Scientific Linux Security Update : foomatic on SL6.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 C. An...

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : dhcp on SL4.x, SL5.x, SL6.x i386/x86_64

The Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol DHCP is a protocol that allows individual devices on an IP network to get their own network configuration information, including an IP address, a subnet mask, and a broadcast address. Two denial of service flaws were found in the way the dhcpd daemon handle...

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

The libarchive programming library can create and read several different streaming archive formats, including GNU tar and cpio. It can also read ISO 9660 CD-ROM images. Two heap-based buffer overflow flaws were discovered in libarchive. If a user were tricked into expanding a specially crafted IS...

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 : 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 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. A divide-by-zero flaw was found in the way SystemTap handled malformed debugging information in DWARF format. When SystemTap...

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

The Apache Portable Runtime APR is a portability library used by the Apache HTTP Server and other projects. It provides a free library of C data structures and routines. The fix for CVE-2011-0419 introduced an infinite loop flaw in the aprfnmatch function when the APRFNMPATHNAME matching flag was...

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

The util-linux package contains a large variety of low-level system utilities that are necessary for a Linux system to function. Among others, util-linux contains the fdisk configuration tool and the login program. Multiple flaws were found in the way the mount and umount commands performed mtab...

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 : 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 : apr on SL4.x, SL5.x i386/x86_64

The Apache Portable Runtime APR is a portability library used by the Apache HTTP Server and other projects. It provides a free library of C data structures and routines. The fix for CVE-2011-0419 introduced an infinite loop flaw in the aprfnmatch function when the APRFNMPATHNAME matching flag was...

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 : 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...

CentOS Update for systemtap CESA-2011:0841 centos5 x86_64

Check for the Version of systemtap OpenVAS Vulnerability Test CentOS Update for systemtap CESA-2011:0841 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...

CentOS Update for freetype CESA-2011:1455 centos4 x86_64

Check for the Version of freetype OpenVAS Vulnerability Test CentOS Update for freetype CESA-2011:1455 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 i...

CentOS Update for xorg-x11-server-utils CESA-2011:0433 centos5 x86_64

Check for the Version of xorg-x11-server-utils OpenVAS Vulnerability Test CentOS Update for xorg-x11-server-utils CESA-2011:0433 centos5 x8664 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2012 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can...