MGASA-2015-0186 Updated nodejs packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated nodejs package fixes security vulnerability: It was found that libuv does not call setgoups before calling setuid/setgid. This may potentially allow an attacker to gain elevated privileges CVE-2015-0278. The libuv library is bundled with nodejs, and a fixed version of libuv is included wi...

MGASA-2015-0191 Updated squid packages fix CVE-2015-3455

Updated squid packages fix security vulnerability: Squid configured with client-first SSL-bump does not correctly validate X509 server certificate domain / hostname fields CVE-2015-3455...

MGASA-2015-0190 Updated clamav packages fix security vulnerabilities

This updates fixes the following security issues: Fix infinite loop condition on crafted y0da cryptor file. Identified and patch suggested by Sebastian Andrzej Siewior. CVE-2015-2221 Fix crash on crafted petite packed file. Reported and patch supplied by Sebastian Andrzej Siewior. CVE-2015-2222...

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-2015-0185 Updated polarssl & hiawatha packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated hiawatha package fixes security vulnerabilities: The hiawatha package included a bundled copy of PolarSSL 1.3.2, which was vulnerable to several security issues that had already been fixed in the system polarssl package. These issues were CVE-2014-4911, CVE-2014-8627, CVE-2014-8628, and...

MGASA-2015-0180 Updated python-pip packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated python-pip and python-virtualenv packages fix security vulnerability: The mirroring support in python-pip was implemented without any sort of authenticity checks and is downloaded over plaintext HTTP. Further more by default it will dynamically discover the list of available mirrors by...

MGASA-2015-0183 Updated 389-ds-base packages fix CVE-2015-1854

Updated 389-ds-base packages fix security vulnerability: A flaw was found in the way Red Hat Directory Server performed authorization of modrdn operations. An unauthenticated attacker able to issue an ldapmodrdn call to the directory server could use this flaw to perform unauthorized modification...

MGASA-2015-0178 Updated ruby packages fix CVE-2015-1855

Updated ruby packages fix security vulnerability: Ruby OpenSSL hostname matching implementation violates RFC 6125 CVE-2015-1855. The ruby package has been updated to version 2.0.0-p645, which fixes this issue...

MGASA-2015-0184 Updated fcgi packages fix CVE-2012-6687

Updated fcgi packages fix security vulnerability: FCGI does not perform range checks for file descriptors before use of the FDSET macro. This FDSET macro could allow for more than 1024 total file descriptors to be monitored in the closing state. This may allow remote attackers to cause a denial o...

MGASA-2015-0181 Updated cherokee packages fix CVE-2014-4668

Updated cherokee packages fix security vulnerability: The cherokeevalidatorldapcheck function in validatorldap.c in Cherokee 1.2.103 and earlier, when LDAP is used, does not properly consider unauthenticated-bind semantics, which allows remote attackers to bypass authentication via an empty...

MGASA-2015-0179 Updated curl packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated curl packages fix security vulnerabilities: NTLM-authenticated connections could be wrongly reused for requests without any credentials set, leading to HTTP requests being sent over the connection authenticated as a different user CVE-2015-3143. When parsing HTTP cookies, if the parsed...

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-2015-0182 Updated chromium-browser-stable packages fix security vulnerabilities

Chromium-browser 42.0.2311.135 fixes security issues: a use-after-free in DOM CVE-2015-1243, and various fixes from internal audits, fuzzing and other initiatives CVE-2015-1250...

MGASA-2015-0176 Updated directfb packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated directfb packages fix security vulnerabilities: Multiple integer signedness errors in the DispatchWrite function in proxy/dispatcher/idirectfbsurfacedispatcher.c in DirectFB allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash and possibly execute arbitrary code via the Voodoo...

MGASA-2015-0175 Updated quassel packages fix CVE-2015-3427

Updated quassel packages fix security vulnerability: Quassel is vulnerable to SQL injection through its use of Qt's postgres driver. If the PostgreSQL server is restarted or the connection is lost at any point, other IRC users may be able to trick the Quassel core into executing SQL queries upon...

MGASA-2015-0171 Updated kernel package fixes security vulnerabilities

This kernel update is based on upstream -longterm 3.14.39 and fixes the following security issues: It was found that the Linux kernel's Infiniband subsystem did not properly sanitize input parameters while registering memory regions from user space via the uverbs API. A local user with access to ...

MGASA-2015-0172 Updated kernel-linus package fixes security vulnerabilities

This kernel-linus update is based on upstream -longterm 3.14.39 and fixes the following security issues: It was found that the Linux kernel's Infiniband subsystem did not properly sanitize input parameters while registering memory regions from user space via the uverbs API. A local user with acce...

MGASA-2015-0173 Updated ppp packages fix CVE-2015-3310

Updated ppp packages fix security vulnerability: Emanuele Rocca discovered that ppp was subject to a buffer overflow when communicating with a RADIUS server. This would allow unauthenticated users to cause a denial-of-service by crashing the daemon CVE-2015-3310...

MGASA-2015-0174 Updated libreoffice packages fix CVE-2015-1774

Updated libreoffice packages fix security vulnerability: The HWP filter in LibreOffice before 4.3.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted HWP document, which triggers an out-of-bounds write CVE-2015-1774...

MGASA-2015-0169 Updated php packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated php packages fix security vulnerabilities: Buffer Over-read in unserialize when parsing Phar CVE-2015-2783. Buffer Overflow when parsing tar/zip/phar in pharsetinode CVE-2015-3329. Potential remote code execution with apache 2.4 apache2handler CVE-2015-3330. PHP has been updated to versio...

MGASA-2015-0170 Updated wordpress packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated wordpress packages fixes security vulnerabilities: The wordpress package has been updated to version 3.9.4, which fixes several security issues, including a cross-site scripting issue which can be exploited by remote unauthenticated users...

MGASA-2015-0165 Updated lftp packages fix CVE-2014-0139

Updated lftp packages fix security vulnerability: lftp incorrectly validates wildcard SSL certificates containing literal IP addresses, so under certain conditions, it would allow and use a wildcard match specified in the CN field, allowing a malicious server to participate in a MITM attack or ju...

MGASA-2015-0162 Updated setup packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated setup package fixes security issue An issue has been identified in Mageia 4's setup package where the /etc/shadow and /etc/gshadow files containing password hashes were created with incorrect permissions, making them world-readable mga14516. This update fixes this issue by enforcing that...

MGASA-2015-0166 Updated libksba packages fix security vulnerabilities

The libksba package has been updated to version 1.3.3, which fixes an integer overflow in the DN decoder and a couple of other minor bugs...

MGASA-2015-0167 Updated t1utils packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated t1utils package fixes security vulnerabilities: The t1utils package has been updated to version 1.39, which fixes a buffer overrun, infinite loop, and stack overflow in t1disasm...

MGASA-2015-0168 Updated ntop packages fix CVE-2014-4165

Updated ntop package fixes security vulnerability: Lack of filtering in the title parameter of links to rrdPlugin allowed cross-site-scripting XSS attacks against users of the web interface CVE-2014-4165...

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-2015-0163 Updated chrony packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated chrony package fixes security vulnerabilities: Using particular address/subnet pairs when configuring access control would cause an invalid memory write. This could allow attackers to cause a denial of service crash or execute arbitrary code CVE-2015-1821. When allocating memory to save...

MGASA-2015-0160 Updated perl-Module-Signature packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated perl-Module-Signature package fixes the following security vulnerabilities reported by John Lightsey: Module::Signature could be tricked into interpreting the unsigned portion of a SIGNATURE file as the signed portion due to faulty parsing of the PGP signature boundaries. When verifying t...

MGASA-2015-0159 Updated perl-DBD-Firebird packages fix CVE-2015-2788

Updated perl-DBD-Firebird packages fix security vulnerability: Stefan Roas discovered a way to cause a buffer overflow in DBD::FireBird in certain error conditions, due to the use of the sprintf function to write to a fixed-size memory buffer CVE-2015-2788...

MGASA-2015-0161 Updated potrace packages fix CVE-2013-7437

Updated potrace packages fix security vulnerability: Multiple integer overflows in potrace 1.11 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash via large dimensions in a BMP image, which triggers a buffer overflow CVE-2013-7437...

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-2015-0158 Updated java-1.7.0-openjdk packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated java-1.7.0 packages fix security vulnerabilities: An off-by-one flaw, leading to a buffer overflow, was found in the font parsing code in the 2D component in OpenJDK. A specially crafted font file could possibly cause the Java Virtual Machine to execute arbitrary code, allowing an untrust...

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-2015-0151 Updated tor packages fix security vulnerabilities

"disgleirio" discovered that a malicious client could trigger an assertion failure in a Tor instance providing a hidden service, thus rendering the service inaccessible CVE-2015-2928. "DonnchaC" discovered that Tor clients would crash with an assertion failure upon parsing specially crafted hidde...

MGASA-2015-0148 Updated shibboleth-sp packages fix CVE-2015-2684

Updated shibboleth-sp package fixes security vulnerability: A denial of service vulnerability was found in the Shibboleth Service Provider. When processing certain malformed SAML message generated by an authenticated attacker, the daemon could crash CVE-2015-2684...

MGASA-2015-0155 Updated flash-player-plugin packages fix security vulnerabilities

Adobe Flash Player 11.2.202.457 contains fixes to critical security vulnerabilities found in earlier versions that could cause a crash and potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system. This update resolves memory corruption vulnerabilities that could lead to code execution...

MGASA-2015-0149 Updated qemu packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated qemu packages fix security vulnerabilities: A denial of service flaw was found in the way QEMU handled malformed Physical Region Descriptor Table PRDT data sent to the host's IDE and/or AHCI controller emulation. A privileged guest user could use this flaw to crash the system rhbz1204919...

MGASA-2015-0147 Updated quassel packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated quassel packages fix security vulnerabilities: Quassel could crash when receiving an overlength CTCP query containing only multibyte characters CVE-2015-2778. Quassel could incorrectly split a message in the middle of a multibyte character, leading to a denial of service CVE-2015-2779...

MGASA-2015-0154 Updated wesnoth packages fix CVE-2015-0844

Updated wesnoth packages fix security vulnerability A severe security vulnerability in Battle of Wesnoth's game client was found which could allow a malicious user to obtain personal files and information from other players in networked multiplayer games using the built-in WML/Lua API on any...

MGASA-2015-0150 Updated arj packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated arj package fixes security vulnerabilities: ARJ follows symlinks when unpacking stuff, even the symlinks that were created during the same unpack process, making it vulnerable to a directory traversal CVE-2015-0556. To protect from directory traversals, ARJ strips leading slash from the...

MGASA-2015-0146 Updated librsync packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated librsync packages fix security vulnerability: librsync before 1.0.0 used a truncated MD4 "strong" check sum to match blocks. However, MD4 is not cryptographically strong. It's possible that an attacker who can control the contents of one part of a file could use it to control other region...

MGASA-2015-0152 Updated ntp packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated ntp packages fix security vulnerabilities: The symmetric-key feature in the receive function in ntpproto.c in ntpd in NTP before 4.2.8p2 requires a correct MAC only if the MAC field has a nonzero length, which makes it easier for man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof packets by omitting th...

MGASA-2015-0153 Updated asterisk packages fix CVE-2015-3008

Updated asterisk packages fix security vulnerability: When Asterisk registers to a SIP TLS device and verifies the server, Asterisk will accept signed certificates that match a common name other than the one Asterisk is expecting if the signed certificate has a common name containing a null byte...

MGASA-2015-0144 Updated socat packages fix CVE-2015-1379

Updated socat package fixes security vulnerability: In socat before 2.0.0-b8, signal handler implementations are not async-signal-safe and can cause crash or freeze of socat processes. Mostly this issue occurs when socat is in listening mode with fork option and a couple of child processes...

MGASA-2015-0145 Updated glusterfs packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated glusterfs packages fix security vulnerability: glusterfs was vulnerable to a fragment header infinite loop denial of service attack CVE-2014-3619. Also, the glusterfsd SysV init script was failing to properly start the service. This was fixed by replacing it with systemd unit files for th...

MGASA-2015-0143 Updated openldap packages fix CVE-2015-1545

Updated openldap packages fix security vulnerability: The deref overlay in slapd 2.4.13 through 2.4.40 dereferences a NULL pointer when a search request includes the Deref control with an empty list of attributes to return missing input validation. This allows a remote unauthenticated client to...

MGASA-2015-0142 Updated mediawiki packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated mediawiki packages fix security vulnerabilities: In MediaWiki before 1.23.9, one could circumvent the SVG MIME blacklist for embedded resources. This allowed an attacker to embed JavaScript in the SVG CVE-2015-2931. In MediaWiki before 1.23.9, the SVG filter to prevent injecting JavaScrip...

MGASA-2015-0139 Updated less packages fix CVE-2014-9488

Updated less package fixes security vulnerability: Malformed UTF-8 data could have caused an out of bounds read in the UTF-8 decoding routines, causing an invalid read access CVE-2014-9488...

MGASA-2015-0140 Updated jakarta-taglibs-standard packages fix CVE-2015-0254

Updated jakarta-taglibs-standard packages fix security vulnerability: David Jorm discovered that the Apache Standard Taglibs incorrectly handled external XML entities. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code or perform other external XML entity attacks...