Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2011-182 - dhcpd in ISC DHCP 4.x before 4.2.3-P1 and 4.1-ESV before 4.1-ESV-R4 does not properly handle regular expressions in dhcpd.conf, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted request packet. The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue.
02e671a603aea3de4daba7a8e7064881Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2011-181 - Use-after-free vulnerability in the Response API in ProFTPD before 1.3.3g allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code via vectors involving an error that occurs after an FTP data transfer. The updated packages have been upgraded to the latest version 1.3.3g which is not vulnerable to this issue.
a8b86593c1e6f72dc94c32454b7bfcf6Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2011-180 - crypt_blowfish before 1.1, as used in suhosin does not properly handle 8-bit characters, which makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to determine a cleartext password by leveraging knowledge of a password hash. The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue.
01ab194abf58d17b2acb3d352ec515e0Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2011-179 - The addmntent function in the GNU C Library 2.13 and earlier does not report an error status for failed attempts to write to the /etc/mtab file, which makes it easier for local users to trigger corruption of this file, as demonstrated by writes from a process with a small RLIMIT_FSIZE value, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-0296. Integer overflow in posix/fnmatch.c in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.13 and earlier allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service via a long UTF8 string that is used in an fnmatch call with a crafted pattern argument, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-1071. crypt_blowfish before 1.1, as used in glibc on certain platforms, does not properly handle 8-bit characters, which makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to determine a cleartext password by leveraging knowledge of a password hash. The updated packages have been patched to correct these issues.
f4a5883b938edc452a314e4c2ec2e3dfMandriva Linux Security Advisory 2011-178 - Multiple untrusted search path vulnerabilities in elf/dl-object.c in certain modified versions of the GNU C Library, including glibc-2.5-49.el5_5.6 and glibc-2.12-1.7.el6_0.3 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux, allow local users to gain privileges via a crafted dynamic shared object in a subdirectory of the current working directory during execution of a setgid program that has in RUNPATH. Various other issues have also been addressed. The updated packages have been patched to correct these issues.
f3faceea5dda8d6e65979e92461ca1c5Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2011-177 - FreeType allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service via a crafted font in a document. The updated packages have been patched to correct these issues.
92b9d53a14cb27572a1476aa74d623c4Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2011-176 - A vulnerability was discovered and corrected in bind. Cache lookup could return RRSIG data associated with nonexistent records, leading to an assertion failure. Packages provided for Mandriva Enterprise Server 5.2 and Mandriva Linux 2010.2 with the MDVSA-2011:176 and MDVSA-2011:176-1 advisory had wrong release numbers effectively preventing installation without excessive force due previous packaging mistakes. This advisory provides corrected packages to address the problem.
d72b17719c41c9f7be3152e4383e6f0eMandriva Linux Security Advisory 2011-176 - A vulnerability was discovered and corrected in bind. Cache lookup could return RRSIG data associated with nonexistent records, leading to an assertion failure. The updated packages have been upgraded to bind 9.7.4-P1 and 9.8.1-P1 which is not vulnerable to this issue. Packages provided for Mandriva Enterprise Server 5.2 and Mandriva Linux 2010.2 with the MDVSA-2011:176 advisory had a faulty release number effectively preventing installation without excessive force due to a previous packaging mistake. This advisory provides corrected packages to address the problem.
ab1573fbafc136f1ae6fd51fce249565Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2011-176 - A vulnerability was discovered and corrected in bind. A cache lookup could return RRSIG data associated with nonexistent records, leading to an assertion failure. The updated packages have been upgraded to bind 9.7.4-P1 and 9.8.1-P1 which is not vulnerable to this issue.
079da31358e6f112443e8c403e2035c4Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2011-175 - Multiple security vulnerabilities has been discovered and corrected in poppler. An out-of-bounds reading flaw in the JBIG2 decoder allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted PDF file. Multiple input validation flaws in the JBIG2 decoder allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted PDF file. An integer overflow in the JBIG2 decoder allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted PDF file. Multiple other vulnerabilities have been addressed as well. The updated packages have been patched to correct these issues.
96ffefef6a79262d5a1987ce63f340d7Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2011-174 - Unspecified vulnerabilities were discovered in graphite2 concerning specially crafted TTF fonts. They have an unknown impact. As a preemptive measure the new 1.0.3 version is being provided where this is fixed.
da7520ba53ca5c9eac9c9d56bce0ac7aMandriva Linux Security Advisory 2011-173 - On Mandriva Linux 2010.2 they provided the old openssl 0.9.8 library but without a source RPM file. This could pose a security risk for third party commercial applications that still uses the older OpenSSL library, therefore the latest stable openssl 0.9.8r library is being provided.
630cd768600e23f634e1cbf2ad639bd0Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2011-172 - Multiple vulnerabilities has been discovered and corrected in libreoffice. Stack-based buffer overflow in the Lotus Word Pro import filter in LibreOffice before 3.3.3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted.lwp file. oowriter in OpenOffice.org 3.3.0 and LibreOffice before 3.4.3 allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted DOC file that triggers an out-of-bounds read in the DOC sprm parser.
98b17af3c0892da63050191904234bf3Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2011-171 - GNOME NetworkManager before version 0.8.6 does not properly enforce the auth_admin element in PolicyKit, which allows local users to bypass intended wireless network sharing restrictions via unspecified vectors. Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in the svEscape function in settings/plugins/ifcfg-rh/shvar.c in the ifcfg-rh plug-in for GNOME NetworkManager 0.9.1, 0.9.0, 0.8.1, and possibly other versions, when PolicyKit is configured to allow users to create new connections, allows local users to execute arbitrary commands via a newline character in the name for a new network connection, which is not properly handled when writing to the ifcfg file.
ed72eb28ef831d388f31f6b7d7239606Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2011-170 - Security issues were identified and fixed in openjdk (Icedtea6) and icedtea-web. IcedTea6 prior to 1.10.4 allows remote untrusted Java Web Start applications and untrusted Java applets to affect confidentiality via unknown vectors related to Networking. IcedTea6 prior to 1.10.4 allows remote untrusted Java Web Start applications and untrusted Java applets to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability, related to AWT. IcedTea6 prior to 1.10.4 allows remote attackers to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via unknown vectors related to 2D.
7ac30227d80933334b9a3a56eb2f25e2Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2011-169 - Security issues were identified and fixed in mozilla NSS, firefox and thunderbird. 22 weak 512-bit certificates issued by the DigiCert Sdn. Bhd certificate authority has been revoked from the root CA storage. Untrusted search path vulnerability in Mozilla Network Security Services might allow local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse pkcs11.txt file in a top-level directory. Cross-site scripting vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox before 3.6.24 and 4.x through 7.0 and Thunderbird before 3.1.6 and 5.0 through 7.0 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via crafted text with Shift JIS encoding. Various other issues were also addressed.
e1ba60163ff2de637296e552394bcc62Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2011-168 - The mod_proxy_ajp module in the Apache HTTP Server before 2.2.21, when used with mod_proxy_balancer in certain configurations, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (temporary error state in the backend server) via a malformed HTTP request. The fix for CVE-2011-3192 provided by the MDVSA-2011:130 advisory introduced regressions in the way httpd handled certain Range HTTP header values. The updated packages have been patched to correct these issues.
d34eb9f362cf7d95f3d4f03f1a03b0e3Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2011-167 - A vulnerability has been discovered and corrected in gimp. The LZW decompressor in the LWZReadByte function in giftoppm.c in the David Koblas GIF decoder in PBMPLUS, as used in the gif_read_lzw function in filter/image-gif.c in CUPS before 1.4.7, the LZWReadByte function in plug-ins/common/file-gif-load.c in GIMP 2.6.11 and earlier, the LZWReadByte function in img/gifread.c in XPCE in SWI-Prolog 5.10.4 and earlier, and other products, does not properly handle code words that are absent from the decompression table when encountered, which allows remote attackers to trigger an infinite loop or a heap-based buffer overflow, and possibly execute arbitrary code, via a crafted compressed stream. The updated packages have been patched to correct these issues.
43d3a601620ea4acfe538f60f23b6e9aMandriva Linux Security Advisory 2011-166 - A vulnerability has been identified and fixed in php. The is_a function in PHP 5.3.7 and 5.3.8 triggers a call to the __autoload function, which makes it easier for remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by providing a crafted URL and leveraging potentially unsafe behavior in certain PEAR packages and custom autoloaders. The php-ini-5.3.8 package was missing with the MDVSA-2011:165 advisory and is now being provided, the php-timezonedb package was upgraded to the latest version for 2011. The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue.
2f9fd1ed46b662fc92a212163565a853Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2011-165 - Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified and fixed in php. Use-after-free vulnerability in the substr_replace function in PHP 5.3.6 and earlier allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact by using the same variable for multiple arguments. The ZipArchive::addPattern functions in ext/zip/php_zip.c in PHP 5.3.6 allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service via certain flags arguments, as demonstrated by GLOB_APPEND. Stack-based buffer overflow in the socket_connect function in ext/sockets/sockets.c in PHP 5.3.3 through 5.3.6 might allow context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long pathname for a UNIX socket. Various other issues were also addressed.
55ee15c53b595d90d225039a16ca7ae3Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2011-164 - This advisory updates wireshark to the latest version (1.6.3), fixing several security issues. An uninitialized variable in the CSN.1 dissector could cause a crash. Huzaifa Sidhpurwala of Red Hat Security Response Team discovered that the Infiniband dissector could dereference a NULL pointer. Huzaifa Sidhpurwala of Red Hat Security Response Team discovered a buffer overflow in the ERF file reader. The updated packages have been upgraded to the latest 1.6.x version which is not vulnerable to these issues.
9d2142fc8ed94be58ccee6dc092417b4Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2011-163 - Multiple vulnerabilities was discovered and corrected in phpldapadmin. Input appended to the URL in cmd.php is not properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in the context of an affected site. Input passed to the orderby parameter in cmd.php is not properly sanitised in lib/functions.php before being used in a create_function() function call. This can be exploited to inject and execute arbitrary PHP code. The updated packages have been upgraded to the latest version which is not vulnerable to these issues.
0a4c41d5a98d7745e9df7d7e3fadf1edMandriva Linux Security Advisory 2011-162 - KDE KSSL in kdelibs does not properly handle a NUL character in a domain name in the Subject Alternative Name field of an X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof arbitrary SSL servers via a crafted certificate issued by a legitimate Certification Authority, a related issue to CVE-2009-2408. An input sanitization flaw was found in the KSSL API. An attacker could supply a specially-crafted SSL certificate to an application using KSSL, such as the Konqueror web browser, causing misleading information to be presented to the user, possibly tricking them into accepting the certificate as valid. The updated packages have been patched to correct these issues.
4213f00026400b82e246c568f026894fMandriva Linux Security Advisory 2011-161 - contrib/pg_crypto's blowfish encryption code could give wrong results on platforms where char is signed (which is most), leading to encrypted passwords being weaker than they should be. Additionally corrected ossp-uuid packages as well as corrected support in postgresql 9.0.x are being provided for Mandriva Linux 2011. This update provides a solution to this vulnerability.
a8662054bf78f17bc6fbe898afa18e71Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2011-160 - The krb5_ldap_lockout_audit function in the Key Distribution Center 1.8 through 1.8.4 and 1.9 through 1.9.1, when the LDAP back end is used, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via unspecified vectors, related to the locked_check_p function. The lookup_lockout_policy function in the Key Distribution Center in MIT Kerberos 5 1.8 through 1.8.4 and 1.9 through 1.9.1, when the db2 or LDAP back end is used, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash) via vectors that trigger certain process_as_req errors. The updated packages have been patched to correct these issues.
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