MGASA-2015-0453 Updated latex2rtf packages fix security vulnerability

A format string vulnerability was found in CmdKeywords function when processing \keywords command in tex file. When the user runs latex2rtf with malicious crafted tex file, an attacker can execute arbitrary code. The variable 'keywords' in the function CmdKeywords may hold a malicious input strin...

MGASA-2015-0454 Updated uglify-js packages fix security vulnerability

The UglifyJS node module has a problem where the combination of De Morgan's Law and non-boolean values can lead to a case where code is incorrectly minified, which can lead to possibly malicious minified JS code...

MGASA-2015-0450 Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel update is based on upstream 4.1.13 longterm kernel and fixes the following security issues: The virtnetprobe function in drivers/net/virtionet.c in the Linux kernel before 4.2 attempts to support a FRAGLIST feature without proper memory allocation, which allows guest OS users to cause...

MGASA-2015-0451 Updated libpng/libpng12 packages fix security vulnerability

Multiple buffer overflows in the pngsetPLTE and pnggetPLTE functions in libpng before 1.6.19 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service application crash or possibly have unspecified other impact via a small bit-depth value in an IHDR aka image header chunk in a PNG image CVE-2015-8126...

MGASA-2015-0448 Updated chromium-browser-stable packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated chromium-browser-stable packages fix security vulnerabilities: The PDF viewer in Google Chrome before 46.0.2490.86 does not properly restrict scripting messages and API exposure, which allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy via an unintended embedder or unintended plugin...

MGASA-2015-0445 Updated mariadb packages fix security vulnerabilities

This update provides the upstream 10.0.22 maintenance release and fixes the following security issues: Unspecified vulnerability in Oracle MySQL Server 5.5.45 and earlier and 5.6.26 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to affect availability via unknown vectors related to Server :...

MGASA-2015-0444 Updated flash-player-plugin packages fix security vulnerability

Adobe Flash Player 11.2.202.548 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 type confusion vulnerability that could lead to code execution CVE-2015-7659. This...

MGASA-2015-0443 Updated sudo packages fix security vulnerability

An unauthorized privilege escalation was found in sudoedit in sudo before 1.8.15 when a user is granted with root access to modify a particular file that could be located in a subset of directories. It seems that sudoedit does not check the full path if a wildcard is used twice e.g...

MGASA-2015-0441 Updated libreoffice packages fix security vulnerability

Federico Scrinzi discovered that LibreOffice incorrectly handled documents inserted into Writer or Calc via links. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted document, a remote attacker could possibly obtain the contents of arbitrary files CVE-2015-4551. It was discovered that...

MGASA-2015-0439 Updated kernel-linus packages fixes security vulnerability

This update of kernel-linus provides the upstream 4.1.12 longterm kernel and fixes at least the following security issue: Moein Ghasemzadeh discovered that the USB WhiteHEAT serial driver contained hardcoded attributes about the USB devices. An attacker could construct a fake WhiteHEAT USB device...

MGASA-2015-0438 Updated roundcubemail packages fix security vulnerability

The roundcubemail package has been updated to version 1.0.7, which fixes a XSS issue in drag-n-drop file uploads and other bugs. See the upstream release announcement for more details...

MGASA-2015-0437 Updated owncloud packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated owncloud package fixes security vulnerabilities: The owncloud package has been updated to version 8.0.9, which fixes undisclosed security issues and other bugs...

MGASA-2015-0436 Updated krb5 packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated krb5 packages fix security vulnerabilities: In MIT krb5 1.5 and later, applications which call gssinquirecontext on a partially-established SPNEGO context can cause the GSS-API library to read from a pointer using the wrong type, generally causing a process crash. This bug may go unnotice...

MGASA-2015-0435 Updated kernel packages fixes security vulnerability

This kernel update is based on the upstream 4.1.12 longterm kernel and fixes at least the following security issue: Moein Ghasemzadeh discovered that the USB WhiteHEAT serial driver contained hardcoded attributes about the USB devices. An attacker could construct a fake WhiteHEAT USB device that,...

MGASA-2015-0430 Updated libebml packages fix security vulnerability

In EbmlMaster::Read in libebml before 1.3.3, when the parser encountered a deeply nested element with an infinite size then a following element of an upper level was not propagated correctly. Instead the element with the infinite size was added into the EBML element tree a second time resulting i...

MGASA-2015-0434 Updated util-linux packages fix security vulnerability

A buffer overflow in the colcrt command in util-linux can lead to a crash when given a large input CVE-2015-5218...

MGASA-2015-0428 Updated libtorrent-rasterbar packages fixes security vulnerability

The lazybdecode function in BitTorrent DHT bootstrap server bootstrap-dht allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted packet, related to "improper indexing." Note while this CVE was reported against BitTorrent DHT Bootstrapt server, the same vulnerable code is available in...

MGASA-2015-0431 Updated xscreensaver package fixes security vulnerability

The updated xscreensaver packages fix a security issue when used, in some cases, with dual screen and unplugging one of them...

MGASA-2015-0426 Updated springframework packages fix security vulnerability

Under some situations, the Spring Framework is vulnerable to a Reflected File Download RFD attack. The attack involves a malicious user crafting a URL with a batch script extension that results in the response being downloaded rather than rendered and also includes some input reflected in the...

MGASA-2015-0425 Updated drupal package fixes security vulnerability

The Overlay module in Drupal core displays administrative pages as a layer over the current page using JavaScript, rather than replacing the page in the browser window. The Overlay module does not sufficiently validate URLs prior to displaying their contents, leading to an open redirect...

MGASA-2015-0427 Updated firefox, nspr, nss packages fix security vulnerability

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-2015-4513, CVE-2015-7189, CVE-2015-7194, CVE-2015-7196,...

MGASA-2015-0420 Updated postgresql packages fix security vulnerabilities

Josh Kupershmidt discovered the pgCrypto extension could expose several bytes of server memory if the crypt function was provided a too-short salt. An attacker could use this flaw to read private data. CVE-2015-5288 Oskari Saarenmaa discovered that the json and jsonb handlers could exhaust...

MGASA-2015-0423 Updated libxml2 packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated libxml2 packages fix security vulnerability: Crafted xml causes out of bound memory access in libxml2 due to a heap buffer-overflow in xmlParseConditionalSections in parser.c CVE-2015-7942...

MGASA-2015-0422 Updated exfat-utils package fixes security vulnerabilities

Fix heap overflow and endless loop in exfatfsck exfat-utils is a collection of tools to work with the exFAT filesystem. Fuzzing the exfatfsck with american fuzzy lop led to the discovery of a write heap overflow and an endless loop. Especially at risk are systems that are configured to run...

MGASA-2015-0421 Updated mediawiki packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated mediawiki packages fix security vulnerabilities: In MediaWiki before 1.23.11, the API failed to correctly stop adding new chunks to the upload when the reported size was exceeded, allowing a malicious user to upload add an infinite number of chunks for a single file upload CVE-2015-8001. ...

MGASA-2015-0424 Updated openafs packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated openafs packages fix security vulnerabilities: When constructing an Rx acknowledgment ACK packet, Andrew-derived Rx implementations do not initialize three octets of data that are padding in the C language structure and were inadvertently included in the wire protocol CVE-2015-7762...

MGASA-2015-0419 Updated phpmyadmin package fixes security vulnerability

Content spoofing vulnerability when redirecting user to an external site CVE-2015-7873...

MGASA-2015-0417 Updated libpng12 package fixes security vulnerability

An out-of-bounds read in pngconverttorfc1123 in png.c in libpng 1.2.x before 1.2.54 could potentially be exploited by a crafted PNG file to leak information from an application's memory CVE-2015-7981...

MGASA-2015-0414 Updated iceape/sqlite3 packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated iceape packages fix security issues. The sqlite3 package has been updated as well since the new iceape version requires the SQLITEENABLEDBSTATVTAB feature to be enabled in sqlite. This sqlite3 update also enables ICU support, fixing bug 16814 . Use-after-free vulnerability in the...

MGASA-2015-0410 Updated chromium-browser-stable packages fix security vulnerabilities

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, execute arbitrary code, or disclose sensitive information when visited by the victim...

MGASA-2015-0411 Updated lxdm packages fix security vulnerability

When using lxdm, the X server was started without -auth, exposing it to any connections form by any local user. This update resolves the issue...

MGASA-2015-0407 Updated nvidia driver packages fix security vulnerability

A vulnerability has been found in the nvidia proprietary driver that could be used to allow a local, non-privileged user to corrupt kernel memory. This could be used to gain local root privileges. A local user can issue a specially crafted IOCTL to write a 32-bit integer value stored in the kerne...

MGASA-2015-0405 Updated dbus packages fixes security vulnerability

Updated dbus packages provides security hardening and fixes some bugs Security hardening: On Unix platforms, change the default configuration for the session bus to only allow EXTERNAL authentication secure kernel-mediated credentials-passing, as was already done for the system bus. This avoids...

MGASA-2015-0402 Updated 389-ds-base packages fix security vulnerability

this bug has been fixed by upgrade to vers. 1.3.3.13 this fixes security issue Bug 16928 CVE-2015-3230 this is a maintenance update and fixes a lot of other issues - See upstream announcement...

MGASA-2015-0401 Updated cyrus-imapd packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated cyrus-imapd packages fix security vulnerability: The cyrus-imapd package has been updated to version 2.4.18, fixing a security issue with a urlfetch range starting outside the message range, as well as several other bugs. See the upstream release announcement for details...

MGASA-2015-0400 Updated roundcubemail package fixes security vulnerabilities

Multiple security issues in the DBMail driver for the password plugin, including buffer overflows CVE-2015-2181 and the ability for a remote attacker to execute arbitrary shell commands as root CVE-2015-2180. An authenticated user can download arbitrary files from the web server that the web serv...

MGASA-2015-0398 Updated openjpeg2 package fixes security vulnerability

Use-after-free vulnerability was found in j2k.c in opjj2kwritemco function rhbz1263359. Double free vulnerability in the opjj2kcopydefaulttcpandcreatetcd function in j2k.c in OpenJPEG allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service heap memory corruption by triggeri...

MGASA-2015-0397 Updated qemu packages fixes security vulnerabilities

Qinghao Tang of QIHU 360 Inc. discovered an infinite loop issue in the NE2000 NIC emulation. A privileged guest user could use this flaw to mount a denial of service QEMU process crash. CVE-2015-5278 Qinghao Tang of QIHU 360 Inc. discovered a heap buffer overflow flaw in the NE2000 NIC emulation....

MGASA-2015-0396 Updated git packages fix security vulnerability

The git package has been updated to version 2.3.10, fixing a few security issues. These include buffer and integer overflow issues with long file path names and large files, as well as a remote code execution flaw with some protocols like git-remote-ext and specially crafted URLs. See the upstrea...

MGASA-2015-0393 Updated isodumper package fixes command injection

The volume label text could be injected and executed as a shell command in rawformat.py from isodumper...

MGASA-2015-0394 Updated spice packages fix security vulnerabilities

Frediano Ziglio discovered multiple buffer overflows, undefined behavior signed integer operations, race conditions, memory leaks, and denial of service issues in Spice. A malicious guest operating system could potentially exploit these issues to escape virtualization CVE-2015-5260, CVE-2015-5261...

MGASA-2015-0390 Updated kernel-linus package provides 4.1 longterm and fixes security issues

This kernel-linus update provides an upgrade to the upstream 4.1 longterm kernel series, currently based on 4.1.8 and resolves at least the following security issues: It was found that the Linux kernel's keyring implementation would leak memory when adding a key to a keyring via the addkey...

MGASA-2015-0392 Updated jakarta-commons-httpclient and httpcomponents-client packages fixes security vulnerability

The Apache httpclient library had a bug where the socket timeout was ignored during the SSL handshake, causing threads in an application to hang CVE-2015-5262...

MGASA-2015-0389 Updated chromium-browser packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated chromium-browser-stable packages fix security vulnerabilities: Two flaws were found in the processing of malformed web content. A web page containing malicious content could cause Chromium to bypass cross origin restrictions, and access or modify data from an unrelated web site...

MGASA-2015-0388 Updated gdk-pixbuf2.0 packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated gdk-pixbuf packages fix security vulnerabilities: Security researcher Gustavo Grieco reported a heap overflow in gdk-pixbuf before 2.32.0. This issue is triggered by the scaling of a malformed tga format image and results in a potentially exploitable crash CVE-2015-7673. Security research...

MGASA-2015-0384 Updated unzip packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated unzip packages fix security vulnerabilities: The unzip program is susceptible to heap overflow and denial of service issues when fed invalid input. It has been patched to correct these issues...

MGASA-2015-0381 Updated moodle packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated moodle package fixes security vulnerabilities: In Moodle before 2.8.8, completed and graded lesson activity was not protected against making new attempts to answer some questions, so students could re-attempt answering questions in the lesson CVE-2015-5264. In Moodle before 2.8.8, users...

MGASA-2015-0382 Updated firefox packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated firefox packages fix security vulnerabilities: Mozilla developers and community identified and fixed several memory safety bugs in the browser engine used in Firefox that could cause memory corruption and crashes or potentially allow for arbitrary code execution CVE-2015-4500. Using the...

MGASA-2015-0379 Updated flash-player-plugin packages fix security vulnerabilities

Adobe Flash Player 11.2.202.521 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 type confusion vulnerability that could lead to code execution CVE-2015-5573. This...

MGASA-2015-0378 Updated owncloud packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated owncloud package fixes security vulnerabilities: In ownCloud before 8.0.6, due to an incorrect usage of an ownCloud internal file system function the passed path to the file scanner was resolved relatively. An authenticated adversary may thus be able to get a listing of directories but no...