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

An input validation flaw was discovered in X.org's Security and Record extensions. A malicious authorized client could exploit this issue to cause a denial of service crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with root privileges on the X.Org server. CVE-2008-1377 Multiple integer overflow...

Scientific Linux Security Update : bind for SL 3.0.x on i386/x86_64

CVE-2009-0696 bind: DoS assertion failure via nsupdate packets A flaw was found in the way BIND handles dynamic update message packets containing the 'ANY' record type. A remote attacker could use this flaw to send a specially crafted dynamic update packet that could cause named to exit with an...

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

Several flaws were found in the processing of some malformed web content. A web page containing such malicious content could cause SeaMonkey to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code as the user running SeaMonkey. CVE-2008-1233, CVE-2008-1235, CVE-2008-1236, CVE-2008-1237 Several flaws wer...

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

A flaw was discovered in the way the ntpd daemon checked the return value of the OpenSSL EVPVerifyFinal function. On systems using NTPv4 authentication, this could lead to an incorrect verification of cryptographic signatures, allowing time-spoofing attacks. CVE-2009-0021 Note: This issue only...

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

A flaw was found in vmsplice. An unprivileged local user could use this flaw to gain root privileges. CVE-2008-0600 There is a public available exploit for this issue. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text is C Scientific Linux. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc'...

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

Various bugs were found in NDR parsing, used to decode MS-RPC requests in Samba. A remote attacker could have sent carefully crafted requests causing a heap overflow, which may have led to the ability to execute arbitrary code on the server. CVE-2007-2446 Unescaped user input parameters were bein...

Scientific Linux Security Update : libpng on SL5.x, SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20120425)

The libpng packages contain a library of functions for creating and manipulating PNG Portable Network Graphics image format files. A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way libpng processed tEXt chunks in PNG image files. An attacker could create a specially crafted PNG image file...

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

Wesley Miaw discovered that when deflate compression was used, libcurl could call the registered write callback function with data exceeding the documented limit. A malicious server could use this flaw to crash an application using libcurl or, potentially, execute arbitrary code. Note: This issue...

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

The libcap packages provide a library and tools for getting and setting POSIX capabilities. It was found that capsh did not change into the new root when using the '--chroot' option. An application started via the 'capsh --chroot' command could use this flaw to escape the chroot restrictions...

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

This updated package addresses the following changes to Daylight Savings Time DST observations : - as of June 24, 2008, for Brazil, all of Acre and parts of Amazonas that used UTC+5, now use UTC+4. Previously, only parts of Para used UTC+3. Now, all of Para use UTC+3. - Mauritius is introducing D...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL5.x i386/x86_64 (20120529)

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. This update fixes the following security issue : - It was found that the datalen parameter of the sockallocsendpskb function in the Linux kernel's networking implementation was not validated before use. A local...

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

A problem with the interaction between the Flash Player and the Konqueror web browser was found. The problem could lead to key presses leaking to the Flash Player applet instead of the browser. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text is C Scientific Linux...

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

Automake-generated Makefiles made certain directories world-writable when preparing source archives, as was recommended by the GNU Coding Standards. If a malicious, local user could access the directory where a victim was creating distribution archives, they could use this flaw to modify the file...

Scientific Linux Security Update : python-sqlalchemy on SL6.x (20120307)

SQLAlchemy is an Object Relational Mapper ORM that provides a flexible, high-level interface to SQL databases. It was discovered that SQLAlchemy did not sanitize values for the limit and offset keywords for SQL select statements. If an application using SQLAlchemy accepted values for these...

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

It was discovered that certain sblim libraries had an RPATH runtime library search path set in the ELF Executable and Linking Format header. This RPATH pointed to a sub-directory of a world-writable, temporary directory. A local user could create a file with the same name as a library required by...

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

An integer overflow flaw was discovered in the way Python's pcre module handled certain regular expressions. If a Python application used the pcre module to compile and execute untrusted regular expressions, it may be possible to cause the application to crash, or allow arbitrary code execution...

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

The Speex library was found to not properly validate input values read from the Speex files headers. An attacker could create a malicious Speex file that would crash an application or, possibly, allow arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the application calling the Speex library...

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

An algorithmic complexity weakness was found in the way the mcstrans daemon handled ranges of compartments in sensitivity labels. A local user could trigger this flaw causing mctransd to temporarily stop responding to other requests; a partial denial of service. CVE-2007-4570 This update also fix...

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

A denial of service flaw was found in the way the OpenLDAP slapd daemon processed certain network messages. An unauthenticated remote attacker could send a specially crafted request that would crash the slapd daemon. CVE-2008-2952 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descripti...

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

A flaw was found in the way sudo handled the presence of duplicated environment variables. A local user authorized to run commands using sudo could use this flaw to set additional values for the environment variables set by sudo, which could result in those values being used by the executed comma...