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 : perl on SL3.x, SL4.x i386/x86_64

Perl is a high-level programming language commonly used for system administration utilities and web programming. The Safe extension module allows users to compile and execute Perl code in restricted compartments. The Safe module did not properly restrict the code of implicitly called methods such...

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 : freetype on SL3.x, SL4.x, SL5.x i386/x86_64

Tavis Ormandy of the Google Security Team discovered several integer overflow flaws in the FreeType 2 font engine. If a user loaded a carefully-crafted font file with an application linked against FreeType 2, it could cause the application to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code with the...

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 flaw was found in the way SeaMonkey handled malformed JPEG images. A website containing a malicious JPEG image could cause SeaMonkey to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the...

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

CVE-2009-2404 nss regexp heap overflow Moxie Marlinspike reported a heap overflow flaw in a regular expression parser in the NSS library provided by SeaMonkey used to match common names in certificates. A malicious website could present a carefully-crafted certificate in such a way as to trigger...

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

libsoup is an HTTP client/library implementation for GNOME. A directory traversal flaw was found in libsoup's SoupServer. If an application used SoupServer to implement an HTTP service, a remote attacker who is able to connect to that service could use this flaw to access any local files accessib...

Scientific Linux Security Update : apr-util on SL4.x, SL5.x i386/x86_64

It was found that certain input could cause the apr-util library to allocate more memory than intended in the aprbrigadesplitline function. An attacker able to provide input in small chunks to an application using the apr-util library such as httpd could possibly use this flaw to trigger high...

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...

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

Multiple NULL pointer dereference flaws were found in the way Pidgin handled Base64 decoding. A remote attacker could use these flaws to crash Pidgin if the target Pidgin user was using the Yahoo! Messenger Protocol, MSN, MySpace, or Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol XMPP protocol...

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

Several flaws were found in the processing of malformed HTML mail content. An HTML mail message containing malicious content could cause Thunderbird to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code as the user running Thunderbird. CVE-2009-0352, CVE-2009-0353, CVE-2009-0772, CVE-2009-0774,...

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

CVE-2009-3026 pidgin: ignores SSL/TLS requirements with old jabber servers CVE-2009-2703 Pidgin: NULL pointer dereference by handling IRC topics DoS CVE-2009-3083 Pidgin: NULL pointer dereference by processing incomplete MSN SLP invite DoS CVE-2009-3085 Pidgin: NULL pointer dereference by...

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

CVE-2009-2663 libvorbis: Improper codec headers processing DoS, ACE An insufficient input validation flaw was found in the way libvorbis processes the codec file headers static mode headers and encoding books of the Ogg Vorbis audio file format Ogg. A remote attacker could provide a specially...

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

A flaw was found in the SSLgetsharedciphers utility function. An attacker could send a list of ciphers to an application that used this function and overrun a buffer with a single byte CVE-2007-5135. Few applications make use of this vulnerable function and generally it is used only when...

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

The libpng packages contain a library of functions for creating and manipulating PNG Portable Network Graphics image format files. A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way libpng processed certain PNG image files. An attacker could create a specially crafted PNG image that, when opened, could...

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

A flaw was found in the way the ssh server wrote account names to the audit subsystem. An attacker could inject strings containing parts of audit messages which could possibly mislead or confuse audit log parsing tools. CVE-2007-3102 A flaw was found in the way the OpenSSH server processes GSSAPI...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kvm on SL5.4 x86_64

CVE-2009-3722 KVM: Check cpl before emulating debug register access CVE-2010-0419 kvm: emulator privilege escalation segment selector check A flaw was found in the way the x86 emulator loaded segment selectors used for memory segmentation and protection into segment registers. In some guest syste...

Scientific Linux Security Update : t1lib on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20120124)

The t1lib library allows you to rasterize bitmaps from PostScript Type 1 fonts. Two heap-based buffer overflow flaws were found in the way t1lib processed Adobe Font Metrics AFM files. If a specially crafted font file was opened by an application linked against t1lib, it could cause the applicati...

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

It was discovered that evolution did not properly validate NTLM NT LAN Manager authentication challenge packets. A malicious server using NTLM authentication could cause evolution to disclose portions of its memory or crash during user authentication. CVE-2009-0582 An integer overflow flaw which...

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

Two integer overflow flaws were found in the CUPS 'pdftops' filter. An attacker could create a malicious PDF file that would cause 'pdftops' to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code as the 'lp' user if the file was printed. CVE-2009-3608, CVE-2009-3609 After installing the update, the cup...