Medium: ghostscript

Issue Overview: An integer overflow flaw was found in Ghostscript's TrueType bytecode interpreter. An attacker could create a specially-crafted PostScript or PDF file that, when interpreted, could cause Ghostscript to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code. CVE-2009-3743 It was found that...

Medium: openssl

Issue Overview: It was discovered that the Datagram Transport Layer Security DTLS protocol implementation in OpenSSL leaked timing information when performing certain operations. A remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to retrieve plain text from the encrypted packets by using a DTLS serve...

Medium: t1lib

Issue Overview: Two heap-based buffer overflow flaws were found in the way t1lib processed Adobe Font Metrics AFM files. If a specially-crafted font file was opened by an application linked against t1lib, it could cause the application to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the...

Medium: glibc

Issue Overview: An integer overflow flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, was found in the way the glibc library read timezone files. If a carefully-crafted timezone file was loaded by an application linked against glibc, it could cause the application to crash or, potentially, execute...

Critical: php

Issue Overview: It was discovered that the fix for CVE-2011-4885 introduced an uninitialized memory use flaw. A remote attacker could send a specially-crafted HTTP request to cause the PHP interpreter to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code. Affected Packages: php Issue Correction: Run yum...

Important: ruby

Issue Overview: Ruby aka CRuby before 1.8.7-p357 computes hash values without restricting the ability to trigger hash collisions predictably, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service CPU consumption via crafted input to an application that maintains a hash table...

Important: libxml2

Issue Overview: A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way libxml2 decoded entity references with long names. A remote attacker could provide a specially-crafted XML file that, when opened in an application linked against libxml2, would cause the application to crash or, potentially,...

Medium: php

Issue Overview: It was found that the hashing routine used by PHP arrays was susceptible to predictable hash collisions. If an HTTP POST request to a PHP application contained many parameters whose names map to the same hash value, a large amount of CPU time would be consumed. This flaw has been...

Medium: icu

Issue Overview: A stack-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way ICU performed variant canonicalization for some locale identifiers. If a specially-crafted locale representation was opened in an application linked against ICU, it could cause the application to crash or, possibly, execute...

Medium: kernel

Issue Overview: The Linux kernel before 3.2.2 does not properly restrict SGIO ioctl calls, which allows local users to bypass intended restrictions on disk read and write operations by sending a SCSI command to 1 a partition block device or 2 an LVM volume. Affected Packages: kernel Issue...

Medium: cacti

Issue Overview: The release notes http://www.cacti.net/releasenotes087i.php for Cacti 0.8.7i indicate that two security vulnerabilities were fixed, though no corresponding CVE has been issued. Affected Packages: cacti Issue Correction: Run yum update cacti or yum update --advisory ALAS-2012-32 to...

Medium: dhcp

Issue Overview: A denial of service flaw was found in the way the dhcpd daemon handled DHCP request packets when regular expression matching was used in "/etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf". A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash dhcpd. CVE-2011-4539 Affected Packages: dhcp Issue Correction: Run yum...

Medium: nginx

Issue Overview: Heap-based buffer overflow in compression-pointer processing in core/ngxresolver.c in nginx before 1.0.10 allows remote resolvers to cause a denial of service daemon crash or possibly have unspecified other impact via a long response. Affected Packages: nginx Issue Correction: Run...

Important: jasper

Issue Overview: Two heap-based buffer overflow flaws were found in the way JasPer decoded JPEG 2000 compressed image files. An attacker could create a malicious JPEG 2000 compressed image file that, when opened, would cause applications that use JasPer such as Nautilus to crash or, potentially,...

Medium: krb5

Issue Overview: A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the way the MIT Kerberos KDC processed certain TGS Ticket-granting Server requests. A remote, authenticated attacker could use this flaw to crash the KDC via a specially-crafted TGS request. CVE-2011-1530 Affected Packages: krb5 Issue...

Medium: cyrus-imapd

Issue Overview: An authentication bypass flaw was found in the cyrus-imapd NNTP server, nntpd. A remote user able to use the nntpd service could use this flaw to read or post newsgroup messages on an NNTP server configured to require user authentication, without providing valid authentication...

Important: tomcat6

Issue Overview: Certain AJP protocol connector implementations in Apache Tomcat 7.0.0 through 7.0.20, 6.0.0 through 6.0.33, 5.5.0 through 5.5.33, and possibly other versions allow remote attackers to spoof AJP requests, bypass authentication, and obtain sensitive information by causing the...

Medium: kernel

Issue Overview: IPv6 fragment identification value generation could allow a remote attacker to disrupt a target system's networking, preventing legitimate users from accessing its services. CVE-2011-2699, Important A signedness issue was found in the Linux kernel's CIFS Common Internet File Syste...

Important: cacti

Issue Overview: The release notes http://www.cacti.net/releasenotes087h.php for Cacti 0.8.7h indicate that two security vulnerabilities were fixed, though no corresponding CVE has been issued. Affected Packages: cacti Issue Correction: Run yum update cacti or yum update --advisory ALAS-2011-23 to...

Important: bind

Issue Overview: A flaw was discovered in the way BIND handled certain DNS queries, which caused it to cache an invalid record. A remote attacker could use this flaw to send repeated queries for this invalid record, causing the resolvers to exit unexpectedly due to a failed assertion. Affected...

Important: freetype

Issue Overview: Multiple input validation flaws were found in the way FreeType processed CID-keyed fonts. If a specially-crafted font file was loaded by an application linked against FreeType, it could cause the application to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of t...

Medium: kernel

Issue Overview: The epoll implementation in the Linux kernel 2.6.37.2 and earlier does not properly traverse a tree of epoll file descriptors, which allows local users to cause a denial of service CPU consumption via a crafted application that makes epollcreate and epollctl system calls. Buffer...

Medium: nss

Issue Overview: It was found that the Malaysia-based Digicert Sdn. Bhd. subordinate Certificate Authority CA issued HTTPS certificates with weak keys. This update renders any HTTPS certificates signed by that CA as untrusted. This covers all uses of the certificates, including SSL, S/MIME, and co...

Medium: openswan

Issue Overview: A use-after-free flaw was found in the way Openswan's pluto IKE daemon used cryptographic helpers. A remote, authenticated attacker could send a specially-crafted IKE packet that would crash the pluto daemon. This issue only affected SMP symmetric multiprocessing systems that have...

Medium: perl

Issue Overview: A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way Perl decoded Unicode strings. An attacker could create a malicious Unicode string that, when decoded by a Perl program, would cause the program to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the user...

Important: freetype

Issue Overview: Multiple input validation flaws were found in the way FreeType processed bitmap font files. If a specially-crafted font file was loaded by an application linked against FreeType, it could cause the application to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of...

Medium: rpm

Issue Overview: Multiple flaws were found in the way the RPM library parsed package headers. An attacker could create a specially-crafted RPM package that, when queried or installed, would cause rpm to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code. CVE-2011-3378 Affected Packages: rpm Issue...

Medium: perl-libwww-perl

Issue Overview: The Net::HTTPS module in libwww-perl LWP before 6.00, as used in WWW::Mechanize, LWP::UserAgent, and other products, when running in environments that do not set the If-SSL-Cert-Subject header, does not enable full validation of SSL certificates by default, which allows remote...

Critical: java-1.6.0-openjdk

Issue Overview: A flaw was found in the Java RMI Remote Method Invocation registry implementation. A remote RMI client could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code on the RMI server running the registry. CVE-2011-3556 A flaw was found in the Java RMI registry implementation. A remote RMI client...

Medium: postgresql

Issue Overview: A signedness issue was found in the way the crypt function in the PostgreSQL pgcrypto module handled 8-bit characters in passwords when using Blowfish hashing. Up to three characters immediately preceding a non-ASCII character one with the high bit set had no effect on the hash...

Medium: puppet

Issue Overview: Puppet 2.7.x before 2.7.5, 2.6.x before 2.6.11, and 0.25.x, when running in --edit mode, uses a predictable file name, which allows local users to run arbitrary Puppet code or trick a user into editing arbitrary files. Puppet 2.7.x before 2.7.5, 2.6.x before 2.6.11, and 0.25.x...

Medium: xorg-x11-server

Issue Overview: Multiple input sanitization flaws were found in the X.Org GLX OpenGL extension to the X Window System extension. A malicious, authorized client could use these flaws to crash the X.Org server or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with root privileges. CVE-2010-4818 An input...

Medium: kernel

Issue Overview: The skbgroheaderslow function in include/linux/netdevice.h in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39.4, when Generic Receive Offload GRO is enabled, resets certain fields in incorrect situations, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service system crash via crafted network...

Medium: krb5

Issue Overview: Multiple NULL pointer dereference and assertion failure flaws were found in the MIT Kerberos KDC when it was configured to use an LDAP Lightweight Directory Access Protocol or Berkeley Database Berkeley DB back end. A remote attacker could use these flaws to crash the KDC...

Medium: httpd

Issue Overview: It was discovered that the Apache HTTP Server did not properly validate the request URI for proxied requests. In certain configurations, if a reverse proxy used the ProxyPassMatch directive, or if it used the RewriteRule directive with the proxy flag, a remote attacker could make...

Important: php

Issue Overview: PHP before 5.3.7 does not properly check the return values of the malloc, calloc, and realloc library functions, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and application crash or trigger a buffer overflow by leveraging the...

Medium: perl-FCGI

Issue Overview: The FCGI aka Fast CGI module 0.70 through 0.73 for Perl, as used by CGI::Fast, uses environment variable values from one request during processing of a later request, which allows remote attackers to bypass authentication via crafted HTTP headers. Affected Packages: perl-FCGI Issu...

Medium: openssl

Issue Overview: An uninitialized variable use flaw was found in OpenSSL. This flaw could cause an application using the OpenSSL Certificate Revocation List CRL checking functionality to incorrectly accept a CRL that has a nextUpdate date in the past. All OpenSSL users should upgrade to these...

Important: cyrus-imapd

Issue Overview: The cyrus-imapd packages contain a high-performance mail server with IMAP, POP3, NNTP, and Sieve support. A buffer overflow flaw was found in the cyrus-imapd NNTP server, nntpd. A remote user able to use the nntpd service could use this flaw to crash the nntpd child process or,...

Medium: openswan

Issue Overview: A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the way Openswan's pluto IKE daemon handled certain error conditions. A remote, unauthenticated attacker could send a specially-crafted IKE packet that would crash the pluto daemon. Affected Packages: openswan Issue Correction: Run yum...

Medium: ca-certificates

Issue Overview: This package contains the set of CA certificates chosen by the Mozilla Foundation for use with the Internet Public Key Infrastructure PKI. It was found that a Certificate Authority CA issued fraudulent HTTPS certificates. This update removes that CA's root certificate from the...

Medium: httpd

Issue Overview: The Apache HTTP Server is a popular web server. A flaw was found in the way the Apache HTTP Server handled Range HTTP headers. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause httpd to use an excessive amount of memory and CPU time via HTTP requests with a specially-crafted Range...