Scientific Linux Security Update : spice-xpi on SL5.x i386/x86_64

The spice-xpi package provides a plug-in that allows the SPICE client to run from within Mozilla Firefox. A race condition was found in the way the SPICE Firefox plug-in and the SPICE client communicated. A local attacker could use this flaw to trick the plug-in and the SPICE client into...

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

CVE-2009-3555 TLS: MITM attacks via session renegotiation CVE-2010-0731 gnutls: gnutlsx509crtgetserial incorrect serial decoding from ASN1 BE64 GNUTLS-SA-2010-1 A flaw was found in the way the TLS/SSL Transport Layer Security/Secure Sockets Layer protocols handled session renegotiation. A...

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

A race condition flaw was found in the way Firefox handled Document Object Model DOM element properties. Malicious HTML content could cause Firefox to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Firefox. CVE-2010-3765 Several flaws were found in the...

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

A denial of service flaw was found in the way the Quagga bgpd daemon processed certain route metrics information. A BGP message with a specially crafted path limit attribute would cause the bgpd daemon to reset its session with the peer through which this message was received. CVE-2010-1675 A NUL...

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 : curl on SL5.x i386/x86_64

Wesley Miaw discovered that when deflate compression was used, libcurl could call the registered write callback function with data exceeding the documented limit. A malicious server could use this flaw to crash an application using libcurl or, potentially, execute arbitrary code. Note: This issue...

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-2009-1303, CVE-2009-1305 Several flaws were found in the way malformed web content...

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

Scott Cantor reported that cURL is affected by the previously published 'null prefix attack', caused by incorrect handling of NULL characters in X.509 certificates. If an attacker is able to get a carefully-crafted certificate signed by a trusted Certificate Authority, the attacker could use the...

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....

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 : librsvg2 on SL6.x i386/x86_64

The librsvg2 packages provide an SVG Scalable Vector Graphics library based on libart. A flaw was found in the way librsvg2 parsed certain SVG files. An attacker could create a specially crafted SVG file that, when opened, would cause applications that use librsvg2 such as Eye of GNOME to crash o...

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

JasPer is an implementation of Part 1 of the JPEG 2000 image compression standard. Two heap-based buffer overflow flaws were found in the way JasPer decoded JPEG 2000 compressed image files. An attacker could create a malicious JPEG 2000 compressed image file that, when opened, would cause...

Scientific Linux Security Update : tomcat5 on SL5.x i386/x86_64

A flaw was found in the way Tomcat handled the Transfer-Encoding header in HTTP requests. A specially crafted HTTP request could prevent Tomcat from sending replies, or cause Tomcat to return truncated replies, or replies containing data related to the requests of other users, for all subsequent...

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

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 the user running Firefox. CVE-2009-0352, CVE-2009-0353, CVE-2009-0356 Several flaws were found in the way malformed...

Scientific Linux Security Update : seamonkey on 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 with the privileges of the user running SeaMonkey. CVE-2010-3767, CVE-2010-3772, CVE-2010-3776 A flaw was found in th...

Scientific Linux Security Update : icedtea-web on SL6.x i386/x86_64

The IcedTea-Web project provides a Java web browser plug-in and an implementation of Java Web Start, which is based on the Netx project. It also contains a configuration tool for managing deployment settings for the plug-in and Web Start implementations. A flaw was found in the same-origin policy...

Scientific Linux Security Update : java (jdk 1.6.0) on SL4.x, SL5.x i386/x86_64

This update fixes two vulnerabilities in the Sun Java 6 Runtime Environment and the Sun Java 6 Software Development Kit. Further information about these flaws can be found on the Oracle Security Alert page listed in the References section. CVE-2010-0886, CVE-2010-0887 All running instances of Sun...

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

Xen was found to allow unprivileged DomU domains to overwrite xenstore values which should only be changeable by the privileged Dom0 domain. An attacker controlling a DomU domain could, potentially, use this flaw to kill arbitrary processes in Dom0 or trick a Dom0 user into accessing the text...

Scientific Linux Security Update : thunderbird on SL5.x, SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20120606)

Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client. Several flaws were found in the processing of malformed content. Malicious content could cause Thunderbird to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Thunderbird. CVE-2011-3101,...

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

Perl is a high-level programming language commonly used for system administration utilities and web programming. It was found that the 'new' constructor of the Digest module used its argument as part of the string expression passed to the eval function. An attacker could possibly use this flaw to...