Scientific Linux Security Update : netcf on SL7.x x86_64 (20151119)

A denial of service flaw was found in netcf. A specially crafted interface name could cause an application using netcf such as the libvirt daemon to crash. CVE-2014-8119 The netcf packages have been upgraded to upstream version 0.2.8, which provides a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the...

Scientific Linux Security Update : abrt and libreport on SL7.x x86_64 (20151123)

It was found that the ABRT debug information installer abrt-action- install-debuginfo-to-abrt-cache did not use temporary directories in a secure way. A local attacker could use the flaw to create symbolic links and files at arbitrary locations as the abrt user. CVE-2015-5273 It was discovered th...

Scientific Linux Security Update : pcs on SL7.x x86_64 (20151119)

A flaw was found in a way Rack processed parameters of incoming requests. An attacker could use this flaw to send a crafted request that would cause an application using Rack to crash. CVE-2015-3225 The pcs package has been upgraded to upstream version 0.9.143, which provides a number of bug fixe...

Scientific Linux Security Update : file on SL7.x x86_64 (20151119)

Multiple denial of service flaws were found in the way file parsed certain Composite Document Format CDF files. A remote attacker could use either of these flaws to crash file, or an application using file, via a specially crafted CDF file. CVE-2014-0207, CVE-2014-0237, CVE-2014-0238,...

Scientific Linux Security Update : grub2 on SL7.x x86_64 (20151215)

A flaw was found in the way the grub2 handled backspace characters entered in username and password prompts. An attacker with access to the system console could use this flaw to bypass grub2 password protection and gain administrative access to the system. CVE-2015-8370 This update also fixes the...

Scientific Linux Security Update : squid on SL7.x x86_64 (20151119)

It was found that Squid configured with client-first SSL-bump did not correctly validate X.509 server certificate host name fields. A man-in- the-middle attacker could use this flaw to spoof a Squid server using a specially crafted X.509 certificate. CVE-2015-3455 This update fixes the following...

Scientific Linux Security Update : grep on SL7.x x86_64 (20151119)

A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way grep processed certain pattern and text combinations. An attacker able to trick a user into running grep on specially crafted input could use this flaw to crash grep or, potentially, read from uninitialized memory. CVE-2015-1345 This update...

Scientific Linux Security Update : git on SL7.x x86_64 (20151208)

A flaw was found in the way the git-remote-ext helper processed certain URLs. If a user had Git configured to automatically clone submodules from untrusted repositories, an attacker could inject commands into the URL of a submodule, allowing them to execute arbitrary code on the user's system...

Scientific Linux Security Update : jakarta-commons-collections on SL5.x i386/x86_64 (20151221)

It was found that the Apache commons-collections library permitted code execution when deserializing objects involving a specially constructed chain of classes. A remote attacker could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the application using the commons- collections...

Scientific Linux Security Update : libpng12 on SL7.x x86_64 (20151209)

It was discovered that the pnggetPLTE and pngsetPLTE functions of libpng did not correctly calculate the maximum palette sizes for bit depths of less than 8. In case an application tried to use these functions in combination with properly calculated palette sizes, this could lead to a buffer...

Scientific Linux Security Update : sssd on SL7.x x86_64 (20151119)

It was found that SSSD's Privilege Attribute Certificate PAC responder plug-in would leak a small amount of memory on each authentication request. A remote attacker could potentially use this flaw to exhaust all available memory on the system by making repeated requests to a Kerberized daemon...

Scientific Linux Security Update : libxml2 on SL7.x 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 : libssh2 on SL7.x x86_64 (20151119)

A flaw was found in the way the kexagreemethods function of libssh2 performed a key exchange when negotiating a new SSH session. A man-in-the- middle attacker could use a crafted SSHMSGKEXINIT packet to crash a connecting libssh2 client. CVE-2015-1782 This update also fixes the following bugs : -...

Scientific Linux Security Update : python on 7.x i686/x86_64 (2015:2101)

The remote Scientific Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SLSA-2015:2101-1 advisory. - The gzipdecode function in the xmlrpc client library in Python 3.4 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory...

Scientific Linux Security Update : curl on SL7.x x86_64 (20151119)

It was found that the libcurl library did not correctly handle partial literal IP addresses when parsing received HTTP cookies. An attacker able to trick a user into connecting to a malicious server could use this flaw to set the user's cookie to a crafted domain, making other cookie-related issu...

Scientific Linux Security Update : wireshark on SL7.x x86_64 (20151119)

Several denial of service flaws were found in Wireshark. Wireshark could crash or stop responding if it read a malformed packet off a network, or opened a malicious dump file. CVE-2015-2188, CVE-2015-2189, CVE-2015-2191, CVE-2015-3810, CVE-2015-3811, CVE-2015-3812, CVE-2015-3813, CVE-2014-8710,...

Scientific Linux Security Update : autofs on SL7.x x86_64 (20151119)

It was found that program-based automounter maps that used interpreted languages such as Python used standard environment variables to locate and load modules of those languages. A local attacker could potentially use this flaw to escalate their privileges on the system. CVE-2014-8169 Note: This...

Scientific Linux Security Update : tigervnc on SL7.x x86_64 (20151119)

An integer overflow flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, was found in the way TigerVNC handled screen sizes. A malicious VNC server could use this flaw to cause a client to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code on the client. CVE-2014-8240 A NULL pointer dereference flaw was fou...

Scientific Linux Security Update : libpng on SL7.x x86_64 (20151209)

It was discovered that the pnggetPLTE and pngsetPLTE functions of libpng did not correctly calculate the maximum palette sizes for bit depths of less than 8. In case an application tried to use these functions in combination with properly calculated palette sizes, this could lead to a buffer...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL7.x x86_64 (20151208)

It was found that the x86 ISA Instruction Set Architecture is prone to a denial of service attack inside a virtualized environment in the form of an infinite loop in the microcode due to the way sequential delivering of benign exceptions such as AC alignment check exception and DB debug exception...