Scientific Linux Security Update : thunderbird on SL5.x, SL6.x, SL7.x i386/x86_64 (20150518)

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-2015-2708, CVE-2015-2710, CVE-2015-2713 A heap-based buffe...

Scientific Linux Security Update : firefox on SL5.x, SL6.x, SL7.x i386/x86_64 (20150512)

Several flaws were found in the processing of malformed web content. 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-2015-2708, CVE-2015-0797, CVE-2015-2710, CVE-2015-2713 A heap-base...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kexec-tools on SL7.x x86_64 (20150512)

It was found that the module-setup.sh script provided by kexec-tools created temporary files in an insecure way. A malicious, local user could use this flaw to conduct a symbolic link attack, allowing them to overwrite the contents of arbitrary files. CVE-2015-0267 This update also fixes the...

Scientific Linux Security Update : tomcat6 on SL6.x i386/srpm/x86_64 (20150512)

It was discovered that the ChunkedInputFilter in Tomcat did not fail subsequent attempts to read input after malformed chunked encoding was detected. A remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to make Tomcat process part of the request body as new request, or cause a denial of service...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kvm on SL5.x x86_64 (20150513) (Venom)

An out-of-bounds memory access flaw was found in the way QEMU's virtual Floppy Disk Controller FDC handled FIFO buffer access while processing certain FDC commands. A privileged guest user could use this flaw to crash the guest or, potentially, execute arbitrary code on the host with the privileg...

Scientific Linux Security Update : qemu-kvm on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20150513) (Venom)

An out-of-bounds memory access flaw was found in the way QEMU's virtual Floppy Disk Controller FDC handled FIFO buffer access while processing certain FDC commands. A privileged guest user could use this flaw to crash the guest or, potentially, execute arbitrary code on the host with the privileg...

Scientific Linux Security Update : tomcat on SL7.x (noarch) (20150512)

It was discovered that the ChunkedInputFilter in Tomcat did not fail subsequent attempts to read input after malformed chunked encoding was detected. A remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to make Tomcat process part of the request body as new request, or cause a denial of service...

Scientific Linux Security Update : pcs on SL6.x i386/srpm/x86_64 (20150512)

It was found that the pcs daemon did not sign cookies containing session data that were sent to clients connecting via the pcsd web UI. A remote attacker could use this flaw to forge cookies and bypass authorization checks, possibly gaining elevated privileges in the pcsd web UI. Note: the pcsd w...

Scientific Linux Security Update : xen on SL5.x i386/x86_64 (20150513) (Venom)

An out-of-bounds memory access flaw was found in the way QEMU's virtual Floppy Disk Controller FDC handled FIFO buffer access while processing certain FDC commands. A privileged guest user could use this flaw to crash the guest or, potentially, execute arbitrary code on the host with the privileg...

Scientific Linux Security Update : qemu-kvm on SL7.x x86_64 (20150513) (Venom)

An out-of-bounds memory access flaw was found in the way QEMU's virtual Floppy Disk Controller FDC handled FIFO buffer access while processing certain FDC commands. A privileged guest user could use this flaw to crash the guest or, potentially, execute arbitrary code on the host with the privileg...

Scientific Linux Security Update : pcs on SL7.x x86_64 (20150512)

It was found that the pcs daemon did not sign cookies containing session data that were sent to clients connecting via the pcsd web UI. A remote attacker could use this flaw to forge cookies and bypass authorization checks, possibly gaining elevated privileges in the pcsd web UI. CVE-2015-1848 Th...

Scientific Linux Security Update : Important: 389-Ds-Base Security Update on SL7.x srpm/x86_64

A flaw was found in the way the Directory Server performed authorization of modrdn operations. An unauthenticated attacker able to issue an ldapmodrdn call to the directory server could use this flaw to perform unauthorized modifications of entries in the directory server. CVE-2015-1854 After...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kvm on SL5.x x86_64 (20150422)

It was found that KVM's Write to Model Specific Register WRMSR instruction emulation would write non-canonical values passed in by the guest to certain MSRs in the host's context. A privileged guest user could use this flaw to crash the host. CVE-2014-3610 A race condition flaw was found in the w...

Scientific Linux Security Update : qemu-kvm on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20150421)

It was found that the Cirrus blit region checks were insufficient. A privileged guest user could use this flaw to write outside of VRAM- allocated buffer boundaries in the host's QEMU process address space with attacker-provided data. CVE-2014-8106 This update also fixes the following bug : -...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20150421)

A flaw was found in the way seunshare, a utility for running executables under a different security context, used the capnglock functionality of the libcap-ng library. The subsequent invocation of suid root binaries that relied on the fact that the setuid system call, among others, also sets the...

Scientific Linux Security Update : java-1.7.0-openjdk on SL6.x, SL7.x i386/srpm/x86_64 (20150415)

An off-by-one flaw, leading to a buffer overflow, was found in the font parsing code in the 2D component in OpenJDK. A specially crafted font file could possibly cause the Java Virtual Machine to execute arbitrary code, allowing an untrusted Java application or applet to bypass Java sandbox...

Scientific Linux Security Update : java-1.8.0-openjdk on SL6.x, SL7.x i386/srpm/x86_64 (20150415)

An off-by-one flaw, leading to a buffer overflow, was found in the font parsing code in the 2D component in OpenJDK. A specially crafted font file could possibly cause the Java Virtual Machine to execute arbitrary code, allowing an untrusted Java application or applet to bypass Java sandbox...

Scientific Linux Security Update : java-1.7.0-openjdk on SL5.x i386/x86_64 (20150415)

An off-by-one flaw, leading to a buffer overflow, was found in the font parsing code in the 2D component in OpenJDK. A specially crafted font file could possibly cause the Java Virtual Machine to execute arbitrary code, allowing an untrusted Java application or applet to bypass Java sandbox...

Scientific Linux Security Update : xorg-x11-server on SL6.x, SL7.x i386/x86_64 (20150410)

A buffer over-read flaw was found in the way the X.Org server handled XkbGetGeometry requests. A malicious, authorized client could use this flaw to disclose portions of the X.Org server memory, or cause the X.Org server to crash using a specially crafted XkbGetGeometry request. CVE-2015-0255...

Scientific Linux Security Update : krb5 on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20150409)

The following security issues are fixed with this release : A use-after-free flaw was found in the way the MIT Kerberos libgssapikrb5 library processed valid context deletion tokens. An attacker able to make an application using the GSS-API library libgssapi could call the gssprocesscontexttoken...