Scientific Linux Security Update : thunderbird on SL5.x, SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20120314)

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-2012-0461,...

Scientific Linux Security Update : openoffice.org on SL3.x i386/x86_64

CVE-2009-2950 openoffice.org: GIF file parsing heap overflow CVE-2009-2949 openoffice.org: integer overflow in XPM processing CVE-2009-3301 OpenOffice.org Word sprmTDefTable Memory Corruption CVE-2009-3302 OpenOffice.org Word sprmTSetBrc Memory Corruption An integer overflow flaw, leading to a...

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

"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 : libvirt on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20120620)

The libvirt library is a C API for managing and interacting with the virtualization capabilities of Linux and other operating systems. In addition, libvirt provides tools for remote management of virtualized systems. Bus and device IDs were ignored when attempting to attach multiple USB devices...

Scientific Linux Security Update : squirrelmail on SL4.x, SL5.x (20120208)

SquirrelMail is a standards-based webmail package written in PHP. A cross-site scripting XSS flaw was found in the way SquirrelMail performed the sanitization of HTML style tag content. A remote attacker could use this flaw to send a specially crafted Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions MIME...

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

"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 : tigervnc on SL6.x i386/x86_64

Virtual Network Computing VNC is a remote display system which allows you to view a computer's desktop environment not only on the machine where it is running, but from anywhere on the Internet and from a wide variety of machine architectures. TigerVNC is a suite of VNC servers and clients. It wa...

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

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. This update fixes the following security issues : - It was found that the receive hook in the ipipinit function in the ipip module, and in the ipgreinit function in the ipgre module, could be called before netwo...

Scientific Linux Security Update : krb5 on SL6.x i386/x86_64

Kerberos is a network authentication system which allows clients and servers to authenticate to each other using symmetric encryption and a trusted third party, the Key Distribution Center KDC. Multiple NULL pointer dereference and assertion failure flaws were found in the MIT Kerberos KDC when i...

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

Several use-after-free flaws were found in SeaMonkey. Visiting a web page containing malicious content could result in SeaMonkey executing arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running SeaMonkey. CVE-2010-0175, CVE-2010-0176, CVE-2010-0177 Several flaws were found in the processing of...

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

Several flaws were found in the processing of malformed web content. A web page containing malicious content could cause Firefox to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Firefox. CVE-2010-3175, CVE-2010-3176, CVE-2010-3179, CVE-2010-3183,...

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

cURL provides the libcurl library and a command line tool for downloading files from servers using various protocols, including HTTP, FTP, and LDAP. It was found that cURL always performed credential delegation when authenticating with GSSAPI. A rogue server could use this flaw to obtain the...

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

OpenSSH stores hostnames, IP addresses, and keys in plaintext in the knownhosts file. A local attacker that has already compromised a user's SSH account could use this information to generate a list of additional targets that are likely to have the same password or key. CVE-2005-2666 %NASLMINLEVE...

Scientific Linux Security Update : curl on SL3.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 : bind97 on SL5.x i386/x86_64

"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 : freetype on SL4.x, SL5.x i386/x86_64

A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way the FreeType font rendering engine processed certain TrueType GX fonts. If a user loaded a specially crafted font file with an application linked against FreeType, it could cause the application to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code...

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

A flaw was found in the way Gdm listens on its unix domain socket. A local user could crash a running X session by writing malicious data to Gdm's unix domain socket. CVE-2007-3381 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text is C Scientific Linux...

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

Pidgin is an instant messaging program which can log in to multiple accounts on multiple instant messaging networks simultaneously. An input sanitization flaw was found in the way the AOL Open System for Communication in Realtime OSCAR protocol plug-in in Pidgin, used by the AOL ICQ and AIM insta...

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

It was discovered that the last dbus security update did not correctly fix the denial of service flaw in the system for sending messages between applications. A local user could use this flaw to send a message with a malformed signature to the bus, causing the bus and, consequently, any process...

Scientific Linux Security Update : libtiff for SL3.0.x, SL 4.x, SL 5.x on i386/x86_64

CVE-2009-2285 libtiff: LZWDecodeCompat underflow CVE-2009-2347 libtiff: integer overflows in various inter-color spaces conversion tools crash, ACE Several integer overflow flaws, leading to heap-based buffer overflows, were found in various libtiff color space conversion tools. An attacker could...