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...

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 : 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...

Scientific Linux Security Update : xscreensaver on SL4 i386/x86_64

Alex Yamauchi discovered a flaw in the way XScreenSaver verifies user passwords. When a system is using a remote directory service for login credentials, a local attacker may be able to cause a network outage causing XScreenSaver to crash, unlocking the screen. CVE-2007-1859 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C...

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

A stack-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way the Quagga bgpd daemon processed certain BGP Route Refresh RR messages. A configured BGP peer could send a specially crafted BGP message, causing bgpd on a target system to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of th...

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

CVE-2005-4268 cpio large filesize buffer overflow CVE-2007-4476 tar/cpio stack crashing in safernamesuffix CVE-2010-0624 tar, cpio: Heap-based buffer overflow by expanding a specially crafted archive A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way cpio expanded archive files. If a user wer...

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

CVE-2007-2027 elinks tries to load .po files from a non-absolute path CVE-2008-7224 elinks: entitycache static array buffer overflow off-by-one An off-by-one buffer overflow flaw was discovered in the way ELinks handled its internal cache of string representations for HTML special entities. A...

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

Several HTML filtering bugs were discovered in SquirrelMail. An attacker could inject arbitrary JavaScript leading to cross-site scripting attacks by sending an e-mail viewed by a user within SquirrelMail. CVE-2007-1262 Squirrelmail did not sufficiently check arguments to IMG tags in HTML e-mail...

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

An infinite recursion flaw was found in the way libexif parses Exif image tags. If a victim opens a carefully crafted Exif image file, it could cause the application linked against libexif to crash. CVE-2007-6351 An integer overflow flaw was found in the way libexif parses Exif image tags. If a...

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

CVE-2009-0922 postgresql: potential DoS due to conversion functions CVE-2009-3230 postgresql: SQL privilege escalation, incomplete fix for CVE-2007-6600 It was discovered that the upstream patch for CVE-2007-6600 included in the Scientific Linux did not include protection against misuse of the...

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 : seamonkey on SL4.x, SL3.x i386/x86_64

A cross-site scripting flaw was found in the way SeaMonkey handled the jar: URI scheme. It was possible for a malicious website to leverage this flaw and conduct a cross-site scripting attack against a user running SeaMonkey. CVE-2007-5947 Several flaws were found in the way SeaMonkey processed...

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

Maurycy Prodeus discovered an integer overflow flaw in the processing of PDF files. An attacker could create a malicious PDF file that would cause TeTeX to crash or potentially execute arbitrary code when opened. CVE-2007-3387 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive...

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

A flaw was found in the way OpenLDAP's slapd daemon handled malformed objectClasses LDAP attributes. An authenticated local or remote attacker could create an LDAP request which could cause a denial of service by crashing slapd. CVE-2007-5707 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. T...

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

Several flaws were discovered in the way libpng handled various PNG image chunks. 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-2007-5269 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable...

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

Tavis Ormandy of the Google Security Team discovered several integer overflow flaws in the FreeType 2 font engine. If a user loaded a carefully-crafted font file with an application linked against FreeType 2, it could cause the application to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code with the...

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

These new kernel packages contain fixes for the security issues described below : - a flaw in the ISDN CAPI subsystem that allowed a remote user to cause a denial of service or potential remote access. Exploitation would require the attacker to be able to send arbitrary frames over the ISDN netwo...

Scientific Linux Security Update : perl-Archive-Tar on SL4.x, SL5.x i386/x86_64

Multiple directory traversal flaws were discovered in the Archive::Tar module. A specially crafted tar file could cause a Perl script, using the Archive::Tar module to extract the archive, to overwrite an arbitrary file writable by the user running the script. CVE-2007-4829 This package upgrades...

Scientific Linux Security Update : krb5 on SL3.x i386/x86_64

David Coffey discovered an uninitialized pointer free flaw in the RPC library used by kadmind. A remote unauthenticated attacker who can access kadmind could trigger this flaw and cause kadmind to crash or potentially execute arbitrary code as root. CVE-2007-2442 David Coffey also discovered an...