Moderate: glibc (SL6)

Synopsis: Moderate: glibc security and bug fix update Issue Date: 2012-03-15 CVE Numbers: CVE-2012-0864 — The glibc packages provide the standard C and standard math libraries used by multiple programs on the system. Without these libraries, the Linux system cannot … Read More

Critical: thunderbird (SL5, SL6)

Synopsis: Critical: thunderbird security update Issue Date: 2012-03-14 CVE Numbers: CVE-2012-0461 CVE-2012-0462 CVE-2012-0464 CVE-2012-0460 CVE-2012-0459 CVE-2012-0458 CVE-2012-0451 CVE-2012-0456 CVE-2012-0457 CVE-2012-0455 — Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client. Several flaws were found in the processing of malformed content. … Read More

Critical: firefox (SL5, SL6)

Synopsis: Critical: firefox security and bug fix update Issue Date: 2012-03-14 CVE Numbers: CVE-2012-0461 CVE-2012-0462 CVE-2012-0464 CVE-2012-0460 CVE-2012-0459 CVE-2012-0458 CVE-2012-0451 CVE-2012-0456 CVE-2012-0457 CVE-2012-0455 — Mozilla Firefox is an open source web browser. Several flaws were found in the processing of … Read More

Moderate: systemtap (SL5, SL6)

Synopsis: Moderate: systemtap security update Issue Date: 2012-03-08 CVE Numbers: CVE-2012-0875 — SystemTap is an instrumentation system for systems running the Linux kernel. The system allows developers to write scripts to collect data on the operation of the system. An … Read More

xen (SL5)

Synopsis: Important: xen security and bug fix update Issue Date: 2012-03-07 CVE Numbers: CVE-2012-0029 — The xen packages contain administration tools and the xend service for managing the kernel-xen kernel for virtualization on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. A heap overflow … Read More

initscripts (SL5)

Synopsis: Low: initscripts security and bug fix update Issue Date: 2012-02-20 CVE Numbers: CVE-2008-1198 — The initscripts package contains system scripts to boot your system, change runlevels, activate and deactivate most network interfaces, and shut the system down cleanly. With … Read More

ibutils (SL5)

Synopsis: Low: ibutils security and bug fix update Issue Date: 2012-02-20 CVE Numbers: CVE-2008-3277 — The ibutils packages provide InfiniBand network and path diagnostics. It was found that the ibmssh executable had an insecure relative RPATH (runtime library search path) … Read More

nfs-utils (SL5)

Synopsis: Low: nfs-utils security, bug fix, and enhancement update Issue Date: 2012-02-20 CVE Numbers: CVE-2011-1749 — The nfs-utils package provides a daemon for the kernel Network File System (NFS) server, and related tools such as the mount.nfs, umount.nfs, and showmount … Read More

sudo (SL5)

Synopsis: Low: sudo security and bug fix update Issue Date: 2012-02-20 CVE Numbers: CVE-2011-0010 — The sudo (superuser do) utility allows system administrators to give certain users the ability to run commands as root. A flaw was found in the … Read More

busybox (SL5)

Synopsis: Low: busybox security and bug fix update Issue Date: 2012-02-20 CVE Numbers: CVE-2006-1168 CVE-2011-2716 — BusyBox provides a single binary that includes versions of a large number of system commands, including a shell. This can be very useful for … Read More