Low: Red Hat Security Advisory: openldap security and bug fix update

Updated openldap packages that fix one security issue and one bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having low security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating...

Scientific Linux Security Update : ecryptfs-utils on SL5.x i386/x86_64

These updated ecryptfs-utils packages have been upgraded to upstream version 75, which provides a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version. In addition, these packages provide a graphical program to help configure and use eCryptfs. To start this program, run the command :...

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

CVE-2009-3608 xpdf/poppler: integer overflow in ObjectStream::ObjectStream oCERT-2009-016 CVE-2009-3609 xpdf/poppler: ImageStream::ImageStream integer overflow CVE-2009-3603 xpdf/poppler: SplashBitmap::SplashBitmap integer overflow Multiple integer overflow flaws were found in poppler. An attacke...

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

Avahi is an implementation of the DNS Service Discovery and Multicast DNS specifications for Zero Configuration Networking. It facilitates service discovery on a local network. Avahi and Avahi-aware applications allow you to plug your computer into a network and, with no configuration, view other...

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

Wesley Miaw discovered that when deflate compression was used, libcurl could call the registered write callback function with data exceeding the documented limit. A malicious server could use this flaw to crash an application using libcurl or, potentially, execute arbitrary code. Note: This issue...

Scientific Linux Security Update : nfs-utils on SL5.x i386/x86_64

It was discovered that nfs-utils did not use tcpwrappers correctly. Certain hosts access rules defined in '/etc/hosts.allow' and '/etc/hosts.deny' may not have been honored, possibly allowing remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions. CVE-2008-4552 This updated package also fixes th...

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

It was discovered that the glibc dynamic linker/loader did not handle the $ORIGIN dynamic string token set in the LDAUDIT environment variable securely. A local attacker with write access to a file system containing setuid or setgid binaries could use this flaw to escalate their privileges...

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

A flaw was found in the way the gdm package was built. The gdm package was missing TCP wrappers support on 64-bit platforms, which could result in an administrator believing they had access restrictions enabled when they did not. CVE-2007-5079 This update also fixes the following bug : - sometime...

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

The configuration of sendmail in Scientific Linux was found to not reject the 'localhost.localdomain' domain name for email messages that come from external hosts. This could allow remote attackers to disguise spoofed messages. CVE-2006-7176 A flaw was found in the way sendmail handled NUL...

Scientific Linux Security Update : pam_krb5 on SL5.x i386/x86_64

A flaw was found in pamkrb5. In some non-default configurations specifically, those where pamkrb5 would be the first module to prompt for a password, the text of the password prompt varied based on whether or not the username provided was a username known to the system. A remote attacker could us...

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

Insecure temporary file use flaws were found in fenceegenera, fenceapc, and fenceapcsnmp. A local attacker could use these flaws to overwrite an arbitrary file writable by the victim running those utilities via a symbolic link attack. CVE-2008-4192, CVE-2008-4579 This update also fixes the...

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

A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way libtiff processed certain TIFF files encoded with a 4-bit run-length encoding scheme from ThunderScan. An attacker could use this flaw to create a specially crafted TIFF file that, when opened, would cause an application linked against libtif...

Scientific Linux Security Update : samba on SL3.x, SL4.x, SL5.x i386/x86_64

NOTE: This errata went out 2010-09-15, but this email was not sent. A missing array boundary checking flaw was found in the way Samba parsed the binary representation of Windows security identifiers SIDs. A malicious client could send a specially crafted SMB request to the Samba server, resulting...

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

A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way libtiff processed certain TIFF files encoded with a 4-bit run-length encoding scheme from ThunderScan. An attacker could use this flaw to create a specially crafted TIFF file that, when opened, would cause an application linked against libtif...

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 : krb5 on SL5.x i386/x86_64

A use-after-free flaw was discovered in the MIT Kerberos administration daemon, kadmind. A remote, authenticated attacker could use this flaw to crash the kadmind daemon. Administrative privileges are not required to trigger this flaw, as any realm user can request information about their own...

CentOS Update for java CESA-2011:0281 centos5 x86_64

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2012 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription scriptxrefname:"URL",...

CentOS Update for httpd CESA-2011:1392 centos5 x86_64

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2012 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription scriptxrefname:"URL",...

CentOS Update for nspr CESA-2012:1090 centos5

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2012 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription scriptxrefname:"URL",...

glibc, nscd security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2012:1098 Updated glibc packages that fix three security issues and one bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System...