Scientific Linux Security Update : file on SL5.x, SL4.x i386/x86_64

The fix for CVE-2007-1536 introduced a new integer underflow flaw in the file utility. An attacker could create a carefully crafted file which, if examined by a victim using the file utility, could lead to arbitrary code execution. CVE-2007-2799 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc...

Scientific Linux Security Update : flac on SL5.x, SL4.x i386/x86_64

A security flaw was found in the way flac processed audio data. An attacker could create a carefully crafted FLAC audio file in such a way that it could cause an application linked with flac libraries to crash or execute arbitrary code when it was opened. CVE-2007-4619 This update actually went o...

Scientific Linux Security Update : openldap on SL4.x, SL5.x i386/x86_64

These updated openldap packages fix a flaw in the way the OpenLDAP slapd daemon handled modify and modrdn requests with NOOP control on objects stored in a Berkeley DB BDB storage backend. An authenticated attacker with permission to perform modify or modrdn operations on such LDAP objects could...

Scientific Linux Security Update : openoffice.org2 on SL4.5 and 4.6 i386/x86_64

Multiple heap overflows and an integer underflow were found in the Quattro ProR import filter. An attacker could create a carefully crafted Quattro Pro file that could cause OpenOffice.org to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code if the file was opened by a victim. CVE-2007-5745, CVE-2007-5747...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kdelibs on SL5.x, SL4.x i386/x86_64

Two cross-site-scripting flaws were found in the way Konqueror processes certain HTML content. This could result in a malicious attacker presenting misleading content to an unsuspecting user. CVE-2007-0242, CVE-2007-0537 A flaw was found in KDE JavaScript implementation. A web page containing...

Scientific Linux Security Update : tk on SL4.x, SL5.x i386/x86_64

An input validation flaw was discovered in Tk's GIF image handling. A code-size value read from a GIF image was not properly validated before being used, leading to a buffer overflow. A specially crafted GIF file could use this to cause a crash or, potentially, execute code with the privileges of...

Scientific Linux Security Update : htdig on SL5.x, SL4.x i386/x86_64

A cross-site scripting flaw was discovered in a htdig search page. An attacker could construct a carefully crafted URL, which once visited by an unsuspecting user, could cause a user's Web browser to execute malicious script in the context of the visited htdig search Web page. CVE-2007-6110...

Scientific Linux Security Update : quagga on SL5.x, SL4.x, SL3.x i386/x86_64

An out of bounds memory read flaw was discovered in Quagga's bgpd. A configured peer of bgpd could cause Quagga to crash, leading to a denial of service CVE-2007-1995. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text is C Scientific Linux. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc'...

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

Detail : Joris van Rantwijk found a flaw in the Pygrub utility which is used as a boot loader for guest domains. A malicious local administrator of a guest domain could create a carefully crafted grub.conf file which would trigger the execution of arbitrary code outside of that domain...

Scientific Linux Security Update : openssh on SL5.x

Problem description : A flaw was found in the way the ssh server wrote account names to the audit subsystem. An attacker could inject strings containing parts of audit messages, which could possibly mislead or confuse audit log parsing tools. CVE-2007-3102 A flaw was found in the way the OpenSSH...

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...

Scientific Linux Security Update : bind on SL5.x, SL4.x, SL3.x i386/x86_64

A flaw was found in the way BIND generates outbound DNS query ids. If an attacker is able to acquire a finite set of query IDs, it becomes possible to accurately predict future query IDs. Future query ID prediction may allow an attacker to conduct a DNS cache poisoning attack, which can result in...

Scientific Linux Security Update : qt4 on SL5.x i386/x86_64

Qt 4 is a software toolkit that simplifies the task of writing and maintaining GUI Graphical User Interface applications for the X Window System. HarfBuzz is an OpenType text shaping engine. A flaw in the way Qt 4 expanded certain UTF-8 characters could be used to prevent a Qt 4 based application...

Scientific Linux Security Update : jdk (java) on SL3.x, SL4.x i386/x86_64

NOTE: This combination of rpm's replaces j2sdk-1.4.2 with jdk-1.5.0. So your java will change from version 1.4.2 to 1.5.0. We apologize if this causes any problems, but it needed to be done for security reasons. A flaw in the applet caching mechanism of the Java Runtime Environment JRE did not...

Scientific Linux Security Update : postgresql on SL4 i386,x86_64, SL5 i386

Updated postgresql packages that fix several security issues are now available. A flaw was found in the way PostgreSQL allows authenticated users to execute security-definer functions. It was possible for an unprivileged user to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the security-definer...

Scientific Linux Security Update : openssh on SL4.x, SL5.x i386/x86_64

These packages fix a low severity flaw in the way ssh handles X11 cookies when creating X11 forwarding connections. When ssh was unable to create untrusted cookie, ssh used a trusted cookie instead, possibly allowing the administrative user of a untrusted remote server, or untrusted application r...

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

Steve Grubb discovered a flaw in the way coolkey created a temporary directory. A local attacker could perform a symlink attack and cause arbitrary files to be overwritten. CVE-2007-4129 In addition, the updated packages contain fixes for the following bugs in the CAC Smart Card support : - CAC...

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

CVE-2007-2348 lftp mirror --script does not escape names and targets of symbolic links It was discovered that lftp did not properly escape shell metacharacters when generating shell scripts using the 'mirror --script' command. A mirroring script generated to download files from a malicious FTP...

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

There was a security issue with the default installed configuration of autofs version 5 whereby the entry for the 'hosts' map did not specify the 'nosuid' mount option. A local user with control of a remote nfs server could create a setuid root executable within an exported filesystem on the remo...

Scientific Linux Security Update : evolution on SL4.x, SL3.x i386/x86_64

A flaw was found in the way Evolution processed certain APOP authentication requests. A remote attacker could potentially acquire certain portions of a user's authentication credentials by sending certain responses when evolution-data-server attempted to authenticate against an APOP server...