Frugalware Security Announcements (FSAs)

This is a list of security announcments that have been released for the current stable version of Frugalware

pdns-recursor

  • Author: kikadf
  • Vulnerable: 3.3-8
  • Unaffected: 3.3-9arcturus1

Florian Maury from ANSSI discovered a flaw in pdns-recursor, a recursive DNS server : a remote attacker controlling maliciously-constructed zones or a rogue server could affect the performance of pdns-recursor, thus leading to resource exhaustion and a potential denial-of-service.

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xorg-server

  • Author: kikadf
  • Vulnerable: 1.14.2-2
  • Unaffected: 1.14.2-3arcturus1

Ilja van Sprundel discovered a multitude of security issues in the X.Org X server.

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glibc

  • Author: kikadf
  • Vulnerable: 2.16.0-4arcturus1
  • Unaffected: 2.16.0-4arcturus2

Adhemerval Zanella Netto discovered that the GNU C Library incorrectly handled certain multibyte characters when using the iconv function. Tim Waugh discovered that the GNU C Library incorrectly enforced the WRDE_NOCMD flag when handling the wordexp function.

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jasper

  • Author: kikadf
  • Vulnerable: 1.900.1-5
  • Unaffected: 1.900.1-6arcturus1

Two buffer overflows were discovered in JasPer, a library for handling JPEG-2000 images, which could lead to the execution of arbitrary code. Josh Duart of the Google Security Team discovered heap-based buffer overflow flaws in JasPer, a library for manipulating JPEG-2000 files, which could lead to denial of service (application crash) or the execution of arbitrary code.

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