Scientific Linux Security Update : php on SL4.x, SL5.x, SL6.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 previous php packages introduced an uninitialized memory use flaw. A remote attacker could send a specially crafted HTTP request to cause the PHP...

Scientific Linux Security Update : cups on SL5.x i386/x86_64 (20120221)

The Common UNIX Printing System CUPS provides a portable printing layer for Linux, UNIX, and similar operating systems. A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the Lempel-Ziv-Welch LZW decompression algorithm implementation used by the CUPS GIF image format reader. An attacker could create...

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

The Common UNIX Printing System CUPS provides a portable printing layer for UNIX operating systems. A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the Lempel-Ziv-Welch LZW decompression algorithm implementation used by the CUPS GIF image format reader. An attacker could create a malicious GIF ima...

Scientific Linux Security Update : system-config-firewall on SL6.x i386/x86_64

system-config-firewall is a graphical user interface for basic firewall setup. It was found that system-config-firewall used the Python pickle module in an insecure way when sending data via D-Bus to the privileged back-end mechanism. A local user authorized to configure firewall rules using...

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

The rgmanager package contains the Resource Group Manager, which provides the ability to create and manage high-availability server applications in the event of system downtime. It was discovered that certain resource agent scripts set the LDLIBRARYPATH environment variable to an insecure value...

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 : ipmitool on SL6.x i386/x86_64

The ipmitool package contains a command line utility for interfacing with devices that support the Intelligent Platform Management Interface IPMI specification. IPMI is an open standard for machine health, inventory, and remote power control. It was discovered that the IPMI event daemon ipmievd...

Scientific Linux Security Update : krb5 on SL6.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 NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the way the MIT Kerberos KDC processed certain TGS...

Scientific Linux Security Update : tomcat5 on SL5.x i386/x86_64

Apache Tomcat is a servlet container for the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages JSP technologies. It was found that web applications could modify the location of the Tomcat host's work directory. As web applications deployed on Tomcat have read and write access to this directory, a malicious web...

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 : glibc on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20120124)

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. An integer overflow flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer...

Scientific Linux Security Update : xorg-x11-server on SL5.x, SL6.x i386/x86_64

X.Org is an open source implementation of the X Window System. It provides the basic low-level functionality that full-fledged graphical user interfaces are designed upon. Multiple input sanitization flaws were found in the X.Org GLX OpenGL extension to the X Window System extension. A malicious,...

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 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 : 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 : samba3x on SL5.x i386/x86_64

Samba is a suite of programs used by machines to share files, printers, and other information. A cross-site scripting XSS flaw was found in the password change page of the Samba Web Administration Tool SWAT. If a remote attacker could trick a user, who was logged into the SWAT interface, into...

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...