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

CVE-2009-2411 subversion: multiple heap overflow issues Matt Lewis, of Google, reported multiple heap overflow flaws in Subversion server and client when parsing binary deltas. A malicious user with commit access to a server could use these flaws to cause a heap overflow on that server. A malicio...

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

Martin von Gagern discovered a flaw in the way GnuTLS verified certificate chains provided by a server. A malicious server could use this flaw to spoof its identity by tricking client applications using the GnuTLS library to trust invalid certificates. CVE-2008-4989 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable...

Scientific Linux Security Update : system-config-printer on SL4.x, SL5.x i386/x86_64

system-config-printer is a print queue configuration tool with a graphical user interface. It was found that system-config-printer did not properly sanitize NetBIOS and workgroup names when searching for network printers. A remote attacker could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code with the...

Scientific Linux Security Update : cyrus-imapd on SL4.x, SL5.x i386/x86_64

CVE-2009-2632 cyrus-imapd: buffer overflow in cyrus sieve CVE-2009-3235 cyrus-impad: CMU sieve buffer overflows Multiple buffer overflow flaws were found in the Cyrus IMAP Sieve implementation. An authenticated user able to create Sieve mail filtering rules could use these flaws to execute...

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

This update fixes the following security issues : - Information leak flaws were found in the Linux kernel Traffic Control Unit implementation. A local attacker could use these flaws to cause the kernel to leak kernel memory to user-space, possibly leading to the disclosure of sensitive informatio...

Scientific Linux Security Update : openssl on SL5.x, SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20120327)

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. A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the way OpenSSL parsed Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions...

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

A path traversal flaw was discovered in the way star extracted archives. A malicious user could create a tar archive that would cause star to write to arbitrary files to which the user running star had write access. CVE-2007-4134 As well, this update adds the command line argument '-..' to the Re...

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

CVE-2010-0097 BIND DNSSEC NSEC/NSEC3 validation code could cause bogus NXDOMAIN responses CVE-2010-0290 BIND upstream fix for CVE-2009-4022 is incomplete A flaw was found in the BIND DNSSEC NSEC/NSEC3 validation code. If BIND was running as a DNSSEC-validating resolver, it could incorrectly cache...

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

This importance of this has been reduced to 'Important' We have renumbered the release for SL5 so that it doesn't conflict with the previous pcre security update. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text is C Scientific Linux. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc';...

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

Several flaws were found in the processing of malformed web content. A web page containing malicious content could cause SeaMonkey to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code as the user running SeaMonkey. CVE-2009-0352, CVE-2009-0353 A flaw was found in the way malformed content was...

Scientific Linux Security Update : python for SL5.x i386/x86_64

When the assert system call was disabled, an input sanitization flaw was revealed in the Python string object implementation that led to a buffer overflow. The missing check for negative size values meant the Python memory allocator could allocate less memory than expected. This could result in...

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

CVE-2009-4273 systemtap: remote code execution via stap-server CVE-2010-0411 systemtap: Crash with systemtap script using getargv A flaw was found in the SystemTap compile server, stap-server, an optional component of SystemTap. This server did not adequately sanitize input provided by the...

Scientific Linux Security Update : w3m on SL5.x i386/x86_64

It was discovered that w3m is affected by the previously published 'null prefix attack', caused by incorrect handling of NULL characters in X.509 certificates. If an attacker is able to get a carefully-crafted certificate signed by a trusted Certificate Authority, the attacker could use the...

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

It was found that the MySQL PolyFromWKB function did not sanity check Well-Known Binary WKB data. A remote, authenticated attacker could use specially crafted WKB data to crash mysqld. This issue only caused a temporary denial of service, as mysqld was automatically restarted after the crash...

Scientific Linux Security Update : xorg-x11-server-utils on SL5.x, SL6.x i386/x86_64

A flaw was found in the X.Org X server resource database utility, xrdb. Certain variables were not properly sanitized during the launch of a user's graphical session, which could possibly allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code with root privileges, if they were able to make the display...

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

The rsyslog packages provide an enhanced, multi-threaded syslog daemon that supports MySQL, syslog/TCP, RFC 3195, permitted sender lists, filtering on any message part, and fine grained output format control. A two byte buffer overflow flaw was found in the rsyslog daemon's parseLegacySyslogMsg...

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

An integer overflow flaw was found in the way SeaMonkey displayed certain web content. A malicious website could cause SeaMonkey to crash or execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running SeaMonkey. CVE-2008-2785 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptiv...

Scientific Linux Security Update : thunderbird on SL5.x, SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20120717)

Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client. 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-2012-1948,...

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

CVE-2009-2905 newt: heap-overflow in textbox when text reflowing A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way newt processes content that is to be displayed in a text dialog box. A local attacker could issue a specially crafted text dialog box display request direct or via a custom...

Scientific Linux Security Update : php-pecl-apc on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20120620)

The php-pecl-apc packages contain APC Alternative PHP Cache, the framework for caching and optimization of intermediate PHP code. A cross-site scripting XSS flaw was found in the 'apc.php' script, which provides a detailed analysis of the internal workings of APC and is shipped as part of the APC...