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 : krb5 on SL3.x i386/x86_64

An input validation flaw was found in the ASN.1 Abstract Syntax Notation One decoder used by MIT Kerberos. A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash a network service using the MIT Kerberos library, such as kadmind or krb5kdc, by causing it to dereference or free an uninitialized pointer or,...

Scientific Linux Security Update : libxml and libxml2 on SL3.x, SL4.x, SL5.x i386/x86_64

CVE-2009-2414 libxml, libxml2, mingw32-libxml2: Stack overflow by parsing root XML element DTD definition CVE-2009-2416 libxml, libxml2, mingw32-libxml2: Pointer use-after-free flaws by parsing Notation and Enumeration attribute types A stack overflow flaw was found in the way libxml processes th...

Scientific Linux Security Update : openoffice.org and openoffice.org2 on SL4.x i386/x86_64

An array index error and an integer signedness error were found in the way OpenOffice.org parsed certain Rich Text Format RTF files. An attacker could use these flaws to create a specially crafted RTF file that, when opened, would cause OpenOffice.org to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code...

Scientific Linux Security Update : xorg-x11-server on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20120620)

X.Org is an open source implementation of the X Window System. It provides the basic low-level functionality that full-fledged graphical user interfaces are designed upon. A flaw was found in the way the X.Org server handled lock files. A local user with access to the system console could use thi...

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

A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was discovered in the pggetline function implementation. If the pggetline or getline functions read large, untrusted records from a database, it could cause an application using these functions to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code. CVE-2009-0663 Note:...

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

A ciphersuite downgrade flaw was found in the OpenSSL SSL/TLS server code. A remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to change the ciphersuite associated with a cached session stored on the server, if the server enabled the SSLOPNETSCAPEREUSECIPHERCHANGEBUG option, possibly forcing the clien...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kdelibs and kdelibs3 on SL4.x, SL5.x, SL6.x i386/x86_64

The kdelibs and kdelibs3 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...

Scientific Linux Security Update : gstreamer-plugins on SL4.x i386/x86_64

The gstreamer-plugins packages contain plug-ins used by the GStreamer streaming-media framework to support a wide variety of media formats. An integer overflow flaw, a boundary error, and multiple off-by-one flaws were found in various ModPlug music file format library libmodplug modules, embedde...

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

Multiple flaws were discovered in the CUPS 'pdftops' filter. An attacker could create a malicious PDF file that, when printed, would cause 'pdftops' to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code as the 'lp' user. CVE-2010-3702, SL4 Only - CVE-2009-3609 After installing this update, the cupsd...

Scientific Linux Security Update : tomcat6 on SL6.x i386/x86_64

Apache Tomcat is a servlet container for the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages JSP technologies. It was found that web applications could modify the location of the Tomcat host's work directory. As web applications deployed on Tomcat have read and write access to this directory, a malicious web...

Scientific Linux Security Update : ca-certificates on SL6.x

This package contains the set of CA certificates chosen by the Mozilla Foundation for use with the Internet Public Key Infrastructure PKI. It was found that a Certificate Authority CA issued fraudulent HTTPS certificates. This update removes that CA's root certificate from the ca-certificates...

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

A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way MySQL handled the parameters of the MySQL COMFIELDLIST network protocol command this command is sent when a client uses the MySQL mysqllistfields client library function. An authenticated database user could send a request with an excessively long table...

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

An off-by-one overflow flaw was found in the way apr-util processed a variable list of arguments. An attacker could provide a specially crafted string as input for the formatted output conversion routine, which could, on big-endian platforms, potentially lead to the disclosure of sensitive...

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

It was found that the FreeType font rendering engine improperly validated certain position values when processing input streams. If a user loaded a specially crafted font file with an application linked against FreeType, it could cause the application to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code...

Scientific Linux Security Update : vixie-cron on SL5.x i386/x86_64 (20120221)

The vixie-cron package contains the Vixie version of cron. Cron is a standard UNIX daemon that runs specified programs at scheduled times. The vixie-cron package adds improved security and more powerful configuration options to the standard version of cron. A race condition was found in the way t...

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 : openswan on SL6.x i386/x86_64

Two buffer overflow flaws were found in the Openswan client-side XAUTH handling code used when connecting to certain Cisco gateways. A malicious or compromised VPN gateway could use these flaws to execute arbitrary code on the connecting Openswan client. CVE-2010-3302, CVE-2010-3308 Two input...

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-2009-0040, CVE-2009-0771, CVE-2009-0772, CVE-2009-0773, CVE-2009-0774,CVE-2009-0775...

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

CVE-2009-2694 pidgin: insufficient input validation in msnslplinkprocessmsg Federico Muttis of Core Security Technologies discovered a flaw 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...