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

SeaMonkey is an open source web browser, email and newsgroup client, IRC chat client, and HTML editor. A cross-site scripting XSS flaw was found in the way SeaMonkey handled certain multibyte character sets. A web page containing malicious content could cause SeaMonkey to run JavaScript code with...

Scientific Linux Security Update : libXfont on SL5.x, SL6.x i386/x86_64

The libXfont packages provide the X.Org libXfont runtime library. X.Org is an open source implementation of the X Window System. A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way the libXfont library, used by the X.Org server, handled malformed font files compressed using UNIX compress. A malicious,...

Scientific Linux Security Update : krb5 on SL6.x i386/x86_64

Kerberos is a network authentication system which allows clients and servers to authenticate to each other using symmetric encryption and a trusted third party, the Key Distribution Center KDC. Multiple NULL pointer dereference and assertion failure flaws were found in the MIT Kerberos KDC when i...

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

An input sanitization flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, was found in the way Pango displayed font files when using the FreeType font engine back end. If a user loaded a malformed font file with an application that uses Pango, it could cause the application to crash or, possibly,...

Scientific Linux Security Update : libxml2 on SL4.x i386/x86_64 (20120111)

The libxml2 library is a development toolbox providing the implementation of various XML standards. One of those standards is the XML Path Language XPath, which is a language for addressing parts of an XML document. A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way libxml2 decoded entity...

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

Double free vulnerability in the Rx server process in OpenAFS 1.4.14, 1.4.12, 1.4.7, and possibly other versions allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors. CVE-2011-0430 The afslinuxlock function in afs/LINUX/osivnodeops.c in the kernel...

Scientific Linux Security Update : bind97 on SL5.x i386/x86_64

"The Berkeley Internet Name Domain BIND is an implementation of the Domain Name System DNS protocols. BIND includes a DNS server named %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text is C Scientific Linux. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc'; include'compat.inc'; if...

Scientific Linux Security Update : libsndfile on SL6.x i386/x86_64

The libsndfile packages provide a library for reading and writing sound files. An integer overflow flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, was found in the way the libsndfile library processed certain Ensoniq PARIS Audio Format PAF audio files. An attacker could create a specially crafted...

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

Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client. A flaw was found in the way Thunderbird handled frame objects with certain names. An attacker could use this flaw to cause a plug-in to grant its content access to another site or the local file system, violating the same-origin polic...

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

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. This update fixes the following security issues : - An integer overflow flaw in ibuverbspollcq could allow a local, unprivileged user to cause a denial of service or escalate their privileges. CVE-2010-4649,...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kdelibs on SL6.x i386/x86_64

The kdelibs packages provide libraries for the K Desktop Environment KDE. An input sanitization flaw was found in the KSSL KDE SSL Wrapper API. An attacker could supply a specially crafted SSL certificate for example, via a web page to an application using KSSL, such as the Konqueror web browser,...

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

Pidgin is an instant messaging program which can log in to multiple accounts on multiple instant messaging networks simultaneously. An input sanitization flaw was found in the way the Pidgin SILC Secure Internet Live Conferencing protocol plug-in escaped certain UTF-8 characters. A remote attacke...

Scientific Linux Security Update : thunderbird on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20120131)

Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client. A use-after-free flaw was found in the way Thunderbird removed nsDOMAttribute child nodes. In certain circumstances, due to the premature notification of AttributeChildRemoved, a malicious script could possibly use this flaw to cause...

Scientific Linux Security Update : bind on SL6.x i386/x86_64

"The Berkeley Internet Name Domain BIND is an implementation of the Domain Name System DNS protocols. BIND includes a DNS server named %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text is C Scientific Linux. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc'; include'compat.inc'; if...

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

frysk is an execution-analysis technology implemented using native Java and C++. It provides developers and system administrators with the ability to examine and analyze multi-host, multi-process, and multithreaded systems while they are running. frysk is released as a Technology Preview for...

Scientific Linux Security Update : tigervnc on SL6.x i386/x86_64

Virtual Network Computing VNC is a remote display system which allows you to view a computer's desktop environment not only on the machine where it is running, but from anywhere on the Internet and from a wide variety of machine architectures. TigerVNC is a suite of VNC servers and clients. It wa...

Scientific Linux Security Update : squirrelmail on SL4.x, SL5.x (20120208)

SquirrelMail is a standards-based webmail package written in PHP. A cross-site scripting XSS flaw was found in the way SquirrelMail performed the sanitization of HTML style tag content. A remote attacker could use this flaw to send a specially crafted Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions MIME...

Scientific Linux Security Update : samba3x on SL5.x i386/x86_64

A flaw was found in the way Samba handled file descriptors. If an attacker were able to open a large number of file descriptors on the Samba server, they could flip certain stack bits to '1' values, resulting in the Samba server smbd crashing. CVE-2011-0719 After installing this update, the smb...

Scientific Linux Security Update : samba on SL6.x i386/x86_64

A flaw was found in the way Samba handled file descriptors. If an attacker were able to open a large number of file descriptors on the Samba server, they could flip certain stack bits to '1' values, resulting in the Samba server smbd crashing. CVE-2011-0719 After installing this update, the smb...

Scientific Linux Security Update : gnutls on SL5.x i386/x86_64 (20120327)

The GnuTLS library provides support for cryptographic algorithms and for protocols such as Transport Layer Security TLS. GnuTLS includes libtasn1, a library developed for ASN.1 Abstract Syntax Notation One structures management that includes DER Distinguished Encoding Rules encoding and decoding....