Scientific Linux Security Update : openssl096b on SL3.x, SL4.x i386/x86_64

CVE-2009-3245 openssl: missing bnwexpand return value checks It was discovered that OpenSSL did not always check the return value of the bnwexpand function. An attacker able to trigger a memory allocation failure in that function could cause an application using the OpenSSL library to crash or,...

Scientific Linux Security Update : cyrus-imapd on SL4.x, SL5.x, SL6.x i386/x86_64

The cyrus-imapd packages contain a high-performance mail server with IMAP, POP3, NNTP, and Sieve support. A buffer overflow flaw was found in the cyrus-imapd NNTP server, nntpd. A remote user able to use the nntpd service could use this flaw to crash the nntpd child process or, possibly, execute...

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

A flaw was found in the way the KDE CSS parser handled content for the CSS 'style' attribute. A remote attacker could create a specially crafted CSS equipped HTML page, which once visited by an unsuspecting user, could cause a denial of service Konqueror crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary...

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

Hugo Dias discovered a denial of service flaw in avahi-daemon. A remote attacker on the same local area network LAN could send a specially crafted mDNS Multicast DNS packet that would cause avahi-daemon to exit unexpectedly due to a failed assertion check. CVE-2008-5081 After installing the updat...

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

A stack-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way Samba authenticates remote users. A remote unauthenticated user could trigger this flaw to cause the Samba server to crash, or execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the Samba server. CVE-2007-6015 This update also fixes a regression...

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

An input sanitization flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, was found in the way Pango displayed font files when using the FreeType font engine back end. If a user loaded a malformed font file with an application that uses Pango, it could cause the application to crash or, possibly,...

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

This updated yum package fixes the following bugs : - The nightly yum.cron will spew out alot of information during the add-ons section. The logging level for these information messages was turned up so that it doesn't happen during yum.cron - The kernel-module plugin now detects when yum has...

Scientific Linux Security Update : postgresql84 on SL5.x i386/x86_64

A stack-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way PostgreSQL processed certain tokens from a SQL query when the intarray module was enabled on a particular database. An authenticated database user running a specially crafted SQL query could use this flaw to cause a temporary denial of servi...

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

A privilege escalation flaw was found in luci, the Conga web-based administration application. A remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to obtain administrative access, allowing them to read, create, or modify the content of the luci application. CVE-2011-0720 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable...

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

CVE-2005-4881 kernel: netlink: fix numerous padding memleaks CVE-2009-3228 kernel: tc: uninitialised kernel memory leak This update fixes the following security issues : - multiple, missing initialization flaws were found in the Linux kernel. Padding data in several core network structures was no...

Scientific Linux Security Update : php on SL5.x, SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20120507)

PHP is an HTML-embedded scripting language commonly used with the Apache HTTP Server. A flaw was found in the way the php-cgi executable processed command line arguments when running in CGI mode. A remote attacker could send a specially crafted request to a PHP script that would result in the que...

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

A flaw was discovered in the way the modproxy module of the Apache HTTP Server handled the timeouts of requests forwarded by a reverse proxy to the back-end server. If the proxy was configured to reuse existing back-end connections, it could return a response intended for another user under certa...

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

Kees Cook discovered a flaw in the way kpdf displayed malformed fonts embedded in PDF files. An attacker could create a malicious PDF file that would cause kpdf to crash, or, potentially, execute arbitrary code when opened. CVE-2008-1693 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The...

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

It was discovered that the pamnamespace module executed the external script namespace.init with an unchanged environment inherited from an application calling PAM. In cases where such an environment was untrusted for example, when pamnamespace was configured for setuid applications such as su or...

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

CVE-2010-0421 libpangoft2 segfaults on forged font files An input sanitization flaw, leading to an array index error, was found in the way the Pango font rendering library synthesized the Glyph Definition GDEF table from a font's character map and the Unicode property database. If an attacker...

Scientific Linux Security Update : sudo on SL5.x, SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20120716)

The sudo superuser do utility allows system administrators to give certain users the ability to run commands as root. A flaw was found in the way the network matching code in sudo handled multiple IP networks listed in user specification configuration directives. A user, who is authorized to run...

Scientific Linux Security Update : mysql on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20120208)

MySQL is a multi-user, multi-threaded SQL database server. It consists of the MySQL server daemon mysqld and many client programs and libraries. This update fixes several vulnerabilities in the MySQL database server. Information about these flaws can be found on the Oracle Critical Patch Update...

Scientific Linux Security Update : device-mapper-multipath on SL4.x, SL5.x i386/x86_64

It was discovered that the multipathd daemon set incorrect permissions on the socket used to communicate with command line clients. An unprivileged, local user could use this flaw to send commands to multipathd, resulting in access disruptions to storage devices accessible via multiple paths and,...

Scientific Linux Security Update : tomcat6 on SL6.x

Apache Tomcat is a servlet container for the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages JSP technologies. APR Apache Portable Runtime as mentioned in the CVE-2011-3190 and CVE-2011-2526 descriptions does not refer to APR provided by the apr packages. It refers to the implementation of APR provided by the...

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

CVE-2010-0411 systemtap: Crash with systemtap script using getargv A buffer overflow flaw was found in SystemTap's tapset getargv function. If a privileged user ran a SystemTap script that called this function, a local, unprivileged user could, while that script is still running, trigger this fla...