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. It was possible for a remote attacker, with knowledge of an existing ipsec tunnel, to terminate the ipsec connection between two machines. CVE-2007-1841 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text i...

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 : kernel on SL5.x i386/x86_64

These updated packages fix the following security issues : - A security flaw was found in the Linux kernel memory copy routines, when running on certain AMD64 systems. If an unsuccessful attempt to copy kernel memory from source to destination memory locations occurred, the copy routines did not...

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

Multiple integer overflow flaws which could lead to heap-based buffer overflows, as well as multiple insufficient input validation flaws, were found in Ghostscript's International Color Consortium Format library icclib. Using specially crafted ICC profiles, an attacker could create a malicious...

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

Multiple integer overflow flaws were found in the way teTeX processed special commands when converting DVI files into PostScript. An attacker could create a malicious DVI file that would cause the dvips executable to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code. CVE-2010-0739, CVE-2010-1440...

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 : 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:...

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

A flaw was discovered in the way BIND checked the return value of the OpenSSL DSAdoverify function. On systems using DNSSEC, a malicious zone could present a malformed DSA certificate and bypass proper certificate validation, allowing spoofing attacks. CVE-2009-0025 For users of Red Hat Enterpris...

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

A denial-of-service flaw was discovered in the system for sending messages between applications. A local user could send a message with a malformed signature to the bus causing the bus and, consequently, any process using libdbus to receive messages to abort. CVE-2008-3834 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C...

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

A flaw was found in the processing of malformed JavaScript content. A web page containing such malicious content could cause Firefox to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code as the user running Firefox. CVE-2008-1380 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive tex...

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

A flaw was found in the way squid manipulated HTTP headers for cached objects stored in system memory. An attacker could use this flaw to cause a squid child process to exit. This interrupted existing connections and made proxy services unavailable. Note: the parent squid process started a new...

Scientific Linux Security Update : tomcat5 on SL5.x i386/x86_64

A flaw was found in the way Tomcat handled the Transfer-Encoding header in HTTP requests. A specially crafted HTTP request could prevent Tomcat from sending replies, or cause Tomcat to return truncated replies, or replies containing data related to the requests of other users, for all subsequent...

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

Perl is a high-level programming language commonly used for system administration utilities and web programming. It was found that the 'new' constructor of the Digest module used its argument as part of the string expression passed to the eval function. An attacker could possibly use this flaw to...

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

This erratum blacklists a small number of HTTPS certificates. BZ689430 This update also fixes the following bug : - Previous security updates introduced a regression, preventing some Java content and plug-ins written in Java from loading. With this update, the Java content and plug-ins work as...

Scientific Linux Security Update : ipw3945 on SL5.x i386/x86_64

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

CVE-2010-0408 httpd: modproxyajp remote temporary DoS CVE-2010-0434 httpd: request header information leak It was discovered that modproxyajp incorrectly returned an 'Internal Server Error' response when processing certain malformed requests, which caused the back-end server to be marked as faile...

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

CVE-2010-0302 cups Incomplete fix for CVE-2009-3553 It was discovered that the cups 1.3.7-11.el54.4 security update did not fully correct the use-after-free flaw in the way CUPS handled references in its file descriptors-handling interface. A remote attacker could send specially crafted queries t...

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

Vincent Danen reported, that Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2008:0897 did not properly address a denial of service flaw in the WEBrick Ruby HTTP server toolkit, known as CVE-2008-3656. This flaw allowed a remote attacker to send a specially crafted HTTP request to a WEBrick server that would caus...

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

A denial of service flaw was discovered in the system for sending messages between applications. A local user could send a message with an excessive number of nested variants to the system-wide message bus, causing the message bus and, consequently, any process using libdbus to receive messages t...

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

Multiple input validation flaws, resulting in buffer overflows, were discovered in MikMod. Specially crafted music files in various formats could, when played, cause an application using the MikMod library to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code. CVE-2009-3995, CVE-2009-3996, CVE-2007-67...