Timothy D. Morgan discovered that run-mailcap, an utility to execute programs via entries in the mailcap file, is prone to shell command injection via shell meta-characters in filenames. In specific scenarios this flaw could allow an attacker to remotely execute arbitrary code.
For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 3.52-1+deb7u1.
For the upcoming stable distribution (jessie) and the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your mime-support packages.
Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be found at:https://www.debian.org/security/
Michele Spagnuolo of the Google Security Team discovered that unzip, an extraction utility for archives compressed in .zip format, is affected by heap-based buffer overflows within the CRC32 verification function (CVE-2014-8139), the test_compr_eb() function (CVE-2014-8140) and the getZip64Data() function (CVE-2014-8141), which may lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 6.0-8+deb7u1.
For the upcoming stable distribution (jessie), these problems will be fixed soon.
For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 6.0-13.
We recommend that you upgrade your unzip packages.
Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be found at:https://www.debian.org/security/
Jonathan Gray and Stanislaw Pitucha found an assertion failure in the way wrapped strings are parsed in Python-YAML, a YAML parser and emitter for Python. An attacker able to load specially crafted YAML input into an application using python-yaml could cause the application to crash.
For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 3.10-4+deb7u1.
For the upcoming stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 3.11-2.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 3.11-2.
We recommend that you upgrade your pyyaml packages.
Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be found at:https://www.debian.org/security/
It was discovered that a memory leak in parsing X.509 certificates may result in denial of service.
For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 1.2.9-1~deb7u4.
For the upcoming stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 1.3.9-1.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.3.9-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your polarssl packages.
Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be found at:https://www.debian.org/security/