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

A flaw was found in the way Qt expanded certain UTF8 characters. It was possible to prevent a Qt-based application from properly sanitizing user supplied input. This could, for example, result in a cross-site scripting attack against the Konqueror web browser. CVE-2007-0242 A buffer overflow flaw...

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

Note: Troy Dawson has tested this update on a machine hosting both paravirtualized and fully virtualized machines, both 32 bit and 64 bit. He did the update while all the machines were running, none of them had any problems. He also tried stopping, starting, and rebooting several of the machines...

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

OpenSSH stores hostnames, IP addresses, and keys in plaintext in the knownhosts file. A local attacker that has already compromised a user's SSH account could use this information to generate a list of additional targets that are likely to have the same password or key. CVE-2005-2666 %NASLMINLEVE...

Scientific Linux Security Update : sudo on SL5.x, SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20120716)

The sudo superuser do utility allows system administrators to give certain users the ability to run commands as root. A flaw was found in the way the network matching code in sudo handled multiple IP networks listed in user specification configuration directives. A user, who is authorized to run...

Scientific Linux Security Update : krb5 on SL4.x, SL5.x i386/x86_64

Multiple checksum validation flaws were discovered in the MIT Kerberos implementation. A remote attacker could use these flaws to tamper with certain Kerberos protocol packets and, possibly, bypass authentication mechanisms in certain configurations using Single-use Authentication Mechanisms...

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

A flaw was found in the way Evolution processed certain APOP authentication requests. A remote attacker could potentially acquire certain portions of a user's authentication credentials by sending certain responses when evolution-data-server attempted to authenticate against an APOP server...

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

SeaMonkey is an open source web browser, email and newsgroup client, IRC chat client, and HTML editor. It was found that a Certificate Authority CA issued a fraudulent HTTPS certificate. This update renders any HTTPS certificates signed by that CA as untrusted, except for a select few. The now...

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

CVE-2005-4881 kernel: netlink: fix numerous padding memleaks CVE-2009-3228 kernel: tc: uninitialised kernel memory leak This update fixes the following security issues : - multiple, missing initialization flaws were found in the Linux kernel. Padding data in several core network structures was no...

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

These new kernel packages contain fixes for the following security issues : - a flaw in the handling of IPv6 type 0 routing headers that allowed remote users to cause a denial of service that led to a network amplification between two routers CVE-2007-2242, Important. - a flaw in the nfnetlinklog...

Scientific Linux Security Update : ipsec-tools on SL5.x i386/x86_64

A denial of service flaw was found in the ipsec-tools racoon daemon. It was possible for a remote attacker, with knowledge of an existing ipsec tunnel, to terminate the ipsec connection between two machines. CVE-2007-1841 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text i...

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

A race condition flaw was found in the PolicyKit pkexec utility and polkitd daemon. A local user could use this flaw to appear as a privileged user to pkexec, allowing them to execute arbitrary commands as root by running those commands with pkexec. CVE-2011-1485 The system must be rebooted for...

Scientific Linux Security Update : ipsec-tools on SL3.x, SL4.x, SL5.x i386/x86_64

Two denial of service flaws were found in the ipsec-tools racoon daemon. It was possible for a remote attacker to cause the racoon daemon to consume all available memory. CVE-2008-3651, CVE-2008-3652 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text is C Scientific Linux...

Scientific Linux Security Update : curl on SL3.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 : bind97 on SL5.x i386/x86_64

"The Berkeley Internet Name Domain BIND is an implementation of the Domain Name System DNS protocols. BIND includes a DNS server named %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text is C Scientific Linux. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc'; include'compat.inc'; if...

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

A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way the FreeType font rendering engine processed certain TrueType GX fonts. If a user loaded a specially crafted font file with an application linked against FreeType, it could cause the application to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code...

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

It was discovered that the pamnamespace module executed the external script namespace.init with an unchanged environment inherited from an application calling PAM. In cases where such an environment was untrusted for example, when pamnamespace was configured for setuid applications such as su or...

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

"The Berkeley Internet Name Domain BIND is an implementation of the Domain Name System DNS protocols. BIND includes a DNS server named %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text is C Scientific Linux. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc'; include'compat.inc'; if...

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

This update fixes the following security issues : - multiple flaws were found in the mmap and mremap implementations. A local user could use these flaws to cause a local denial of service or escalate their privileges. CVE-2010-0291, Important - a NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the Fas...

Scientific Linux Security Update : openssl on SL5.x i386/x86_64 (20120124)

OpenSSL is a toolkit that implements the Secure Sockets Layer SSL v2/v3 and Transport Layer Security TLS v1 protocols, as well as a full-strength, general purpose cryptography library. It was discovered that the Datagram Transport Layer Security DTLS protocol implementation in OpenSSL leaked timi...

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...