Scientific Linux Security Update : freeradius on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20121002)

FreeRADIUS is a high-performance and highly configurable free Remote Authentication Dial In User Service RADIUS server, designed to allow centralized authentication and authorization for a network. A buffer overflow flaw was discovered in the way radiusd handled the expiration date field in X.509...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20120925)

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. This update fixes the following security issues : - An integer overflow flaw was found in the i915gemdoexecbuffer function in the Intel i915 driver in the Linux kernel. A local, unprivileged user could use this...

Scientific Linux Security Update : yum-autoupdate update on SL5.x, SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20120925)

The Scientific Linux team was made aware of a problem with the use of temp files in the yum-autoupdate script by Elias Persson. The problem should be corrected in these packages. These packages also include some minor feature updates for each release. For SL5, the script now includes the 'PRERUN'...

Scientific Linux Security Update : qpid on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20120919)

Apache Qpid is a reliable, cross-platform, asynchronous messaging system that supports the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol AMQP in several common programming languages. It was discovered that the Qpid daemon qpidd did not allow the number of connections from clients to be restricted. A maliciou...

Scientific Linux Security Update : libxml2 on SL5.x, SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20120918)

The libxml2 library is a development toolbox providing the implementation of various XML standards. Multiple integer overflow flaws, leading to heap-based buffer overflows, were found in the way libxml2 handled documents that enable entity expansion. A remote attacker could provide a large,...

Scientific Linux Security Update : bind on SL5.x i386/x86_64 (20120914)

"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 : openjpeg on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20120917)

OpenJPEG is an open source library for reading and writing image files in JPEG 2000 format. It was found that OpenJPEG failed to sanity-check an image header field before using it. A remote attacker could provide a specially crafted image file that could cause an application linked against OpenJP...

Scientific Linux Security Update : spice-gtk on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20120917)

The spice-gtk packages provide a GIMP Toolkit GTK+ widget for SPICE Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environments clients. Both Virtual Machine Manager and Virtual Machine Viewer can make use of this widget to access virtual machines using the SPICE protocol. It was discovered that the...

Scientific Linux Security Update : bind97 on SL5.x i386/x86_64 (20120914)

"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 : bind on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20120914)

"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 : postgresql on SL5.x i386/x86_64 (20120913)

It was found that the optional PostgreSQL xml2 contrib module allowed local files and remote URLs to be read and written to with the privileges of the database server when parsing Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations XSLT. An unprivileged database user could use this flaw to read and...

Scientific Linux Security Update : dbus on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20120913)

It was discovered that the D-Bus library honored environment settings even when running with elevated privileges. A local attacker could possibly use this flaw to escalate their privileges, by setting specific environment variables before running a setuid or setgid application linked against the...

Scientific Linux Security Update : libxslt on SL5.x, SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20120913)

A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way libxslt applied templates to nodes selected by certain namespaces. An attacker could use this flaw to create a malicious XSL file that, when used by an application linked against libxslt to perform an XSL transformation, could cause the...

Scientific Linux Security Update : postgresql and postgresql84 on SL5.x, SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20120913)

It was found that the optional PostgreSQL xml2 contrib module allowed local files and remote URLs to be read and written to with the privileges of the database server when parsing Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations XSLT. An unprivileged database user could use this flaw to read and...

Scientific Linux Security Update : quagga on SL5.x i386/x86_64 (20120912)

A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way the bgpd daemon processed malformed Extended Communities path attributes. An attacker could send a specially crafted BGP message, causing bgpd on a target system to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user...

Scientific Linux Security Update : quagga on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20120912)

A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way the bgpd daemon processed malformed Extended Communities path attributes. An attacker could send a specially crafted BGP message, causing bgpd on a target system to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user...

Scientific Linux Security Update : java-1.6.0-sun on SL5.x i386/x86_64 (20120904)

These vulnerabilities may be remotely exploitable without authentication, i.e., they may be exploited over a network without the need for a username and password. To be successfully exploited, an unsuspecting user running an affected release in a browser will need to visit a malicious web page th...

Scientific Linux Security Update : selinux-policy enhancement update on SL5.x, SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20120911)

This update adds the following enhancements : - Previously, with the MLS policy activated, a user created with a MLS level was not able to log into the system using the ssh utility because an appropriate MLS policy rule was missing. This update adds the MLS rule and users can now log into the...

Scientific Linux Security Update : libexif on SL5.x, SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20120911)

The libexif packages provide an Exchangeable image file format Exif library. Exif allows metadata to be added to and read from certain types of image files. Multiple flaws were found in the way libexif processed Exif tags. An attacker could create a specially crafted image file that, when opened ...

Scientific Linux Security Update : xen on SL5.x i386/x86_64 (20120905)

The xen packages contain administration tools and the xend service for managing the kernel-xen kernel for virtualization on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. A flaw was found in the way QEMU handled VT100 terminal escape sequences when emulating certain character devices. A guest user with privileges to...