Scientific Linux Security Update : bzip2 on SL3.x, SL4.x, SL5.x i386/x86_64

A buffer over-read flaw was discovered in the bzip2 decompression routine. This issue could cause an application linked against the libbz2 library to crash when decompressing malformed archives. CVE-2008-1372 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text is C Scientifi...

Scientific Linux Security Update : java-1.6.0-sun on SL5.x i386/x86_64 (20120613)

The Sun 1.6.0 Java release includes the Sun Java 6 Runtime Environment and the Sun Java 6 Software Development Kit. This update fixes several vulnerabilities in the Sun Java 6 Runtime Environment and the Sun Java 6 Software Development Kit. Further information about these flaws can be found on th...

Scientific Linux Security Update : qspice on SL5.x x86_64

It was found that the libspice component of QEMU-KVM on the host did not validate all pointers provided from a guest system's QXL graphics card driver. A privileged guest user could use this flaw to cause the host to dereference an invalid pointer, causing the guest to crash denial of service or,...

Scientific Linux Security Update : glibc on SL5.x i386/x86_64 (20120319)

The glibc packages provide the standard C and standard math libraries used by multiple programs on the system. Without these libraries, the Linux system cannot function correctly. An integer overflow flaw was found in the implementation of the printf functions family. This could allow an attacker...

Scientific Linux Security Update : nss and nspr on SL5.x i386/x86_64 (20120717)

Network Security Services NSS is a set of libraries designed to support the cross-platform development of security-enabled client and server applications. Netscape Portable Runtime NSPR provides platform independence for non-GUI operating system facilities. A flaw was found in the way the ASN.1...

Scientific Linux Security Update : tzdata on SL4.x, SL5.x, SL6.x i386/x86_64

This updated package addresses the following changes to Daylight Saving Time DST observations : - Kemerovo Oblast, Russia, incorrectly used the NOVT abbreviation, which is UTC+7. With this update, it uses the OMST/OMSST abbreviation and is correctly assigned the UTC+6 time zone. BZ596800 -...

Scientific Linux Security Update : php53 on SL5.x i386/x86_64

A flaw was found in the way PHP converted certain floating point values from string representation to a number. If a PHP script evaluated an attacker's input in a numeric context, the PHP interpreter could cause high CPU usage until the script execution time limit is reached. This issue only...

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

The netpbm packages contain a library of functions which support programs for handling various graphics file formats, including .pbm Portable Bit Map, .pgm Portable Gray Map, .pnm Portable Any Map, .ppm Portable Pixel Map, and others. Two heap-based buffer overflow flaws were found in the embedde...

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

SL 3 and SL 4 only A flaw was found in the way CUPS handled the addition and removal of remote shared printers via IPP. A remote attacker could send malicious UDP IPP packets causing the CUPS daemon to attempt to dereference already freed memory and crash. CVE-2008-0597 A memory management flaw w...

Scientific Linux Security Update : python for SL 4.x on 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 : kernel on SL3.x i386/x86_64

This update addresses the following security issues : - Tavis Ormandy discovered a deficiency in the Linux kernel 32-bit and 64-bit emulation. This could allow a local, unprivileged user to prepare and run a specially crafted binary which would use this deficiency to leak uninitialized and...

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

The libsndfile packages provide a library for reading and writing sound files. An integer overflow flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, was found in the way the libsndfile library processed certain Ensoniq PARIS Audio Format PAF audio files. An attacker could create a specially crafted...

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

The coreutils packages were found to not use the pamsucceedif Pluggable Authentication Module PAM correctly in the configuration file for the 'su' command. Any local user could use this command to change to a locked or expired user account if the target account's password was known to the user...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel for SL 5.x on i386/x86_64

CVE-2007-5966 kernel: non-root can trigger cpuidle soft lockup CVE-2009-1385 kernel: e1000cleanrxirq denial of service CVE-2009-1388 kernel: docoredump vs ptracestart deadlock CVE-2009-1389 kernel: r8169: fix crash when large packets are received CVE-2009-1895 kernel: personality: fix...

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

This release is corresponding with the first kernel security update with the new 2.6.18-92 kernel. We have built new kernel modules for all the kernels we have released. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text is C Scientific Linux...

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

A flaw was found in the way SeaMonkey handled dialog boxes. An attacker could use this flaw to create a malicious web page that would present a blank dialog box that has non-functioning buttons. If a user closes the dialog box window, it could unexpectedly grant the malicious web page elevated...

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

These updated packages fix the following security issues : - A security flaw was found in the Linux kernel memory copy routines, when running on certain AMD64 systems. If an unsuccessful attempt to copy kernel memory from source to destination memory locations occurred, the copy routines did not...

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

A heap based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way the X.Org server handled malformed font files. A malicious local user could exploit this issue to potentially execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the X.Org server. CVE-2008-0006 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. T...

Scientific Linux Security Update : sos on SL6.x (20120620)

The sos package contains a set of tools that gather information from system hardware, logs and configuration files. The information can then be used for diagnostic purposes and debugging. The sosreport utility collected the Kickstart configuration file '/root/anaconda-ks.cfg', but did not remove...

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 with the privileges of the user running SeaMonkey. CVE-2009-3979 A flaw was found in the SeaMonkey NT Lan Manager NTL...