MGASA-2017-0213 Updated libgcrypt packages fix security vulnerability

Daniel J. Bernstein, Joachim Breitner, Daniel Genkin, Leon Groot Bruinderink, Nadia Heninger, Tanja Lange, Christine van Vredendaal, and Yuval Yarom discovered that Libgcrypt was susceptible to an attack via side channels. A local attacker could use this attack to recover RSA private keys...

MGASA-2017-0212 Updated gnutls packages fix security vulnerabilities

GnuTLS before 2017-02-20 has an out-of-bounds write caused by an integer overflow and heap-based buffer overflow related to the cdkpktread function in opencdk/read-packet.c. This issue which is a subset of the vendor's GNUTLS-SA-2017-3 report is fixed in 3.5.10. CVE-2017-7869 GnuTLS version 3.5.1...

MGASA-2017-0208 Updated sane packages fix security vulnerability

saned could have leaked uninitialized memory back to its requesters for some opcodes, allowing for information disclosure of saned memory CVE-2017-6318...

MGASA-2017-0210 Updated libtiff packages fix security vulnerabilities

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the libtiff library and the included tools, which may result in denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code CVE-2017-9936, CVE-2017-10688...

MGASA-2017-0211 Updated flash-player-plugin packages fix security vulnerability

Adobe Flash Player 26.0.0.137 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 security bypass and memory corruption vulnerabilities that could lead to information...

MGASA-2017-0209 Updated tnef packages fix security vulnerability

It was discovered that tnef did not correctly validate its input. An attacker could exploit this by tricking a user into opening a malicious attachment, which would result in a denial-of-service by application crash CVE-2017-8911...

MGASA-2017-0207 Updated sudo packages fix security vulnerability

A flaw was found in the way sudo parsed tty information from the process status file in the proc filesystem. A local user with privileges to execute commands via sudo could use this flaw to escalate their privileges to root. CVE-2017-1000367...

MGASA-2017-0205 Updated cairo packages fix security vulnerability

It was discovered that there was a possible DoS attack in Cairo. An SVG could generate invalid pointers from a cairoimagesurface in writepng CVE-2016-9082...

MGASA-2017-0204 Updated nodejs packages fix security vulnerability

Node.js has a defect that may make HTTP response splitting possible under certain circumstances. If user-input is passed to the reason argument to writeHead on an HTTP response, a new-line character may be used to inject additional responses CVE-2016-5325. The tls.checkServerIdentity function in...

MGASA-2017-0206 Updated jbig2dec packages fix security vulnerability

Multiple security issues have been found in the JBIG2 decoder library, which may lead to lead to denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code if a malformed image file usually embedded in a PDF document is opened CVE-2016-9601. Artifex jbig2dec has a heap-based buffer over-read leading to...

MGASA-2017-0203 Updated apache-mod_fcgid packages fix security vulnerability

A remote attacker could have set the HTTPPROXY environment variable of CGI scripts CVE-2016-1000104...

MGASA-2017-0202 Updated ffcall,clisp packages fix security vulnerability

In libffcall before version 1.13, linking with the libffcall libraries could cause the stack to become executable. This is now fixed. clisp is rebuilt to pick the fixed libffcall static library...

MGASA-2017-0201 Updated libffi packages fix security vulnerability

libffi, a library used to call code written in one language from code written in a different language, was enforcing an executable stack on the i386 architecture. While this might not be considered a vulnerability by itself, this could be leveraged when exploiting other vulnerabilities, such as t...

MGASA-2017-0200 Updated bitlbee packages fix security vulnerability

It was discovered that bitlbee contained issues that allowed a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via application crash, or potentially execute arbitrary commands CVE-2016-10188, CVE-2016-10189...

MGASA-2017-0199 Updated libtiff packages fix security vulnerability

Heap-based buffer overflow in the readContigStripsIntoBuffer function in tifunix.c in LibTIFF 4.0.7 allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via a crafted image. CVE-2016-10092 Integer overflow in tools/tiffcp.c in LibTIFF 4.0.7 allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via a...

MGASA-2017-0194 Updated libmwaw packages fix security vulnerability

It was discovered that a buffer overflow in libmwaw might result in the execution of arbitrary code if a malformed document is opened CVE-2017-9433...

MGASA-2017-0197 Updated libsndfile packages fix security vulnerability

In libsndfile, an error in the "aiffreadchanmap" function aiff.c can be exploited to cause an out-of-bounds read memory access via a specially crafted AIFF file CVE-2017-6892...

MGASA-2017-0193 Updated rxvt-unicode packages fix security vulnerability

The rxvt-unicode package has been patched to harden it against potential integer overflow issues when printing escape sequences...

MGASA-2017-0196 Updated tomcat packages fix security vulnerability

Aniket Nandkishor Kulkarni discovered that in tomcat7, static error pages used the original request's HTTP method to serve content, instead of systematically using the GET method. This could under certain conditions result in undesirable results, including the replacement or removal of the custom...

MGASA-2017-0198 Updated drupal packages fix security vulnerability

Greg Knaddison, Mori Sugimoto and iancawthorne discovered that files uploaded by anonymous users into a private file system can be accessed by other anonymous users leading to an access bypass vulnerability CVE-2017-6922...

MGASA-2017-0195 Updated golang packages fix security vulnerability

A carry propagation issue was found in the P-256 implementation for x86-64 in golang CVE-2017-8932...

MGASA-2017-0192 Updated yodl packages fix security vulnerability

Invalid memory read in queuepush could lead to Denial of service CVE-2016-10375...

MGASA-2017-0190 Updated weechat packages fix security vulnerability

It was discovered that weechat is prone to a buffer overflow vulnerability in the IRC plugin, allowing a remote attacker to cause a denial-of-service by sending a specially crafted filename via DCC CVE-2017-8073...

MGASA-2017-0191 Updated libetpan packages fix security vulnerability

It was discovered that libetpan, a C language mail access and handling library that is used in a number of MUAs, contained a NULL dereference vulnerability in the MIME handling code CVE-2017-8825...

MGASA-2017-0189 Updated docker packages fix security vulnerability

The runc component used by docker exec feature of docker allowed additional container processes to be ptraced by the pid 1 of the container. This allows the main processes of the container, if running as root, to gain low-level access to these new processes during initialization. An attacker can,...

MGASA-2017-0185 Updated irssi packages fix security vulnerabilities

It was discovered that Irssi incorrectly handled certain DCC messages. A malicious IRC server could use this issue to cause Irssi to crash, resulting in a denial of service CVE-2017-9468. Joseph Bisch discovered that Irssi incorrectly handled receiving incorrectly quoted DCC files. A remote...

MGASA-2017-0188 Updated kernel-linus packages fixes critical security vulnerabilities

This kernel-linus update is based on upstream 4.4.74 and fixes at least the following security issues: The ipxitfioctl function in net/ipx/afipx.c in the Linux kernel through 4.11.1 mishandles reference counts, which allows local users to cause a denial of service use-after-free or possibly have...

MGASA-2017-0183 Updated rpcbind/libtirpc packages fix security vulnerability

It was discovered that rpcbind and libtirpc contain a vulnerability that allows an attacker to allocate any amount of bytes up to 4 gigabytes per attack on a remote rpcbind host, and the memory is never freed unless the process crashes or the administrator halts or restarts the rpcbind service...

MGASA-2017-0184 Updated glibc packages fixes critical security vulnerabilities

The sunrpc implementation in glibc is vulnerable to a flaw that can cause it to be triggered to allocate additional memory until it causes a crash, similar to CVE-2017-8779 CVE-2017-8804. A flaw was found in the way memory was being allocated on the stack for user space binaries. If heap or...

MGASA-2017-0187 Updated kernel-tmb packages fixes critical security vulnerabilities

This kernel-tmb update is based on upstream 4.4.74 and fixes at least the following security issues: The ipxitfioctl function in net/ipx/afipx.c in the Linux kernel through 4.11.1 mishandles reference counts, which allows local users to cause a denial of service use-after-free or possibly have...

MGASA-2017-0186 Updated kernel packages fixes critical security vulnerabilities

This kernel update is based on upstream 4.4.74 and fixes at least the following security issues: The ipxitfioctl function in net/ipx/afipx.c in the Linux kernel through 4.11.1 mishandles reference counts, which allows local users to cause a denial of service use-after-free or possibly have...

MGASA-2017-0181 Updated roundcubemail packages fix security vulnerability

It was discovered that roundcubemail prior to 1.0.11 contained a vulnerability in the virtualmin and sasl drivers of the password plugin CVE-2017-8114...

MGASA-2017-0182 Updated mercurial packages fix security vulnerability

In Mercurial before 4.1.3, "hg serve --stdio" allows remote authenticated users to launch the Python debugger, and consequently execute arbitrary code, by using --debugger as a repository name...

MGASA-2017-0179 Updated kodi packages fix security vulnerability

Updated Kodi package to fix world readable $HOME/.kodi directory which could potentially contain clear passwords for add-ons...

MGASA-2017-0180 Updated thunderbird packages fix security vulnerability and bugs

Use-after-free using destroyed node when regenerating trees CVE-2017-5472. Use-after-free during docshell reloading CVE-2017-7749. Use-after-free with track elements CVE-2017-7750. Use-after-free with content viewer listeners CVE-2017-7751. Use-after-free with IME input CVE-2017-7752. Out-of-boun...

MGASA-2017-0178 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-2017-5470, CVE-2017-5472, CVE-2017-7749, CVE-2017-7751,...

MGASA-2017-0174 Updated libytnef packages fix security vulnerabilities

Several issues were discovered in libytnef, a library used to decode application/ms-tnef e-mail attachments. Multiple heap overflows, out-of-bound writes and reads, NULL pointer dereferences and infinite loops could be exploited by tricking a user into opening a maliciously crafted winmail.dat fi...

MGASA-2017-0175 Updated libcryptopp packages fix security vulnerability

Crypto++'s Zinflate class, used by classes like Gunzip and Inflator, could perform an out-of-bounds read when decompressing data CVE-2017-9434...

MGASA-2017-0177 Updated catdoc packages fix security vulnerability

Various issues found during fuzzing which may lead to an application crash or have unspecified further impact when the user is tricked into opening specially crafted files boo919228. A lot of segfaults on incorrect or corrupted data...

MGASA-2017-0176 Updated tor packages fix security vulnerability

A remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a BEGINDIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit CVE-2017-0376...

MGASA-2017-0173 Updated ettercap packages fix security vulnerability

The strescape function in ecstrings.c in Ettercap 0.8.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service heap-based buffer overflow and application crash or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted filter that is mishandled by etterfilter CVE-2017-8366...

MGASA-2017-0170 Updated libosip2 packages fix security vulnerabilities

In libosip2 in GNU oSIP 4.1.0, a malformed SIP message can lead to a heap buffer overflow in the osipclrncpy function defined in osipparser2/osipport.c CVE-2016-10324. In libosip2 in GNU oSIP 4.1.0, a malformed SIP message can lead to a heap buffer overflow in the osipmessagetostr function define...

MGASA-2017-0171 Updated smb4k packages fix security vulnerability

Smb4k contains a logic flaw in which mount helper binary does not properly verify the mount command it is being asked to run. This allows calling any other binary as root since the mount helper is typically installed as suid CVE-2017-8849...

MGASA-2017-0172 Updated flash-player-plugin packages fix security vulnerabilities

Adobe Flash Player 26.0.0.126 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 use-after-free vulnerabilities and memory corruption vulnerabilities that could lead to...

MGASA-2017-0167 Updated lxc packages fix security vulnerabilities

Roman Fiedler discovered a directory traversal flaw in lxc-attach. An attacker with access to an LXC container could exploit this flaw to access files outside of the container CVE-2016-8649. Jann Horn discovered that LXC incorrectly verified permissions when creating virtual network interfaces. A...

MGASA-2017-0168 Updated libsndfile packages fix security vulnerabilities

A stack-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted FLAC file due to an error in the headerread function CVE-2017-7586. Several stack-based buffer overflows via a specially crafted FLAC file due to an error in the flacbuffercopy function CVE-2017-7585, CVE-2017-7741, CVE-2017-7742. Global buffe...

MGASA-2017-0169 Updated libxslt packages fix security vulnerability

The libxslt library failed to seed its random number generator, resulting in predictable random values CVE-2015-9019...

MGASA-2017-0165 Updated dropbear packages fix security vulnerability

A double-free in the server could be triggered by an authenticated user if dropbear is running with -a CVE-2017-9078. The default Mageia configuration does not set -a, so is not vulnerable Dropbear parsed authorizedkeys as root, even if it were a symlink. The fix is to switch to user permissions...

MGASA-2017-0164 Updated ansible packages fix security vulnerability

It was found that aptkey module does not properly verify key fingerprints, allowing remote adversary to create an OpenPGP key which matches the short key ID and inject this key instead of the correct key CVE-2016-8614. It is reported that in Ansible, under some circumstances the mysqluser module...

MGASA-2017-0166 Updated gajim packages fix security vulnerability

Gajim unconditionally implements the "XEP-0146: Remote Controlling Clients" extension, which may be abused by malicious XMPP servers to, for example, extract plaintext from OTR encrypted sessions CVE-2016-10376...