGASA-2016-0361 Updated libtiff packages fix security vulnerability

The TIFFWriteDirectoryTagLongLong8Array function in tifdirwrite.c in the tiffset tool in LibTIFF 4.0.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service out-of-bounds read via vectors involving the ma variable CVE-2016-3658. They also fix: An out-of-bound read of up to 3 bytes in...

MGASA-2016-0360 Updated flash-player-plugin packages fix security vulnerability

This update fixes a use-after-free issue that can be triggered by attackers for arbitrary code execution, potentially allow the attacker to take control of the affected system CVE-2016-7855...

MGASA-2016-0356 Updated tor packages fix security vulnerability

It has been discovered that Tor treats the contents of some buffer chunks as if they were a NUL-terminated string. This issue could enable a remote attacker to crash a Tor client, hidden service, relay, or authority CVE-2016-8860. The tor package has been updated to version 0.2.8.9, which fixes...

MGASA-2016-0357 Updated graphicsmagick packages fix security vulnerability

The updated packages fix security vulnerabilities: Stack-based buffer overflow in ReadSCTImage CVE-2016-8682. Memory allocation failure in ReadPCXImage CVE-2016-8683. Memory allocation failure in MagickMalloc CVE-2016-8684...

MGASA-2016-0359 Updated java-1.8.0-openjdk packages fix security vulnerability

It was discovered that the Hotspot component of OpenJDK did not properly check arguments of the System.arraycopy function in certain cases. An untrusted Java application or applet could use this flaw to corrupt virtual machine's memory and completely bypass Java sandbox restrictions CVE-2016-5582...