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

It was discovered that the pamnamespace module executed the external script namespace.init with an unchanged environment inherited from an application calling PAM. In cases where such an environment was untrusted for example, when pamnamespace was configured for setuid applications such as su or...

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...

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

CVE-2009-2409 deprecate MD2 in SSL cert validation Kaminsky CVE-2009-4355 openssl significant memory leak in certain SSLv3 requests DoS It was found that the OpenSSL library did not properly re-initialize its internal state in the SSLlibraryinit function after previous calls to the...

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

An off-by-one overflow flaw was found in the way apr-util processed a variable list of arguments. An attacker could provide a specially crafted string as input for the formatted output conversion routine, which could, on big-endian platforms, potentially lead to the disclosure of sensitive...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kvm on SL5.x x86_64 (20120123)

KVM Kernel-based Virtual Machine is a full virtualization solution for Linux on AMD64 and Intel 64 systems. KVM is a Linux kernel module built for the standard Scientific Linux kernel. A heap overflow flaw was found in the way QEMU-KVM emulated the e1000 network interface card. A privileged guest...

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 : gstreamer-plugins-base on SL5.x i386/x86_64

An integer overflow flaw which caused a heap-based buffer overflow was discovered in the Vorbis comment tags reader. An attacker could create a carefully-crafted Vorbis file that would cause an application using GStreamer to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code if opened by a victim...

Scientific Linux Security Update : qspice on SL5.x x86_64

It was found that the libspice component of QEMU-KVM on the host did not validate all pointers provided from a guest system's QXL graphics card driver. A privileged guest user could use this flaw to cause the host to dereference an invalid pointer, causing the guest to crash denial of service or,...

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

Will Drewry reported multiple flaws in the way libicu processed certain malformed regular expressions. If an application linked against ICU, such as OpenOffice.org, processed a carefully crafted regular expression, it may be possible to execute arbitrary code as the user running the application...

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 : 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 : dhcp on SL4.x, SL5.x, SL6.x i386/x86_64

The Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol DHCP is a protocol that allows individual devices on an IP network to get their own network configuration information, including an IP address, a subnet mask, and a broadcast address. Two denial of service flaws were found in the way the dhcpd daemon handle...

Scientific Linux Security Update : nfs-utils on SL5.x i386/x86_64

It was discovered that nfs-utils did not use tcpwrappers correctly. Certain hosts access rules defined in '/etc/hosts.allow' and '/etc/hosts.deny' may not have been honored, possibly allowing remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions. CVE-2008-4552 This updated package also fixes th...

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

It was discovered that the hypervisor's para-virtualized framebuffer PVFB backend failed to validate the frontend's framebuffer description properly. This could allow a privileged user in the unprivileged domain DomU to cause a denial of service, or, possibly, elevate privileges to the privileged...

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 : kernel on SL5.x i386/x86_64

CVE-2007-4567 kernel: ipv6hopjumbo remote system crash 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 the IPv6 Extension...

Scientific Linux Security Update : ipsec-tools on SL5.x i386/x86_64

A denial of service flaw was found in the ipsec-tools racoon daemon. An unauthenticated, remote attacker could trigger a NULL pointer dereference that could cause the racoon daemon to crash. CVE-2009-1574 Multiple memory leak flaws were found in the ipsec-tools racoon daemon. If a remote attacker...

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

This release is corresponding with the SL 5.5 update. 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'; include'compat.inc'; if description...

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

The dnsmasq DNS resolver used a fixed source UDP port. This could have made DNS spoofing attacks easier. dnsmasq has been updated to use random UDP source ports, helping to make DNS spoofing attacks harder. CVE-2008-1447 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text is...

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

A flaw was found in the way BIND generates outbound DNS query ids. If an attacker is able to acquire a finite set of query IDs, it becomes possible to accurately predict future query IDs. Future query ID prediction may allow an attacker to conduct a DNS cache poisoning attack, which can result in...