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

SystemTap is an instrumentation system for systems running the Linux kernel. The system allows developers to write scripts to collect data on the operation of the system. A race condition flaw was found in the way the staprun utility performed module loading. A local user who is a member of the...

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

Foomatic is a comprehensive, spooler-independent database of printers, printer drivers, and driver descriptions. The package also includes spooler-independent command line interfaces to manipulate queues and to print files and manipulate print jobs. foomatic-rip is a print filter written in Perl...

Scientific Linux Security Update : sos on SL6.x (20120620)

The sos package contains a set of tools that gather information from system hardware, logs and configuration files. The information can then be used for diagnostic purposes and debugging. The sosreport utility collected the Kickstart configuration file '/root/anaconda-ks.cfg', but did not remove...

Scientific Linux Security Update : php on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20120627)

PHP is an HTML-embedded scripting language commonly used with the Apache HTTP Server. It was discovered that the PHP XSL extension did not restrict the file writing capability of libxslt. A remote attacker could use this flaw to create or overwrite an arbitrary file that is writable by the user...

Scientific Linux Security Update : sblim-cim-client2 on SL6.x (20120620)

The SBLIM Standards-Based Linux Instrumentation for Manageability CIM Common Information Model Client is a class library for Java applications that provides access to CIM servers using the CIM Operations over HTTP protocol defined by the DMTF Distributed Management Task Force standards. It was...

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

The International Components for Unicode ICU library provides robust and full-featured Unicode services. A stack-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way ICU performed variant canonicalization for some locale identifiers. If a specially crafted locale representation was opened in an...

Scientific Linux Security Update : qemu-kvm on SL6.x x86_64

KVM Kernel-based Virtual Machine is a full virtualization solution for Linux on AMD64 and Intel 64 systems. qemu-kvm is the user-space component for running virtual machines using KVM. It was found that qemu-kvm did not properly drop supplemental group privileges when the root user started guests...

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

OpenSSL is a toolkit that implements Secure Sockets Layer SSL v2/v3 and Transport Layer Security TLS v1 protocols as well as a full-strength general purpose cryptography library. Datagram TLS DTLS is a protocol based on TLS that is capable of securing datagram transport UDP for instance. The...

Scientific Linux Security Update : libxml2 on SL4.x i386/x86_64 (20120111)

The libxml2 library is a development toolbox providing the implementation of various XML standards. One of those standards is the XML Path Language XPath, which is a language for addressing parts of an XML document. A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way libxml2 decoded entity...

Scientific Linux Security Update : openoffice.org on SL5.x i386/x86_64 (20120322)

OpenOffice.org is an office productivity suite that includes desktop applications, such as a word processor, spreadsheet application, presentation manager, formula editor, and a drawing program. OpenOffice.org embeds a copy of Raptor, which provides parsers for Resource Description Framework RDF...

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

The glibc packages contain the standard C libraries used by multiple programs on the system. These packages contain the standard C and the standard math libraries. Without these two libraries, a Linux system cannot function properly. The fix for CVE-2010-3847 introduced a regression in the way th...

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 : kernel on SL5.x i386/x86_64

These new kernel packages contain fixes for the following security issues : - A flaw was found in the backported stack unwinder fixes in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. On AMD64 and Intel 64 platforms, a local user could trigger this flaw and cause a denial of service. CVE-2007-4574, Important - A fl...

Scientific Linux Security Update : systemtap on SL5.x, SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20120308)

SystemTap is an instrumentation system for systems running the Linux kernel. The system allows developers to write scripts to collect data on the operation of the system. An invalid pointer read flaw was found in the way SystemTap handled malformed debugging information in DWARF format. When...

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

SystemTap is an instrumentation system for systems running the Linux kernel, version 2.6. Developers can write scripts to collect data on the operation of the system. Two divide-by-zero flaws were found in the way SystemTap handled malformed debugging information in DWARF format. When SystemTap...

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 : kernel on SL6.x i386/x86_64

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. This update fixes the following security issues : - Flaws in the AGPGART driver implementation when handling certain IOCTL commands could allow a local user to cause a denial of service or escalate their...

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 : php on SL5.x, SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20120507)

PHP is an HTML-embedded scripting language commonly used with the Apache HTTP Server. A flaw was found in the way the php-cgi executable processed command line arguments when running in CGI mode. A remote attacker could send a specially crafted request to a PHP script that would result in the que...

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...