MGASA-2016-0294 Updated webkit2 packages fix security vulnerability

The webkit2 package has been updated to version 2.12.4, fixing several security issues and other bugs...

MGASA-2016-0297 Updated eog packages fix security vulnerability

An out-of-bounds write vulnerability in eog was found when processing specially crafted SVG file. Due to passing the error message containing invalid UTF-8 character to GMarkup, out-of-bounds access is triggered CVE-2016-6855...

MGASA-2016-0292 Updated gnupg/libgcrypt packages fix security vulnerability

Felix Doerre and Vladimir Klebanov from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology discovered a flaw in the mixing functions of GnuPG's random number generator. An attacker who obtains 4640 bits from the RNG can trivially predict the next 160 bits of output CVE-2016-6313. The gnupg package has been...

MGASA-2016-0287 Updated fontconfig packages fix security vulnerability

Tobias Stoeckmann discovered that cache files are insufficiently validated in fontconfig, a generic font configuration library. An attacker can trigger arbitrary free calls, which in turn allows double free attacks and therefore arbitrary code execution. In combination with setuid binaries using...

MGASA-2016-0289 Updated postgresql packages fix security vulnerability

It was discovered that certain SQL statements containing CASE/WHEN commands could crash the PostgreSQL server, or disclose a few bytes of server memory, potentially leading to arbitrary code execution CVE-2016-5423. It was found that PostgreSQL client programs mishandle database and role names...

MGASA-2016-0293 Updated php packages fix security vulnerability

The php package has been updated to version 5.6.25, which fixes several security issues and other bugs. See the upstream ChangeLog for more details...

MGASA-2016-0288 Updated bsdiff packages fix security vulnerability

Integer signedness error in bspatch.c in bspatch in bsdiff allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service heap-based buffer overflow via a crafted patch file CVE-2014-9862...

MGASA-2016-0285 Updated curl packages fix security vulnerability

libcurl before 7.50.1 would attempt to resume a TLS session even if the client certificate had changed. That is unacceptable since a server by specification is allowed to skip the client certificate check on resume, and may instead use the old identity which was established by the previous...

MGASA-2016-0282 Updated python-django packages fix security vulnerability

It was discovered that Django is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability in the admin's add/change related popup CVE-2016-6186...

MGASA-2016-0284 Updated kernel-linus packages fix security vulnerabilities

This update is based on the upstream 4.4.16 kernel and fixes at least theese security issues: nfsd in the Linux kernel through 4.6.3 allows local users to bypass intended file-permission restrictions by setting a POSIX ACL, related to nfs2acl.c, nfs3acl.c, and nfs4acl.c. CVE-2016-1237. The...

MGASA-2016-0279 Updated chromium-browser-stable packages fix security vulnerability

Chromium-browser-stable 52.0.2743.116 fixes security issues: two heap overflow issues in pdfium CVE-2016-5139 and CVE-2016-5140; an address bar spoofing problem CVE-2016-5141; a use-after-free bug CVE-2016-5142 and a same origin bypass problem CVE-2016-5145 in blink; two parameter sanitization...

MGASA-2016-0278 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-2016-2836, CVE-2016-5258, CVE-2016-5259, CVE-2016-5252,...

MGASA-2016-0276 Updated ruby-eventmachine packages fix security vulnerability

EventMachine could be crashed by opening a high number of parallel connections = 1024 towards a server using the EventMachine engine. The crash happens due to the file descriptors overwriting the stack...

MGASA-2016-0275 Updated wireshark packages fix security vulnerability

The wireshark package has been updated to version 2.0.5, 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-2016-0274 Updated chromium-browser-stable packages fix security vulnerability

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in chromium before 52.0.2743.82 allow attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have other impact via unknown vectors. CVE-2016-1705 The PPAPI implementation in Chromium before 52.0.2743.82 does not validate the origin of IPC messages to the plugin...

MGASA-2016-0273 Updated java-1.8.0-openjdk packages fix security vulnerability

Multiple flaws were discovered in the Hotspot and Libraries components in OpenJDK. An untrusted Java application or applet could use these flaws to completely bypass Java sandbox restrictions CVE-2016-3606, CVE-2016-3587, CVE-2016-3598, CVE-2016-3610. Multiple denial of service flaws were found i...

MGASA-2016-0270 Updated glibc and libtirpc packages fixes security vulnerability

A stack-based buffer overflow in the clntudpcall function in sunrpc/clntudp.c in the GNU C Library aka glibc or libc6 allows remote servers to cause a denial of service crash or possibly unspecified other impact via a flood of crafted ICMP and UDP packets CVE-2016-4429. A similar issue was fixed ...

MGASA-2016-0271 Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerability

This update is based on the upstream 4.4.16 kernel and fixes at least theese security issues: nfsd in the Linux kernel through 4.6.3 allows local users to bypass intended file-permission restrictions by setting a POSIX ACL, related to nfs2acl.c, nfs3acl.c, and nfs4acl.c. CVE-2016-1237. The...

MGASA-2016-0266 Updated libupnp packages fix security vulnerability

libupnp's default behavior allows an unauthenticated user access to a server's filesystem through POST and GET requests CVE-2016-6255...

MGASA-2016-0267 Updated php/xmlrpc-epi/timezone packages fix security vulnerability

Stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in virtualfileex CVE-2016-6289. Use After Free in unserialize with Unexpected Session Deserialization CVE-2016-6290. Out of bound read in exifprocessIFDinMAKERNOTE CVE-2016-6291. NULL Pointer Dereference in exifprocessusercomment CVE-2016-6292...

MGASA-2016-0260 Updated tomcat/apache-commons-fileupload packages fix security vulnerability

The TERASOLUNA Framework Development Team discovered a denial of service vulnerability in Apache Commons FileUpload. A remote attacker can take advantage of this flaw by sending file upload requests that cause the HTTP server using the Apache Commons Fileupload library to become unresponsive,...

MGASA-2016-0262 Updated apache packages fix security vulnerability

It was discovered that httpd used the value of the Proxy header from HTTP requests to initialize the HTTPPROXY environment variable for CGI scripts, which in turn was incorrectly used by certain HTTP client implementations to configure the proxy for outgoing HTTP requests. A remote attacker could...

MGASA-2016-0257 Updated imagemagick packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated imagemagick package fixes security vulnerabilities: The OpenBlob function in blob.c in ImageMagick allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a | pipe character at the start of a filename CVE-2016-5118. Integer overflow in MagickCore/profile.c CVE-2016-5841. Buffer overread in...

MGASA-2016-0255 Updated sqlite3 packages fix security vulnerability

It was discovered that sqlite3 would reject a temporary directory e.g., as specified by the TMPDIR environment variable to which the executing user did not have read permissions. This could result in information leakage as less secure global temporary directories e.g., /var/tmp or /tmp would be...

MGASA-2016-0254 Updated thunderbird packages fix security vulnerability

Multiple 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-2016-2805, CVE-2016-2807, CVE-2016-2818. This update...

MGASA-2016-0251 Updated flash-player-plugin packages fix 52 security vulnerabilities

Adobe Flash Player 11.2.202.632 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 race condition vulnerability that could lead to information disclosure CVE-2016-424...

MGASA-2016-0250 Updated spice packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated spice packages fix security vulnerabilities: A memory allocation flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, was found in spice's smartcard interaction, which runs under the QEMU-KVM context on the host. A user connecting to a guest VM using spice could potentially use this flaw to cra...

MGASA-2016-0249 Updated mbedtls packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated mbedtls packages fix security vulnerabilities: The mbedtls package has been updated to version 1.3.17, which fixes a few minor security issues in mbedtlsrsarsaespkcs1v15encrypt and mbedtlsrsarsaesoaepencrypt and fixes a handful of other bugs as well. See the upstream release announcement...

MGASA-2016-0248 Updated libvirt packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated libvirt packages fix security vulnerability: Vivian Zhang and Christoph Anton Mitterer discovered that setting an empty VNC password does not work as documented in Libvirt, a virtualisation abstraction library. When the password on a VNC server is set to the empty string, authentication o...

MGASA-2016-0246 Updated libreoffice packages fix security vulnerability

Updated libreoffice packages fix security vulnerability: Parsing the Rich Text Format character style index was insufficiently checked for validity. Documents can be constructed which dereference an iterator to the first entry of an empty STL container CVE-2016-4324...

MGASA-2016-0247 Updated tcpreplay packages fixes CVE-2016-6160

Updated tcpreplay package fixes security vulnerability: The tcprewrite program, part of the tcpreplay suite, does not check the size of the frames it processes. Huge frames may trigger a segmentation fault, and they occur on interfaces with an MTU of or close to 65536. For example, the loopback...

MGASA-2016-0244 Updated struts packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated struts packages fix security vulnerabilities: A vulnerability in Apache Struts 1 ActionForm allowing unintended remote operations against components on server memory, such as Servlets and ClassLoader, was found CVE-2016-1181. It was reported that The Apache Struts 1 Validator contains a...

MGASA-2016-0234 Updated libtorrent-rasterbar packages fix security vulnerability

A specially crafted HTTP response from a tracker or potentially a UPnP broadcast can crash libtorrent-rasterbar in the parsechunkheader function. Although this function is not present in this version, upstream's additional sanity checks were added to abort the program if necessary instead of...

MGASA-2016-0235 Updated iperf packages fix security vulnerability

A malicious process can connect to an iperf server and, by sending a malformed message on the control channel, corrupt the server process's heap area. This can lead to a crash and a denial of service, or theoretically a remote code execution as the user running the iperf server. A malicious iperf...

MGASA-2016-0240 Updated phpmyadmin packages fix security vulnerability

In phpMyAdmin before 4.4.15.7, a vulnerability was discovered that allows a BBCode injection to setup script in case it's not accessed on https CVE-2016-5701. In phpMyAdmin before 4.4.15.7, a vulnerability was discovered that allows an SQL injection attack to run arbitrary commands as the control...

MGASA-2016-0241 Updated gimp packages fix security vulnerability

It was discovered that there was a use-after-free vulnerability in the channel and layer properties parsing process in GIMP CVE-2016-4994...

MGASA-2016-0238 Updated php packages fix security vulnerability

php-mbstring phpmbregexeregreplaceexec - double free CVE-2016-5768. php-mcrypt heap Overflow due to integer overflows CVE-2016-5769. php-SPL int/sizet confusion in SplFileObject::fread CVE-2016-5770. php-SPL Use After Free Vulnerability in PHP's GC algorithm and unserialize CVE-2016-5771. php-WDD...

MGASA-2016-0237 Updated squidguard packages fix security vulnerability

The squidGuard.cgi program is vulnerable to a reflected cross site scripting vulnerability in the blocking script squidGuard.cgi. The vulnerability is triggered when a user clicks a link to a blocked site where the url has scripting instructions added CVE-2015-8936. In Mageia's squidguard package...

MGASA-2016-0232 Updated kernel-linus packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel-linus update provides an upgrade to the upstream 4.4 longterm kernel series, currently based on 4.4.13 and resolves at least the following security issues: The Linux kernel before 4.4.1 allows local users to bypass file-descriptor limits and cause a denial of service memory consumptio...

MGASA-2016-0233 Updated kernel-tmb packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel-tmb update provides an upgrade to the upstream 4.4 longterm kernel series, currently based on 4.4.13 and resolves at least the following security issues: The Linux kernel before 4.4.1 allows local users to bypass file-descriptor limits and cause a denial of service memory consumption ...

MGASA-2016-0230 Updated python packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated python and python3 packages fixes security vulnerability: - Heap overflow in zipimporter module CVE-2016-5636. - HTTP header injection in urrlib2/urllib/httplib/http.client CVE-2016-5699. - smtplib StartTLS stripping attack CVE-2016-0772...

MGASA-2016-0231 Updated chromium-browser-stable packages fix security vulnerabilities

Chromium-browser-stable 51.0.2704.103 contains various security fixes from upstream's internal audits, fuzzing and other initiatives CVE-2016-1704 as well as other bug fixes...

MGASA-2016-0226 Updated virtualbox packages fix security vulnerability

This update provides virtualbox 5.0.20 maintenance release, and fixes the following security issue: Unspecified vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox component in Oracle Virtualization VirtualBox before 5.0.18 allows local users to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via vecto...

MGASA-2016-0228 Updated flash-player-plugin packages fix security vulnerabilities

Adobe Flash Player 11.2.202.626 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-2016-4144,...

MGASA-2016-0223 Updated wireshark packages fix security vulnerability

Updated wireshark packages fix security vulnerabilities: The SPOOLS dissector could go into an infinite loop CVE-2016-5350. The IEEE 802.11 dissector could crash CVE-2016-5351. The IEEE 802.11 dissector could crash CVE-2016-5352. The UMTS FP dissector could crash CVE-2016-5353. Some USB dissector...

MGASA-2016-0225 Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel update provides an upgrade to the upstream 4.4 longterm kernel series, currently based on 4.4.13 and resolves at least the following security issues: The Linux kernel before 4.4.1 allows local users to bypass file-descriptor limits and cause a denial of service memory consumption by...

MGASA-2016-0220 Updated firefox packages fix security vulnerabilities

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-2016-2818, CVE-2016-2819, CVE-2016-2821, CVE-2016-2822,...

MGASA-2016-0219 Updated ntp packages fix security vulnerability

ntpq and ntpdc disclose the origin timestamp to unauthenticated clients, which may allow an attacker to impersonate a legitimate peer CVE-2015-8139. An attacker who is able to spoof packets with correct origin timestamps from enough servers before the expected response packets arrive at the targe...

MGASA-2016-0217 Updated libxslt packages fix security vulnerability

The libxslt package has been updated to version 1.1.29, which fixes several bugs and possible security issues, including an out-of-bounds memory access CVE-2016-1683 and integer overflow CVE-2016-1684, and provides other improvements...

MGASA-2016-0216 Updated nginx packages fix CVE-2016-4450

Updated nginx package fixes security vulnerability: A problem was identified in nginx code responsible for saving client request body to a temporary file. A specially crafted request might result in worker process crash due to a NULL pointer dereference while writing client request body to a...