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

There were no new features introduced by this update. The only changes that have been included address critical customer needs or security issues elaborated below. Key areas affected by fixes in this update include the networking subsystem, dcache handling, the ext2 and ext3 file systems, the USB...

Scientific Linux Security Update : rhn-client-tools on SL5.x i386/x86_64

It was discovered that rhn-client-tools set insecure permissions on the loginAuth.pkl file, used to store session credentials for authenticating connections to servers. A local, unprivileged user could use these credentials to download packages they wouldn't normally have permission to download...

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

It was discovered that the bind packages created the 'rndc.key' file with insecure file permissions. This allowed any local user to read the content of this file. A local user could use this flaw to control some aspects of the named daemon by using the rndc utility, for example, stopping the name...

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

A flaw was found in Mailman. A remote attacker could spoof messages in the error log, and possibly trick the administrator into visiting malicious URLs via a carriage return/line feed sequence in the URI. CVE-2006-4624 As well, these updated packages fix the following bugs : - canceling a...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kvm on SL5.x x86_64

A data structure field in kvmvcpuioctlx86getvcpuevents in QEMU-KVM was not initialized properly before being copied to user-space. A privileged host user with access to '/dev/kvm' could use this flaw to leak kernel stack memory to user-space. CVE-2010-4525 These updated packages also fix several...

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 : kernel on SL5.x i386/x86_64

This update fixes the following security issues : - A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the iosubmitone function in the Linux kernel asynchronous I/O implementation. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to cause a denial of service. CVE-2010-3066, Moderate - A flaw was found in...

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

Two directory traversal flaws were found in the way fastjar extracted JAR archive files. If a local, unsuspecting user extracted a specially crafted JAR file, it could cause fastjar to overwrite arbitrary files writable by the user running fastjar. CVE-2010-0831, CVE-2010-2322 This update also...

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

The version of vsftpd as shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 when used in combination with Pluggable Authentication Modules PAM had a memory leak on an invalid authentication attempt. Since vsftpd prior to version 2.0.5 allows any number of invalid attempts on the same connection this memory le...

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

Updated openafs that fixes several bugs. This is the same openafs that is in Scientific Linux 4.5. Please remember that openafs is not autoyumed by default. You will have to manually do a 'yum update' to get the openafs update. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive...

CVE-2012-2665

Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in the XML manifest encryption tag parsing functionality in OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice before 3.5.5 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted Open Document Text .odt file with 1 a child tag within...

CVE-2012-3443

The django.forms.ImageField class in the form system in Django before 1.3.2 and 1.4.x before 1.4.1 completely decompresses image data during image validation, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory consumption by uploading an image file...

xulrunner to 14.0.1 (critical)

Mozilla XULRunner was updated to 14.0.1, fixing bugs and security issues: Following security issues were fixed: MFSA 2012-42: Mozilla developers identified and fixed several memory safety bugs in the browser engine used in Firefox and other Mozilla-based products. Some of these bugs showed eviden...

CentOS Update for xen CESA-2011:1401 centos5 x86_64

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CentOS Update for kernel CESA-2012:0690 centos5

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CentOS Update for kernel CESA-2012:1064 centos6

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CentOS Update for firefox CESA-2012:0387 centos6

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CentOS Update for kernel CESA-2011:0163 centos5 x86_64

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CentOS Update for nss CESA-2011:1444 centos4 x86_64

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CentOS Update for bash CESA-2011:1073 centos5 x86_64

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