Mageia 4
Mageia 4
The Mageia 4 reached end of service life on Sep 19, 2015 — Mageia no longer ships security patches or fixes for it. Our third-party support keeps it safe to run: 24/7 engineers manage issues, remediate vulnerabilities, and help you maintain compliance.
24/7 engineers own your Mageia 4 incidents end to end.
Mitigation and patch-around guidance when the vendor no longer ships fixes.
Controls evidence and documentation that keep auditors satisfied.
Specifications
- product
- mageia
- release
- 4
- product Label
- Mageia
- release Label
- 4
- codename
- lts
- latest Version
- release Date
- 2014-02-01
- maintained
- source Url
- https://endoflife.date/mageia
Lifecycle Dates
- End of Service Life
- Sep 19, 2015
- Last OEM Support
- Sep 19, 2015
OEM vs. 3rd Party Support
See how third-party support compares to the vendor contract for Mageia 4 — monitoring, break/fix, vulnerability work, operations and compliance, before and after EOSL.
| Feature | OEM Support | 3rd Party Support |
|---|---|---|
| Post-EOSL Support | ||
| Break/Fix Support | Until EOSL | |
| 24/7 Monitoring | ||
| Vulnerability Scanning & Remediation | ||
| Managed Operations | ||
| Procedure & Configuration Review | ||
| Compliance & Audit Documentation | Limited | |
| Discounted Migration to Other Platforms |
Why Choose 3rd Party Support for Mageia 4?
Vulnerability Remediation
Scanning, mitigation and patch-around guidance for Mageia 4 when the vendor no longer ships fixes.
Compliance Maintenance
Procedure review, controls evidence and the documentation auditors ask for — maintained continuously, not scrambled at audit time.
24/7 Expert Support
Engineers who know this release monitor, manage and fix issues around the clock — break/fix to managed operations.
Mageia 4 Support: Frequently Asked Questions
Is the Mageia 4 still supported?
Mageia ended support for the Mageia 4 on Sep 19, 2015 — no more patches or fixes from the vendor. Third-party support keeps it covered: our engineers manage issues, remediate vulnerabilities, and help you maintain compliance for as long as you run it.
When is the Mageia 4 end of service life (EOSL) date?
Mageia lists the end of service life for the Mageia 4 as Sep 19, 2015.
Can I keep using the Mageia 4 after its EOSL date?
Yes. EOSL means Mageia stops issuing patches and support — the software itself keeps running. Third-party support covers it from there: issue management, security vulnerability remediation, and the compliance documentation auditors ask for, for as long as you choose to run it.
How much does third-party support for the Mageia 4 cost?
Typically 40-70% below the OEM maintenance renewal price. Exact pricing depends on quantity, service level and location — request a quote and we respond within 24 hours.
Known Vulnerabilities Affecting Mageia 4
22 published CVEs affect the Mageia 4, including 4 rated critical or high severity. Mageia no longer ships security patches for this release — our engineers provide mitigation guidance, workarounds and hardening support.
| CVE | Severity | CVSS | Published | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2014-7169 | CRITICAL | 9.8 | Sep 25, 2014 | GNU Bash through 4.3 bash43-025 processes trailing strings after certain malformed function definitions in the values of environment variables, which allows remote attackers to write to files or possibly have unknown other impact via a crafted environment, as demonstrated by vectors involving the ForceCommand feature in OpenSSH sshd, the mod_cgi and mod_cgid modules in the Apache HTTP Server, scripts executed by unspecified DHCP clients, and other situations in which setting the environment occu |
| CVE-2014-6271 | CRITICAL | 9.8 | Sep 24, 2014 | GNU Bash through 4.3 processes trailing strings after function definitions in the values of environment variables, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted environment, as demonstrated by vectors involving the ForceCommand feature in OpenSSH sshd, the mod_cgi and mod_cgid modules in the Apache HTTP Server, scripts executed by unspecified DHCP clients, and other situations in which setting the environment occurs across a privilege boundary from Bash execution, aka "Sh |
| CVE-2014-9087 | HIGH | 7.5 | Dec 1, 2014 | Integer underflow in the ksba_oid_to_str function in Libksba before 1.3.2, as used in GnuPG, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted OID in a (1) S/MIME message or (2) ECC based OpenPGP data, which triggers a buffer overflow. |
| CVE-2013-4159 | HIGH | 7.5 | Aug 6, 2014 | ctdb before 2.3 in OpenSUSE 12.3 and 13.1 does not create temporary files securely, which has unspecified impact related to "several temp file vulnerabilities" in (1) tcp/tcp_connect.c, (2) server/eventscript.c, (3) tools/ctdb_diagnostics, (4) config/gdb_backtrace, and (5) include/ctdb_private.h. |
| CVE-2014-8104 | MEDIUM | 6.8 | Dec 3, 2014 | OpenVPN 2.x before 2.0.11, 2.1.x, 2.2.x before 2.2.3, and 2.3.x before 2.3.6 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (server crash) via a small control channel packet. |
| CVE-2014-3429 | MEDIUM | 6.8 | Aug 7, 2014 | IPython Notebook 0.12 through 1.x before 1.2 does not validate the origin of websocket requests, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by leveraging knowledge of the kernel id and a crafted page. |
| CVE-2014-9637 | MEDIUM | 5.5 | Aug 25, 2017 | GNU patch 2.7.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and segmentation fault) via a crafted diff file. |
| CVE-2015-2191 | MEDIUM | 5.0 | Mar 8, 2015 | Integer overflow in the dissect_tnef function in epan/dissectors/packet-tnef.c in the TNEF dissector in Wireshark 1.10.x before 1.10.13 and 1.12.x before 1.12.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a crafted length field in a packet. |
| CVE-2015-2189 | MEDIUM | 5.0 | Mar 8, 2015 | Off-by-one error in the pcapng_read function in wiretap/pcapng.c in the pcapng file parser in Wireshark 1.10.x before 1.10.13 and 1.12.x before 1.12.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) via an invalid Interface Statistics Block (ISB) interface ID in a crafted packet. |
| CVE-2015-2188 | MEDIUM | 5.0 | Mar 8, 2015 | epan/dissectors/packet-wcp.c in the WCP dissector in Wireshark 1.10.x before 1.10.13 and 1.12.x before 1.12.4 does not properly initialize a data structure, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) via a crafted packet that is improperly handled during decompression. |
| CVE-2014-8117 | MEDIUM | 5.0 | Dec 17, 2014 | softmagic.c in file before 5.21 does not properly limit recursion, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption or crash) via unspecified vectors. |
| CVE-2014-8116 | MEDIUM | 5.0 | Dec 17, 2014 | The ELF parser (readelf.c) in file before 5.21 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption or crash) via a large number of (1) program or (2) section headers or (3) invalid capabilities. |
| CVE-2014-9116 | MEDIUM | 5.0 | Dec 2, 2014 | The write_one_header function in mutt 1.5.23 does not properly handle newline characters at the beginning of a header, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a header with an empty body, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow in the mutt_substrdup function. |
| CVE-2014-1829 | MEDIUM | 5.0 | Oct 15, 2014 | Requests (aka python-requests) before 2.3.0 allows remote servers to obtain a netrc password by reading the Authorization header in a redirected request. |
| CVE-2014-7204 | MEDIUM | 5.0 | Oct 7, 2014 | jscript.c in Exuberant Ctags 5.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and CPU and disk consumption) via a crafted JavaScript file. |
| CVE-2014-5461 | MEDIUM | 5.0 | Sep 4, 2014 | Buffer overflow in the vararg functions in ldo.c in Lua 5.1 through 5.2.x before 5.2.3 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a small number of arguments to a function with a large number of fixed arguments. |
| CVE-2014-9253 | MEDIUM | 4.3 | Dec 17, 2014 | The default file type whitelist configuration in conf/mime.conf in the Media Manager in DokuWiki before 2014-09-29b allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary web script or HTML by uploading an SWF file, then accessing it via the media parameter to lib/exe/fetch.php. |
| CVE-2015-0236 | LOW | 3.5 | Jan 29, 2015 | libvirt before 1.2.12 allow remote authenticated users to obtain the VNC password by using the VIR_DOMAIN_XML_SECURE flag with a crafted (1) snapshot to the virDomainSnapshotGetXMLDesc interface or (2) image to the virDomainSaveImageGetXMLDesc interface. |
| CVE-2014-3566 | LOW | 3.4 | Oct 15, 2014 | The SSL protocol 3.0, as used in OpenSSL through 1.0.1i and other products, uses nondeterministic CBC padding, which makes it easier for man-in-the-middle attackers to obtain cleartext data via a padding-oracle attack, aka the "POODLE" issue. |
| CVE-2014-2524 | LOW | 3.3 | Aug 20, 2014 | The _rl_tropen function in util.c in GNU readline before 6.3 patch 3 allows local users to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /var/tmp/rltrace.[PID] file. |
Showing the 20 most severe of 22 known CVEs.
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