Scientific Linux Security Update : firefox on SL5.x, SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20130219)

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-2013-0775, CVE-2013-0780, CVE-2013-0782, CVE-2013-0783 It was foun...

Scientific Linux Security Update : thunderbird on SL5.x, SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20130219)

Several flaws were found in the processing of malformed content. Malicious content could cause Thunderbird to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Thunderbird. CVE-2013-0775, CVE-2013-0780, CVE-2013-0782, CVE-2013-0783 It was found that, after...

Scientific Linux Security Update : jakarta-commons-httpclient on SL5.x, SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20130219)

The Jakarta Commons HttpClient component did not verify that the server hostname matched the domain name in the subject's Common Name CN or subjectAltName field in X.509 certificates. This could allow a man-in-the- middle attacker to spoof an SSL server if they had a certificate that was valid fo...

Scientific Linux Security Update : jdk-1.6.0 on SL 5.0 - 5.8 (i386 x86_64) (20130205)

Multiple fixes. CVE-2012-1541, CVE-2012-3213, CVE-2012-3342, CVE-2013-0351, CVE-2013-0409, CVE-2013-0419, CVE-2013-0423, CVE-2013-0424, CVE-2013-0425, CVE-2013-0426, CVE-2013-0427, CVE-2013-0428, CVE-2013-0429, CVE-2013-0430, CVE-2013-0432, CVE-2013-0433, CVE-2013-0434, CVE-2013-0435,...

Scientific Linux Security Update : elinks on SL5.x, SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20130211)

It was found that ELinks performed client credentials delegation during the client-to-server GSS security mechanisms negotiation. A rogue server could use this flaw to obtain the client's credentials and impersonate that client to other servers that are using GSSAPI. CVE-2012-4545 %NASLMINLEVEL...

Scientific Linux Security Update : java-1.7.0-openjdk on SL5.x, SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20130208)

Multiple improper permission check issues were discovered in the AWT, CORBA, JMX, Libraries, and Beans components in OpenJDK. An untrusted Java application or applet could use these flaws to bypass Java sandbox restrictions. CVE-2013-0442, CVE-2013-0445, CVE-2013-0441, CVE-2013-1475, CVE-2013-147...

Scientific Linux Security Update : xen on SL5.x i386/x86_64 (20130207)

A flaw was found in the way libxc, the Xen control library, handled excessively large kernel and ramdisk images when starting new guests. A privileged guest user in a para-virtualized guest a DomU could create a crafted kernel or ramdisk image that, when attempting to use it during guest start,...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20130205)

This update fixes the following security issues : - It was found that a deadlock could occur in the Out of Memory OOM killer. A process could trigger this deadlock by consuming a large amount of memory, and then causing requestmodule to be called. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to...

Scientific Linux Security Update : abrt and libreport on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20130131)

It was found that the /usr/libexec/abrt-action-install-debuginfo-to-abrt-cache tool did not sufficiently sanitize its environment variables. This could lead to Python modules being loaded and run from non-standard directories such as /tmp/. A local attacker could use this flaw to escalate their...

Scientific Linux Security Update : mingw32-libxml2 on SL6.x (x86_64) (20130131)

IMPORTANT NOTE: The mingw32 packages in Scientific Linux 6 will no longer be updated proactively and will be deprecated with the release of Scientific Linux 6.4. These packages were provided to support other capabilities in Scientific Linux and were not intended for direct use. You are advised to...

Scientific Linux Security Update : freetype on SL5.x, SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20130131)

A flaw was found in the way the FreeType font rendering engine processed certain Glyph Bitmap Distribution Format BDF 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 wit...

Scientific Linux Security Update : nss and nspr on SL5.x i386/x86_64 (20130131)

It was found that a Certificate Authority CA mis-issued two intermediate certificates to customers. These certificates could be used to launch man-in- the-middle attacks. This update renders those certificates as untrusted. This covers all uses of the certificates, including SSL, S/MIME, and code...

Scientific Linux Security Update : xorg-x11-drv-qxl on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20130131)

A flaw was found in the way the host's qemu-kvm qxl driver and the guest's X.Org qxl driver interacted when a SPICE connection terminated. A user able to initiate a SPICE connection to a guest could use this flaw to make the guest temporarily unavailable or, potentially if the sysctl...

Scientific Linux Security Update : mysql on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20130131)

After installing this update, the MySQL server daemon mysqld will be restarted automatically. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text is C Scientific Linux. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc'; include'compat.inc'; if description scriptid64426; scriptversion"1.9";...

Scientific Linux Security Update : libvirt on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20130128)

A flaw was found in the way libvirtd handled connection cleanup when a connection was being closed under certain error conditions. A remote attacker able to establish a read-only connection to libvirtd could use this flaw to crash libvirtd or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileg...

Scientific Linux Security Update : ipa-client on SL5.x i386/x86_64 (20130123)

A weakness was found in the way IPA clients communicated with IPA servers when initially attempting to join IPA domains. As there was no secure way to provide the IPA server's Certificate Authority CA certificate to the client during a join, the IPA client enrollment process was susceptible to...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL5.x i386/x86_64 (20130122)

This update fixes the following security issues : - It was found that the Xen hypervisor implementation did not perform range checking on the guest provided values in multiple hypercalls. A privileged guest user could use this flaw to trigger long loops, leading to a denial of service Xen...

Scientific Linux Security Update : mysql on SL5.x i386/x86_64 (20130122)

A stack-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the user permission checking code in MySQL. An authenticated database user could use this flaw to crash the mysqld daemon or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the mysqld daemon. CVE-2012-5611 A flaw was fou...

Scientific Linux Security Update : tzdata enhancement update on SL5.x, SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20130123)

This update adds the following enhancements : On Nov 10, 2012, Libya changed to the time zone UTC+1. Therefore, starting from the year 2013 Libya will be switching to daylight saving time on the last Friday of March and back to the standard time on the last Friday of October. The time zone settin...

Scientific Linux Security Update : autofs on SL5.x i386/x86_64 (20130108)

A bug fix included in SLBA-2012:0264 introduced a denial of service flaw in autofs. When using autofs with LDAP, a local user could use this flaw to crash autofs, preventing future mount requests from being processed until the autofs service was restarted. Note: This flaw did not impact existing...