The updated packages fix security vulnerabilities: A flaw was found in xorg-server. Querying or changing XKB button actions such as moving from a touchpad to a mouse can result in out-of-bounds memory reads and writes. This may allow local privilege escalation or possible remote code execution in cases where X11 forwarding is
The updated packages fix a security vulnerability: A vulnerability was found that the response times to malformed ciphertexts in RSA-PSK ClientKeyExchange differ from response times of ciphertexts with correct PKCS#1 v1.5 padding. (CVE-2023-5981)
The updated packages fix security vulnerabilities: Videolan VLC prior to version 3.0.20 contains an incorrect offset read that leads to a Heap-Based Buffer Overflow in function GetPacket() and results in a memory corruption (CVE-2023-47359). Videolan VLC prior to version 3.0.20 contains an Integer underflow that
The updated packages fix security vulnerabilities: Truncated signed text was shown with a valid OpenPGP signature. (CVE-2023-50762) S/MIME signature accepted despite mismatching message date. (CVE-2023-50761)
The SSH transport protocol with certain OpenSSH extensions, found in OpenSSH before 9.6 and other products, allows remote attackers to bypass integrity checks such that some packets are omitted (from the extension negotiation message), and a client and server may consequently end up with a connection for which some security features have been downgraded
New version 0.10.6 for fixing security vulnerabilities of CVE-2023-6004, CVE-2023-48795 [Prefix Truncation Attacks in SSH Specification (Terrapin Attack)] and CVE-2023-6918. References:
ProFTPd upstream has released version 1.3.8b to fix CVE-2023-48795. >From the changelog: - Implemented mitigations for "Terrapin" SSH attack (CVE-2023-48795). References:
The chromium-browser-stable package has been updated to the 120.0.6099.129 release, fixing bugs and 20 vulnerabilities, together with 120.0.6099.109, 120.0.6099.71 and 120.0.6099.62; some of them are listed below. High CVE-2023-6508: Use after free in Media Stream. Reported by Cassidy
Updated gstreamer packages fix many security issues (see the references below). Apart from the listed CVEs, ZDI-CAN-22300 is also fixed. References:
This update fixes the following security issue. Bluetooth HID Hosts in BlueZ may permit an unauthenticated Peripheral role HID Device to initiate and establish an encrypted connection, and accept HID keyboard reports, potentially permitting injection of HID messages when no user interaction has occurred in the Central role to
The updated packages fix security vulnerabilities: Fusiondirectory 1.3 suffers from Improper Session Handling. (CVE-2022-36179) Fusiondirectory 1.3 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS) via /fusiondirectory/index.php?message=[injection],
The updated packages fix a security vulnerability. An issue was discovered in the function gdev_prn_open_printer_seekable() in Artifex Ghostscript through 10.02.0 allows remote attackers to crash the application via a dangling pointer. (CVE-2023-46751)
The updated packages fix a security vulnerability: The AES GCM decryption routine incorrectly uses the Tag length from the actual Authentication Tag provided in the JWE. The spec says that a fixed length of 16 octets must be applied. Therefore this bug allows an attacker to provide a truncated Authentication Tag and to modify the JWE
Update to upstream golang 1.21.5 to fix CVE2023-39326 and CVE-2023-4528[35] In Mageia 8, this update also allows build nodes to build docker stack References:
A vulnerability in Outline.cc for Poppler prior to 23.06.0 allows a remote attacker to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) (crash) via a crafted PDF file in OutlineItem::open. (CVE-2023-34872) This update fixes that issue.
2 patches are added to audiofile source to correct a vulnerability. In Audio File Library (aka audiofile) 0.3.6, there exists one NULL pointer dereference bug in ulaw2linear_buf in G711.cpp in libmodules.a that allows an attacker to cause a denial of service via a crafted file. (CVE-2019-13147)
GIMP has been updated to version 2.10.36 to fix several security issues. CVE-2023-44441: GIMP DDS File Parsing Heap-based Buffer Overflow Remote Code Execution Vulnerability CVE-2023-44442: GIMP PSD File Parsing Heap-based Buffer Overflow Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
The updated Curl Mageia 8 and 9 packages contain a patch to fix CVE-2023-46218 The Mageia 9 packages als contain a patch to fix CVE-2023-46219. Curl in Mageia 8 does not need that patch because it is not affected by that issue.
Mageia 9 is updated to version 3.6.4 to fix CVE-2023-49284. Mageia 8 receives an upstream patch to fix CVE-2023-49284. CVE-2023-49284: fish shell uses certain Unicode non-characters internally for marking wildcards and expansions. It will incorrectly allow these markers to be read on command substitution output, rather
The updated packages fix security vulnerabilities. Out-of-bound memory access in WebGL2 blitFramebuffer. (CVE-2023-6204) Use-after-free in MessagePort::Entangled. (CVE-2023-6205)
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