Scientific Linux Security Update : openssh on SL5.x

Problem description : 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...

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

A flaw was discovered in a way sudo handled group specifications in 'run as' lists in the sudoers configuration file. If sudo configuration allowed a user to run commands as any user of some group and the user was also a member of that group, sudo incorrectly allowed them to run defined commands...

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

a flaw in the ISDN CAPI subsystem that allowed a remote user to cause a denial of service or potential remote access. Exploitation would require the attacker to be able to send arbitrary frames over the ISDN network to the victim's machine. CVE-2007-1217, Moderate - a flaw in the perfmon...

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

A flaw was found in the way sudo handled the presence of duplicated environment variables. A local user authorized to run commands using sudo could use this flaw to set additional values for the environment variables set by sudo, which could result in those values being used by the executed comma...

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

A denial of service flaw was found in the way the OpenLDAP slapd daemon processed certain network messages. An unauthenticated remote attacker could send a specially crafted request that would crash the slapd daemon. CVE-2008-2952 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descripti...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kvm on SL5.x x86_64

A flaw was found in the way QEMU-KVM handled the reloading of fs and gs segment registers when they had invalid selectors. A privileged host user with access to '/dev/kvm' could use this flaw to crash the host denial of service. CVE-2010-3698 The following procedure must be performed before this...

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

This updated package addresses the following changes to Daylight Savings Time DST observations : - as of June 24, 2008, for Brazil, all of Acre and parts of Amazonas that used UTC+5, now use UTC+4. Previously, only parts of Para used UTC+3. Now, all of Para use UTC+3. - Mauritius is introducing D...

Scientific Linux Security Update : libxml2 on SL3.x, SL4.x, SL5.x i386/x86_64

An integer overflow flaw causing a heap-based buffer overflow was found in the libxml2 XML parser. If an application linked against libxml2 processed untrusted, malformed XML content, it could cause the application to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code. CVE-2008-4226 A denial of service...

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

CVE-2009-4019 mysql: DoS crash when comparing GIS items from subquery and when handling subqueires in WHERE and assigning a SELECT result to a @variable CVE-2009-4028 mysql: client SSL certificate verification flaw CVE-2009-4030 mysql: Incomplete fix for CVE-2008-2079 / CVE-2008-4098 It was...

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

It was found that several libvirt API calls did not honor the read-only permission for connections. A local attacker able to establish a read-only connection to libvirtd on a server could use this flaw to execute commands that should be restricted to read-write connections, possibly leading to a...

Scientific Linux Security Update : gnupg2 on SL5.x i386/x86_64

A use-after-free flaw was found in the way gpgsm, a Cryptographic Message Syntax CMS encryption and signing tool, handled X.509 certificates with a large number of Subject Alternate Names. A specially crafted X.509 certificate could, when imported, cause gpgsm to crash or, possibly, execute...

Scientific Linux Security Update : systemtap on SL5.x, SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20120308)

SystemTap is an instrumentation system for systems running the Linux kernel. The system allows developers to write scripts to collect data on the operation of the system. An invalid pointer read flaw was found in the way SystemTap handled malformed debugging information in DWARF format. When...

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

CVE-2009-2694 pidgin: insufficient input validation in msnslplinkprocessmsg Federico Muttis of Core Security Technologies discovered a flaw in Pidgin's MSN protocol handler. If a user received a malicious MSN message, it was possible to execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the user...

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

Kees Cook discovered a flaw in the way poppler displayed malformed fonts embedded in PDF files. An attacker could create a malicious PDF file that would cause applications that use poppler -- such as Evince -- to crash, or, potentially, execute arbitrary code when opened. CVE-2008-1693...

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

This updated package addresses the following change to Daylight Saving Time DST observations : - Argentina does not enter DST on October 18. BZ529427, BZ529497, BZ529677 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text is C Scientific Linux...

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

This release is corresponding with the kernel security update with the new 2.6.18-164 kernel. We have build new kernel modules for all the kernels we have released. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text is C Scientific Linux. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc';...

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

The Apache HTTP Server did not verify that a process was an Apache child process before sending it signals. A local attacker with the ability to run scripts on the Apache HTTP Server could manipulate the scoreboard and cause arbitrary processes to be terminated which could lead to a denial of...

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

CVE-2009-3608 xpdf/poppler: integer overflow in ObjectStream::ObjectStream oCERT-2009-016 CVE-2009-3609 xpdf/poppler: ImageStream::ImageStream integer overflow CVE-2009-3603 xpdf/poppler: SplashBitmap::SplashBitmap integer overflow Multiple integer overflow flaws were found in poppler. An attacke...

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

This update fixes the following bug : - Due to incorrect SELinux policy, cmirror was unable to start properly, and as a result, cluster mirrors could not be started at all. This error has been fixed, and SELinux no longer prevents cluster mirrors from being started. BZ644821 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C...