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

The kdelibs packages provide libraries for the K Desktop Environment KDE. An input sanitization flaw was found in the KSSL KDE SSL Wrapper API. An attacker could supply a specially crafted SSL certificate for example, via a web page to an application using KSSL, such as the Konqueror web browser,...

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

A buffer overflow flaw was discovered in the ntpd daemon's NTPv4 authentication code. If ntpd was configured to use public key cryptography for NTP packet authentication, a remote attacker could use this flaw to send a specially crafted request packet that could crash ntpd. CVE-2009-1252 Note: NT...

Scientific Linux Security Update : tog-pegasus on SL5.x i386/x86_64

Scientific Linux defines additional security enhancements for OpenGroup Pegasus WBEM services in addition to those defined by the upstream OpenGroup Pegasus release. After re-basing to version 2.7.0 of the OpenGroup Pegasus code, these additional security enhancements were no longer being applied...

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

CVE-2010-0434 httpd: request header information leak A use-after-free flaw was discovered in the way the Apache HTTP Server handled request headers in subrequests. In configurations where subrequests are used, a multithreaded MPM Multi-Processing Module could possibly leak information from other...

Scientific Linux Security Update : pidgin on SL4.x, SL5.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 Pidgin SILC Secure Internet Live Conferencing protocol plug-in escaped certain UTF-8 characters. A remote attacke...

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

A flaw was found in the way ICU processed certain, invalid, encoded data. If an application used ICU to decode malformed, multibyte, character data, it may have been possible to bypass certain content protection mechanisms, or display information in a manner misleading to the user. CVE-2008-1036...

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 : openoffice.org on SL5.x, SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20120604)

OpenOffice.org is an office productivity suite that includes desktop applications, such as a word processor, spreadsheet application, presentation manager, formula editor, and a drawing program. An integer overflow flaw, leading to a buffer overflow, was found in the way OpenOffice.org processed ...

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

CVE-2009-0200 OpenOffice.org Word document Integer Underflow CVE-2009-0201 OpenOffice.org Word document buffer overflow An integer underflow flaw and a boundary error flaw, both possibly leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, were found in the way OpenOffice.org parses certain records in...

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

CVE-2009-2730 gnutls: incorrect verification of SSL certificate with NUL in name GNUTLS-SA-2009-4 A flaw was discovered in the way GnuTLS handles NULL characters in certain fields of X.509 certificates. If an attacker is able to get a carefully-crafted certificate signed by a Certificate Authorit...

Scientific Linux Security Update : libtasn1 on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20120327)

libtasn1 is a library developed for ASN.1 Abstract Syntax Notation One structures management that includes DER Distinguished Encoding Rules encoding and decoding. A flaw was found in the way libtasn1 decoded DER data. An attacker could create carefully-crafted DER encoded input such as an X.509...

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

CVE-2009-3555 TLS: MITM attacks via session renegotiation CVE-2010-0433 openssl: crash caused by a missing krb5snametoprincipal return value check CVE-2009-3245 openssl: missing bnwexpand return value checks It was discovered that OpenSSL did not always check the return value of the bnwexpand...

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

Jrgen Weigert discovered a directory traversal flaw in fastjar. An attacker could create a malicious JAR file which, if unpacked using fastjar, could write to any files the victim had write access to. CVE-2006-3619 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text is C...

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 : dhcp on SL6.x i386/x86_64

A NULL pointer dereference flaw was discovered in the way the dhcpd daemon parsed DHCPv6 packets. A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash dhcpd via a specially crafted DHCPv6 packet, if dhcpd was running as a DHCPv6 server. CVE-2010-3611 After installing this update, all DHCP servers will ...

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

A heap overflow flaw was found in the RTF import filer. An attacker could create a carefully crafted RTF file that could cause OpenOffice.org to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code if the file was opened by a victim. CVE-2007-0245 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The...

Scientific Linux Security Update : net-snmp on SL3.x i386/x86_64

A divide-by-zero flaw was discovered in the snmpd daemon. A remote attacker could issue a specially crafted GETBULK request that could crash the snmpd daemon. CVE-2009-1887 Note: An attacker must have read access to the SNMP server in order to exploit this flaw. In the default configuration, the...

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

The RPM Package Manager RPM is a command line driven package management system capable of installing, uninstalling, verifying, querying, and updating software packages. Multiple flaws were found in the way the RPM library parsed package headers. An attacker could create a specially crafted RPM...

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

CVE-2009-0791 xpdf: multiple integer overflows CVE-2009-1188 xpdf/poppler: SplashBitmap integer overflow CVE-2009-3608 xpdf/poppler: integer overflow in ObjectStream::ObjectStream oCERT-2009-016 CVE-2009-3609 xpdf/poppler: ImageStream::ImageStream integer overflow CVE-2009-3604 xpdf/poppler:...