Scientific Linux Security Update : samba3x on SL5.x i386/x86_64

NOTE: This errata went out 2010-09-15, but this email was not sent. A missing array boundary checking flaw was found in the way Samba parsed the binary representation of Windows security identifiers SIDs. A malicious client could send a specially crafted SMB request to the Samba server, resulting...

Scientific Linux Security Update : xerces-j2 on SL6.x i386/x86_64

The xerces-j2 packages provide the Apache Xerces2 Java Parser, a high-performance XML parser. A Document Type Definition DTD defines the legal syntax and also which elements can be used for certain types of files, such as XML files. A flaw was found in the way the Apache Xerces2 Java Parser...

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

CVE-2007-2027 elinks tries to load .po files from a non-absolute path CVE-2008-7224 elinks: entitycache static array buffer overflow off-by-one An off-by-one buffer overflow flaw was discovered in the way ELinks handled its internal cache of string representations for HTML special entities. A...

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

A flaw was found in the way the ssh server wrote account names to the audit subsystem. An attacker could inject strings containing parts of audit messages which could possibly mislead or confuse audit log parsing tools. CVE-2007-3102 A flaw was found in the way the OpenSSH server processes GSSAPI...

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

Multiple flaws were discovered in FreeType's Printer Font Binary PFB and TrueType Font TTF font-file format parsers. If a user loaded a carefully crafted font-file with a program linked against FreeType, it could cause the application to crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2008-1806,...

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

CVE-2009-0922 postgresql: potential DoS due to conversion functions CVE-2009-3230 postgresql: SQL privilege escalation, incomplete fix for CVE-2007-6600 It was discovered that the upstream patch for CVE-2007-6600 included in the Scientific Linux did not include protection against misuse of the...

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

A flaw was found in the way that SeaMonkey parsed malformed HTML mail messages. If a user opened a specially crafted HTML mail message, it could cause SeaMonkey to crash or, possibly, to execute arbitrary code as the user running SeaMonkey. CVE-2009-2210 After installing the update, SeaMonkey mus...

Scientific Linux Security Update : apr and apr-util on SL4.x, SL5.x i386/x86_64

CVE-2009-2412 apr, apr-util: Integer overflows in memory pool apr and relocatable memory apr-util management Multiple integer overflow flaws, leading to heap-based buffer overflows, were found in the way the Apache Portable Runtime APR manages memory pool and relocatable memory allocations. An...

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

Several flaws were found in the processing of malformed HTML content. HTML containing malicious content could cause Thunderbird to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Thunderbird. CVE-2010-3767, CVE-2010-3772, CVE-2010-3776 Note: JavaScript suppor...

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

The libpng packages contain a library of functions for creating and manipulating PNG Portable Network Graphics image format files. A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way libpng processed certain PNG image files. An attacker could create a specially crafted PNG image that, when opened, could...

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

The libpng packages contain a library of functions for creating and manipulating PNG Portable Network Graphics image format files. An uninitialized memory read issue was found in the way libpng processed certain PNG images that use the Physical Scale sCAL extension. An attacker could create a...

Scientific Linux Security Update : pam_krb5 on SL3.x i386/x86_64

These updated pam-krb5 packages fix a bug which caused user authentication to fail under certain circumstances. When authenticating a user, if the user's password was expired, the module would attempt to obtain password-changing credentials in order to verify the user's password. When the module...

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

A heap-based buffer overflow was discovered in the way ed, the GNU line editor, processed long file names. An attacker could create a file with a specially crafted name that could possibly execute an arbitrary code when opened in the ed editor. CVE-2008-3916 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network...

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 : openldap on SL4.x, SL5.x i386/x86_64

These updated openldap packages fix a flaw in the way the OpenLDAP slapd daemon handled modify and modrdn requests with NOOP control on objects stored in a Berkeley DB BDB storage backend. An authenticated attacker with permission to perform modify or modrdn operations on such LDAP objects could...

Scientific Linux Security Update : evolution and evolution-data-server on SL4.x i386/x86_64

Evolution Data Server provides a unified back-end for applications which interact with contacts, task and calendar information. Evolution Data Server was originally developed as a back-end for Evolution, but is now used by multiple other applications. Evolution did not properly check the...

Scientific Linux Security Update : evolution-data-server on SL5.x i386/x86_64

Evolution Data Server did not properly check the Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions S/MIME signatures used for public key encryption and signing of e-mail messages. An attacker could use this flaw to spoof a signature by modifying the text of the e-mail message displayed to the user...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kvm on SL5.4 x86_64

CVE-2009-3722 KVM: Check cpl before emulating debug register access CVE-2010-0419 kvm: emulator privilege escalation segment selector check A flaw was found in the way the x86 emulator loaded segment selectors used for memory segmentation and protection into segment registers. In some guest syste...

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

CVE-2009-2957, CVE-2009-2958 dnsmasq: multiple vulnerabilities in TFTP server Core Security Technologies discovered a heap overflow flaw in dnsmasq when the TFTP service is enabled the '--enable-tftp' command line option, or by enabling 'enable-tftp' in '/etc/dnsmasq.conf'. If the configured...

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

CVE-2005-4268 cpio large filesize buffer overflow CVE-2007-4476 tar/cpio stack crashing in safernamesuffix CVE-2010-0624 tar, cpio: Heap-based buffer overflow by expanding a specially crafted archive A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way cpio expanded archive files. If a user wer...