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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : httpd on SL3.x, SL4.x, SL5.x i386/x86_64

CVE-2009-1891 httpd: possible temporary DoS CPU consumption in moddeflate CVE-2009-3094 httpd: NULL pointer defer in modproxyftp caused by crafted EPSV and PASV reply CVE-2009-3095 httpd: modproxyftp FTP command injection via Authorization HTTP header CVE-2009-3555 TLS: MITM attacks via session...

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

Multiple integer overflow flaws were found in KPDF's JBIG2 decoder. An attacker could create a malicious PDF file that would cause KPDF to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code when opened. CVE-2009-0147, CVE-2009-1179 Multiple buffer overflow flaws were found in KPDF's JBIG2 decoder. An...

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 : lcms on SL5.x i386/x86_64

Multiple insufficient input validation flaws were discovered in LittleCMS. An attacker could use these flaws to create a specially crafted image file which could cause an application using LittleCMS to crash, or, possibly, execute arbitrary code when opened. CVE-2008-5316, CVE-2008-5317...

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

CVE-2009-3555 TLS: MITM attacks via session renegotiation CVE-2010-0731 gnutls: gnutlsx509crtgetserial incorrect serial decoding from ASN1 BE64 GNUTLS-SA-2010-1 A flaw was found in the way the TLS/SSL Transport Layer Security/Secure Sockets Layer protocols handled session renegotiation. A...

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

Multiple issues were discovered in the gd GIF image-handling code. A carefully-crafted GIF file could cause a crash or possibly execute code with the privileges of the application using the gd library. CVE-2006-4484, CVE-2007-3475, CVE-2007-3476 An integer overflow was discovered in the...

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

This update fixes the following security issue : - The compatallocuserspace function in the Linux kernel 32/64-bit compatibility layer implementation was missing sanity checks. This function could be abused in other areas of the Linux kernel if its length argument can be controlled from user-spac...