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MGASA-2014-0555 Updated mediawiki packages fix security vulnerabilities
Updated mediawiki packages fix security vulnerabilities: In MediaWiki before 1.23.8, thumb.php outputs wikitext message as raw HTML, which could lead to cross-site scripting. Permission to edit MediaWiki namespace is required to exploit this. In MediaWiki before 1.23.8, a malicious site can bypas...
MGASA-2014-0544 Updated libjpeg packages fix security vulnerability
Passing a specially crafted jpeg file to libjpeg-turbo could lead to stack smashing CVE-2014-9092...
MGASA-2014-0546 Updated git packages fix security vulnerability
It was reported that git, when used as a client on a case-insensitive filesystem, could allow the overwrite of the .git/config file when the client performed a "git pull". Because git permitted committing .Git/config or any case variation, on the pull this would replace the user's .git/config. If...
MGASA-2014-0542 Updated php packages fix CVE-2014-8142
Updated php packages fix security vulnerability: A use-after-free flaw was found in PHP unserialize. An untrusted input could cause PHP interpreter to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code when processed using unserialize CVE-2014-8142. PHP has been updated to version 5.5.20, which fixes the...
MGASA-2014-0540 Updated docuwiki package fixes CVE-2014-9253
Updated dokuwiki package fix a security vulnerability: Our current dokuwiki-20140929-1.1.mga4 package uses dokuwiki-2014-09-29a source which allows swf application/x-shockwave-flash uploads by default. This may be used for Cross-site scripting XSS attack which enables attackers to inject...
MGASA-2014-0534 Updated pcre packages fix security vulnerability
A flaw was found in the way PCRE handled certain malformed regular expressions. This issue could cause an application linked against PCRE to crash while parsing malicious regular expressions CVE-2014-8964...
MGASA-2014-0539 Updated jasper packages fix security vulnerabilities
Updated jasper packages fix security vulnerabilities: A double free flaw was found in the way JasPer parsed ICC color profiles in JPEG 2000 image files. A specially crafted file could cause an application using JasPer to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code CVE-2014-8137. A heap-based buffe...
MGASA-2014-0533 Updated unrtf package fixes security vulnerabilities
Updated unrtf package fixes security vulnerabilities: Michal Zalewski reported an out-of-bounds memory access vulnerability in unrtf. Processing a malformed RTF file could lead to a segfault while accessing a pointer that may be under the attacker's control. This would lead to a denial of service...
MGASA-2014-0536 Updated krb5 packages fix CVE-2014-5353
Updated krb5 packages fix security vulnerability: In MIT krb5, when kadmind is configured to use LDAP for the KDC database, an authenticated remote attacker can cause a NULL dereference by attempting to use a named ticket policy object as a password policy for a principal. The attacker needs to b...
MGASA-2014-0532 Updated x11-server packages fix security vulnerabilities
Ilja van Sprundel of IOActive discovered several security issues in the X.org X server, which may lead to privilege escalation or denial of service CVE-2014-8091, CVE-2014-8092, CVE-2014-8093, CVE-2014-8094, CVE-2014-8095, CVE-2014-8096, CVE-2014-8097, CVE-2014-8098, CVE-2014-8099, CVE-2014-8100,...
MGASA-2014-0537 Updated file packages fix security vulnerabilities
Updated file packages fix security vulnerabilities: Thomas Jarosch of Intra2net AG reported that using the file command on a specially-crafted ELF binary could lead to a denial of service due to uncontrolled resource consumption CVE-2014-8116. Thomas Jarosch of Intra2net AG reported that using th...
MGASA-2014-0529 Updated rpm packages fix security vulnerabilities
It was found that RPM wrote file contents to the target installation directory under a temporary name, and verified its cryptographic signature only after the temporary file has been written completely. Under certain conditions, the system interprets the unverified temporary file contents and...
MGASA-2014-0525 Updated qemu packages fix security vulnerabilities
Updated qemu packages fix security vulnerabilities: During migration, the values read from migration stream during ram load are not validated. Especially offset in hostfromstreamoffset and also the length of the writes in the callers of the said function. A user able to alter the savevm data eith...
MGASA-2014-0526 Updated freetype2 packages fix security vulnerability
Updated freetype2 packages fix security vulnerability: It was reported that Freetype before 2.5.4 suffers from an out-of-bounds stack-based read/write flaw in cf2hintmapbuild in the CFF rasterizing code, which could lead to a buffer overflow. This is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2014-2240...
MGASA-2014-0527 Updated apache packages fix security vulnerabilities
Updated apache packages fix security vulnerabilities: A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the way the modcache httpd module handled Content-Type headers. A malicious HTTP server could cause the httpd child process to crash when the Apache HTTP server was configured to proxy to a server...
MGASA-2014-0522 Updated pdns-recursor packages fix CVE-2014-8601
Updated pdns-recursor package fixes security vulnerability: PowerDNS Recursor before version 3.6.2, could be negatively impacted by specially configured, hard to resolve domain names. A remote attacker, by sending a query for such a domain name, could cause severe performance degradation in...
MGASA-2014-0521 Updated flash-player-plugin packages fix multiple security vulnerabilities
Adobe Flash Player 11.2.202.425 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 memory corruption vulnerabilities that could lead to code execution CVE-2014-0587,...
MGASA-2014-0515 Updated openafs packages fix security vulnerabilies
Updated openafs packages fix security vulnerabilities: Buffer overflow in the GetStatistics64 remote procedure call RPC in OpenAFS before 1.6.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash via a crafted statsVersion argument CVE-2014-0159. OpenAFS before 1.6.7 delays the listen thre...
MGASA-2014-0516 Updated nodejs package fixes security vulnerabilities
Updated nodejs package fixes security vulnerabilities: A memory corruption vulnerability, which results in a denial-of-service, was identified in the versions of V8 that ship with Node.js 0.8 and 0.10. In certain circumstances, a particularly deep recursive workload that may trigger a GC and...
MGASA-2014-0517 Updated util-linux packages fix CVE-2014-9114
Updated util-linux packages fix security vulnerability: Sebastian Krahmer reported a command injection flaw in blkid. This could possibly result in command execution with root privileges CVE-2014-9114. The util-linux package has been updated to version 2.24.2 and patched to fix this issue and oth...
MGASA-2014-0520 Updated graphviz packages fix CVE-2014-9157
Updated graphviz packages fix security vulnerability: Format string vulnerability in the yyerror function in lib/cgraph/scan.l in Graphviz allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via format string specifiers in unknown vector, which are not properly handled in an error string...
MGASA-2014-0514 Updated jasper packages fix CVE-2014-9029
Updated jasper packages fix security vulnerability: Josh Duart of the Google Security Team discovered heap-based buffer overflow flaws in JasPer, which could lead to denial of service application crash or the execution of arbitrary code CVE-2014-9029...
MGASA-2014-0510 Updated phpmyadmin package fixes CVE-2014-9218
Updated phpmyadmin package fixes security vulnerabilities: In phpMyAdmin before 4.1.14.8, with very long passwords it was possible to initiate a denial of service attack on phpMyAdmin CVE-2014-9218...
MGASA-2014-0504 Updated sddm packages fix security vulnerabilities
Sddm may in some cases allow unauthenticated logins as the sddm user CVE-2014-7271. Sddm is vulnerable to a race condition in XAUTHORITY file generation CVE-2014-7272. Sddm has been updated to version 0.10.0, fixing these issues and several other bugs, and adding new functionality. libxcb package...
MGASA-2014-0505 Updated libreoffice packages fix security vulnerability
"Document as E-mail" vulnerability bnc900218. It was discovered that LibreOffice incorrectly handled the Impress remote control port. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Impress to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code CVE-2014-3693...
MGASA-2014-0501 Updated gnome-shell and gnome-settings-daemon packages fix security vulnerability
The lock screen in gnome-shell does not disable taking screenshots via the Print Screen key, and several consecutive screenshot requests can trigger an out-of-memory situation, causing the lock screen to be killed, thus allowing it to be bypassed CVE-2014-7300...
MGASA-2014-0502 Updated teeworlds packages fix security vulnerability
A security flaw was found in the teeworlds server prior to 0.6.3 where an incorrect offset check could enable an attacker to read the memory or trigger a segmentation fault. The teeworlds package in Mageia 4 has been update to version 0.6.3, thus providing the fix for this security flaw and a...
MGASA-2014-0503 Updated tcpdump package fixes security vulnerabilities
The Tcpdump program could crash when processing a malformed OLSR payload when the verbose output flag was set CVE-2014-8767. The application decoder for the Ad hoc On-Demand Distance Vector AODV protocol in Tcpdump fails to perform input validation and performs unsafe out-of-bound accesses. The...
MGASA-2014-0499 Updated flac packages fix security vulnerabilities
In libFLAC before 1.3.1, a stack overflow CVE-2014-8962 and a heap overflow CVE-2014-9028, which may result in arbitrary code execution, can be triggered by passing a maliciously crafted .flac file to the libFLAC decoder...
MGASA-2014-0498 Updated libksba packages fix security vulnerability
By using special crafted S/MIME messages or ECC based OpenPGP data, it is possible to create a buffer overflow, which could lead to a denial of service CVE-2014-9087...
MGASA-2014-0493 Updated wordpress package fixes security vulnerabilities
XSS in wptexturize via comments or posts, exploitable for unauthenticated users CVE-2014-9031. XSS in media playlists CVE-2014-9032. CSRF in the password reset process CVE-2014-9033. Denial of service for giant passwords. The phpass library by Solar Designer was used in both projects without...
MGASA-2014-0495 Updated phpmyadmin packages fix security vulnerabilities
Updated phpmyadmin package fixes security vulnerabilities: In phpMyAdmin before 4.1.14.7, with a crafted database, table or column name it is possible to trigger an XSS attack in the table browse page, with a crafted ENUM value it is possible to trigger XSS attacks in the table print view and zoo...
MGASA-2014-0489 Updated ruby-httpclient package enables SSL negotiation
This new version enables SSL negotiation instead of hardcoding SSLv3...
MGASA-2014-0488 Updated perl-Mojolicious packages fix a security vulnerability
Updated perl-Mojolicious package fixes security vulnerability: An assumption in Mojolicious before 5.48 CGI parameter handling that can result in parameter injection attacks...
MGASA-2014-0487 Updated clamav packages fix security vulnerabilities
Certain javascript files causes ClamAV to segfault when scanned with the -a list archived files CVE-2013-6497. A heap buffer overflow was reported in ClamAV when scanning a specially crafted y0da Crypter obfuscated PE file CVE-2014-9050. ClamAV has been updated to version 0.98.5 to address these...
MGASA-2014-0486 Updated perl-Plack package fixes security vulnerability
Plack::App::File would previously strip trailing slashes off provided paths. This in combination with the common pattern of serving files with Plack::Middleware::Static could allow an attacker to bypass a whitelist of generated files CVE-2014-5269...
MGASA-2014-0481 Updated polarssl package fix security vulnerabilities
A regression in PolarSSL 1.3.8 resulted in servers negotiating a weaker signature algorithm than available. This has been fixed in PolarSSL 1.3.9 CVE-2014-8627. Two remotely-triggerable memory leaks were found by the Codenomicon Defensics tool and fixed in PolarSSL 1.3.9 CVE-2014-8628...
MGASA-2014-0482 Updated imagemagick packages fix security vulnerabilities
ImageMagick is vulnerable to a denial of service due to out-of-bounds memory accesses in the resize code CVE-2014-8354, PCX parser CVE-2014-8355, DCM decoder CVE-2014-8562, and JPEG decoder CVE-2014-8716...
MGASA-2014-0483 Updated moodle package fixes security vulnerabilities
In Moodle before 2.6.5, without forcing encoding, it was possible that UTF7 characters could be used to force cross-site scripts to AJAX scripts although this is unlikely on modern browsers and on most Moodle pages MSA-14-0035. In Moodle before 2.6.5, an XSS issue through $searchcourse in...
MGASA-2014-0479 Updated kernel-vserver packages fix security vulnerabilities
This kernel-vserver update is based on upstream -longterm 3.10.58 and fixes the following security issues: The kvmiommumappages function in virt/kvm/iommu.c in the Linux kernel through 3.16.1 miscalculates the number of pages during the handling of a mapping failure, which allows guest OS users t...
MGASA-2014-0469 Updated php-smarty packages fix security vulnerability
Smarty before 3.1.21 allows remote attackers to bypass the secure mode restrictions and execute arbitrary PHP code as demonstrated by "literal" in a template CVE-2014-8350...
MGASA-2014-0465 Updated srtp package fixes security vulnerability
Fernando Russ from Groundworks Technologies reported a buffer overflow flaw in srtp, Cisco's reference implementation of the Secure Real-time Transport Protocol SRTP, in how the cryptopolicysetfromprofileforrtp function applies cryptographic profiles to an srtppolicy. A remote attacker could...
MGASA-2014-0468 Updated php-smarty packages fix security vulnerabilities
Cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in the SmartyException class in Smarty aka smarty-php before 3.1.12 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors that trigger a Smarty exception CVE-2012-4437. Smarty before 3.1.21 allows remote attackers to bypass t...
MGASA-2014-0477 Updated krb5 packages fix security vulnerability
The kadm5randkeyprincipal3 function in lib/kadm5/srv/svrprincipal.c in kadmind in MIT Kerberos 5 aka krb5 before 1.13 sends old keys in a response to a -randkey -keepold request, which allows remote authenticated users to forge tickets by leveraging administrative access CVE-2014-5351...
MGASA-2014-0472 Updated ruby packages fix security vulnerabilities
Will Wood discovered that Ruby incorrectly handled the encodes function. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Ruby to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. The default compiler options for affected releases should reduce the vulnerability to a...
MGASA-2014-0463 Updated privoxy package fixes security vulnerability
The logrotate configuration of the privoxy package did not function properly, causing its log files not to be rotated. The log files could potentially fill up the disk...
MGASA-2014-0461 Updated hawtjni packages fix security vulnerability
The HawtJNI Library class wrote native libraries to a predictable file name in /tmp/ when the native libraries were bundled in a JAR file, and no custom library path was specified. A local attacker could overwrite these native libraries with malicious versions during the window between when HawtJ...
MGASA-2014-0470 Updated libvirt packages fix security vulnerability
Eric Blake discovered that libvirt incorrectly handled permissions when processing the qemuDomainFormatXML command. An attacker with read-only privileges could possibly use this to gain access to certain information from the domain xml file CVE-2014-7823...
MGASA-2014-0466 Updated kdenetwork4 packages fix security vulnerabilities in krfb
A malicious VNC client can trigger multiple DoS conditions on the VNC server by advertising a large screen size, ClientCutText message length and/or a zero scaling factor parameter CVE-2014-6053, CVE-2014-6054. A malicious VNC client can trigger multiple stack-based buffer overflows by passing a...
MGASA-2014-0473 Updated ffmpeg packages fix security vulnerabilities
A heap-based buffer overflow in the encodeslice function in libavcodec/proresenckostya.c in FFmpeg before 1.1.14 can cause a crash, allowing a malicious image file to cause a denial of service CVE-2014-5271. libavcodec/iff.c in FFmpeg before 1.1.14 allows an attacker to have an unspecified impact...