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

In Scientific Linux 5, the Ekiga application uses opal. A flaw was discovered in the way opal handled certain Session Initiation Protocol SIP packets. An attacker could use this flaw to crash an application, such as Ekiga, which is linked with opal. CVE-2007-4924 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable...

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : kernel for SL 5.x on i386/x86_64

CVE-2007-5966 kernel: non-root can trigger cpuidle soft lockup CVE-2009-1385 kernel: e1000cleanrxirq denial of service CVE-2009-1388 kernel: docoredump vs ptracestart deadlock CVE-2009-1389 kernel: r8169: fix crash when large packets are received CVE-2009-1895 kernel: personality: fix...

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

A flaw was found in the handling of malformed images in libpng. An attacker could create a carefully crafted PNG image file in such a way that it could cause an application linked with libpng to crash when the file was manipulated. CVE-2007-2445 A flaw was found in the sPLT chunk handling code in...

Scientific Linux Security Update : nfs-utils-lib on SL4.x i386/x86_64

Tenable Network Security discovered a stack-based buffer overflow flaw in the RPC library used by nfs-utils-lib. A remote unauthenticated attacker who can access an application linked against nfs-utils-lib could trigger this flaw and cause the application to crash. On Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 i...