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

A flaw was found in the modproxy module. On sites where a reverse proxy is configured, a remote attacker could send a carefully crafted request that would cause the Apache child process handling that request to crash. On sites where a forward proxy is configured, an attacker could cause a similar...

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

Alin Rad Pop discovered several flaws in the handling of PDF files. An attacker could create a malicious PDF file that would cause CUPS to crash or potentially execute arbitrary code when printed. CVE-2007-4352, CVE-2007-5392, CVE-2007-5393 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The...

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 : thunderbird on SL5.x, SL4.x i386/x86_64

A cross-site scripting flaw was found in the way Thunderbird handled the jar: URI scheme. It may be possible for a malicious HTML mail message to leverage this flaw, and conduct a cross-site scripting attack against a user running Thunderbird. CVE-2007-5947 Several flaws were found in the way...

Scientific Linux Security Update : python for SL5.x i386/x86_64

When the assert system call was disabled, an input sanitization flaw was revealed in the Python string object implementation that led to a buffer overflow. The missing check for negative size values meant the Python memory allocator could allocate less memory than expected. This could result in...

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

Several flaws were found in the way Firefox processed certain malformed JavaScript code. A web page containing malicious JavaScript code could cause Firefox to crash or potentially execute arbitrary code as the user running Firefox. CVE-2007-3734, CVE-2007-3735, CVE-2007-3737, CVE-2007-3738 Sever...

Scientific Linux Security Update : net-snmp on SL5.x, SL4.x, SL3.x i386/x86_64

A flaw was discovered in the way net-snmp handled certain requests. A remote attacker who can connect to the snmpd UDP port 161 by default could send a malicious packet causing snmpd to crash, resulting in a denial of service. CVE-2007-5846 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The...

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 : tetex on SL3.x i386/x86_64

A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way teTeX processed virtual font files when converting DVI files into PostScript. An attacker could create a malicious DVI file that would cause the dvips executable to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code. CVE-2010-0827 Multiple integer overflow...

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 : icu on SL5.x i386/x86_64

Will Drewry reported multiple flaws in the way libicu processed certain malformed regular expressions. If an application linked against ICU, such as OpenOffice.org, processed a carefully crafted regular expression, it may be possible to execute arbitrary code as the user running the application...

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

"MySQL did not require privileges such as 'SELECT' for the source table in a 'CREATE TABLE LIKE' statement. An authenticated user could obtain sensitive information, such as the table structure. CVE-2007-3781 A flaw was discovered in MySQL that allowed an authenticated user to gain update...

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

A flaw was found in Perl's regular expression engine. Specially crafted input to a regular expression can cause Perl to improperly allocate memory, possibly resulting in arbitrary code running with the permissions of the user running Perl. CVE-2007-5116 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network...

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

A flaw was found in the way Mutt used temporary files on NFS file systems. Due to an implementation issue in the NFS protocol, Mutt was not able to exclusively open a new file. A local attacker could conduct a time-dependent attack and possibly gain access to e-mail attachments opened by a victim...

Scientific Linux Security Update : postgresql on on SL3.0.x i386/x86_64

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 function. CVE-2007-2138 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The...

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

Maurycy Prodeus discovered an integer overflow flaw in the way CUPS processes PDF files. An attacker could create a malicious PDF file that could potentially execute arbitrary code when printed. CVE-2007-3387 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text is C Scientifi...

Scientific Linux Security Update : util-linux on SL5.x, SL4.x, SL3.x i386/x86_64

A flaw was discovered in the way that the mount and umount utilities used the setuid and setgid functions, which could lead to privileges being dropped improperly. A local user could use this flaw to run mount helper applications such as, mount.nfs, with additional privileges CVE-2007-5191...

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

Madwifi 0.9.3.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service panic via a beacon frame with a large length value in the extended supported rates xrates element, which triggers an assertion error, related to net80211/ieee80211scanap.c and net80211/ieee80211scansta.c...

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 : samba on SL5.x, SL4.x, SL3.x i386/x86_64

Various bugs were found in NDR parsing, used to decode MS-RPC requests in Samba. A remote attacker could have sent carefully crafted requests causing a heap overflow, which may have led to the ability to execute arbitrary code on the server. CVE-2007-2446 Unescaped user input parameters were bein...