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Fedora – Security Updates

Fedora EPEL 5 Security Update: mantis-1.2.17-3.el5

Resolved Bugs
1141310 – CVE-2014-6387 mantis: null byte poisoning in LDAP authentication
1141314 – mantis: null byte poisoning in LDAP authentication [epel-5]<br
Fix for CVE-2014-6387
Please note: this update is from the 1.2 series, so existing installations (on 1.1) will need manual upgrade steps to apply the DB schema migration.
Please check the file
/usr/share/doc/mantis/README.Fedora
for the installation/upgrade steps.

Fedora 21 Security Update: claws-mail-plugins-3.11.1-1.fc21,claws-mail-3.11.1-2.fc21,libetpan-1.6-1.fc21

Resolved Bugs
1153970 – claws-mail: disable SSLv3 completely
569478 – upstream bug 2769: crash when activating offline mode during IMAP remote activity
601982 – [abrt] crash in claws-mail-3.7.6-1.fc13: in compose_close at compose.c:11016 (SIGABRT)
977924 – [abrt] IMAP interruption side-effects / claws-mail-3.9.2-1.fc19: folder_item_get_msginfo_by_msgid: Process /usr/bin/claws-mail was killed by signal 11 (SIGSEGV)
982533 – [abrt] IMAP interruptions side-effects / claws-mail-3.9.2-1.fc19: g_malloc0: Process /usr/bin/claws-mail was killed by signal 11 (SIGSEGV)
990650 – [abrt] claws-mail-3.9.2-3.fc19: standard_calloc: Process /usr/bin/claws-mail was killed by signal 11 (SIGSEGV)
1011098 – [abrt] claws-mail-3.9.2-7.fc19: g_malloc0: Process /usr/bin/claws-mail was killed by signal 11 (SIGSEGV)
1010993 – [abrt] claws-mail-3.9.2-7.fc19: gdata plugin gnutls_init in _int_malloc: Process /usr/bin/claws-mail was killed by signal 11 (SIGSEGV)
1035851 – [abrt] mark as read / claws-mail-3.9.2-7.fc19: gtk_cmctree_is_viewable: Process /usr/bin/claws-mail was killed by signal 11 (SIGSEGV)
1036346 – [abrt] claws-mail-3.9.2-7.fc20: g_malloc0: Process /usr/bin/claws-mail was killed by signal 11 (SIGSEGV)
1063035 – [abrt] claws-mail: allocator_memalign(): claws-mail killed by SIGSEGV
1070480 – Claws-Mail IMAP related memory corruption crash while waiting for server response and a network reconnection happens
1071327 – [abrt] claws-mail: g_malloc(): claws-mail killed by SIGSEGV
1076387 – [abrt] claws-mail: summary_delete_row(): claws-mail killed by SIGSEGV
1078996 – [abrt] claws-mail: malloc crash from within _cairo_polygon_intersect(): claws-mail killed by SIGSEGV
1079509 – [abrt] claws-mail: folder_item_get_msginfo_by_msgid(): claws-mail killed by SIGSEGV
1079620 – [abrt] claws-mail: set_cell_contents(): claws-mail killed by SIGSEGV
1081224 – [abrt] claws-mail: summary_set_row_marks(): claws-mail killed by SIGSEGV
1085382 – [abrt] claws-mail: g_malloc(): claws-mail killed by SIGSEGV
1090300 – [abrt] claws-mail: row_is_selected(): claws-mail killed by SIGSEGV
1096041 – [abrt] IMAP interruptions side-effects / g_malloc0(): claws-mail killed by SIGSEGV
1096895 – [abrt] IMAP interruptions side-effects / at malloc.c:3645 / _cairo_traps_grow(): claws-mail killed by SIGSEGV
1110255 – claws-mail: stack-based off-by-one in HTML parsing [fedora-all]<br
* SSLv3 server connections are now disabled by default, in response to the POODLE vulnerability, see https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-3566.
* Several PGP/Core plugin improvements
* A new version of the RSSyl plugin, completely redesigned and rewritten.
* The results of TAB address completion in the Compose window have improved ordering.
* Due to popular demand, use of the Up key in the message body in the Compose window stops at the top of the message body and does not continue up to the header fields. This reverts the behaviour introduced in version 3.10.0.
* In the Compose window, when navigating with the arrow keys, selecting, and thus modifying, the Account selector is now prevented.
* In the Compose window, a mnemonic (s) has been added to the Subject line.
* The Queue folder is highlighted if there are messages in its sub-folders and the tree is collapsed.
* When sorting messages by ‘thread date’, clicking the ‘Date’ column header will now toggle between ascending/descending and will not switch to ‘date’ sorting.
* A new QuickSearch filter has been added that searches a header’s content only. H S : messages which contain S in the value of any header.
* A Reply-To field has been added to the main Template configuration.
* The menubar can now be hidden, default hotkey: F12.
* Fancy plugin: A user-controlled stylesheet can now be used.
* Python plugin: Add flag attributes to MessageInfo object.
* Python plugin: Make ‘account’ property of ComposeWindow read/write.
* Libravatar plugin: a network timeout option has been added.
* Use ‘gnutls_priority’ hidden account preference for POP3 and STARTTLS connections, in addition to SMTP.
* RSSyl plugin: Enable use of .netrc to store network credentials.
* The tbird2claws.py script, for converting a Thunderbird mailbox to a Claws Mail mailbox, now handles sub-directory recursion.
* Updated translations
* Various Bugfixes
New in 3.10.1:
* Add an account preference to allow automatically accepting unknown and changed SSL certificates, if they’re valid (that is, if the root CA is trusted by the distro).
* RFE 3196, ‘When changing quicksearch Search Type, set focus to search input box’
* PGP/Core plugin: Generate 2048 bit RSA keys.
* Major code cleanup.
* Extended claws-mail.desktop with Compose and Receive actions.
* Updated Bulgarian, Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, Dutch, Esperanto, Finnish, French, German,Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Lithuanian, Slovak, Spanish, and Swedish translations.
* Bug fixes
New in 3.10.0:
* Complete SSL certificate chains are now saved, and if built with Libetpan 1.4.1, the IMAP SSL connection’s certificate chain is made available. Both of these allow correct certificate verification instead of a bogus ‘No certificate issuer found’ status.
* Auto-configuration of account email servers, based on SRV records, is now possible. (GLib >= 2.22 is required.)
* Added a preference to avoid automatically drafting emails that are to be sent encrypted, (Configuration/Preferences/Compose/Writing).
* Messages saved as Drafts are now saved as New, highlighting the Drafts folder, in order to draw the attention to unfinished mails there.
* It is now possible to add a ‘Replace signature’ button to the Compose window toolbar.
* Quotation wrapping and undo/redo in the Compose window has been improved.
* ‘Reply to all’ now excludes your own address.
* The ‘Generate X-Mailer header’ option has been renamed ‘Add user agent header’ and applies to both X-Mailer and X-Newsreader headers.
* Added hidden preferences, ‘address_search_wildcard’ and ‘folder_search_wildcard’, to choose between matching from start of the folder name/address or any part of the name. (Activating these options restores the previous behaviour.)
* Added hidden preference ‘enable_avatars’ to control the internal capture/render process, and which allows disabling it by external plugins for example.
* ‘Check for new folders’ now only updates the folder list, not updating the contents of folders. If needed, it can be followed by ‘Check for new messages’
* When using Redirect, the redirecting account’s address is used in the SMTP MAIL FROM instead of the original sender’s address.
* NEW: Libravatar plugin, which displays avatars from https://www.libravatar.org/
* Added support for an arbitrary number and sources of ‘avatars’ and images for email senders, and migrated Face and X-Face headers.
* Avatars are now included when printing mails.
* The GPG keyring can now be used as the source for address auto-completion.
* The vCalendar and RSSyl plugins now have an option to disable SSL certificate verification (and check them by default).
* The ClamAV plugin now pops up an error message only once instead of repeatedly
* Updated the man page and the manual.
* Updated Brazilian Portuguese, British English, Czech, Dutch, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Lithuanian, Slovak, Spanish, and Swedish translations.
* Added Esperanto translation.

Fedora 21 Security Update: python3-3.4.1-16.fc21

Resolved Bugs
1113529 – CVE-2014-4650 python3: python: CGIHTTPServer module does not properly handle URL-encoded path separators in URLs [fedora-all]
1112285 – CVE-2014-4616 python: missing boundary check in JSON module
1112294 – python3: python: JSON module – reading arbitrary process memory [fedora-all]<br
Fix for CVE-2014-4650: CGIHTTPServer module does not properly handle URL-encoded path separators in URLs.
Fix for CVE-2014-4650

Fedora 21 Security Update: kernel-3.17.2-300.fc21

Resolved Bugs
1157327 – quirk for Lenovo Yoga 3: no rfkill switch
1144883 – CVE-2014-3610 kernel: kvm: noncanonical MSR writes
1156543 – CVE-2014-3610 kernel: kvm: noncanonical MSR writes [fedora-all]
1111138 – TouchPad not recognized on fujitsu A544
1156615 – CVE-2014-8480 CVE-2014-8481 kernel: kvm: NULL pointer dereference during rip relative instruction emulation
1156616 – CVE-2014-8480 CVE-2014-8481 kernel: kvm: NULL pointer dereference during rip relative instruction emulation [fedora-all]
1156518 – CVE-2014-8369 kernel: kvm: excessive pages un-pinning in kvm_iommu_map error path
1156522 – CVE-2014-8369 kernel: kvm: excessive pages un-pinning in kvm_iommu_map error path [fedora-all]
1144825 – CVE-2014-3646 kernel: kvm: vmx: invvpid vm exit not handled
1156534 – CVE-2014-3646 kernel: kvm: vmx: invvpid vm exit not handled [fedora-all]
1144878 – CVE-2014-3611 kernel: kvm: PIT timer race condition
1156537 – CVE-2014-3611 kernel: kvm: PIT timer race condition [fedora-all]
1153381 – Synaptics clickpad on Lenovo T440s does not work properly after kernel update on Fedora 20
1089731 – Ath9k WiFi now disabled by radio killswitch
1153322 – CVE-2014-3690 kernel: kvm: vmx: invalid host cr4 handling across vm entries
1155372 – CVE-2014-3690 kernel: kvm: vmx: invalid host cr4 handling across vm entries [fedora-all]
1155745 – CVE-2014-3688 kernel: net: sctp: remote memory pressure from excessive queueing
1155751 – CVE-2014-3688 kernel: net: sctp: remote memory pressure from excessive queueing [fedora-all]
1155731 – CVE-2014-3687 kernel: net: sctp: fix panic on duplicate ASCONF chunks
1155738 – CVE-2014-3687 kernel: net: sctp: fix panic on duplicate ASCONF chunks [fedora-all]
1147850 – CVE-2014-3673 kernel: sctp: skb_over_panic when receiving malformed ASCONF chunks
1155727 – CVE-2014-3673 kernel: sctp: skb_over_panic when receiving malformed ASCONF chunks [fedora-all]<br
Linux v3.17.2. A wide variety of fixes across the tree.
Even more KVM CVE fixes
CVE fixes for KVM and SCTP.

Fedora 21 Security Update: pidgin-2.10.10-2.fc21

Resolved Bugs
1155838 – CVE-2014-3698 CVE-2014-3694 CVE-2014-3695 CVE-2014-3696 pidgin: various flaws [fedora-all]
1154908 – CVE-2014-3694 pidgin: SSL/TLS plug-ins failed to check Basic Constraints
1154909 – CVE-2014-3695 pidgin: crash in MXit protocol plug-in
1154910 – CVE-2014-3696 pidgin: denial of service parsing Groupwise server message
1154911 – CVE-2014-3698 pidgin: remote information leak via crafted XMPP message<br
fix build on arches without valgrind
Update to 2.10.10
Security fix for CVE-2014-3694, CVE-2014-3695, CVE-2014-3696, CVE-2014-3698