CVE-2012-3453

logol 1.5.0 uses world writable permissions for the /var/lib/logol/results directory, which allows local users to delete or overwrite arbitrary files...

CVE-2012-2850

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the PDF functionality in Google Chrome before 21.0.1180.57 on Mac OS X and Linux, and before 21.0.1180.60 on Windows and Chrome Frame, allow remote attackers to have an unknown impact via a crafted document...

SuSE Update for MozillaFirefox openSUSE-SU-2012:0234-1 (MozillaFirefox)

Check for the Version of MozillaFirefox OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbsuse201202341.nasl 8352 2018-01-10 07:01:57Z teissa $ SuSE Update for MozillaFirefox openSUSE-SU-2012:0234-1 MozillaFirefox Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2012 Greenbone Networks GmbH,...

Mandriva Update for mozilla MDVSA-2012:066 (mozilla)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2012 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription scriptxrefname:"URL",...

SuSE Update for MozillaFirefox openSUSE-SU-2012:0258-1 (MozillaFirefox)

Check for the Version of MozillaFirefox OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbsuse201202581.nasl 8352 2018-01-10 07:01:57Z teissa $ SuSE Update for MozillaFirefox openSUSE-SU-2012:0258-1 MozillaFirefox Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2012 Greenbone Networks GmbH,...

Scientific Linux Security Update : boost on SL5.x i386/x86_64 (20120221)

The boost packages provide free, peer-reviewed, portable C++ source libraries with emphasis on libraries which work well with the C++ Standard Library. Invalid pointer dereference flaws were found in the way the Boost regular expression library processed certain, invalid expressions. An attacker...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL5.x i386/x86_64 (20120209)

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. This update fixes the following security issues : - Using the SGIO ioctl to issue SCSI requests to partitions or LVM volumes resulted in the requests being passed to the underlying block device. If a privileged...

CVE-2012-2665

Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in the XML manifest encryption tag parsing functionality in OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice before 3.5.5 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted Open Document Text .odt file with 1 a child tag within...

Scientific Linux Security Update : nfs-utils on SL5.x i386/x86_64 (20120221)

The nfs-utils package provides a daemon for the kernel Network File System NFS server, and related tools such as the mount.nfs, umount.nfs, and showmount programs. It was found that the mount.nfs tool did not handle certain errors correctly when updating the mtab mounted file systems table file. ...

Scientific Linux Security Update : rhn-client-tools on SL5.x i386/x86_64

It was discovered that rhn-client-tools set insecure permissions on the loginAuth.pkl file, used to store session credentials for authenticating connections to servers. A local, unprivileged user could use these credentials to download packages they wouldn't normally have permission to download...

Scientific Linux Security Update : pam_krb5 on SL5.x i386/x86_64

A flaw was found in pamkrb5. In some non-default configurations specifically, those where pamkrb5 would be the first module to prompt for a password, the text of the password prompt varied based on whether or not the username provided was a username known to the system. A remote attacker could us...

Scientific Linux Security Update : openafs on SL4.x i386/x86_64

Updated openafs that fixes several bugs. This is the same openafs that is in Scientific Linux 4.5. Please remember that openafs is not autoyumed by default. You will have to manually do a 'yum update' to get the openafs update. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive...

Scientific Linux Security Update : sysstat on SL5.x i386/x86_64

The sysstat package contains a set of utilities which enable system monitoring of disks, network, and other I/O activity. It was found that the sysstat initscript created a temporary file in an insecure way. A local attacker could use this flaw to create arbitrary files via a symbolic link attack...

Scientific Linux Security Update : tomcat6 on SL6.x i386/x86_64

Apache Tomcat is a servlet container for the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages JSP technologies. It was found that web applications could modify the location of the Tomcat host's work directory. As web applications deployed on Tomcat have read and write access to this directory, a malicious web...

Scientific Linux Security Update : vsftpd on SL4.x i386/x86_64

The version of vsftpd as shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 when used in combination with Pluggable Authentication Modules PAM had a memory leak on an invalid authentication attempt. Since vsftpd prior to version 2.0.5 allows any number of invalid attempts on the same connection this memory le...

Scientific Linux Security Update : glibc on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20120124)

The glibc packages contain the standard C libraries used by multiple programs on the system. These packages contain the standard C and the standard math libraries. Without these two libraries, a Linux system cannot function properly. An integer overflow flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL4.x i386/x86_64

CVE-2005-4881 kernel: netlink: fix numerous padding memleaks CVE-2009-3228 kernel: tc: uninitialised kernel memory leak This update fixes the following security issues : - multiple, missing initialization flaws were found in the Linux kernel. Padding data in several core network structures was no...

Scientific Linux Security Update : yum on SL5.x i386/x86_64

This updated yum package fixes the following bugs : - The kernel module plugin has been updated to deal with the situation where both a package that has a kernel module such as openafs is being updated at the same time that a kernel is being updated, while an old kernel is being removed. - string...

Scientific Linux Security Update : bind on SL5.x i386/x86_64

It was discovered that the bind packages created the 'rndc.key' file with insecure file permissions. This allowed any local user to read the content of this file. A local user could use this flaw to control some aspects of the named daemon by using the rndc utility, for example, stopping the name...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL3.x i386/x86_64

There were no new features introduced by this update. The only changes that have been included address critical customer needs or security issues elaborated below. Key areas affected by fixes in this update include the networking subsystem, dcache handling, the ext2 and ext3 file systems, the USB...