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Updated hal packages are available for Mandriva Linux

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Mandriva Linux Update Advisory
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Package name: hal
Advisory ID: MDKA-2005:036
Date: July 27th, 2005

Affected versions: 10.2
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Problem Description:

A problem was discovered in the hal package when used for auto-mounting USB storage devices (such as memory sticks) that were formatted using the DOS filesystem, or which are using manufacturer formatting. The mount points were not being created the auto-mounting was not working properly.

Updated packages are provided to fix this issue.

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A zlib security update is available for Mandriva Linux

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Mandriva Linux Security Update Advisory
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Package name: zlib
Advisory ID: MDKSA-2005:124
Date: July 22nd, 2005

Affected versions: 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, Corporate 3.0,
Multi Network Firewall 2.0
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Problem Description:

A previous zlib update (MDKSA-2005:112; CAN-2005-2096) fixed an overflow flaw in the zlib program. While that update did indeed fix the reported overflow issue, Markus Oberhumber discovered additional ways that a specially-crafted compressed stream could trigger an overflow. An attacker could create such a stream that would cause a linked application to crash if opened by a user.

The updated packages are provided to protect against this flaw. The Corporate Server 2.1 product is not affected by this vulnerability.

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Updated mozilla-firefox packages are available for Mandriva Linux 10.2

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Mandriva Linux Security Update Advisory
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Package name: mozilla-firefox
Advisory ID: MDKSA-2005:120-1
Date: July 22nd, 2005
Original Advisory Date: July 13th, 2005
Affected versions: 10.2
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Problem Description:

A number of vulnerabilities were reported and fixed in Firefox 1.0.5 and Mozilla 1.7.9. The following vulnerabilities have been backported and patched for this update:

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A ClamAV update is available for Mandriva Linux

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Mandriva Linux Update Advisory
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Package name: clamav
Advisory ID: MDKA-2005:035
Date: July 22nd, 2005

Affected versions: 10.1, 10.2, Corporate 3.0
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Problem Description:

Clamav is being updated to 0.86.1 for all supported versions in order to provide compatibility with the latest virus definitions.

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Updated shorewall packages are available for Mandriva Linux

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Mandriva Linux Security Update Advisory
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Package name: shorewall
Advisory ID: MDKSA-2005:123
Date: July 20th, 2005

Affected versions: 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, Corporate 3.0,
Multi Network Firewall 2.0
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Problem Description:

A vulnerability was discovered in all versions of shorewall where a client accepted by MAC address filtering is able to bypass any other rule. If MACLIST_TTL is set to a value greater than 0 or MACLIST_DISPOSITION is set to ACCEPT in shorewall.conf, and a client is positively identified through its MAC address, it bypasses all other policies and rules in place, gaining access to all open services on the firewall.

Shorewall 2.0.17 is provided which fixes this issue.

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Updated kdelibs packages has been released for Mandriva Linux

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Mandriva Linux Security Update Advisory
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Package name: kdelibs
Advisory ID: MDKSA-2005:122
Date: July 20th, 2005

Affected versions: 10.1, 10.2, Corporate 3.0
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Problem Description:

The Kate and Kwrite programs create a file backup before saving a modified file. These backup files are created with default system permissions, even if the original file had more strict permissions set.

The updated packages have been patched to address this issue.

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Updated cpio packages are available for Mandriva Linux

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Mandriva Linux Security Update Advisory
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Package name: cpio
Advisory ID: MDKSA-2005:116-1
Date: July 19th, 2005
Original Advisory Date: July 11th, 2005
Affected versions: 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, Corporate 3.0,
Corporate Server 2.1,
Multi Network Firewall 2.0
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Problem Description:

A race condition has been found in cpio 2.6 and earlier which allows local users to modify permissions of arbitrary files via a hard link attack on a file while it is being decompressed, whose permissions are changed by cpio after the decompression is complete (CAN-2005-1111).

A vulnerability has been discovered in cpio that allows a malicious cpio file to extract to an arbitrary directory of the attackers choice. cpio will extract to the path specified in the cpio file, this path can be absolute (CAN-2005-1229).

Update:

The previous packages had a problem upgrading due to an unresolved issue with tar and rmt. These packages correct the problem.

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Updated nss_ldap/pam_ldap packages are available for Mandriva Linux

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Mandriva Linux Security Update Advisory
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Package name: nss_ldap
Advisory ID: MDKSA-2005:121
Date: July 18th, 2005

Affected versions: 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, Corporate 3.0,
Corporate Server 2.1,
Multi Network Firewall 2.0
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Problem Description:

Rob Holland, of the Gentoo Security Audit Team, discovered that pam_ldap and nss_ldap would not use TLS for referred connections if they are referred to a master after connecting to a slave, regardless of the "ssl start_tls" setting in ldap.conf.

As well, a bug in nss_ldap in Corporate Server and Mandrake 10.0 has been fixed that caused crond, and other applications, to crash as a result of clients receiving a SIGPIPE signal when attempting to issue a new search request to a directory server that is no longer available.

The updated packages have been patched to address this issue.

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Updated mozilla-firefox packages are available for Mandriva Linux

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Mandriva Linux Security Update Advisory
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Package name: mozilla-firefox
Advisory ID: MDKSA-2005:120
Date: July 13th, 2005

Affected versions: 10.2
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Problem Description:

A number of vulnerabilities were reported and fixed in Firefox 1.0.5 and Mozilla 1.7.9. The following vulnerabilities have been backported and patched for this update:

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Updated krb5 packages are available for Mandriva Linux

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Mandriva Linux Security Update Advisory
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Package name: krb5
Advisory ID: MDKSA-2005:119
Date: July 13th, 2005

Affected versions: 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, Corporate 3.0,
Corporate Server 2.1,
Multi Network Firewall 2.0
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Problem Description:

A number of vulnerabilities have been corrected in this Kerberos
update:

The rcp protocol would allow a server to instruct a client to write to arbitrary files outside of the current directory. The Kerberos-aware rcp could be abused to copy files from a malicious server (CAN-2004-0175).

Gael Delalleau discovered an information disclosure vulnerability in the way some telnet clients handled messages from a server. This could be abused by a malicious telnet server to collect information from the environment of any victim connecting to the server using the Kerberos- aware telnet client (CAN-2005-0488).

Daniel Wachdorf disovered that in error conditions that could occur in response to correctly-formatted client requests, the Kerberos 5 KDC may attempt to free uninitialized memory, which could cause the KDC to crash resulting in a Denial of Service (CAN-2005-1174).

Daniel Wachdorf also discovered a single-byte heap overflow in the krb5_unparse_name() function that could, if successfully exploited, lead to a crash, resulting in a DoS. To trigger this flaw, an attacker would need to have control of a Kerberos realm that shares a cross- realm key with the target (CAN-2005-1175).

Finally, a double-free flaw was discovered in the krb5_recvauth() routine which could be triggered by a remote unauthenticated attacker. This issue could potentially be exploited to allow for the execution of arbitrary code on a KDC. No exploit is currently known to exist (CAN-2005-1689).

The updated packages have been patched to address this issue and Mandriva urges all users to upgrade to these packages as quickly as possible.

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Updated ruby packages has been released for Mandriva Linux

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Mandriva Linux Security Update Advisory
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Package name: ruby
Advisory ID: MDKSA-2005:118
Date: July 12th, 2005

Affected versions: 10.1, 10.2, Corporate 3.0
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Problem Description:

A vulnerability was discovered in ruby version 1.8 that could allow for the execution of arbitrary commands on a server running the ruby xmlrpc server.

The updated packages have been patched to address this issue.

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A dhcpcd update has been released for Mandriva Linux

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Mandriva Linux Security Update Advisory
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Package name: dhcpcd
Advisory ID: MDKSA-2005:117
Date: July 12th, 2005

Affected versions: 10.1, 10.2, Corporate 3.0
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Problem Description:

"infamous42md" discovered that the dhcpcd DHCP client could be tricked into reading past the end of the supplied DHCP buffer, which could lead to the daemon crashing.

The updated packages have been patched to address this issue.

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Updated cpio packages are available for Mandriva Linux

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Mandriva Linux Security Update Advisory
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Package name: cpio
Advisory ID: MDKSA-2005:116
Date: July 11th, 2005

Affected versions: 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, Corporate 3.0,
Corporate Server 2.1
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Problem Description:

A race condition has been found in cpio 2.6 and earlier which allows local users to modify permissions of arbitrary files via a hard link attack on a file while it is being decompressed, whose permissions are changed by cpio after the decompression is complete. (CAN-2005-1111)

A vulnerability has been discovered in cpio that allows a malicious cpio file to extract to an arbitrary directory of the attackers choice. Cpio will extract to the path specified in the cpio file, this path can be absolute. (CAN-2005-1229)

The updated packages have been patched to address both of these issues.

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Updated clamav packages are available for Mandriva Linux

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Mandriva Linux Security Update Advisory
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Package name: clamav
Advisory ID: MDKSA-2005:113
Date: July 11th, 2005

Affected versions: 10.1, 10.2, Corporate 3.0
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Problem Description:

Andrew Toller and Stefan Kanthak discovered that a flaw in libmspack's Quantum archive decompressor renders Clam AntiVirus vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack.

The updated packages have been patched to correct the problem.

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Updated leafnode packages are available for Mandriva Linux

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Mandriva Linux Security Update Advisory
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Package name: leafnode
Advisory ID: MDKSA-2005:114
Date: July 11th, 2005

Affected versions: 10.1, 10.2, Corporate 3.0
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Problem Description:

A number of vulnerabilities in the leafnode NNTP server package have been found:

A vulnerability in the fetchnews program that could under some circumstances cause a wait for input that never arrives, which in turn would cause fetchnews to hang (CAN-2004-2068).

Two vulnerabilities in the fetchnews program can cause fetchnews to crash when the upstream server closes the connection and leafnode is receiving an article header or an article body, which prevent leafnode from querying other servers that are listed after that particular server in the configuration file (CAN-2005-1453).

Finally, another vulnerability in the fetchnews program could also cuase a wait for input that never arrives, causing fetchnews to hang (CAN-2005-1911).

The updated packages have been patched to correct this problem.

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Updated mplayer packages are available for Mandriva Linux

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Mandriva Linux Security Update Advisory
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Package name: mplayer
Advisory ID: MDKSA-2005:115
Date: July 11th, 2005

Affected versions: 10.1, 10.2, Corporate 3.0
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Problem Description:

Two heap overflows were discovered in mplayer's code handling the RealMedia RTSP and Microsoft Media Services streams over TCP (MMST). These vulnerabilities could allow for a malicious server to execute arbitrary code on the client computer with the permissions of the user running MPlayer.

The updated packages have been patched to correct this problem.

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Updated drakxtools packages are available for Mandriva Linux

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Mandriva Linux Update Advisory
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Package name: drakxtools
Advisory ID: MDKA-2005:034
Date: July 11th, 2005

Affected versions: 10.0, Corporate 3.0
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Problem Description:

Three bugs have been corrected in the drakxtools package:

drakfirewall: The port range syntax has been corrected for samba. (#16604)
drakfont: Uninstalling fonts has been fixed. (#9324)
drakbackup: The application has been patched to correctly deal with
directory names that contain spaces, as well as add more
restrictive permissions on the backup tarballs. (#12861)

The updated packages correct these issues.

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A zlib security update has been released for Mandriva Linux

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Mandriva Linux Security Update Advisory
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Package name: zlib
Advisory ID: MDKSA-2005:112
Date: July 6th, 2005

Affected versions: 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, Corporate 3.0
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Problem Description:

Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Security Project discovered a vulnerability in zlib where a certain data stream would cause zlib to corrupt a data structure, resulting in the linked application to dump core.

The updated packages have been patched to correct this problem.

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Updated 2.4 kernel packages are availaable for Mandriva Linux

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Mandriva Linux Security Update Advisory
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Package name: kernel-2.4
Advisory ID: MDKSA-2005:111
Date: June 30th, 2005

Affected versions: 10.0, 10.1, Corporate 3.0,
Corporate Server 2.1,
Multi Network Firewall 8.2
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Problem Description:

Multiple vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel have been discovered and fixed in this update. The following have been fixed in the 2.4 kernels:

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Updated 2.6 kernel packages are available for Mandriva Linux

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Mandriva Linux Security Update Advisory
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Package name: kernel
Advisory ID: MDKSA-2005:110
Date: June 30th, 2005

Affected versions: 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, Corporate 3.0
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Problem Description:

Multiple vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel have been discovered and fixed in this update. The following CVE names have been fixed in the LE2005 kernel: