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

NetworkManager is a network link manager that attempts to keep a wired or wireless network connection active at all times. The ifcfg-rh NetworkManager plug-in is used in Scientific Linux distributions to read and write configuration information from the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg- files...

Scientific Linux Security Update : sudo on SL5.x, SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20120716)

The sudo superuser do utility allows system administrators to give certain users the ability to run commands as root. A flaw was found in the way the network matching code in sudo handled multiple IP networks listed in user specification configuration directives. A user, who is authorized to run...

Scientific Linux Security Update : rpm on SL5.x, SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20120403)

The RPM Package Manager RPM is a command-line driven package management system capable of installing, uninstalling, verifying, querying, and updating software packages. Multiple flaws were found in the way RPM parsed package file headers. An attacker could create a specially crafted RPM package...

Scientific Linux Security Update : php53 on SL5.x i386/x86_64 (20120202)

PHP is an HTML-embedded scripting language commonly used with the Apache HTTP Server. It was discovered that the fix for CVE-2011-4885 released via in a previous update for php53 introduced an uninitialized memory use flaw. A remote attacker could send a specially crafted HTTP request to cause th...

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

The conga packages provide a web-based administration tool for remote cluster and storage management. A privilege escalation flaw was found in luci, the Conga web-based administration application. A remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to obtain administrative access, allowing them to rea...

Scientific Linux Security Update : samba on SL5.x i386/x86_64 (20120223)

Samba is a suite of programs used by machines to share files, printers, and other information. An input validation flaw was found in the way Samba handled Any Batched AndX requests. A remote, unauthenticated attacker could send a specially crafted SMB packet to the Samba server, possibly resultin...

Scientific Linux Security Update : postgresql on SL4.x, SL5.x, SL6.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 : 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. An input validation flaw was found in the way Squid calculated the total number of resource records in the answer section of multiple name server responses. An attacker could use this...

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 : krb5 on SL4.x, SL5.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. A buffer overflow flaw was found in the MIT krb5 telnet daemon telnetd. A remote attacker who can acce...

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 : openssl on SL5.x, SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20120424)

OpenSSL is a toolkit that implements the Secure Sockets Layer SSL v2/v3 and Transport Layer Security TLS v1 protocols, as well as a full-strength, general purpose cryptography library. Multiple numeric conversion errors, leading to a buffer overflow, were found in the way OpenSSL parsed ASN.1...

Scientific Linux Security Update : firefox on SL4.x, SL5.x, SL6.x i386/x86_64

Mozilla Firefox is an open source web browser. XULRunner provides the XUL Runtime environment for Mozilla Firefox. It was found that a Certificate Authority CA issued a fraudulent HTTPS certificate. This update renders any HTTPS certificates signed by that CA as untrusted, except for a select few...

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

Openswan is a free implementation of Internet Protocol Security IPsec and Internet Key Exchange IKE. IPsec uses strong cryptography to provide both authentication and encryption services. These services allow you to build secure tunnels through untrusted networks. A use-after-free flaw was found ...

CentOS Update for nspr CESA-2011:1282 centos4 x86_64

Check for the Version of nspr OpenVAS Vulnerability Test CentOS Update for nspr CESA-2011:1282 centos4 x8664 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2012 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under...

CentOS Update for libuser CESA-2011:0170 centos5 x86_64

Check for the Version of libuser OpenVAS Vulnerability Test CentOS Update for libuser CESA-2011:0170 centos5 x8664 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2012 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it...

CentOS Update for scsi-target-utils CESA-2011:0332 centos5 x86_64

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2012 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription scriptxrefname:"URL",...

CentOS Update for openssl CESA-2012:0699 centos6

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2012 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription scriptxrefname:"URL",...

CentOS Update for libxml2 CESA-2012:0324 centos6

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2012 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription scriptxrefname:"URL",...

CentOS Update for openssl CESA-2012:0699 centos5

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2012 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription scriptxrefname:"URL",...