MGASA-2016-0096 Updated python-django packages fix security vulnerability

Mark Striemer discovered that Django incorrectly handled user-supplied redirect URLs containing basic authentication credentials. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform a cross-site scripting attack or a malicious redirect. CVE-2016-2512 Sjoerd Job Postmus discovered that Djan...

MGASA-2016-0092 Updated phpmyadmin packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated phpmyadmin package fixes security vulnerabilities: Multiple cross-site scripting XSS issues in phpMyAdmin before 4.4.15.5 CVE-2016-2560, CVE-2016-2561...

MGASA-2016-0080 Updated nodejs packages fix security vulnerability

A request smuggling vulnerability was found in Node.js that can be exploited under certain unspecified circumstances CVE-2016-2086. It was reported that HTTP header parsing in Node.js is vulnerable to response splitting attacks. While Node.js has been protecting against response splitting attacks...

MGASA-2016-0061 Updated nettle packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated nettle2.7 and nettle packages fix security vulnerabilities: Two carry propagation bugs in elliptic curve scalar multiplications that affect the NIST P-256 curve. The bugs are in the C code and affect multiple architectures CVE-2015-8803, CVE-2015-8805. A carry propagation bug in elliptic...

MGASA-2016-0028 Updated dhcp packages fix security vulnerability

A badly formed packet with an invalid IPv4 UDP length field can cause an ISC DHCP server, client, or relay program to terminate abnormally CVE-2015-8605. The dhcp package has been updated to version 4.3.3-P1, which fixes this issue and several other bugs. Also, the package has also been enhanced ...

MGASA-2016-0012 Updated apache-commons-collections packages fix security vulnerability

It was found that the Apache commons-collections library permitted code execution when deserializing objects involving a specially constructed chain of classes. A remote attacker could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the application using the commons-collections...

MGASA-2016-0007 Updated ruby packages fix security vulnerability

There is an unsafe tainted string vulnerability in Fiddle and DL. This issue was originally reported and fixed with CVE-2009-5147 in DL, but reappeared after DL was reimplemented using Fiddle and libffi CVE-2015-7551...

MGASA-2016-0003 Updated armagetron package fixes security vulnerabilities

A practically exploitable bug was fixed in the network error handling. In client mode, any received packet that causes an exception during processing would terminate the connection to the server. Another theoretically exploitable bug was fixed that allowed very short UDP packets to cause a memory...

MGASA-2015-0467 Updated chromium-browser-stable packages fix security vulnerabilities

Chromium-browser 47.0.2526.73 fixes several security issues: Use-after-free bugs in AppCache CVE-2015-6765, CVE-2015-6766, CVE-2015-6767. Cross-origin bypass problems in DOM CVE-2015-6768, CVE-2015-6770, CVE-2015-6772. A cross-origin bypass problem in core CVE-2015-6769. Out of bounds access bugs...

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-2015-0443 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-2015-0397 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-2015-0376 Updated icedtea-web packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated icedtea-web packages fix security vulnerabilities: It was discovered that IcedTea-Web did not properly sanitize applet URLs when storing applet trust settings. A malicious web page could use this flaw to inject trust-settings configuration, and cause applets to be executed without user...

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-2015-0370 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-2015-0349 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-2015-0338 Updated lighttpd packages fix CVE-2015-3200 & other bugs

Updated lighttpd packages fix security vulnerability: modauth in lighttpd before 1.4.36 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary log entries via a basic HTTP authentication string without a colon character, as demonstrated by a string containing a NULL and new line character CVE-2015-3200. The...

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-2015-0293 Updated python-django and python-django14 packages fix security vulnerabilities

Eric Peterson and Lin Hua Cheng discovered that a new empty record used to be created in the session storage every time a session was accessed and an unknown session key was provided in the request cookie. This could allow remote attackers to saturate the session store or cause other users' sessi...

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-2015-0279 Updated mariadb package fixes security vulnerabilities

The mariadb package has been updated to versions 5.5.44 and 10.0.20 in Mageia 4 and Mageia 5, respectively. Both fix an issue where the client is vulnerable to a man-in-the-middle attack when using the --ssl option, where the SSL/TLS protection could be disabled CVE-2015-3152. The Mageia 4 update...

MGASA-2015-0260 Updated filezilla package fixes security vulnerability

The filezilla package has been updated to version 3.11.0.2, fixing multiple bugs and one security issue, related to the LOGJAM TLS issue when using FTP...

MGASA-2015-0252 Updated p7zip package fixes security vulnerability

Alexander Cherepanov discovered that p7zip is susceptible to a directory traversal vulnerability. While extracting an archive, it will extract symlinks and then follow them if they are referenced in further entries. This can be exploited by a rogue archive to write files outside the current...

MGASA-2015-0246 Updated openssl package fixes security vulnerabilities

A vulnerability in the TLS protocol allows a man-in-the-middle attacker to downgrade vulnerable TLS connections using ephemeral Diffie-Hellman key exchange to 512-bit export-grade cryptography. This vulnerability is known as Logjam CVE-2015-4000. When processing an ECParameters structure OpenSSL...

MGASA-2015-0238 Updated kernel-tmb packages fix security vulnerabilities and bugs

Updated kernel-tmb fixes security, critical data corruption and pdata loss issues This kernel-tmb update is based on upstream -longterm 3.14.43 and fixes a security issue, and critical data corruption and data loss issues: drivers/vhost/scsi.c: potential memory corruption CVE-2015-4036 ext4...

MGASA-2015-0236 Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerabilities and bugs

Updated kernel fixes security, critical data corruption and pdata loss issues This kernel update is based on upstream -longterm 3.14.43 and fixes a security issue, and critical data corruption and data loss issues: drivers/vhost/scsi.c: potential memory corruption CVE-2015-4036 ext4 filesystem ha...

MGASA-2015-0233 Updated avidemux packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated avidemux packages fix security vulnerabilities: The mjpegdecodeapp function in libavcodec/mjpegdec.c in FFMpeg before 1.2.11 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service out-of-bounds heap access and possibly have other unspecified impact via vectors related to LJIF tags in an MJP...

MGASA-2015-0209 Updated libssh packages fix CVE-2015-3146

Updated libssh packages fix security vulnerability: libssh versions 0.5.1 and above, but before 0.6.5, have a logical error in the handling of a SSHMSGNEWKEYS and SSHMSGKEXDHREPLY package. A detected error did not set the session into the error state correctly and further processed the packet whi...

MGASA-2015-0189 Updated pdns & pdns-recursor packages fix CVE-2015-1868

Updated pdns and pdns-recursor packages fix security vulnerability: A bug was discovered in the label decompression code in PowerDNS and PowerDNS Recursor, making it possible for names to refer to themselves, thus causing a loop during decompression. On some platforms, this bug can be abused to...

MGASA-2015-0177 Updated subversion packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated subversion packages fix security vulnerabilities: Subversion HTTP servers with FSFS repositories are vulnerable to a remotely triggerable excessive memory use with certain REPORT requests CVE-2015-0202. Subversion moddavsvn and svnserve are vulnerable to a remotely triggerable assertion D...

MGASA-2015-0164 Updated chromium-browser-stable packages fix security vulnerabilities

Chromium-browser 42.0.2311.90 fixes several security issues, among others a cross-origin-bypass in HTML parser CVE-2015-1235, a cross-origin-bypass in Blink CVE-2015-1236, a use-after-free in IPC CVE-2015-1237, an out-of-bounds write in Skia CVE-2015-1238, an out-of-bounds read in WebGL...

MGASA-2015-0157 Updated python-dulwich packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated python-dulwich package fixes security vulnerabilities: It was discovered that Dulwich allows writing to files under .git/ when checking out working trees. This could lead to the execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running an application based on Dulwich...

MGASA-2015-0156 Updated mono packages fix security vulnerabilities

A TLS impersonation attack was discovered in Mono's TLS stack by researchers at Inria CVE-2015-2318. During checks on the TLS stack, they have discovered two further issues which have been fixed, a vulnerability to a protocol downgrade attack CVE-2015-2319 and SSLv2 support still being available...

MGASA-2015-0126 Updated iceape packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated iceape packages fix security issues: Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the browser engine in Mozilla Firefox before 36.0 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory corruption and application crash or possibly execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors. CVE-2015-0835...

MGASA-2015-0129 Updated mercurial packages fix CVE-2014-9462

Updated mercurial packages fix security vulnerability: The mercurial source code management system suffers from a code-injection flaw due to insufficient shell quoting in sshpeer.validaterepo CVE-2014-9462...

MGASA-2015-0114 Updated tcpdump package fixes security vulnerabilities

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in tcpdump. These vulnerabilities might result in denial of service application crash or, potentially, execution of arbitrary code CVE-2015-0261, CVE-2015-2153, CVE-2015-2154, CVE-2015-2155...

MGASA-2015-0112 Updated libtiff packages fix security vulnerabilities

The libtiff image decoder library contains several issues that could cause the decoder to crash when reading crafted TIFF images CVE-2014-8127, CVE-2014-8128, CVE-2014-8129, CVE-2014-8130, CVE-2014-9655, CVE-2015-1547...

MGASA-2015-0105 Updated qt3, qt4 and qtbase5 packages fix security vulnerability

The builtin BMP decoder in QtGui prior to Qt 5.5 contained a bug that would lead to a divsion by zero when loading certain corrupt BMP files CVE-2015-0295. This in turn would cause the application loading these hand crafted BMPs to crash. Qt3, Qt4 and qtbase5 have been patched to prevent this...

MGASA-2015-0103 Updated vsftpd package fixes security vulnerability

The vsftp daemon was not handling the "denyfile" option properly, allowing unauthorized access in some specific scenarios CVE-2015-1419...

MGASA-2015-0077 Updated kernel-rt packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel-rt update provides as upgrade to upstream 3.14 longterm branch, currently based on 3.14.32 and fixes the following security issues: The microcode on AMD 16h 00h through 0Fh processors does not properly handle the interaction between locked instructions and write-combined memory types,...

MGASA-2015-0076 Updated kernel-tmb packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel-tmb update is based on upstream -longterm 3.14.32 and fixes the following security issues: The microcode on AMD 16h 00h through 0Fh processors does not properly handle the interaction between locked instructions and write-combined memory types, which allows local users to cause a deni...

MGASA-2015-0046 Updated libvirt packages fix CVE-2015-0236

Updated libvirt packages fix security vulnerability: The XML getters for save images and snapshots objects don't check ACLs for the VIRDOMAINXMLSECURE flag and might possibly dump security sensitive information. A remote attacker able to establish a connection to libvirtd could use this flaw to...

MGASA-2015-0034 Updated freeciv packages fix a security vulnerability

Updated freeciv packages to latest bugfix version, also fixing security vulnerability Freeciv 2.4.1 in Mageia 4 was built against an embedded version of lua 5.1, vulnerable to the following security issue: A heap-based overflow vulnerability was found in the way Lua handles varargs functions with...

MGASA-2015-0029 Updated coreutils packages fix CVE-2014-9471

Updated coreutils packages fix security vulnerability: Bertrand Jacquin and Fiedler Roman discovered date and touch incorrectly handled user-supplied input. An attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service or potentially execute code CVE-2014-9471...

MGASA-2014-0541 Updated ntp packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated ntp packages fix security vulnerabilities: If no authentication key is defined in the ntp.conf file, a cryptographically-weak default key is generated CVE-2014-9293. ntp-keygen before 4.2.7p230 uses a non-cryptographic random number generator with a weak seed to generate symmetric keys...

MGASA-2014-0494 Updated icecast package fixes security vulnerability

Icecast did not properly handle the launching of "scripts" on connect or disconnect of sources. This could result in sensitive information from these scripts leaking to external clients. CVE-2014-9018...

MGASA-2014-0497 Updated flash-player-plugin packages fix CVE-2014-8439

Adobe Flash Player 11.2.202.424 contains additional hardening against a vulnerability in the handling of a dereferenced memory pointer that could lead to code execution CVE-2014-8439. A mitigation was previously introduced for this issue in a previous update MGASA-2014-0448...

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-2014-0467 Updated qemu packages fix security vulnerabilities

The Advanced Threat Research team at Intel Security reported that guest provided parameter were insufficiently validated in rectangle functions in the vmware-vga driver. A privileged guest user could use this flaw to write into qemu address space on the host, potentially escalating their privileg...

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...