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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 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 : 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 : 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...

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 : cvs on SL6.x i386/x86_64

An array index error, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, was found in the way CVS applied certain delta fragment changes from input files in the RCS Revision Control System file format. If an attacker in control of a CVS repository stored a specially crafted RCS file in that repository, and...

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 : 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 : 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 : glibc on SL5.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 : evolution on SL3.x i386/x86_64

It was discovered that evolution did not properly validate NTLM NT LAN Manager authentication challenge packets. A malicious server using NTLM authentication could cause evolution to disclose portions of its memory or crash during user authentication. CVE-2009-0582 An integer overflow flaw which...

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

A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way libtiff processed certain TIFF image files that were compressed with the JPEG compression algorithm. An attacker could use this flaw to create a specially crafted TIFF file that, when opened, would cause an application linked against libtiff ...

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

A heap-based buffer overflow was discovered in the way ed, the GNU line editor, processed long file names. An attacker could create a file with a specially crafted name that could possibly execute an arbitrary code when opened in the ed editor. CVE-2008-3916 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network...

Scientific Linux Security Update : libxml2 on SL6.x i386/x86_64

The libxml2 library is a development toolbox providing the implementation of various XML standards. One of those standards is the XML Path Language XPath, which is a language for addressing parts of an XML document. An off-by-one error, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, was found in the wa...

CentOS Update for libtiff CESA-2011:0392 centos5 x86_64

Check for the Version of libtiff OpenVAS Vulnerability Test CentOS Update for libtiff CESA-2011:0392 centos5 x8664 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2012 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it...