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

A denial of service flaw was found in the Apache modproxy module when it was used as a reverse proxy. A remote attacker could use this flaw to force a proxy process to consume large amounts of CPU time. CVE-2009-1890 A denial of service flaw was found in the Apache moddeflate module. This module...

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

A pointer use-after-free flaw was found in the GD graphics library embedded in libwmf. An attacker could create a specially crafted WMF file that would cause an application using libwmf to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code as the user running the application when opened by a victim...

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

CVE-2009-3379 libvorbis: security fixes mentioned in MFSA 2009-63 Multiple flaws were found in the libvorbis library. A specially crafted Ogg Vorbis media format file Ogg could cause an application using libvorbis to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code when opened. CVE-2009-3379 The deskto...

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

Mozilla Firefox is an open source Web browser. XULRunner provides the XUL Runtime environment for Mozilla Firefox. Several flaws were found in the processing of malformed web content. A web page containing malicious content could cause Firefox to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code as t...

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

Several flaws were found in the processing of malformed web content. A web page containing malicious content could cause SeaMonkey to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code as the user running SeaMonkey. CVE-2009-0352, CVE-2009-0353 A flaw was found in the way malformed content was...

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

A missing input sanitization flaw, leading to a buffer overflow, was discovered in the gd library. A specially crafted GD image file could cause an application using the gd library to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code when opened. CVE-2009-3546 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network...

Scientific Linux Security Update : gcc and gcc4 on SL3.x, SL4.x, SL5.x i386/x86_64

CVE-2009-3736 libtool: libltdl may load and execute code from a library in the current directory A flaw was found in the way GNU Libtool's libltdl library looked for libraries to load. It was possible for libltdl to load a malicious library from the current working directory. In certain...

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

CVE-2009-4273 systemtap: remote code execution via stap-server CVE-2010-0411 systemtap: Crash with systemtap script using getargv A flaw was found in the SystemTap compile server, stap-server, an optional component of SystemTap. This server did not adequately sanitize input provided by the...

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

The libvirtd daemon was discovered to not properly check user connection permissions before performing certain privileged actions, such as requesting migration of an unprivileged guest domain to another system. A local user able to establish a read-only connection to libvirtd could use this flaw ...

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

Multiple integer overflow flaws were found in poppler. An attacker could create a malicious PDF file that would cause applications that use poppler such as Evince to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code when opened. CVE-2009-0147, CVE-2009-1179, CVE-2009-1187, CVE-2009-1188 Multiple buff...

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

CVE-2009-4033 acpid: log file created with random permissions It was discovered that acpid could create its log file '/var/log/acpid' with random permissions on some systems. A local attacker could use this flaw to escalate their privileges if the log file was created as world-writable and with t...

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

CVE-2009-3555 TLS: MITM attacks via session renegotiation A flaw was found in the way the TLS/SSL Transport Layer Security/Secure Sockets Layer protocols handled session renegotiation. A man-in-the-middle attacker could use this flaw to prefix arbitrary plain text to a client's session for exampl...

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

CVE-2009-3720 expat: buffer over-read and crash on XML with malformed UTF-8 sequences CVE-2009-3560 expat: buffer over-read and crash in big2toUtf8 on XML with malformed UTF-8 sequences Two buffer over-read flaws were found in the way Expat handled malformed UTF-8 sequences when processing XML...

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

An information disclosure flaw was found in NetworkManager's D-Bus interface. A local attacker could leverage this flaw to discover sensitive information, such as network connection passwords and pre-shared keys. CVE-2009-0365 A potential denial of service flaw was found in NetworkManager's D-Bus...

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

Multiple insufficient input validation flaws were found in the way Openswan's pluto IKE daemon processed some fields of X.509 certificates. A remote attacker could provide a specially crafted X.509 certificate that would crash the pluto daemon. CVE-2009-2185 After installing this update, the ipse...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kvm on SL5.4 x86_64

CVE-2009-4031 kernel: KVM: x86 emulator: limit instructions to 15 bytes On x86 platforms, the doinsnfetch function did not limit the amount of instruction bytes fetched per instruction. Users in guest operating systems could leverage this flaw to cause large latencies on SMP hosts that could lead...

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

Several flaws were found in the processing of malformed web content. A web page containing malicious content could cause SeaMonkey to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code as the user running SeaMonkey. CVE-2009-1392, CVE-2009-1833, CVE-2009-1838, CVE-2009-1841 A flaw was found in the...

Scientific Linux Security Update : libtiff for SL3.0.x, SL 4.x, SL 5.x on i386/x86_64

CVE-2009-2285 libtiff: LZWDecodeCompat underflow CVE-2009-2347 libtiff: integer overflows in various inter-color spaces conversion tools crash, ACE Several integer overflow flaws, leading to heap-based buffer overflows, were found in various libtiff color space conversion tools. An attacker could...

Scientific Linux Security Update : openssl096b on SL3.x, SL4.x i386/x86_64

CVE-2009-3245 openssl: missing bnwexpand return value checks It was discovered that OpenSSL did not always check the return value of the bnwexpand function. An attacker able to trigger a memory allocation failure in that function could cause an application using the OpenSSL library to crash or,...

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

It was discovered that the last dbus security update did not correctly fix the denial of service flaw in the system for sending messages between applications. A local user could use this flaw to send a message with a malformed signature to the bus, causing the bus and, consequently, any process...