Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: libreoffice security update

Updated libreoffice packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: openoffice.org security update

Updated openoffice.org packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity...

Scientific Linux Security Update : php53 on SL5.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 : wireshark on SL6.x i386/x86_64

A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the Wireshark Local Download Sharing Service LDSS dissector. If Wireshark read a malformed packet off a network or opened a malicious dump file, it could crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code as the user running Wireshark. CVE-2010-4300 A denial...

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

An integer truncation error, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, was found in the way the OpenOffice.org Impress presentation application sanitized a file's dictionary property items. An attacker could use this flaw to create a specially crafted Microsoft Office PowerPoint file that, when...

Scientific Linux Security Update : libxml2 on SL3.x, SL4.x, SL5.x i386/x86_64

An integer overflow flaw causing a heap-based buffer overflow was found in the libxml2 XML parser. If an application linked against libxml2 processed untrusted, malformed XML content, it could cause the application to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code. CVE-2008-4226 A denial of service...

Scientific Linux Security Update : glibc on SL4.x i386/x86_64 (20120213)

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 : libcgroup on SL6.x i386/x86_64

A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way libcgroup converted a list of user-provided controllers for a particular task into an array of strings. A local attacker could use this flaw to escalate their privileges via a specially crafted list of controllers. CVE-2011-1006 It was...

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

JasPer is an implementation of Part 1 of the JPEG 2000 image compression standard. Two heap-based buffer overflow flaws were found in the way JasPer decoded JPEG 2000 compressed image files. An attacker could create a malicious JPEG 2000 compressed image file that, when opened, would cause...

Scientific Linux Security Update : openjpeg on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20120711)

OpenJPEG is an open source library for reading and writing image files in JPEG 2000 format. An input validation flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, was found in the way OpenJPEG handled the tile number and size in an image tile header. A remote attacker could provide a specially crafte...

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

An integer overflow flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, was found in the ImageMagick routine responsible for creating X11 images. An attacker could create a specially crafted image file that, when opened by a victim, would cause ImageMagick to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary...

Scientific Linux Security Update : openoffice.org2 on SL4.x i386/x86_64

An integer truncation error, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, was found in the way the OpenOffice.org Impress presentation application sanitized a file's dictionary property items. An attacker could use this flaw to create a specially crafted Microsoft Office PowerPoint file that, when...

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

CVE-2009-0200 OpenOffice.org Word document Integer Underflow CVE-2009-0201 OpenOffice.org Word document buffer overflow An integer underflow flaw and a boundary error flaw, both possibly leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, were found in the way OpenOffice.org parses certain records in...

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

CVE-2007-4476 tar/cpio stack crashing in safernamesuffix CVE-2010-0624 tar, cpio: Heap-based buffer overflow by expanding a specially crafted archive A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way tar expanded archive files. If a user were tricked into expanding a specially crafted archiv...

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

Perl is a high-level programming language commonly used for system administration utilities and web programming. A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way Perl decoded Unicode strings. An attacker could create a malicious Unicode string that, when decoded by a Perl program, would cau...

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

An integer truncation error, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, was found in the way the OpenOffice.org Impress presentation application sanitized a file's dictionary property items. An attacker could use this flaw to create a specially crafted Microsoft Office PowerPoint file that, when...

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

An integer overflow flaw which caused a heap-based buffer overflow was discovered in libsoup's Base64 encoding routine. An attacker could use this flaw to crash, or, possibly, execute arbitrary code. This arbitrary code would execute with the privileges of the application using libsoup's Base64...

Scientific Linux Security Update : libxml2 on SL3.x, SL4.x, SL5.x i386/x86_64

A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way libxml2 handled long XML entity names. If an application linked against libxml2 processed untrusted malformed XML content, it could cause the application to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code. CVE-2008-3529 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenab...

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

Several heap-based buffer overflow flaws were found in ImageMagick. If a victim opened a specially crafted DCM or XWD file, an attacker could potentially execute arbitrary code on the victim's machine. CVE-2007-1797 Several denial of service flaws were found in ImageMagick's parsing of XCF and DC...

Scientific Linux Security Update : httpd on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20120213)

The Apache HTTP Server is a popular web server. It was discovered that the fix for CVE-2011-3368 released in a previous update did not completely address the problem. An attacker could bypass the fix and make a reverse proxy connect to an arbitrary server not directly accessible to the attacker b...