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

Several use-after-free flaws were found in Firefox. Visiting a web page containing malicious content could result in Firefox executing arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Firefox. CVE-2010-0175, CVE-2010-0176, CVE-2010-0177 A flaw was found in Firefox that could allow an applet...

Scientific Linux Security Update : bind for SL 3.0.x on i386/x86_64

CVE-2009-0696 bind: DoS assertion failure via nsupdate packets A flaw was found in the way BIND handles dynamic update message packets containing the 'ANY' record type. A remote attacker could use this flaw to send a specially crafted dynamic update packet that could cause named to exit with an...

Scientific Linux Security Update : gstreamer-plugins-good on SL5.x i386/x86_64

Multiple integer overflow flaws, that could lead to a buffer overflow, were found in the GStreamer Good Plug-ins PNG decoding handler. An attacker could create a specially crafted PNG file that would cause an application using the GStreamer Good Plug-ins library to crash or, potentially, execute...

Scientific Linux Security Update : krb5 on SL3.x, SL4.x, SL5.x i386/x86_64

A NULL pointer dereference flaw was discovered in the MIT Kerberos Generic Security Service Application Program Interface GSS-API library. A remote, authenticated attacker could use this flaw to crash any server application using the GSS-API authentication mechanism, by sending a specially crafte...

Scientific Linux Security Update : cyrus-imapd on SL4.x, SL5.x, SL6.x i386/x86_64

The cyrus-imapd packages contain a high-performance mail server with IMAP, POP3, NNTP, and Sieve support. It was discovered that cyrus-imapd did not flush the received commands buffer after switching to TLS encryption for IMAP, LMTP, NNTP, and POP3 sessions. A man-in-the-middle attacker could use...

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

CVE-2009-2411 subversion: multiple heap overflow issues Matt Lewis, of Google, reported multiple heap overflow flaws in Subversion server and client when parsing binary deltas. A malicious user with commit access to a server could use these flaws to cause a heap overflow on that server. A malicio...

Scientific Linux Security Update : postgresql and postgresql84 on SL4.x, SL5.x i386/x86_64

It was discovered that a user could utilize the features of the PL/Perl and PL/Tcl languages to modify the behavior of a SECURITY DEFINER function created by a different user. If the PL/Perl or PL/Tcl language was used to implement a SECURITY DEFINER function, an authenticated database user could...

Scientific Linux Security Update : openjpeg on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20120711)

OpenJPEG is an open source library for reading and writing image files in JPEG 2000 format. An input validation flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, was found in the way OpenJPEG handled the tile number and size in an image tile header. A remote attacker could provide a specially crafte...

Scientific Linux Security Update : postgresql84 on SL5.x i386/x86_64

PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system DBMS. A signedness issue was found in the way the crypt function in the PostgreSQL pgcrypto module handled 8-bit characters in passwords when using Blowfish hashing. Up to three characters immediately preceding a non-ASCII...

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

A format string flaw was found in Wireshark. If Wireshark read a malformed packet off a network or opened a malicious dump file, it could crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code as the user running Wireshark. CVE-2009-1210 Several denial of service flaws were found in Wireshark. Wireshark coul...

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

An access restriction bypass flaw was found in the moddavsvn module. If the SVNPathAuthz directive was set to 'shortcircuit', certain access rules were not enforced, possibly allowing sensitive repository data to be leaked to remote users. Note that SVNPathAuthz is set to 'On' by default...

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

Squid is a high-performance proxy caching server for web clients, supporting FTP, Gopher, and HTTP data objects. A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way Squid parsed replies from remote Gopher servers. A remote user allowed to send Gopher requests to a Squid proxy could possibly use this flaw...

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 : postgresql on SL5.x i386/x86_64 (20120625)

PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system DBMS. A flaw was found in the way the crypt password hashing function from the optional PostgreSQL pgcrypto contrib module performed password transformation when used with the DES algorithm. If the password string to be hashed...

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 : subversion on SL5.x i386/x86_64

A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the way the moddavsvn module processed certain requests to lock working copy paths in a repository. A remote attacker could issue a lock request that could cause the httpd process serving the request to crash. CVE-2011-0715 This update also fixes the...

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

CVE-2009-2950 openoffice.org: GIF file parsing heap overflow CVE-2009-2949 openoffice.org: integer overflow in XPM processing CVE-2009-3301 OpenOffice.org Word sprmTDefTable Memory Corruption CVE-2009-3302 OpenOffice.org Word sprmTSetBrc Memory Corruption An integer overflow flaw, leading to a...

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

The nfs-utils package provides a daemon for the kernel Network File System NFS server, and related tools such as the mount.nfs, umount.nfs, and showmount programs. It was found that the mount.nfs tool did not handle certain errors correctly when updating the mtab mounted file systems table file. ...

Scientific Linux Security Update : raptor on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20120322)

Raptor provides parsers for Resource Description Framework RDF files. An XML External Entity expansion flaw was found in the way Raptor processed RDF files. If an application linked against Raptor were to open a specially crafted RDF file, it could possibly allow a remote attacker to obtain a cop...

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 with the privileges of the user running SeaMonkey. CVE-2010-3169 A buffer overflow flaw was found in SeaMonkey. A web...