MGASA-2014-0436 Updated quassel packages fix security vulnerability

Due to and out-of-bounds read issue in Quassel core in The ECB Blowfish decryption function, a malicious client can cause either denial of service or disclosure of information from process memory by using an improperly formed message CVE-2014-8483...

MGASA-2014-0435 Updated MythTV packages to harden against SSDP reflection attacks

Updated MythTV packages to harden against SSDP reflection attacks MythTV's UPNP component was suseptable to SSDP reflection attacks and has been hardened to disallow SSDP device discovery from non-local addresses as mitigation. Additionally, a popular schedules retrieval service, Schedules Direct...

MGASA-2014-0433 Updated zabbix package fixes security vulnerability

It was reported that the Zabbix frontend supported an XML data import feature, where on the server it used DOMDocument to parse the XML. By default, DOMDocument also parses the external DTD, which could allow a remote attacker to use a crafted XML file causing Zabbix to read an arbitrary local...

MGASA-2014-0427 Updated nginx packages fix CVE-2014-3616

Updated nginx package fixes security vulnerability: Antoine Delignat-Lavaud and Karthikeyan Bhargavan discovered that it was possible to reuse cached SSL sessions in unrelated contexts, allowing virtual host confusion attacks in some configurations by an attacker in a privileged network position...

MGASA-2014-0429 Updated wpa_supplicant and hostapd packages fix security vulnerability

A vulnerability was found in the mechanism wpacli and hostapdcli use for executing action scripts. An unsanitized string received from a remote device can be passed to a system call resulting in arbitrary command execution under the privileges of the wpacli/hostapdcli process which may be root in...

MGASA-2014-0428 Updated chromium-browser-stable packages fix security vulnerabilities

Several flaws were found in the processing of malformed web content. A web page containing malicious content could cause Chromium to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Chromium CVE-2014-3188, CVE-2014-3189, CVE-2014-3190, CVE-2014-3191,...

MGASA-2014-0430 Updated php packages fix security vulnerabilities

An integer overflow flaw in PHP's unserialize function was reported. If unserialize were used on untrusted data, this issue could lead to a crash or potentially information disclosure CVE-2014-3669. A heap corruption issue was reported in PHP's exifthumbnail function. A specially-crafted JPEG ima...

MGASA-2014-0425 Updated pidgin packages fix security vulnerabilities

In Pidgin before 2.10.10, both of libpurple's bundled SSL/TLS plugins one for GnuTLS and one for NSS failed to check that the Basic Constraints extension allowed intermediate certificates to act as CAs. This allowed anyone with any valid certificate to create a fake certificate for any arbitrary...

MGASA-2014-0422 Updated java-1.7.0-openjdk packages fix security vulnerabilities

Multiple flaws were discovered in the Libraries, 2D, and Hotspot components in OpenJDK. An untrusted Java application or applet could use these flaws to bypass certain Java sandbox restrictions CVE-2014-6506, CVE-2014-6531, CVE-2014-6502, CVE-2014-6511, CVE-2014-6504, CVE-2014-6519. It was...

MGASA-2014-0420 Updated phpmyadmin package fixes security vulnerability

In phpMyAdmin before 4.1.14.6, with a crafted database or table name it is possible to trigger an XSS in SQL debug output when enabled and in server monitor page when viewing and analysing executed queries CVE-2014-8326...

MGASA-2014-0417 Updated ejabberd packages fix security vulnerability

A flaw was discovered in ejabberd that allows clients to connect with an unencrypted connection even if starttlsrequired is set CVE-2014-8760...

MGASA-2014-0418 Updated libxml2 packages fix security vulnerability

A denial of service flaw was found in libxml2, a library providing support to read, modify and write XML and HTML files. A remote attacker could provide a specially crafted XML file that, when processed by an application using libxml2, would lead to excessive CPU consumption denial of service bas...

MGASA-2014-0415 Updated ctags package fixes security vulnerability

A denial of service issue was discovered in ctags 5.8. A remote attacker could cause excessive CPU usage and disk space consumption via a crafted JavaScript file by triggering an infinite loop CVE-2014-7204...

MGASA-2014-0413 Updated chromium-browser-stable packages fix security vulnerabilites

Updated chromium-browser-stable packages fix security vulnerabilities: Several security issues and other bugs have been fixed since our previous update. See the upstream release announcements for details. Note that as of version 35, the Chromium browser no longer supports browser plugins, includi...

MGASA-2014-0411 Updated rsyslog packages fix CVE-2014-3634

Updated rsyslog packages fix security vulnerability: Rainer Gerhards, the rsyslog project leader, reported a vulnerability in Rsyslog. As a consequence of this vulnerability an attacker can send malformed messages to a server, if this one accepts data from untrusted sources, and trigger a denial ...

MGASA-2014-0407 Updated perl-Data-Dumper package fixes CVE-2014-4330

Updated perl-Data-Dumper package fixes security vulnerability: The Dumper method in Data::Dumper before 2.154, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service stack consumption and crash via an Array-Reference with many nested Array-References, which triggers a large number of...

MGASA-2014-0406 Updated perl packages fix CVE-2014-4330

Updated perl package fixes security vulnerability: The Dumper method in Data::Dumper before 2.154, as used in Perl 5.20.1 and earlier, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service stack consumption and crash via an Array-Reference with many nested Array-References, which trigge...

MGASA-2014-0408 Updated torque packages fix CVE-2014-3684

Updated torque packages fix security vulnerabilities: Chad Vizino reported that within a TORQUE Resource Manager job a non-root user could use a vulnerability in the tmadopt library call to kill processes he/she doesn't own including root-owned ones on any node in a job CVE-2014-3684. This update...

MGASA-2014-0402 Updated phpmyadmin package fixes security vulnerability

In phpMyAdmin before 4.1.14.4, with a crafted ENUM value it is possible to trigger an XSS in table search and table structure pages CVE-2014-7217...

MGASA-2014-0400 Updated mediawiki packages fix security vulnerbilities

Updated mediawiki packages fix security vulnerability: MediaWiki before 1.23.4 is vulnerable to cross-site scripting due to JavaScript injection via CSS in uploaded SVG files CVE-2014-7199. MediaWiki before 1.23.5 is vulnerable to cross-site scripting due to JavaScript injection via user-specific...

MGASA-2014-0396 Updated squid packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated squid packages fix security vulnerabilities: Due to incorrect buffer management Squid can be caused by an attacker to write outside its allocated SNMP buffer CVE-2014-6270. Due to incorrect bounds checking Squid pinger binary is vulnerable to denial of service or information leak attack...

MGASA-2014-0398 Updated xerces-j2 packages fix CVE-2013-4002

Updated xerces-j2 packages fix security vulnerability: A resource consumption issue was found in the way Xerces-J handled XML declarations. A remote attacker could use an XML document with a specially crafted declaration using a long pseudo-attribute name that, when parsed by an application using...

MGASA-2014-0397 Updated libvncserver & remmina packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated libvncserver and remmina packages fix security vulnerabilities: A malicious VNC server can trigger incorrect memory management handling by advertising a large screen size parameter to the VNC client. This would result in multiple memory corruptions and could allow remote code execution on...

MGASA-2014-0394 Updated bash packages fix multiple security vulnerabilities

Updated bash packages fix security vulnerabilities: Bash has been updated to version 4.2 patch level 50, which further mitigates ShellShock-type vulnerabilities. Two such issues have already been discovered CVE-2014-6277, CVE-2014-6278. See the RedHat article on the backward-incompatible changes...

MGASA-2014-0391 Updated nss packages fix CVE-2014-1568

Updated nss packages fix security vulnerability: Antoine Delignat-Lavaud, security researcher at Inria Paris in team Prosecco, reported an issue in Network Security Services NSS libraries affecting all versions. He discovered that NSS is vulnerable to a variant of a signature forgery attack...

MGASA-2014-0389 Updated perl-Email-Address packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated perl-Email-Address package fixes security vulnerability: The parse function in Email::Address module before 1.905 for Perl uses an inefficient regular expression, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service CPU consumption via an empty quoted string in an RFC 2822 address...

MGASA-2014-0390 Updated perl-XML-DT package fix CVE-2014-5260

Updated perl-XML-DT package fixes security vulnerability: The mkxmltype and mkdtskel scripts provided in perl-XML-DT allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/xml temporary file CVE-2014-5260...

MGASA-2014-0388 Updated bash packages fix CVE-2014-6271

Updated bash packages fix security vulnerability: A flaw was found in the way Bash evaluated certain specially crafted environment variables. An attacker could use this flaw to override or bypass environment restrictions to execute shell commands. Certain services and applications allow remote...

MGASA-2014-0387 Updated php-pear-CAS packages fix CVE-2014-4172

Updated php-pear-CAS packages fix security vulnerabilities: A flaw in php-pear-CAS before 1.3.3, utilized by Moodle, has been found which could potentially allow unauthorised access and privilege escalation CVE-2014-4172...

MGASA-2014-0386 Updated wireshark packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated wireshark packages fix security vulnerabilities: RTP dissector crash CVE-2014-6421, CVE-2014-6422. MEGACO dissector infinite loop CVE-2014-6423. Netflow dissector crash CVE-2014-6424. RTSP dissector crash CVE-2014-6427. SES dissector crash CVE-2014-6428. Sniffer file parser crash...

MGASA-2014-0384 Updated curl packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated curl packages fix security vulnerabilities: In cURL before 7.38.0, libcurl can be fooled to both sending cookies to wrong sites and into allowing arbitrary sites to set cookies for others. For this problem to trigger, the client application must use the numerical IP address in the URL to...

MGASA-2014-0382 Updated flash-player-plugin packages fix multiple security vulnerabilities

Adobe Flash Player 11.2.202.406 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 leakage vulnerabilities that could be used to bypass memory address...

MGASA-2014-0380 Updated zarafa packages fix multiple vulnerabilities

Updated zarafa packages fix security vulnerabilities: Robert Scheck reported that Zarafa's WebAccess stored session information, including login credentials, on-disk in PHP session files. This session file would contain a user's username and password to the Zarafa IMAP server CVE-2014-0103. Rober...

MGASA-2014-0379 Updated moodle packages fix security vulnerbilities

Updated moodle packages fix security vulnerabilities: In Moodle before 2.6.5, users who had not yet posted the required answer in a Q&A forum in order to access past posts were able to see the name of the last person who had posted, as other authors are visible in /mod/forum/view.php before the...

MGASA-2014-0375 Updated libgadu packages fix CVE-2013-4488

Updated libgadu packages fix security vulnerability: Libgadu before 1.12.0 was found to not be performing SSL certificate validation CVE-2013-4488...

MGASA-2014-0376 Updated glibc packages fix multiple security vulnerabilities

Tavis Ormandy discovered a heap-based buffer overflow in the transliteration module loading code. As a result, an attacker who can supply a crafted destination character set argument to iconv-related character conversation functions could achieve arbitrary code execution. This update removes...

MGASA-2014-0378 Updated dump package fix CVE-2014-4607

Updated dump packages fix security vulnerability: An integer overflow in liblzo before 2.07 allows attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly code execution in applications using performing LZO decompression on a compressed payload from the attacker CVE-2014-4607. The dump package is buil...

MGASA-2014-0377 Updated mariadb packages fix CVE-2014-4274

Updated mariadb packages fix security vulnerability: MyISAM temporary files could be used to mount a code-execution attack CVE-2014-4274. The mariadb package has been updated to version 5.5.39, which fixes this and several other issues. Refer to the upstream Changelog for more details...

MGASA-2014-0366 Updated python-django packages fix multiple vulnerabilities

Updated python-django and python-django14 packages fix security vulnerabilities: These releases address an issue with reverse generating external URLs CVE-2014-0480; a denial of service involving file uploads CVE-2014-0481; a potential session hijacking issue in the remote-user middleware...

MGASA-2014-0368 Updated ppp packages fix a security vulnerability

Updated ppp packages fix security vulnerability: A vulnerability in ppp before 2.4.7 may enable an unprivileged attacker to access privileged options CVE-2014-3158...

MGASA-2014-0365 Updated libgcrypt packages fix CVE-2014-5270

Updated libgcrypt packages fix security vulnerability: The libgcrypt library before version 1.5.4 is vulnerable to an ELGAMAL side-channel attack CVE-2014-5270...

MGASA-2014-0364 Updated libtorrent-rasterbar packages fixes uPnP forwarding all ports

Updated libtorrent-rasterbar packages fix security vulnerability: The libtorrent-rasterbar library was opening UPNP port 0, causing all ports to be forwarded from the router to the client machine...

MGASA-2014-0369 Updated squid packages fix CVE-2014-3609

Updated squid packages fix security vulnerability: Matthew Daley discovered that Squid 3 did not properly perform input validation in request parsing. A remote attacker could send crafted Range requests to cause a denial of service CVE-2014-3609...

MGASA-2014-0362 Updated distcc packages fix CVE-2014-4607

Updated distcc packages fix security vulnerability: An integer overflow in liblzo before 2.07 allows attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly code execution in applications using performing LZO decompression on a compressed payload from the attacker CVE-2014-4607. The distcc package is...

MGASA-2014-0361 Updated x11vnc packages fix security vulnerability

An integer overflow in liblzo before 2.07 allows attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly code execution in applications using performing LZO decompression on a compressed payload from the attacker CVE-2014-4607. The libvncserver library is built with a bundled copy of minilzo, which is...

MGASA-2014-0350 Updated ansible package fixes multiple security issues

Updated ansible package fixes security vulnerabilities: The Ansible platform before version 1.6.7 suffers from input sanitization errors that allow arbitrary code execution as well as information leak, in case an attacker is able to control certain playbook variables CVE-2014-4678, CVE-2014-4966,...

MGASA-2014-0347 Updated jakarta-commons-httpclient and httpcomponents-client packages fix security vulnerability

Updated jakarta-commons-httpclient and httpcomponents-client packages fix security vulnerability: The Jakarta Commons HttpClient and Apache httpcomponents HttpClient components may be susceptible to a 'Man in the Middle Attack' due to a flaw in the default hostname verification during SSL/TLS whe...

MGASA-2014-0351 Updated busybox packages fix CVE-2014-4607

Updated busybox packages fix security vulnerability: An integer overflow in liblzo before 2.07 allows attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly code execution in applications using performing LZO decompression on a compressed payload from the attacker CVE-2014-4607. Busybox bundles part ...

MGASA-2014-0346 Updated sdcc packages fix a security vulnerability

Integer overflow, leading to heap-buffer overflow by processing certain file headers via bfd binary. CVE-2012-3509 A nonfree package is also now available, which provides components that cannot be included in the core repository. In addition, this update obsoletes sdcc2.9, which is old and probab...

MGASA-2014-0341 Updated catfish package fixes CVE-2014-2093

Updated catfish package fixes security vulnerability: Untrusted search path vulnerability in Catfish allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse catfish.py in the current working directory CVE-2014-2093. Additionally, the update fixes the application icon symlink and a crash when som...