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

Two denial of service flaws were found in the ipsec-tools racoon daemon. It was possible for a remote attacker to cause the racoon daemon to consume all available memory. CVE-2008-3651, CVE-2008-3652 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text is C Scientific Linux...

Scientific Linux Security Update : glib2 on SL5.x i386/x86_64

Diego Petten discovered multiple integer overflows causing heap-based buffer overflows in GLib's Base64 encoding and decoding functions. An attacker could use these flaws to crash an application using GLib's Base64 functions to encode or decode large, untrusted inputs, or, possibly, execute...

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

A heap buffer overflow flaw was discovered in the RC4 libxslt library extension. An attacker could create a malicious XSL file that would cause a crash, or, possibly, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the application using the libxslt library to perform XSL transformations on untruste...

Scientific Linux Security Update : pidgin on SL 3.0.x , SL 4.x , SL 5.x

An integer overflow flaw was found in Pidgin's MSN protocol handler. If a user received a malicious MSN message, it was possible to execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running Pidgin. CVE-2008-2927 Note: the default Pidgin privacy setting only allows messages from users in the...

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

Will Drewry of the Google Security Team reported several flaws in the way libvorbis processed audio data. An attacker could create a carefully crafted OGG audio file in such a way that it could cause an application linked with libvorbis to crash, or execute arbitrary code when it was opened...

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

SureRun Security Team discovered an integer overflow flaw leading to a heap buffer overflow in the Windows Metafile WMF image format parser. An attacker could create a carefully crafted document containing a malicious WMF file that could cause OpenOffice.org to crash, or, possibly, execute...

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

The ibutils packages provide InfiniBand network and path diagnostics. It was found that the ibmssh executable had an insecure relative RPATH runtime library search path set in the ELF Executable and Linking Format header. A local user able to convince another user to run ibmssh in an...

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

A flaw was found in the way Net-SNMP checked an SNMPv3 packet's Keyed-Hash Message Authentication Code HMAC. An attacker could use this flaw to spoof an authenticated SNMPv3 packet. CVE-2008-0960 A buffer overflow was found in the Perl bindings for Net-SNMP. This could be exploited if an attacker...

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

Multiple input sanitization flaws were found in the way Mailman displayed usernames of subscribed users on certain pages. If a user who is subscribed to a mailing list were able to trick a victim into visiting one of those pages, they could perform a cross-site scripting XSS attack against the...

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

An integer underflow and integer signedness issue were discovered in the rdesktop. If an attacker could convince a victim to connect to a malicious RDP server, the attacker could cause the victim's rdesktop to crash or, possibly, execute an arbitrary code. CVE-2008-1801, CVE-2008-1803 %NASLMINLEV...

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

A flaw was found in the processing of malformed JavaScript content. A web page containing such malicious content could cause SeaMonkey to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code as the user running SeaMonkey. CVE-2008-1380 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive...

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

Perl is a high-level programming language commonly used for system administration utilities and web programming. The Safe extension module allows users to compile and execute Perl code in restricted compartments. The File::Path module allows users to create and remove directory trees. The Safe...

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

It was discovered that Postfix did not flush the received SMTP commands buffer after switching to TLS encryption for an SMTP session. A man-in-the-middle attacker could use this flaw to inject SMTP commands into a victim's session during the plain text phase. This would lead to those commands bei...

Scientific Linux Security Update : XFree86 on SL3.x i386/x86_64

An input validation flaw was discovered in X.org's Security and Record extensions. A malicious authorized client could exploit this issue to cause a denial of service crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with root privileges on the X.Org server. CVE-2008-1377 Multiple integer overflow...

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

Multiple uses of uninitialized values were discovered in libtiff's Lempel-Ziv-Welch LZW compression algorithm decoder. An attacker could create a carefully crafted LZW-encoded TIFF file that would cause an application linked with libtiff to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code. CVE-2008-232...

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

Vincent Danen reported, that Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2008:0897 did not properly address a denial of service flaw in the WEBrick Ruby HTTP server toolkit, known as CVE-2008-3656. This flaw allowed a remote attacker to send a specially crafted HTTP request to a WEBrick server that would caus...

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.org on SL3.x, SL4.x i386/x86_64

Sean Larsson found a heap overflow flaw in the OpenOffice memory allocator. If a carefully crafted file was opened by a victim, an attacker could use the flaw to crash OpenOffice.org or, possibly, execute arbitrary code. CVE-2008-2152 It was discovered that certain libraries in the Scientific Lin...

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

Chris Evans from the Google Security Team reported a stack-based buffer overflow flaw in Ghostscript's zseticcspace function. An attacker could create a malicious PostScript file that would cause Ghostscript to execute arbitrary code when opened. CVE-2008-0411 These updated packages also fix a bu...

Scientific Linux Security Update : evolution28 on SL4.6 i386/x86_64

A flaw was found in the way Evolution parsed iCalendar timezone attachment data. If the Itip Formatter plug-in was disabled and a user opened a mail with a carefully crafted iCalendar attachment, arbitrary code could be executed as the user running Evolution. CVE-2008-1108 Note: the Itip Formatte...