Vulnerabilities in the Debian GNU/Linux operating system that allow a remote attacker to compromise the confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of protected information

The multiple vulnerabilities in the libc6-i386 package of the Debian GNU/Linux operating system can be exploited, leading to breaches of the confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of protected information. These vulnerabilities can be exploited remotely...

Scientific Linux Security Update : ImageMagick on SL6.x, SL7.x i386/x86_64 (20160617)

Security Fixes : - It was discovered that ImageMagick did not properly sanitize certain input before using it to invoke processes. A remote attacker could create a specially crafted image that, when processed by an application using ImageMagick or an unsuspecting user using the ImageMagick...

Scientific Linux Security Update : openssh on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20160510)

Security Fixes : - It was found that the OpenSSH client did not properly enforce the ForwardX11Timeout setting. A malicious or compromised remote X application could possibly use this flaw to establish a trusted connection to the local X server, even if only untrusted X11 forwarding was requested...

Scientific Linux Security Update : java-1.7.0-openjdk on SL5.x, SL7.x i386/x86_64 (20160325)

Security Fixes : - An improper type safety check was discovered in the Hotspot component. An untrusted Java application or applet could use this flaw to bypass Java Sandbox restrictions. CVE-2016-0636 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text is C Scientific Linux...

Scientific Linux Security Update : java-1.7.0-openjdk on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20160325)

Security Fixes : - An improper type safety check was discovered in the Hotspot component. An untrusted Java application or applet could use this flaw to bypass Java Sandbox restrictions. CVE-2016-0636 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text is C Scientific Linux...

Scientific Linux Security Update : git on SL6.x, SL7.x i386/x86_64 (20160323)

An integer truncation flaw and an integer overflow flaw, both leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, were found in the way Git processed certain path information. A remote attacker could create a specially crafted Git repository that would cause a Git client or server to crash or, possibly,...

Fedora 23 : xen-4.5.2-9.fc23 (2016-f4504e9445)

Qemu: nvram: OOB r/w access in processing firmware configurations CVE-2016-1714 1296080 Qemu: i386: NULL pointer dereference in vapicwrite CVE-2016-1922 1292767 qemu: Stack-based buffer overflow in megasasctrlgetinfo CVE-2015-8613 1293305 qemu-kvm: Infinite loop and out-of-bounds transfer start i...

Scientific Linux Security Update : bind on SL5.x, SL6.x, SL7.x i386/x86_64 (20160316)

A denial of service flaw was found in the way BIND parsed signature records for DNAME records. By sending a specially crafted query, a remote attacker could use this flaw to cause named to crash. CVE-2016-1286 A denial of service flaw was found in the way BIND processed certain control channel...

kernel security update

kernel 2.6.18-409.0.0.0.1 - netfront fix ring buffer index go back led vif stop orabug 18272251 - net fix tcptrimhead James Li orabug 14512145, 19219078 - ocfs2: dlm: fix recovery hung Junxiao Bi orabug 13956772 - i386: fix MTRR code Zhenzhong Duan orabug 15862649 - oprofile x86, mm: Add...

Scientific Linux Security Update : openssl on SL6.x, SL7.x i386/x86_64 (20160301) (DROWN)

A padding oracle flaw was found in the Secure Sockets Layer version 2.0 SSLv2 protocol. An attacker can potentially use this flaw to decrypt RSA-encrypted cipher text from a connection using a newer SSL/TLS protocol version, allowing them to decrypt such connections. This cross-protocol attack is...

Scientific Linux Security Update : thunderbird on SL5.x, SL6.x, SL7.x i386/x86_64 (20160218)

Several flaws were found in the processing of malformed web content. A web page containing malicious content could cause Thunderbird to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Thunderbird. CVE-2016-1930, CVE-2016-1935 After installing the update,...

Scientific Linux Security Update : firefox on SL5.x, SL6.x, SL7.x i386/x86_64 (20160216)

Multiple security flaws were found in the graphite2 font library shipped with Firefox. A web page containing malicious content could cause Firefox to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Firefox. CVE-2016-1521, CVE-2016-1522, CVE-2016-1523 After...

Oracle: Security Advisory (ELSA-2016-0045-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 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...

Scientific Linux Security Update : openssl on SL6.x, SL7.x i386/x86_64 (20160107) (SLOTH)

A flaw was found in the way TLS 1.2 could use the MD5 hash function for signing ServerKeyExchange and Client Authentication packets during a TLS handshake. A man-in-the-middle attacker able to force a TLS connection to use the MD5 hash function could use this flaw to conduct collision attacks to...

Scientific Linux Security Update : gnutls on SL6.x, SL7.x i386/x86_64 (20160107) (SLOTH)

A flaw was found in the way TLS 1.2 could use the MD5 hash function for signing ServerKeyExchange and Client Authentication packets during a TLS handshake. A man-in-the-middle attacker able to force a TLS connection to use the MD5 hash function could use this flaw to conduct collision attacks to...

Scientific Linux Security Update : bind97 on SL5.x i386/x86_64 (20151216)

A denial of service flaw was found in the way BIND processed certain records with malformed class attributes. A remote attacker could use this flaw to send a query to request a cached record with a malformed class attribute that would cause named functioning as an authoritative or recursive serve...

Scientific Linux Security Update : libxml2 on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20151207)

Several denial of service flaws were found in libxml2, a library providing support for reading, modifying, and writing XML and HTML files. A remote attacker could provide a specially crafted XML or HTML file that, when processed by an application using libxml2, would cause that application to use...

Scientific Linux Security Update : openafs on SL5.x, SL6.x, SL7.x i386/x86_64 (20151021)

This release fixes the high impact security vulnerability named 'Tattletale' The packet paylod of Rx ACK packets is not fully initialized, leaking plaintext from packets previously processed. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text is C Scientific Linux...

[SECURITY] [DLA 334-2] libxml2 regression update

Package : libxml2 Version : 2.7.8.dfsg-2+squeeze14 Unfortunately I mixed up the build of the i386 version of the libxml2 package. dpkg did not understand the contents of an included trigger file and threw an error message. This new upload should fix this and you can get rid of the error message...

Debian DLA-334-2 : libxml2 regression update

Unfortunately I mixed up the build of the i386 version of the libxml2 package. dpkg did not understand the contents of an included trigger file and threw an error message. This new upload should fix this and you can get rid of the error message with for example : apt-get update; apt-get -f instal...