MGASA-2017-0028 Updated 389-ds-base packages fix security vulnerability

The "attribute uniqueness" plugin did not properly NULL-terminate an array when building up its configuration if a so called 'old-style' configuration was being used. An attacker, authenticated, but possibly also unauthenticated, could possibly force the plugin to read beyond allocated memory and...

MGASA-2017-0007 Updated unrtf package fixes security vulnerability

A Stack-based buffer overflow has been found in unrtf 0.21.9, which affects functions including cmdexpand, cmdemboss and cmdengrave CVE-2016-10091...

MGASA-2017-0001 Updated python-html5lib packages fix security vulnerability

Fixes a potential cross-site scripting vulnerablity: quote attributes that need escaping in legacy browsers. CVE-2016-9909, CVE-2016-9910...

MGASA-2016-0432 Updated tracker packages fix security vulnerability

It was discovered that Tracker incorrectly handled certain malformed GIF images. If a user or automated system were tricked into downloading a specially-crafted GIF image, Tracker could crash, resulting in a denial of service...

MGASA-2016-0428 Updated game-music-emu packages fix security vulnerabilities

Chris Evans discovered that incorrect emulation of the SPC700 audio co-processor of the Super Nintendo Entertainment System allows the execution of arbitrary code if a malformed SPC music file is opened CVE-2016-9957, CVE-2016-9958, CVE-2016-9959, CVE-2016-9960, CVE-2016-9961...

MGASA-2016-0414 Updated ntp packages fix security vulnerabilities

When ntpd is configured with rate limiting for all associations restrict default limited in ntp.conf, the limits are applied also to responses received from its configured sources. An attacker who knows the sources e.g., from an IPv4 refid in server response and knows the system is misconfigured ...

MGASA-2016-0407 Updated teeworlds package fixes security vulnerability

A security vulnerability was found in the Teeworlds client logic that could enable remote code execution on the client by malicious servers CVE-2016-9400. This maintenance release fixes it...

MGASA-2016-0400 Updated bzip2 packages fix security vulnerability

A use-after-free flaw was found in bzip2recover, leading to a null pointer dereference, or a write to a closed file descriptor. An attacker could use this flaw by sending a specially crafted bzip2 file to recover and force the program to crash CVE-2016-3189...

MGASA-2016-0384 Updated irssi packages fix security vulnerability

An information disclosure vulnerability was found in the buf.pl core script for irssi. Other users on the same machine may be able to retrieve the whole window contents after /UPGRADE when the buf.pl script is loaded. Furthermore, this dump of the windows contents is never removed afterwards...

MGASA-2016-0390 Updated gnuchess packages fix security vulnerability

gnuchess before 6.2.4 is vulnerable to a stack buffer overflow related to user move input, where 160 characters of input can crash gnuchess CVE-2015-8972...

MGASA-2016-0373 Updated freeimage packages fix security vulnerability

Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in the FreeImage multimedia library, which might result in denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code if a malformed XMP or RAW image is processed. CVE-2015-3885, CVE-2016-5684...

MGASA-2016-0372 Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerabilities

This update is based on the upstream 4.4.30 kernel and fixes at least these security issues: The filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel through 4.8.2 preserves the setgid bit during a setxattr call, which allows local users to gain group privileges by leveraging the existence of a setgid...

MGASA-2016-0362 Updated openjpeg2 packages fix security vulnerabilities

A specially crafted JPEG2000 image file can force Out-Of-Bounds Read in opjtcdfreetile CVE-2016-3181. A specially crafted JPEG2000 image file can force Heap Corruption in opjfree CVE-2016-3182. A specially crafted JPEG2000 image file can force Out-Of-Bounds Read in sycc422torgb CVE-2016-3183...

MGASA-2016-0343 Updated mailman package fixes security vulnerability

Cross-site request forgery CSRF vulnerability in the user options page in GNU Mailman 2.1.x before 2.1.23 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of arbitrary users for requests that modify an option, as demonstrated by gaining access to the credentials of a victim's account...

MGASA-2016-0334 Updated python-django packages fix security vulnerability

CVE-2016-7401: CSRF protection bypass on a site with Google Analytics An interaction between Google Analytics and Django's cookie parsing could allow an attacker to set arbitrary cookies leading to a bypass of CSRF protection...

MGASA-2016-0324 Updated pdns packages fix security vulnerability

PowerDNS Authoritative Server accepts queries with a qname's length larger than 255 bytes CVE-2016-5426. PowerDNS Authoritative Server does not properly handle dot inside labels CVE-2016-5427. These issues allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to cause an abnormal load on the PowerDNS backend ...

MGASA-2016-0308 Updated slock packages fix security vulnerability

The slock utility is susceptible to crash when verifying a password for a user without a valid shadow hash entry CVE-2016-6866...

MGASA-2016-0311 Updated jsch packages fix security vulnerability

It was discovered that there was a path traversal vulnerability in jsch CVE-2016-5725...

MGASA-2016-0292 Updated gnupg/libgcrypt packages fix security vulnerability

Felix Doerre and Vladimir Klebanov from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology discovered a flaw in the mixing functions of GnuPG's random number generator. An attacker who obtains 4640 bits from the RNG can trivially predict the next 160 bits of output CVE-2016-6313. The gnupg package has been...

MGASA-2016-0235 Updated iperf packages fix security vulnerability

A malicious process can connect to an iperf server and, by sending a malformed message on the control channel, corrupt the server process's heap area. This can lead to a crash and a denial of service, or theoretically a remote code execution as the user running the iperf server. A malicious iperf...

MGASA-2016-0205 Updated xerces-j2 packages fix security vulnerability

A possible denial of service issue from overflowing an array has been fixed in the xerces-j2 package...

MGASA-2016-0200 Updated openvpn packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated openvpn packages fix security vulnerabilities: The openvpn package has been updated to version 2.3.11, which fixes several bugs and possible security issues. See the upstream ChangeLog for details...

MGASA-2016-0193 Updated expat packages fix security vulnerability

Gustavo Grieco discovered that Expat does not properly handle certain kinds of malformed input documents, resulting in buffer overflows during processing and error reporting. A remote attacker can take advantage of this flaw to cause an application using the Expat library to crash, or potentially...

MGASA-2016-0181 Updated libksba packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated libksba packages fix security vulnerabilities: An out-of-bounds read access in ksbadntostr in libksba 1.3.3, due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2016-4356, could result in denial of service CVE-2016-4574. In liksba 1.3.3, the returned length of the object from ksbaberparsetl ti.length was no...

MGASA-2016-0179 Updated libarchive packages fix CVE-2016-1541

Updated libarchive packages fix security vulnerability: Heap-based buffer overflow in the zipreadmacmetadata function in archivereadsupportformatzip.c in libarchive before 3.2.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted entry-size values in a ZIP archive CVE-2016-1541. The...

MGASA-2016-0182 Updated mariadb packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated mariadb packages fix security vulnerabilities: The mariadb package has been updated to version 10.0.25. It fixes several security issues CVE-2016-0643, CVE-2016-0647, CVE-2016-0648, CVE-2016-0655, CVE-2016-0666 and other bugs. See the upstream release notes for details...

MGASA-2016-0150 Updated varnish packages fix CVE-2015-8852

Updated varnish packages fix security vulnerabilities: Régis Leroy from Makina Corpus discovered that varnish, a caching HTTP reverse proxy, is vulnerable to HTTP smuggling issues, potentially resulting in cache poisoning or bypassing of access control policies CVE-2015-8852...

MGASA-2016-0121 Updated openafs packages fix security vulnerability

In OpenAFS before 1.6.17, users from foreign Kerberos realms can create groups as if they were administrators CVE-2016-2860. In OpenAFS before 1.6.17, information leakage over the network due to uninitialized memory CVE-2016-4536...

MGASA-2016-0123 Updated krb5 packages fix security vulnerability

It was reported that in all versions of MIT krb5, an authenticated attacker with permission to modify a principal entry can cause kadmind to dereference a null pointer by supplying an empty DB argument to the modifyprincipal command, if kadmind is configured to use the LDAP KDB module...

MGASA-2016-0085 Updated postgresql packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated postgresql packages fix security vulnerabilities: PostgreSQL 9.3.x before 9.3.11 and 9.4.x before 9.4.6 does not properly restrict access to unspecified custom configuration settings GUCS for PL/Java, which allows attackers to gain privileges via unspecified vectors CVE-2016-0766...

MGASA-2016-0067 Updated claws-mail packages fix CVE-2015-8708

Updated claws-mail fix security vulnerabilities A stack-based buffer overflow has been found in conveuctojis after applying incomplete patch for CVE-2015-8614. In conveuctojis the comparison is with outlen - 3, but each pass through the loop uses up to 5 bytes and the rest of the function may add...

MGASA-2016-0070 Updated eom packages fix CVE-2013-7447

Updated eom packages fix security vulnerability: Due to a logic error, an attempt to allocate a large block of memory fails in gdkcairosetsourcepixbuf, leading to a crash of eom CVE-2013-7447...

MGASA-2016-0045 Updated cyrus-imapd packages fix security vulnerability

Cyrus-imapd versions 2.4.18 and earlier are vulnerable to potential integer and buffer overflows CVE-2015-8077, CVE-2015-8078...

MGASA-2016-0042 Updated chromium-browser-stable packages fix security vulnerability

The LoadIC::UpdateCaches function in ic/ic.cc in Google V8, as used in Google Chrome before 48.0.2564.82, does not ensure receiver compatibility before performing a cast of an unspecified variable, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unknown other impact vi...

MGASA-2016-0036 Updated lxc packages fix security vulnerability

A directory traversal flaw while lxc-start in lxc before 1.0.8 in initially setting up the mounts for a container CVE-2015-1335...

MGASA-2016-0025 Updated cacti packages fix security vulnerability

Several SQL injection vulnerabilities have been discovered in Cacti. Specially crafted input can be used by an attacker in the rraid value of the graph.php script to execute arbitrary SQL commands on the database CVE-2015-8369...

MGASA-2016-0020 Updated giflib packages fix security vulnerability

A heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability was found in giffix utility of giflib when processing records of the type 'IMAGEDESCRECORDTYPE' due to the allocated size of 'LineBuffer' equaling the value of the logical screen width, 'GifFileIn-SWidth', while subsequently having 'GifFileIn-Image.Width...

MGASA-2016-0013 Updated mono packages fix security vulnerability

It was found that float-parsing code used in Mono before 4.2 is derived from code vulnerable to CVE-2009-0689. The issue concerns the 'freelist' array, which is a global array of 16 pointers to 'Bigint'. This array is part of a memory allocation and reuse system which attempts to reduce the numbe...

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-2015-0473 Updated libpng packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated libpng and libpng12 packages fix security vulnerability: The fix for CVE-2015-8126 was incomplete. While it defended against the potential overrun while reading PNG files, it did not detect a potential overrun by applications using pngsetPLTE directly CVE-2015-8472...

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-2015-0409 Updated rsync packages fix security vulnerability

Michael Samuel discovered that rsync was vulnerable to checksum collisions. This could prevent rsync from running and syncing files successfully, which could break various applications that use and rely on rsync rhbz1197601. The patched rsync will now operate in a way that is not vulnerable to th...

MGASA-2015-0350 Updated xmltooling packages fix CVE-2015-0851

Updated xmltooling and opensaml packages fix security vulnerability: The InCommon Shibboleth Training team discovered that XMLTooling, a C++ XML parsing library, did not properly handle an exception when parsing well-formed but schema-invalid XML. This could allow remote attackers to cause a deni...

MGASA-2015-0328 Updated drupal packages fix security vulnerabilities

Cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in the Autocomplete system in Drupal before 7.39 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted URL, related to uploading files CVE-2015-6658. SQL injection vulnerability in the SQL comment filtering system in the Database API i...

MGASA-2015-0329 Updated vlc packages fix security vulnerabilities

Loren Maggiore of Trail of Bits discovered that the 3GP parser of VLC, a multimedia player and streamer, could dereference an arbitrary pointer due to insufficient restrictions on a writable buffer. This could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted 3GP files CVE-2015-5949...

MGASA-2015-0306 Updated cacti package fixes security vulnerability

Cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in Cacti before 0.8.8d allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors CVE-2015-2665. SQL injection vulnerability in Cacti before 0.8.8d allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via unspecified vectors...

MGASA-2015-0308 Updated ghostscript package fixes security vulnerability

GhostScript is vulnerable to an integer overflow when processing a crafted PostScript file using the ps2pdf command CVE-2015-3228...

MGASA-2015-0305 Updated firefox package fixes CVE-2015-4495

Updated firefox packages fix security vulnerability: Security researcher Cody Crews reported on a way to violate the same origin policy and inject script into a non-privileged part of the built-in PDF Viewer in Firefox. This would allow an attacker to read and steal sensitive local files on the...

MGASA-2015-0297 Updated icu package fixes security vulnerability

It was discovered that ICU Layout Engine was missing multiple boundary checks. These could lead to buffer overflows memory corruption. A specially crafted file could cause an application using ICU to parse untrusted font files to crash and, possibly, execute arbitrary code CVE-2015-4760...

MGASA-2015-0295 Updated openssh package fixes security vulnerability

The OpenSSH server, when keyboard-interactive challenge response authentication is enabled and PAM is being used the default configuration in Mageia, can be tricked into allowing more password attempts than the MaxAuthTries setting would normally allow in one connection, which can aid an attacker...