MGASA-2018-0227 Updated flac packages fix security vulnerability

Memory leak in readmetadatavorbiscomment function could lead to denial of service CVE-2017-6888...

MGASA-2018-0206 Updated zsh packages fix security vulnerabilities

Richard Maciel Costa discovered that Zsh incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service CVE-2018-1071. It was discovered that Zsh incorrectly handled certain files. An attacker could possibly use this to execute arbitrary code CVE-2018-1083...

MGASA-2018-0179 Updated libvorbis packages fix security vulnerability

libvorbis can write out of bounds on codebook decoding when processing malformed Vorbis audio data CVE-2018-5146...

MGASA-2018-0177 Updated shadow-utils packages fix security vulnerability

Privilege escalation in newgidmap, which allowed an unprivileged user to be placed in a user namespace where setgroups2 is allowed CVE-2018-7169...

MGASA-2018-0165 Updated memcached packages disable UDP by default

Updated memcached packages fix security vulnerabilities: Memcached enabled UDP by default, which could be exploited to denial of service via network flood CVE-2018-1000115. By default this UPD is now closed. With this release some overflow and deadlock situations get fixed too...

MGASA-2018-0161 Updated tor packages fix security vulnerabilities

A protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash directory authorities with a null-pointer exception CVE-2018-0490. A bug can be remotely triggered in order to crash relays with a use-after-free pattern CVE-2018-0491...

MGASA-2018-0160 Updated dovecot packages fix security vulnerabilities

Dovecot has been updated to version 2.2.34 to fix two security issues. CVE-2017-14461: This vulnerability comes in two flavors. A malicious party can send a specially crafted email to a vulnerable system, causing it to crash dovecot. In some systems, the mail can be stored into the mail system,...

MGASA-2018-0159 Updated glibc packages fix security vulnerability

An integer overflow in the implementation of the posixmemalign in memalign functions in the GNU C Library aka glibc or libc6 2.26 and earlier could cause these functions to return a pointer to a heap area that is too small, potentially leading to heap corruption CVE-2018-6485, CVE-2018-6551...

MGASA-2018-0154 Updated leptonica packages fix a security vulnerability

Package leptonica has been updated to the current stable version 1.75.2 which fixes a security issue potential injection attack using gplot rootdir reported in CVE-2018-3836...

MGASA-2018-0151 Updated wireshark packages fix security vulnerabilities

The SIGCOMP dissector could crash CVE-2018-7320. Multiple dissectors could go into large infinite loops. All ASN.1 BER dissectors, along with the DICOM, DMP, LLTD, OpenFlow, RELOAD, RPCoRDMA, RPKI-Router, S7COMM, SCCP, Thread, Thrift, USB, and WCCP dissectors were susceptible...

MGASA-2018-0138 Updated jackson-databind packages fix security vulnerability

A deserialization flaw was discovered in the jackson-databind which could allow an unauthenticated user to perform code execution by sending maliciously crafted input to the readValue method of ObjectMapper CVE-2017-17485. A flaw was found in FasterXML jackson-databind which allows unauthenticate...

MGASA-2018-0130 Updated mpv packages fix security vulnerability

Josef Gajdusek reported that mpv 0.27.0 was vulnerable to an attack through it's youtube-dl hook. This could cause remote code execution. This upstream update creates of list of sure protocols to use through the hook...

MGASA-2018-0121 Updated libtasn1 packages fix security vulnerability

It was discovered that Libtasn1 incorrectly handled certain files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted file, an attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service CVE-2017-10790. It was discovered that Libtasn1 incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly us...

MGASA-2018-0089 Updated golang packages fix security vulnerabilities

An arbitrary command execution flaw was found in the way Go's "go get" command handled the checkout of source code repositories. A remote attacker capable of hosting malicious repositories could potentially use this flaw to cause arbitrary command execution on the client side CVE-2017-15041. It w...

MGASA-2018-0090 Updated gdk-pixbuf2.0 packages fix security vulnerability

Gnome gdk-pixbuf 2.36.8 and older is vulnerable to several integer overflow in the gifgetlzw function resulting in memory corruption and potential code execution CVE-2017-1000422...

MGASA-2018-0087 Updated gdk-pixbuf2.0 packages fix security vulnerability

Gnome gdk-pixbuf 2.36.8 and older is vulnerable to several integer overflow in the gifgetlzw function resulting in memory corruption and potential code execution. CVE-2017-1000422...

MGASA-2018-0086 Updated gifsicle package fixes security vulnerability

It was discovered that gifsicle contained a flaw that could lead to arbitrary code execution CVE-2017-1000421...

MGASA-2018-0083 Updated poppler packages fix security vulnerability

freedesktop.org libpoppler 0.60.1 fails to validate boundaries in TextPool::addWord, leading to overflow in subsequent calculations CVE-2017-1000456...

MGASA-2018-0069 Updated irssi packages fix security vulnerabilities

Joseph Bisch discovered that Irssi incorrectly handled incomplete escape codes. If a user were tricked into using malformed commands or opening malformed files, an attacker could use this issue to cause Irssi to crash, resulting in a denial of service CVE-2018-5205. Joseph Bisch discovered that...

MGASA-2018-0030 Updated gimp packages fix security vulnerability

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in the GIMP which could result in denial of service application crash or potentially the execution of arbitrary code if malformed files are opened CVE-2017-17784, CVE-2017-17785, CVE-2017-17786, CVE-2017-17787, CVE-2017-17788, CVE-2017-17789...

MGASA-2018-0023 Updated samba packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated samba packages fix security vulnerabilities: Stefan Metzmacher discovered that Samba incorrectly enforced SMB signing in certain situations. A remote attacker could use this issue to perform a man in the middle attack. CVE-2017-12150 Stefan Metzmacher discovered that Samba incorrectly...

MGASA-2017-0482 Updated ruby-RubyGems packages fix security vulnerabilities

An ANSI escape sequence vulnerability CVE-2017-0899. A DoS vulnerability in the query command CVE-2017-0900. A vulnerability in the gem installer that allowed a malicious gem to overwrite arbitrary files CVE-2017-0901. A DNS request hijacking vulnerability CVE-2017-0902. An unsafe object...

MGASA-2017-0479 Updated mupdf packages fix security vulnerability

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in the PDF viewer MuPDF, which may result in denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code if a malformed PDF file is opened CVE-2016-8674, CVE-2017-5896, CVE-2017-5991 Terry Chia and Jeremy Heng discovered an integer overflow that can cause arbitra...

MGASA-2017-0464 Updated glibc packages fix security vulnerabilities

The DNS stub resolver in the GNU C Library aka glibc or libc6 before version 2.26, when EDNS support is enabled, will solicit large UDP responses from name servers, potentially simplifying off-path DNS spoofing attacks due to IP fragmentation.CVE-2017-12132, CVE-2017-12133. The GNU C Library aka...

MGASA-2017-0465 Updated shadow-utils packages fix security vulnerability

It was found that shadow-utils had a buffer overflow where if a buffer was left NULL for a cycle the next cycle would happily write past the entries buffer CVE-2017-12424...

MGASA-2017-0466 Updated kernel-tmb packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel-tmb update is based on upstream 4.4.105 and fixes at least the following security issues: A security flaw was discovered in nl80211setrekeydata function in the Linux kernel since v3.1-rc1 through v4.13. This function does not check whether the required attributes are present in a...

MGASA-2017-0462 Updated flash-player-plugin packages fix security vulnerability

A regression affecting Adobe Flash Player version 27.0.0.187 and earlier versions causes the unintended reset of the global settings preference file when a user clears browser data. CVE-2017-11305...

MGASA-2017-0459 Updated rsync package fixes security vulnerability

The receivexattr function in xattrs.c in rsync 3.1.2 and 3.1.3-development does not check for a trailing '\0' character in an xattr name, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service heap-based buffer over-read and application crash or possibly have unspecified other impact by sendi...

MGASA-2017-0451 Updated lynx package fixes security vulnerability

Lynx before 2.8.9dev.16 is vulnerable to a use after free in the HTML parser resulting in memory disclosure, because HTMLputstring can append a chunk onto itself. CVE-2017-1000211...

MGASA-2017-0443 Updated libxcursor packages fix security vulnerability

Heap overflows when parsing malicious files. CVE-2017-16612...

MGASA-2017-0437 Updated nagios packages fix security vulnerability

It was found that nagios daemon creates its PID file after dropping privileges, which allows to change its content by non-root user with PID of any other process, resulting into denial-of-service when daemon is stopped CVE-2017-12847. Note that the nagios package on Mageia 5 is no longer supporte...

MGASA-2017-0431 Updated libtiff packages fix security vulnerabilities & bugs

The updated packages fix many bugs. Some of those bugs can be related to security problems as well...

MGASA-2017-0414 Updated bluez packages fix security vulnerability

Buffer overflow in parseline function in the csr tool CVE-2016-7837...

MGASA-2017-0416 Updated quagga packages fix security vulnerability

The bgpd daemon in the Quagga routing suite does not properly calculate the length of multi-segment ASPATH UPDATE messages, causing bgpd to drop a session and potentially resulting in loss of network connectivity CVE-2017-16227...

MGASA-2017-0415 Updated jq packages fix security vulnerabilities

A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in jq's tokenadd function. By tricking a victim into processing a specially crafted JSON file, an attacker could use this flaw to crash jq or, potentially, execute arbitrary code on the victim's system CVE-2015-8863. Stack exhaustion could affect...

MGASA-2017-0373 Updated libxfont packages fix security vulnerabilities

In the PatternMatch function in fontfile/fontdir.c in libXfont through 1.5.2 and 2.x before 2.0.2, an attacker with access to an X connection can cause a buffer over-read during pattern matching of fonts, leading to information disclosure or a crash denial of service. This occurs because '\0'...

MGASA-2017-0372 Updated openvpn packages fix security vulnerability

The bounds check in readkey was performed after using the value, instead of before. If 'key-method 1' is used, this allowed an attacker to send a malformed packet to trigger a stack buffer overflow. Note that 'key-method 1' has been replaced by 'key method 2' as the default in OpenVPN 2.0...

MGASA-2017-0369 Updated weechat packages fix security vulnerability

It was discovered that logger.c in the logger plugin in WeeChat before 1.9.1 allows a crash via strftime date/time specifiers, because a buffer is not initialized CVE-2017-14727...

MGASA-2017-0355 Updated ghostscript packages fix security vulnerabilities

The InsMIRP function in base/ttinterp.c in Artifex Ghostscript GhostXPS 9.21 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service heap-based buffer over-read and application crash or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted document. CVE-2017-9611 The InsIP function in base/ttinterp.c...

MGASA-2017-0344 Updated kernel-linus packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel-linus update is based on upstream 4.9.50 and fixes at least the following security issues: net/xfrm/xfrmpolicy.c in the Linux kernel through 4.12.3, when CONFIGXFRMMIGRATE is enabled, does not ensure that the dir value of xfrmuserpolicyid is XFRMPOLICYMAX or less, which allows local...

MGASA-2017-0319 Updated libgit2 packages fix security vulnerabilities

Read out-of-bounds in gitoidnfmt CVE-2016-8568. DoS using a null pointer dereference in gitcommitmessage CVE-2016-8569. Insufficient sanitization allows some edge cases in the Git Smart Protocol which can lead to reading outside of a buffer CVE-2016-10128, CVE-2016-10129...

MGASA-2017-0309 Updated kernel-linus packages fixes security and other bugs

This kernel-linus update is based on upstream 4.4.82 and fixes at least the following security issues: The curseg-segno call in f2fs driver can be malformed so that it will have a value that triggers an out of boundary write that could cause memory corruption on the affected devices, leading to...

MGASA-2017-0307 Updated libice packages fix security vulnerability

libICE depends on arc4random to generate the session cookies, thereby using a weak mechanism to generate entropy CVE-2017-2626...

MGASA-2017-0308 Updated heimdal packages fix security vulnerability

Transit path validation inadvertently caused the previous hop realm to not be added to the transit path of issued tickets. This may, in some cases, enable bypass of capath policy in Heimdal versions 1.5 through 7.2 CVE-2017-6594. Note, this may break sites that rely on the bug. With the bug some...

MGASA-2017-0304 Updated unrar packages fix security vulnerabilities

Directory traversal issue in UnRAR before 5.5.7 CVE-2017-12938. libunrar.a in UnRAR before 5.5.7 has an out-of-bounds read in the EncodeFileName::Decode call within the Archive::ReadHeader15 function CVE-2017-12940. libunrar.a in UnRAR before 5.5.7 has an out-of-bounds read in the Unpack::Unpack2...

MGASA-2017-0287 Updated kernel-linus packages fixes security and other bugs

This kernel-linus update is based on upstream 4.9.43 and fixes at least the following security issues: The curseg-segno call in f2fs driver can be malformed so that it will have a value that triggers an out of boundary write that could cause memory corruption on the affected devices, leading to...

MGASA-2017-0289 Updated mariadb packages fix security vulnerabilities

Difficult to exploit vulnerability in MariaDB Server allows high privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure where MariaDB Server executes to compromise MariaDB Server. Successful attacks require human interaction from a person other than the attacker. Successful attacks of this...

MGASA-2017-0286 Updated taglib packages fix security vulnerability

Denial of service vulnerability via specially crafted ID3v2 data CVE-2017-12678...

MGASA-2017-0284 Updated cvs package fixes security vulnerability

It was discovered that CVS, a centralised version control system, did not correctly handle maliciously constructed repository URLs, which allowed an attacker to run an arbitrary shell command CVE-2017-12836...

MGASA-2017-0275 Updated vim packages fix security vulnerabilities

Florian Larysch and Bram Moolenaar discovered that vim, an enhanced vi editor, does not properly validate values for the "filetype", "syntax" and "keymap" options, which may result in the execution of arbitrary code if a file with a specially crafted modeline is opened CVE-2016-1248. A...