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

A flaw was found in the way Qt expanded certain UTF8 characters. It was possible to prevent a Qt-based application from properly sanitizing user supplied input. This could, for example, result in a cross-site scripting attack against the Konqueror web browser. CVE-2007-0242 A buffer overflow flaw...

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

A stack-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way Samba authenticates remote users. A remote unauthenticated user could trigger this flaw to cause the Samba server to crash, or execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the Samba server. CVE-2007-6015 This update also fixes a regression...

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

Sean Larsson found a heap overflow flaw in the OpenOffice memory allocator. If a carefully crafted file was opened by a victim, an attacker could usethe flaw to crash OpenOffice.org or, possibly, execute arbitrary code. CVE-2008-2152 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The...

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

CVE-2009-3379 libvorbis: security fixes mentioned in MFSA 2009-63 Multiple flaws were found in the libvorbis library. A specially crafted Ogg Vorbis media format file Ogg could cause an application using libvorbis to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code when opened. CVE-2009-3379 The deskto...

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 : xen on SL5.x i386/x86_64

CVE-2009-3525 Xen: PyGrub missing support for password configuration command The pyGrub boot loader did not honor the 'password' option in the grub.conf file for para-virtualized guests. Users with access to a guest's console could use this flaw to bypass intended access restrictions and boot the...

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

Mozilla Firefox is an open source Web browser. XULRunner provides the XUL Runtime environment for Mozilla Firefox. Several flaws were found in the processing of malformed web content. A web page containing malicious content could cause Firefox to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code as t...

Scientific Linux Security Update : tomcat5 on SL5.x i386/x86_64 (20120411)

Apache Tomcat is a servlet container for the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages JSP technologies. It was found that the Java hashCode method implementation was susceptible to predictable hash collisions. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause Tomcat to use an excessive amount of CPU time b...

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

A flaw was found in Perl's regular expression engine. A specially crafted regular expression with Unicode characters could trigger a buffer overflow, causing Perl to crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Perl. CVE-2008-1927 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable...

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 : java (jdk 1.6.0) on SL4.x, SL5.x i386/x86_64

This update fixes several vulnerabilities in the Sun Java 6 Runtime Environment and the Sun Java 6 Software Development Kit. These vulnerabilities are summarized on the 'Advance notification of Security Updates for Java SE' page from Sun Microsystems, listed in the References section. All running...

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 : bind97 on SL5.x i386/x86_64

"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 : mysql on SL5.x i386/x86_64

It was found that the MySQL PolyFromWKB function did not sanity check Well-Known Binary WKB data. A remote, authenticated attacker could use specially crafted WKB data to crash mysqld. This issue only caused a temporary denial of service, as mysqld was automatically restarted after the crash...

Scientific Linux Security Update : krb5 on SL5.x i386/x86_64

A use-after-free flaw was discovered in the MIT Kerberos administration daemon, kadmind. A remote, authenticated attacker could use this flaw to crash the kadmind daemon. Administrative privileges are not required to trigger this flaw, as any realm user can request information about their own...

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

A flaw was found in the handling of compression structures between modssl and OpenSSL. If too many connections were opened in a short period of time, all system memory and swap space would be consumed by httpd, negatively impacting other processes, or causing a system crash. CVE-2008-1678 A flaw...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL5.x i386/x86_64 (20120529)

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. This update fixes the following security issue : - It was found that the datalen parameter of the sockallocsendpskb function in the Linux kernel's networking implementation was not validated before use. A local...

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 : 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...