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

A flaw was found in the modproxy Apache module. An attacker in control of a Web server to which requests were being proxied could have caused a limited denial of service due to CPU consumption and stack exhaustion. CVE-2008-2364 A flaw was found in the modproxyftp Apache module. If Apache was...

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

A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the way the moddavsvn module processed certain requests to lock working copy paths in a repository. A remote attacker could issue a lock request that could cause the httpd process serving the request to crash. CVE-2011-0715 This update also fixes the...

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

A denial of service flaw was found in the Apache modproxy module when it was used as a reverse proxy. A remote attacker could use this flaw to force a proxy process to consume large amounts of CPU time. CVE-2009-1890 A denial of service flaw was found in the Apache moddeflate module. This module...

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

A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in PHP's mbstring extension. A remote attacker able to pass arbitrary input to a PHP script using mbstring conversion functions could cause the PHP interpreter to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code. CVE-2008-5557 A flaw was found in the handling...

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

An off-by-one overflow flaw was found in the way apr-util processed a variable list of arguments. An attacker could provide a specially crafted string as input for the formatted output conversion routine, which could, on big-endian platforms, potentially lead to the disclosure of sensitive...

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 : httpd on SL3.x, SL4.x, SL5.x i386/x86_64

A flaw was found in the modproxy module. On sites where a reverse proxy is configured, a remote attacker could send a carefully crafted request that would cause the Apache child process handling that request to crash. On sites where a forward proxy is configured, an attacker could cause a similar...

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

An access restriction bypass flaw was found in the moddavsvn module. If the SVNPathAuthz directive was set to 'shortcircuit', certain access rules were not enforced, possibly allowing sensitive repository data to be leaked to remote users. Note that SVNPathAuthz is set to 'On' by default...

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

A flaw was found in the handling of compression structures between modssl and OpenSSL. If too many connections were opened in a short period of time, all system memory and swap space would be consumed by httpd, negatively impacting other processes, or causing a system crash. CVE-2008-1678 A flaw...

Scientific Linux Security Update : php53 and php on SL5.x, SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20120111)

PHP is an HTML-embedded scripting language commonly used with the Apache HTTP Server. It was found that the hashing routine used by PHP arrays was susceptible to predictable hash collisions. If an HTTP POST request to a PHP application contained many parameters whose names map to the same hash...

Scientific Linux Security Update : php on SL4.x, SL5.x, SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20120202)

PHP is an HTML-embedded scripting language commonly used with the Apache HTTP Server. It was discovered that the fix for CVE-2011-4885 released via previous php packages introduced an uninitialized memory use flaw. A remote attacker could send a specially crafted HTTP request to cause the PHP...

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

A flaw was found in the way PHP converted certain floating point values from string representation to a number. If a PHP script evaluated an attacker's input in a numeric context, the PHP interpreter could cause high CPU usage until the script execution time limit is reached. This issue only...

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

An input validation flaw was discovered in the PHP session serializer. If a PHP script generated session variable names from untrusted user input, a remote attacker could use this flaw to inject an arbitrary variable into the PHP session. CVE-2010-3065 An information leak flaw was discovered in t...

Scientific Linux Security Update : php on SL5.x, SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20120507)

PHP is an HTML-embedded scripting language commonly used with the Apache HTTP Server. A flaw was found in the way the php-cgi executable processed command line arguments when running in CGI mode. A remote attacker could send a specially crafted request to a PHP script that would result in the que...

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

A flaw was discovered in the way the modproxy module of the Apache HTTP Server handled the timeouts of requests forwarded by a reverse proxy to the back-end server. If the proxy was configured to reuse existing back-end connections, it could return a response intended for another user under certa...

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

CVE-2010-0434 httpd: request header information leak A use-after-free flaw was discovered in the way the Apache HTTP Server handled request headers in subrequests. In configurations where subrequests are used, a multithreaded MPM Multi-Processing Module could possibly leak information from other...

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

A flaw was found in the way modauthmysql escaped certain multibyte-encoded strings. If modauthmysql was configured to use a multibyte character set that allowed a backslash '' as part of the character encodings, a remote attacker could inject arbitrary SQL commands into a login request...

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

A flaw was found in the way modauthmysql escaped certain multibyte-encoded strings. If modauthmysql was configured to use a multibyte character set that allowed a backslash '' as part of the character encodings, a remote attacker could inject arbitrary SQL commands into a login request...

Scientific Linux Security Update : php53 and php on SL5.x, SL6.x i386/x86_64

PHP is an HTML-embedded scripting language commonly used with the Apache HTTP Server. A signedness issue was found in the way the PHP crypt function handled 8-bit characters in passwords when using Blowfish hashing. Up to three characters immediately preceding a non-ASCII character one with the...