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

Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language. A flaw was found in the Python urllib and urllib2 libraries where they would not differentiate between different target URLs when handling automatic redirects. This caused Python applications using these modules to follo...

Scientific Linux Security Update : virt-v2v on SL6.x x86_64

virt-v2v is a tool for converting and importing virtual machines to libvirt-managed KVM Kernel-based Virtual Machine. Using virt-v2v to convert a guest that has a password-protected VNC console to a KVM guest removed that password protection from the converted guest: after conversion, a password...

Scientific Linux Security Update : sos on SL6.x

Sos is a set of tools that gather information about system hardware and configuration. The sosreport utility incorrectly included aspects of TUV's Certificate-based private entitlement keys in the resulting archive of debugging information. An attacker able to access the archive could use the key...

Scientific Linux Security Update : rsyslog on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20120620)

The rsyslog packages provide an enhanced, multi-threaded syslog daemon. A numeric truncation error, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, was found in the way the rsyslog imfile module processed text files containing long lines. An attacker could use this flaw to crash the rsyslogd daemon or,...

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

Security fixes : - a NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the sctprcvootb function in the Linux kernel Stream Control Transmission Protocol SCTP implementation. A remote attacker could send a specially crafted SCTP packet to a target system, resulting in a denial of service. CVE-2010-0008,...

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

This Identity Management Application is a centralized authentication, identity management and authorization solution for both traditional and cloud based enterprise environments. It integrates components of the Upstream Directory Server, MIT Kerberos, the Upstream Certificate System, NTP, and DNS...

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

Multiple flaws were found in the Python rgbimg module. If an application written in Python was using the rgbimg module and loaded a specially crafted SGI image file, it could cause the application to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the applicatio...

Scientific Linux Security Update : libguestfs on SL6.x x86_64

libguestfs is a library for accessing and modifying guest disk images. libguestfs relied on the format auto-detection in QEMU rather than allowing the guest image file format to be specified. A privileged guest user could potentially use this flaw to read arbitrary files on the host that were...

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

These updated packages fix the following security issues : - the absence of a protection mechanism when attempting to access a critical section of code has been found in the Linux kernel open file descriptors control mechanism, fcntl. This could allow a local unprivileged user to simultaneously...

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

ImageMagick is an image display and manipulation tool for the X Window System that can read and write multiple image formats. It was found that ImageMagick utilities tried to load ImageMagick configuration files from the current working directory. If a user ran an ImageMagick utility in an...

Scientific Linux Security Update : nfs-utils on SL6.x i386/x86_64

The nfs-utils packages provide a daemon for the kernel Network File System NFS server, and related tools such as the mount.nfs, umount.nfs, and showmount programs. A flaw was found in the way nfs-utils performed IP based authentication of mount requests. In configurations where a directory was...

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

The Eclipse software development environment provides a set of tools for C/C++ and Java development. A cross-site scripting XSS flaw was found in the Eclipse Help Contents web application. An attacker could use this flaw to perform a cross-site scripting attack against victims by tricking them in...

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

The kexec-tools package contains the /sbin/kexec binary and utilities that together form the user-space component of the kernel's kexec feature. The /sbin/kexec binary facilitates a new kernel to boot using the kernel's kexec feature either on a normal or a panic reboot. The kexec fastboot...

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

The System Security Services Daemon SSSD provides a set of daemons to manage access to remote directories and authentication mechanisms. It provides an NSS and PAM interface toward the system and a pluggable back-end system to connect to multiple different account sources. It is also the basis to...

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

CVE-2009-2697 gdm not built with tcpwrappers A flaw was found in the way the gdm package was built. The gdm package was missing TCP wrappers support, which could result in an administrator believing they had access restrictions enabled when they did not. CVE-2009-2697 This update also fixes the...

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

MySQL did not correctly check directories used as arguments for the DATA DIRECTORY and INDEX DIRECTORY directives. Using this flaw, an authenticated attacker could elevate their access privileges to tables created by other database users. Note: this attack does not work on existing tables. An...

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

CVE-2007-2348 lftp mirror --script does not escape names and targets of symbolic links It was discovered that lftp did not properly escape shell metacharacters when generating shell scripts using the 'mirror --script' command. A mirroring script generated to download files from a malicious FTP...

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

A race condition was discovered in nssldap, which affected certain applications that make LDAP connections, such as Dovecot. This could cause nssldap to answer a request for information about one user with the information about a different user. CVE-2007-5794 As well, this updated package fixes t...

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

Security fixes : - a NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the Linux kernel NFSv4 implementation. Several of the NFSv4 file locking functions failed to check whether a file had been opened on the server before performing locking operations on it. A local, unprivileged user on a system with a...

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

A flaw was found in the way OpenLDAP handled NUL characters in the CommonName field of X.509 certificates. An attacker able to get a carefully-crafted certificate signed by a trusted Certificate Authority could trick applications using OpenLDAP libraries into accepting it by mistake, allowing the...