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

CVE-2009-4537 kernel: r8169 issue reported at 26c3 CVE-2009-4538 kernel: e1000e frame fragment issue CVE-2009-4536 kernel: e1000 issue reported at 26c3 This update fixes the following security issues : - a flaw was found in each of the following Intel PRO/1000 Linux drivers in the Linux kernel:...

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

A flaw was found in the SSLgetsharedciphers utility function. An attacker could send a list of ciphers to an application that used this function and overrun a buffer by a single byte CVE-2007-5135. Few applications make use of this vulnerable function and generally it is used only when applicatio...

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

Multiple insufficient input validation flaws were found in the way Openswan's pluto IKE daemon processed some fields of X.509 certificates. A remote attacker could provide a specially crafted X.509 certificate that would crash the pluto daemon. CVE-2009-2185 After installing this update, the ipse...

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

a flaw in the mount handling routine for 64-bit systems that allowed a local user to cause denial of service CVE-2006-7203, Important. a flaw in the PPP over Ethernet implementation that allowed a remote user to cause a denial of service CVE-2007-2525, Important. a flaw in the Bluetooth subsystem...

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

Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client. A cross-site scripting XSS flaw was found in the way Thunderbird handled certain multibyte character sets. Malicious, remote content could cause Thunderbird to run JavaScript code with the permissions of different remote content...

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

Samba is a suite of programs used by machines to share files, printers, and other information. A cross-site scripting XSS flaw was found in the password change page of the Samba Web Administration Tool SWAT. If a remote attacker could trick a user, who was logged into the SWAT interface, into...

Scientific Linux Security Update : tomcat5 on SL5.x i386/x86_64 (20120411)

Apache Tomcat is a servlet container for the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages JSP technologies. It was found that the Java hashCode method implementation was susceptible to predictable hash collisions. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause Tomcat to use an excessive amount of CPU time b...

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

Multiple integer overflows leading to a heap overflow were discovered in the array- and string-handling code used by Ruby. An attacker could use these flaws to crash a Ruby application or, possibly, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the Ruby application using untrusted inputs in array...

Scientific Linux Security Update : openoffice.org2 on SL4.x i386/x86_64

Sean Larsson found a heap overflow flaw in the OpenOffice memory allocator. If a carefully crafted file was opened by a victim, an attacker could use the flaw to crash OpenOffice.org or, possibly, execute arbitrary code. CVE-2008-2152 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The...

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

The conga packages provide a web-based administration tool for remote cluster and storage management. 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 rea...

Scientific Linux Security Update : libxml2 on SL5.x, SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20120221)

The libxml2 library is a development toolbox providing the implementation of various XML standards. It was found that the hashing routine used by libxml2 arrays was susceptible to predictable hash collisions. Sending a specially crafted message to an XML service could result in longer processing...

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

It was discovered that named did not invalidate previously cached RRSIG records when adding an NCACHE record for the same entry to the cache. A remote attacker allowed to send recursive DNS queries to named could use this flaw to crash named. CVE-2010-3613 A flaw was found in the DNSSEC validatio...

Scientific Linux Security Update : samba on SL5.x i386/x86_64 (20120223)

Samba is a suite of programs used by machines to share files, printers, and other information. An input validation flaw was found in the way Samba handled Any Batched AndX requests. A remote, unauthenticated attacker could send a specially crafted SMB packet to the Samba server, possibly resultin...

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

These new kernel packages contain fixes for the following security issues : A memory leak was found in the Red Hat Content Accelerator kernel patch. A local user could use this flaw to cause a denial of service memory exhaustion. CVE-2007-5494, Important A flaw was found in the handling of IEEE...

Scientific Linux Security Update : krb5 on SL5.x, SL4.x, SL3.x i386/x86_64

David Coffey discovered an uninitialized pointer free flaw in the RPC library used by kadmind. On Scientific Linux 4 and 5, glibc detects attempts to free invalid pointers. A remote unauthenticated attacker who can access kadmind could trigger this flaw and cause kadmind to crash. CVE-2007-2442...

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...