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

It was discovered that udev did not properly check the origin of Netlink messages. A local attacker could use this flaw to gain root privileges via a crafted Netlink message sent to udev, causing it to create a world-writable block device file for an existing system block device for example, the...

Scientific Linux Security Update : pcsc-lite on SL5.x i386/x86_64

Multiple buffer overflow flaws were discovered in the way the pcscd daemon, a resource manager that coordinates communications with smart card readers and smart cards connected to the system, handled client requests. A local user could create a specially crafted request that would cause the pcscd...

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

A numeric truncation error was found in the OpenOffice.org memory allocator. If a carefully crafted file was opened by a victim, an attacker could use this flaw to crash OpenOffice.org or, possibly, execute arbitrary code. CVE-2008-3282 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The...

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

Mozilla Firefox is an open source Web browser. XULRunner provides the XUL Runtime environment for Mozilla Firefox. 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 as t...

Scientific Linux Security Update : XFree86 on SL3.x i386/x86_64

An input validation flaw was discovered in X.org's Security and Record extensions. A malicious authorized client could exploit this issue to cause a denial of service crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with root privileges on the X.Org server. CVE-2008-1377 Multiple integer overflow...

Scientific Linux Security Update : bind on SL5.x, SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20120607)

"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 : sendmail on SL4.x i386/x86_64

The configuration of Sendmail was found to not reject the 'localhost.localdomain' domain name for e-mail messages that came from external hosts. This could have allowed remote attackers to disguise spoofed messages CVE-2006-7176. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptiv...

Scientific Linux Security Update : icedtea-web on SL6.x i386/x86_64

The IcedTea-Web project provides a Java web browser plug-in and an implementation of Java Web Start, which is based on the Netx project. It also contains a configuration tool for managing deployment settings for the plug-in and Web Start implementations. A flaw was found in the same-origin policy...

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

Security fixes : - a NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the Linux kernel NFSv4 implementation. Several of the NFSv4 file locking functions failed to check whether a file had been opened on the server before performing locking operations on it. A local, unprivileged user on a system with a...

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

Several flaws were found in the way in which SeaMonkey processed certain malformed web content. A web page containing malicious content could cause SeaMonkey to crash or potentially execute arbitrary code as the user running SeaMonkey. CVE-2007-5338, CVE-2007-5339, CVE-2007-5340 Several flaws wer...

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

The GIMP GNU Image Manipulation Program is an image composition and editing program. An integer overflow flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, was found in the GIMP's Microsoft Windows Bitmap BMP and Personal Computer eXchange PCX image file plug-ins. An attacker could create a specially...

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

A flaw was found in the way OpenOffice.org enforced a macro security setting for macros, written in the Python scripting language, that were embedded in OpenOffice.org documents. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted OpenOffice.org document and previewed the macro directory...

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

A flaw was found in the way NSS matched SSL certificates when the certificates had a Common Name containing a wildcard and a partial IP address. NSS incorrectly accepted connections to IP addresses that fell within the SSL certificate's wildcard range as valid SSL connections, possibly allowing a...

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 as the user running SeaMonkey. CVE-2008-0016, CVE-2008-4058, CVE-2008-4059, CVE-2008-4060, CVE-2008-4061, CVE-2008-40...

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

Petr Gajdos and Christian Kornacker of SUSE reported a buffer overflow flaw in KPDF's Type 1 font parser. A specially crafted PDF file with an embedded Type 1 font could cause KPDF to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code when opened. CVE-2009-4035 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network...

Scientific Linux Security Update : selinux-policy on SL5.x i386/x86_64

In accordance with the Scientific Linux errata policy, we are pushing out this selinux-policy bug fix as a security errata http://www.scientificlinux.org/documentation/faq/errata The selinux-policy packages contain the rules that govern how confined processes run on the system. These updated...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kdelibs on SL3.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 : systemtap on SL6.x i386/x86_64

SystemTap is an instrumentation system for systems running the Linux kernel, version 2.6. Developers can write scripts to collect data on the operation of the system. Two divide-by-zero flaws were found in the way SystemTap handled malformed debugging information in DWARF format. When SystemTap...

Scientific Linux Security Update : spice-xpi on SL5.x i386/x86_64

The spice-xpi package provides a plug-in that allows the SPICE client to run from within Mozilla Firefox. A race condition was found in the way the SPICE Firefox plug-in and the SPICE client communicated. A local attacker could use this flaw to trick the plug-in and the SPICE client into...

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

The Mandriva Linux Engineering Team discovered a stack-based buffer overflow flaw in the ISC DHCP client. If the DHCP client were to receive a malicious DHCP response, it could crash or execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the client root. CVE-2009-0692 An insecure temporary file use fl...