MGASA-2017-0027 Updated libvncserver packages fix security vulnerability

It was discovered that there were two vulnerabilities in libvncserver, a library to create/embed a VNC server: A heap-based buffer overflow that allows remote servers to cause a denial of service via a crafted FramebufferUpdate message containing a subrectangle outside of the drawing area...

MGASA-2017-0021 Updated gstreamer packages fix security vulnerability

Out of bounds heap read in windowsicontypefind in gst/typefind/gsttypefindfunctions.c CVE-2016-9811...

MGASA-2017-0002 Updated libupnp packages fix security vulnerability

Scott Tenaglia discovered a heap buffer overflow vulnerability, that can lead to denial of service or remote code execution CVE-2016-8863...

MGASA-2016-0433 Updated mcabber packages fix security vulnerability

It was discovered that there was a "roster push attack" vulnerability in mcabber, a console-based Jabber XMPP client. A remote attacker can modify the roster and intercept messages via a crafted roster-push IQ stanza CVE-2016-9928...

MGASA-2016-0430 Updated roundcubemail packages fix security vulnerability

Users can execute commands on the server by writing e-mails, due to insufficient sanitation of the from field when calling PHP's mail function CVE-2016-9920. Note that only roundcubemail installations that don't have an SMTP server configured for mail delivery are affected...

MGASA-2016-0403 Updated chromium-browser-stable packages fix security vulnerabilities

Multiple flaws were found in Chromium's processing of web content where loading a web page containing malicious content could cause Chromium to crash, execute arbitrary code, or disclose sensitive information. CVE-2016-5181, CVE-2016-5182, CVE-2016-5183, CVE-2016-5184, CVE-2016-5185, CVE-2016-518...

MGASA-2016-0394 Updated libxslt packages fix security vulnerability

A heap overread bug was found in libxslt, which can cause arbitrary code execution or denial of service CVE-2016-4738...

MGASA-2016-0337 The updated packages fix a security vulnerability

Unsigned underflow leading to heap overflow when parsing 8BIM chunk CVE-2016-7800. Two issues in the WPG reader CVE-2016-7996, CVE-2016-7997...

MGASA-2016-0317 Updated golang package fixes security vulnerability

Updated golang packages fix security vulnerability: Go: sets environmental variable based on user supplied Proxy request header CVE-2016-5386...

MGASA-2016-0287 Updated fontconfig packages fix security vulnerability

Tobias Stoeckmann discovered that cache files are insufficiently validated in fontconfig, a generic font configuration library. An attacker can trigger arbitrary free calls, which in turn allows double free attacks and therefore arbitrary code execution. In combination with setuid binaries using...

MGASA-2016-0286 Updated mupdf packages fix security vulnerability

A flaw was discovered in the pdfloadmeshparams function allowing out-of-bounds write access to memory locations. With carefully crafted input, that could trigger a heap overflow, resulting in application crash or possibly having other unspecified impact CVE-2016-6525. Also, mupdf already containe...

MGASA-2016-0271 Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerability

This update is based on the upstream 4.4.16 kernel and fixes at least theese security issues: nfsd in the Linux kernel through 4.6.3 allows local users to bypass intended file-permission restrictions by setting a POSIX ACL, related to nfs2acl.c, nfs3acl.c, and nfs4acl.c. CVE-2016-1237. The...

MGASA-2016-0252 Updated graphicsmagick packages fix security vulnerability

A read out-of-bound in the parsing of gif files using GraphicsMagick CVE-2015-8808. - Infinite loop caused by converting a circularly defined svg file CVE-2016-5240. - Fix another case of CVE-2016-2317 heap buffer overflow in the MVG rendering code also impacts SVG. - arithmetic exception...

MGASA-2016-0245 Updated drupal packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated drupal packages fix security vulnerability: A vulnerability exists in the User module, where if some specific contributed or custom code triggers a rebuild of the user profile form, a registered user can be granted all user roles on the site. This would typically result in the user gainin...

MGASA-2016-0241 Updated gimp packages fix security vulnerability

It was discovered that there was a use-after-free vulnerability in the channel and layer properties parsing process in GIMP CVE-2016-4994...

MGASA-2016-0234 Updated libtorrent-rasterbar packages fix security vulnerability

A specially crafted HTTP response from a tracker or potentially a UPnP broadcast can crash libtorrent-rasterbar in the parsechunkheader function. Although this function is not present in this version, upstream's additional sanity checks were added to abort the program if necessary instead of...

MGASA-2016-0237 Updated squidguard packages fix security vulnerability

The squidGuard.cgi program is vulnerable to a reflected cross site scripting vulnerability in the blocking script squidGuard.cgi. The vulnerability is triggered when a user clicks a link to a blocked site where the url has scripting instructions added CVE-2015-8936. In Mageia's squidguard package...

MGASA-2016-0231 Updated chromium-browser-stable packages fix security vulnerabilities

Chromium-browser-stable 51.0.2704.103 contains various security fixes from upstream's internal audits, fuzzing and other initiatives CVE-2016-1704 as well as other bug fixes...

MGASA-2016-0224 Updated libjpeg packages fix security vulnerability

Updated libjpeg packages fix security vulnerability: Out-of-Bounds Read in libjpeg-turbo before 1.5.0 via unusually long Blocks in MCU LJT-01-005...

MGASA-2016-0210 Updated mediawiki packages fix security vulnerability

The mediawiki package has been updated to version 1.23.14, which fixes multiple security issues and other bugs. See the release announcements for more details...

MGASA-2016-0196 Updated php-ZendFramework2 packages fix CVE-2015-7503

Updated php-ZendFramework2 packages fix security vulnerability: Zend\Crypt\PublicKey\Rsa\PublicKey has a call to opensslpublicencrypt which uses PHP's default $padding argument, which specifies OPENSSLPKCS1PADDING, indicating usage of PKCS1v1.5 padding. This padding has a known vulnerability, the...

MGASA-2016-0177 Updated xymon packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated xymon packages fix security vulnerabilities: The incorrect handling of user-supplied input in the "config" command can trigger a stack-based buffer overflow, resulting in denial of service via application crash or remote code execution CVE-2016-2054. The incorrect handling of user-supplie...

MGASA-2016-0140 Updated imlib2 packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated imlib2 packages fix security vulnerabilities: An out-of-bounds read caused by an off-by-one error in imlibMergeUpdate in src/lib/updates.c in imlib2 1.4.8 and earlier CVE-2016-3993. An out-of-bounds read from colormap in the GIF loader in imlib2 1.4.8 and earlier can result in denial of...

MGASA-2016-0124 Updated iceape packages fix security vulnerability

Mozilla Firefox before 43.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.5 allow remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy via data: and view-source: URIs. CVE-2015-7214 The WebExtension APIs in Mozilla Firefox before 43.0 allow remote attackers to gain privileges, and possibly obtain sensitive...

MGASA-2016-0109 Updated flash-player-plugin packages fix security vulnerability

Adobe Flash Player 11.2.202.577 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 integer overflow vulnerabilities that could lead to code execution CVE-2016-0963,...

MGASA-2016-0102 Updated botan packages fix security vulnerability

The BER decoder would crash due to reading from offset 0 of an empty vector if it encountered a BIT STRING which did not contain any data at all. This can be used to easily crash applicatons reading untrusted ASN.1 data, but does not seem exploitable for code execution CVE-2015-5726. The BER...

MGASA-2016-0095 Updated squid packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated squid packages fix security vulnerability: Due to incorrect bounds checking Squid is vulnerable to a denial of service attack when processing HTTP responses CVE-2016-2569, CVE-2016-2570, CVE-2016-2571...

MGASA-2016-0082 Updated libssh packages fix CVE-2016-0739

Updated libssh packages fix security vulnerability: libssh versions 0.1 and above have a bits/bytes confusion bug and generate an abnormally short ephemeral secret for the diffie-hellman-group1 and diffie-hellman-group14 key exchange methods. The resulting secret is 128 bits long, instead of the...

MGASA-2016-0065 Updated nginx packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated nginx package fixes security vulnerabilities: Several vulnerabilities were discovered in the resolver in nginx, leading to denial of service or, potentially, to arbitrary code execution. These only affect nginx if the "resolver" directive is used in a configuration file CVE-2016-0742,...

MGASA-2016-0055 Updated privoxy packages fix security vulnerabilities

This update fixes two denial-of-service vulnerabilities that have been discovered in privoxy 3.0.23: The removechunkedtransfercoding function in filters.c in Privoxy before 3.0.24 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service invalid read and crash via crafted chunk-encoded content...

MGASA-2016-0054 Updated mbedtls/hiawatha/belle-sip/linphone/pdns packages fix security vulnerability

Note: this package was called polarssl, but is now called mbed tls. The PolarSSL software is now called mbed TLS. Heap-based buffer overflow in mbed TLS formerly PolarSSL 1.3.x before 1.3.14 allows remote SSL servers to cause a denial of service client crash and possibly execute arbitrary code vi...

MGASA-2016-0022 Updated openssh packages fix security vulnerabilities

An information leak flaw was found in the way the OpenSSH client roaming feature was implemented. A malicious server could potentially use this flaw to leak portions of memory possibly including private SSH keys of a successfully authenticated OpenSSH client CVE-2016-0777. A buffer overflow flaw...

MGASA-2016-0006 Updated bugzilla packages fix security vulnerability

Login names usually an email address longer than 127 characters are silently truncated in MySQL which could cause the domain name of the email address to be corrupted. An attacker could use this vulnerability to create an account with an email address different from the one originally requested...

MGASA-2016-0009 Updated mariadb packages fix security vulnerability

The mariadb package has been updated to version 10.0.23. An issue with client-side SSL certificate verification has been fixed, as have several other bugs. See the upstream release notes for more details...

MGASA-2015-0490 Updated subversion packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated subversion packages fix security vulnerability: Subversion's httpd servers are vulnerable to a remotely triggerable heap-based buffer overflow and out-of-bounds read caused by an integer overflow when parsing skel-encoded request bodies CVE-2015-5343. This allows remote attackers with wri...

MGASA-2015-0480 Updated grub2 packages fix security vulnerability

A flaw was found in the way the grub2 handled backspace characters entered in username and password prompts. An attacker with access to the system console could use this flaw to bypass grub2 password protection and gain administrative access to the system CVE-2015-8370...

MGASA-2015-0469 Updated libraw packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated libraw packages fix security vulnerabilities: It was found that smaldecodesegment function do not handle index carefully, which may cause index overflow CVE-2015-8366. It was found that phaseonecorrect function does not handle memory object's initialization correctly, which may have...

MGASA-2015-0460 Updated python-cryptography packages fix security vulnerability

The OpenSSL backend prior to 1.0.2 made extensive use of assertions to check response codes where our tests could not trigger a failure. However, when Python is run with -O these asserts are optimized away. If a user ran Python with this flag and got an invalid response code this could result in...

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-2015-0419 Updated phpmyadmin package fixes security vulnerability

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

MGASA-2015-0416 Updated miniupnpc package fixes security vulnerability

An exploitable buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the XML parser functionality of the MiniUPnP library. A specially crafted XML response can lead to a buffer overflow on the stack resulting in remote code execution. An attacker can set up a server on the local network to trigger this...

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-2015-0375 Updated ganglia-web packages fix CVE-2015-6816

An issue with the use of unserialize in ganglia-web allows authentication to be bypassed CVE-2015-6816...

MGASA-2015-0326 Updated subversion packages fix security vulnerabilities

Subversion's modauthzsvn does not properly restrict anonymous access in some mixed anonymous/authenticated environments when using Apache httpd 2.4. The result is that anonymous access may be possible to files for which only authenticated access should be possible CVE-2015-3184. Subversion server...

MGASA-2015-0320 Updated mediawiki packages fix security vulnerabilities

The mediawiki package has been updated to version 1.23.10, which fixes multiple security issues and other bugs. See the release announcement for more details...

MGASA-2015-0285 Updated expat package fixes security vulnerability

Multiple integer overflows in the XMLGetBuffer function in Expat through 2.1.0 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service heap-based buffer overflow or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted XML data CVE-2015-1283...

MGASA-2015-0278 Updated libuser package fixes security vulnerabilities

Two flaws were found in the way the libuser library handled the /etc/passwd file. A local attacker could use an application compiled against libuser for example, userhelper to manipulate the /etc/passwd file, which could result in a denial of service or possibly allow the attacker to escalate the...

MGASA-2015-0271 Updated openssh package fixes security vulnerability

In Portable OpenSSH before 6.9p1, when forwarding X11 connections with ForwardX11Trusted=no, connections made after ForwardX11Timeout expired could be permitted and no longer subject to XSECURITY restrictions because of an ineffective timeout check in ssh CVE-2015-5352...

MGASA-2015-0263 Updated curl package fixes security vulnerability

libcurl can wrongly send HTTP credentials when re-using connections. Even if the handle for an HTTP connection is reset, it retains the credentials, which can cause them to be unintentionally leaked in subsequent requests CVE-2015-3236. libcurl can get tricked by a malicious SMB server to send of...

MGASA-2015-0266 Updated pam package fixes security vulnerability

If SELinux is enabled, the unixrunhelperbinary function in Linux-PAM 1.1.8 and earlier hangs indefinitely when verifying a password of 65536 characters, which allows attackers to conduct username enumeration and denial of service attacks CVE-2015-3238...