MGASA-2015-0370 Updated php-ZendFramework packages fix CVE-2015-5161

Updated php-ZendFramework packages fix security vulnerability: Dawid Golunski discovered that when running under PHP-FPM in a threaded environment, Zend Framework, a PHP framework, did not properly handle XML data in multibyte encoding. This could be used by remote attackers to perform an XML...

MGASA-2015-0373 Updated spice packages fix CVE-2015-3247

Updated spice packages fix security vulnerability: A race condition flaw, leading to a heap-based memory corruption, was found in spice's workerupdatemonitorsconfig function, which runs under the QEMU-KVM context on the host. A user in a guest could leverage this flaw to crash the host QEMU-KVM...

MGASA-2015-0365 Updated php packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated php packages fix security vulnerabilities: The php package has been updated to version 5.5.29, which fixes several security issues and other bugs. See the upstream ChangeLog for more details...

MGASA-2015-0367 Updated freetype2 packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated freetype2 packages fix security vulnerabilities: It was discovered that FreeType did not correctly handle certain malformed font files. If a user were tricked into using a specially crafted font file, a remote attacker could cause FreeType to crash or hang, resulting in a denial of servic...

MGASA-2015-0360 Updated libgcrypt packages fix CVE-2015-0837

Updated libgcrypt packages fix security vulnerability: Daniel Genkin, Adi Shamir, and Eran Tromer discovered that Libgcrypt was susceptible to an attack via physical side channels. A local attacker could use this attack to possibly recover private keys CVE-2015-0837...

MGASA-2015-0363 Updated conntrack-tools packages fix CVE-2015-6496

Updated conntrack-tools packages fix security vulnerability: It was discovered that in certain configurations, if the relevant conntrack kernel module is not loaded, conntrackd will crash when handling DCCP, SCTP or ICMPv6 packets CVE-2015-6496...

MGASA-2015-0366 Updated phpmyadmin packages fix CVE-2015-6830

Updated phpmyadmin package fixes security vulnerability: In phpMyAdmin before 4.3.13.2 and 4.4.14.1, installations with reCaptcha enabled allow completing the reCaptcha test and subsequently performing a brute force attack to guess user credentials without having to complete further reCaptcha tes...

MGASA-2015-0364 Updated libvdpau packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated libvdpau packages fix security vulnerabilities: libvdpau versions 1.1 and earlier, when used in setuid or setgid applications, contain vulnerabilities related to environment variable handling that could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code or overwrite arbitrary files CVE-2015-5198...

MGASA-2015-0358 Updated libxml2 packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated libxml2 packages fix security vulnerability: The xmlreader in libxml2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory consumption via crafted XML data, related to an XML Entity Expansion XEE attack CVE-2015-1819. The libxml2 package has been patched to fix this issue, as well ...

MGASA-2015-0351 Updated struts packages fix CVE-2015-0899

Updated struts packages fix security vulnerability: The Validator in Apache Struts 1.1 and later contains a function to efficiently define rules for input validation across multiple pages during screen transitions. This function contains a vulnerability where input validation may be bypassed. Whe...

MGASA-2015-0352 Updated util-linux packages fix CVE-2015-5224

Updated util-linux packages fix security vulnerability: The chfn and chsh commands in util-linux's login-utils are vulnerable to a file name collision due to incorrect mkstemp usage. If the chfn and chsh binaries are both setuid-root they eventually call mkostemp in such a way that an attacker...

MGASA-2015-0343 Updated pcre packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated pcre packages fix security vulnerabilities: The pcre package has been updated to the latest CVS as of September 2, 2015, aka 8.38-RC1, which fixes several bugs, including many buffer, stack, and integer overflows...

MGASA-2015-0350 Updated xmltooling packages fix CVE-2015-0851

Updated xmltooling and opensaml packages fix security vulnerability: The InCommon Shibboleth Training team discovered that XMLTooling, a C++ XML parsing library, did not properly handle an exception when parsing well-formed but schema-invalid XML. This could allow remote attackers to cause a deni...

MGASA-2015-0354 Updated screen packages fix CVE-2015-6806

Updated screen package fixes security vulnerability: A vulnerability was found in screen causing a stack overflow which results in crashing the screen server process, resulting in denial of service CVE-2015-6806...

MGASA-2015-0349 Updated libidn packages fix CVE-2015-2059

Updated libidn packages fix security vulnerability: In libidn before 1.31, stringpreputf8toucs4 did not validate that the input UTF-8 string was actually valid UTF-8, which could lead to out-of-bounds reads CVE-2015-2059...

MGASA-2015-0353 Updated vorbis-tools packages fix CVE-2015-6749

Updated vorbis-tools package fixes security vulnerability: A buffer overread is possible in vorbis-tools in oggenc/audio.c when opening a specially crafted AIFF file CVE-2015-6749...

MGASA-2015-0335 Updated squashfs-tools packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated squashfs-tools package fixes security vulnerabilities: The unsquashfs command from squashfs-tools is vulnerable to integer CVE-2015-4645 and stack CVE-2015-4646 overflows...

MGASA-2015-0336 Updated hplip packages fix CVE-2015-0839

Updated hplip packages fix security vulnerability: It was reported that the hp-plugin utility, included in the hplip package, downloads a binary driver and verifies it via a key specified by the key's short ID. A man-in-the-middle attacker could use this flaw to generate a key with the expected...

MGASA-2015-0341 Updated bind packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated bind packages fix security vulnerability: Parsing a malformed DNSSEC key can cause a validating resolver to exit due to a failed assertion in buffer.c. It is possible for a remote attacker to deliberately trigger this condition, for example by using a query which requires a response from ...

MGASA-2015-0339 Updated freeimage packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated freeimage packages fix security vulnerability: FreeImage is vulnerable to an integer overflow in PluginPCX.cpp, making the PCX loader vulnerable to malicious images with a bad window specification CVE-2015-0852. Moreover, FreeImage was built in Mageia against a number of bundled libraries...

MGASA-2015-0340 Updated jsoup package fixes security vulnerability

Jsoup before 1.8.3 was vulnerable to a possible XSS issue in the validator, related to how it handled tags without a closing '' when reaching EOF CVE-2015-6748...

MGASA-2015-0342 Updated iceape packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated iceape packages fix security issues: Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the browser engine in Mozilla Firefox before 37.0, Firefox ESR 31.x before 31.6, and Thunderbird before 31.6 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory corruption and application crash or possibly...

MGASA-2015-0337 Updated openafs package fixes security vulnerabilities

Updated openafs packages fix security vulnerabilities: Memory allocated by vos for VLDB entry structures was not cleared prior to use, meaning stack data could be sent over the network, possibly in the clear if crypt mode was not in use CVE-2015-3282. The default use by bos of clear rather than...

MGASA-2015-0334 Updated glusterfs packages fix security vulnerability

There were cases where setuid could fail even when the caller is UID 0 The glusterd.service file was set as executable but that is not necessary. This update resolves both of these issues...

MGASA-2015-0328 Updated drupal packages fix security vulnerabilities

Cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in the Autocomplete system in Drupal before 7.39 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted URL, related to uploading files CVE-2015-6658. SQL injection vulnerability in the SQL comment filtering system in the Database API i...

MGASA-2015-0326 Updated subversion packages fix security vulnerabilities

Subversion's modauthzsvn does not properly restrict anonymous access in some mixed anonymous/authenticated environments when using Apache httpd 2.4. The result is that anonymous access may be possible to files for which only authenticated access should be possible CVE-2015-3184. Subversion server...

MGASA-2015-0327 Updated python-django and python-django14 packages fix security vulnerabilities

Lin Hua Cheng discovered that Django incorrectly handled the session store. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause the session store to fill up, resulting in a denial of service...

MGASA-2015-0325 Updated cgit package fixes security vulnerability

cgit in Mageia 4/5 bundles an old git that is being subject to a minor security issue CVE-2014-9390. The cgit package was updated to its latest upstream release, and updates the bundled git to the non-vulnerable version 2.5.0, which contains various bug fixes...

MGASA-2015-0324 Updated vlc packages fix security vulnerability

Loren Maggiore of Trail of Bits discovered that the 3GP parser of VLC, a multimedia player and streamer, could dereference an arbitrary pointer due to insufficient restrictions on a writable buffer. This could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted 3GP files CVE-2015-5949...

MGASA-2015-0321 Updated openssh packages fix security vulnerabilities

Privilege seaparation weakness related to PAM support allowing the attacker to impersonate other users was found in openssh package. Attackers who could successfully compromise the pre-authentication process for remote code execution and who had valid credentials on the host could impersonate oth...

MGASA-2015-0316 Updated x11-server packages fix security vulnerability

The authentication setup in XWayland 1.16.x and 1.17.x before 1.17.2 starts the server in non-authenticating mode, which allows local users to read from or send information to arbitrary X11 clients via vectors involving a UNIX socket CVE-2015-3164...

MGASA-2015-0315 Updated kdepim package fixes security vulnerability

This update fixes a security vulnerability in kdepim : kmail doesn't encrypt attachments when "automatic encryption" is selected CVE-2014-8878...

MGASA-2015-0314 Updated owncloud package fixes security vulnerabilities

In ownCloud before 6.0.8 and 8.0.4, a bug in the SDK used to connect ownCloud against the Dropbox server might allow the owner of "Dropbox.com" to gain access to any files on the ownCloud server if an external Dropbox storage was mounted CVE-2015-4715. In ownCloud before 6.0.8 and 8.0.4, the...

MGASA-2015-0312 Updated firefox packages fixes security vulnerabilities

Several 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-2015-4473, CVE-2015-4475, CVE-2015-4478, CVE-2015-4479,...

MGASA-2015-0309 Updated wordpress package fixes security vulnerability

The wordpress package has been updated to version 3.9.8, fixing three cross-site scripting issues CVE-2015-5732, CVE-2015-5733, CVE-2015-5734, a potential timing side-channel attack in Customizer CVe-2015-5730, an issue in Heartbeat where an attacker could lock a post from being edited...

MGASA-2015-0308 Updated ghostscript package fixes security vulnerability

GhostScript is vulnerable to an integer overflow when processing a crafted PostScript file using the ps2pdf command CVE-2015-3228...

MGASA-2015-0306 Updated cacti package fixes security vulnerability

Cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in Cacti before 0.8.8d allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors CVE-2015-2665. SQL injection vulnerability in Cacti before 0.8.8d allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via unspecified vectors...

MGASA-2015-0304 Updated lxc package fixes security vulnerability

Roman Fiedler discovered that LXC had a directory traversal flaw when creating lock files. A local attacker could exploit this flaw to create an arbitrary file as the root user CVE-2015-1331. Roman Fiedler discovered that LXC incorrectly trusted the container's proc filesystem to set up AppArmor...

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-2015-0301 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-2015-0299 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-2015-0296 Updated groovy package fixes security vulnerability

When an application has Groovy on the classpath and that it uses standard Java serialization mechanim to communicate between servers, or to store local data, it is possible for an attacker to bake a special serialized object that will execute code directly when deserialized. All applications whic...

MGASA-2015-0291 Updated freeradius package fixes security vulnerability

The FreeRADIUS server relies on OpenSSL to perform certificate validation, including Certificate Revocation List CRL checks. The FreeRADIUS usage of OpenSSL, in CRL application, limits the checks to leaf certificates, therefore not detecting revocation of intermediate CA certificates. An unexpire...

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-2015-0292 Updated ansible package fixes security vulnerability

Update to 1.9.2. Fixes CVE-2015-3908 hostname and cert matching in some modules and plugins and another not yet issued CVE on chroot/jail/zone connection plugins as well as a number of bugfixes...

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-2015-0289 Updated stunnel package fixes security vulnerability

Johan Olofsson discovered an authentication bypass vulnerability in Stunnel, a program designed to work as an universal SSL tunnel for network daemons. When Stunnel in server mode is used with the redirect option and certificate-based authentication is enabled with "verify = 2" or higher, then on...

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...