MGASA-2014-0492

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    MGASA-2014-0492

    Published: 26 Nov 2014Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026

    Summary: Updated drupal packages fix security vulnerabilities

    Details: Updated drupal packages fix security vulnerability: Aaron Averill discovered that a specially crafted request can give a user access to another user's session, allowing an attacker to hijack a random session (CVE-2014-9015). Michael Cullum, Javier Nieto and Andres Rojas Guerrero discovered that the password hashing API allows an attacker to send specially crafted requests resulting in CPU and memory exhaustion. This may lead to the site becoming unavailable or unresponsive (denial of service) (CVE-2014-9016). anonymous users (CVE-2014-9016).

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0492.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14614, https://www.drupal.org/SA-CORE-2014-006, https://drupal.org/drupal-7.33, https://drupal.org/drupal-7.33-release-notes, https://drupal.org/drupal-7.34, https://drupal.org/drupal-7.34-release-notes, https://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3075

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: drupal

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/drupal?arch=source&distro=mageia-3

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -7.34-1.mga3

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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