Category Archives: Mandriva

Mandriva Security Advisory

MDVSA-2015:019: openssl

Multiple vulnerabilities has been discovered and corrected in openssl:

A carefully crafted DTLS message can cause a segmentation fault in
OpenSSL due to a NULL pointer dereference. This could lead to a Denial
Of Service attack (CVE-2014-3571).

A memory leak can occur in the dtls1_buffer_record function under
certain conditions. In particular this could occur if an attacker
sent repeated DTLS records with the same sequence number but for the
next epoch. The memory leak could be exploited by an attacker in a
Denial of Service attack through memory exhaustion (CVE-2015-0206).

When openssl is built with the no-ssl3 option and a SSL v3 ClientHello
is received the ssl method would be set to NULL which could later
result in a NULL pointer dereference (CVE-2014-3569).

An OpenSSL client will accept a handshake using an ephemeral ECDH
ciphersuite using an ECDSA certificate if the server key exchange
message is omitted. This effectively removes forward secrecy from
the ciphersuite (CVE-2014-3572).

An OpenSSL client will accept the use of an RSA temporary key in
a non-export RSA key exchange ciphersuite. A server could present
a weak temporary key and downgrade the security of the session
(CVE-2015-0204).

An OpenSSL server will accept a DH certificate for client
authentication without the certificate verify message. This effectively
allows a client to authenticate without the use of a private key. This
only affects servers which trust a client certificate authority which
issues certificates containing DH keys: these are extremely rare and
hardly ever encountered (CVE-2015-0205).

OpenSSL accepts several non-DER-variations of certificate signature
algorithm and signature encodings. OpenSSL also does not enforce a
match between the signature algorithm between the signed and unsigned
portions of the certificate. By modifying the contents of the signature
algorithm or the encoding of the signature, it is possible to change
the certificate’s fingerprint. This does not allow an attacker to
forge certificates, and does not affect certificate verification or
OpenSSL servers/clients in any other way. It also does not affect
common revocation mechanisms. Only custom applications that rely
on the uniqueness of the fingerprint (e.g. certificate blacklists)
may be affected (CVE-2014-8275).

Bignum squaring (BN_sqr) may produce incorrect results on some
platforms, including x86_64. This bug occurs at random with a very
low probability, and is not known to be exploitable in any way,
though its exact impact is difficult to determine (CVE-2014-3570).

The updated packages have been upgraded to the 1.0.0p version where
these security flaws has been fixed.

MDVSA-2015:018: asterisk

Updated asterisk packages fix security vulnerability:

Double free vulnerability in the WebSocket Server (res_http_websocket
module) in Asterisk Open Source 11.x before 11.14.2 allows remote
attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) by sending a zero
length frame after a non-zero length frame (CVE-2014-9374).

MDVSA-2015:012: jasper

Updated jasper packages fix security vulnerabilities:

A double free flaw was found in the way JasPer parsed ICC color
profiles in JPEG 2000 image files. A specially crafted file could
cause an application using JasPer to crash or, possibly, execute
arbitrary code (CVE-2014-8137).

A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way JasPer
decoded JPEG 2000 image files. A specially crafted file could cause
an application using JasPer to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary
code (CVE-2014-8138).

MDVSA-2015:013: znc

Updated znc packages fix security vulnerabilities:

Multiple vulnerabilities were reported in ZNC version 1.0 which can
be exploited by malicious authenticated users to cause a denial of
service. These flaws are due to errors when handling the editnetwork,
editchan, addchan, and delchan page requests; they can be exploited
to cause a NULL pointer dereference (CVE-2013-2130).

Adding an already existing channel to a user/network via web admin
in ZNC causes a crash if the channel name isn’t prefixed with ‘#’
(CVE-2014-9403).

MDVSA-2015:015: sox

Updated sox packages fix security vulnerability:

The sox command line tool is affected by two heap-based buffer
overflows, respectively located in functions start_read() and
AdpcmReadBlock(). A specially crafted wav file can be used to trigger
the vulnerabilities (CVE-2014-8145).

MDVSA-2015:016: unzip

Updated unzip package fix security vulnerabilities:

The unzip command line tool is affected by heap-based buffer overflows
within the CRC32 verification (CVE-2014-8139), the test_compr_eb()
(CVE-2014-8140) and the getZip64Data() (CVE-2014-8141) functions. The
input errors may result in in arbitrary code execution. A specially
crafted zip file, passed to the command unzip -t, can be used to
trigger the vulnerability.

OOB access (both read and write) issues also exist in test_compr_eb()
that can result in application crash or other unspecified impact. A
specially crafted zip file, passed to the command unzip -t, can be
used to trigger the issues.

MDVSA-2015:017: libevent

Updated libevent packages fix security vulnerability:

Andrew Bartlett of Catalyst reported a defect affecting certain
applications using the Libevent evbuffer API. This defect leaves
applications which pass insanely large inputs to evbuffers open
to a possible heap overflow or infinite loop. In order to exploit
this flaw, an attacker needs to be able to find a way to provoke the
program into trying to make a buffer chunk larger than what will fit
into a single size_t or off_t (CVE-2014-6272).

MDVSA-2015:010: file

Updated file packages fix security vulnerabilities:

Thomas Jarosch of Intra2net AG reported that using the file command
on a specially-crafted ELF binary could lead to a denial of service
due to uncontrolled resource consumption (CVE-2014-8116).

Thomas Jarosch of Intra2net AG reported that using the file command
on a specially-crafted ELF binary could lead to a denial of service
due to uncontrolled recursion (CVE-2014-8117).

The updated file packages has been upgraded to the latest 5.22 version
which is not vulnerable to these issues.

MDVSA-2015:011: nail

Updated nail package fixes security vulnerabilities:

A flaw was found in the way mailx handled the parsing of email
addresses. A syntactically valid email address could allow a local
attacker to cause mailx to execute arbitrary shell commands through
shell meta-characters and the direct command execution functionality
(CVE-2004-2771, CVE-2014-7844).