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Scientific Linux: SLSA-2014:1507-2 Low Severity: Trousers Crash Risk

Low: trousers security, bug fix, and enhancement update. Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 17:04:07 +0000 Reply-To: scientific-linux-users@ Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux From: Pat Riehecky Subject: Security ERRATA Low: trousers on SL6.x i386/x86_64 MIME-Version: 1.0 Synopsis: Low: trousers security, bug fix, and enhancement update Advisory ID: SLSA-2014:1507-2 Issue Date: 2014-10-14 CVE Numbers: CVE-2012-0698 -- A flaw was found in the way tcsd, the daemon that manages Trusted Computing resources, processed incoming TCP packets. A remote attacker could send a specially crafted TCP packet that, when processed by tcsd, could cause the daemon to crash. Note that by default tcsd accepts requests on localhost only. (CVE-2012-0698) The trousers package has been upgraded to upstream version 0.3.13, which provides a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version, including corrected internal symbol names to avoid collisions with other applications, fixed memory leaks, added IPv6 support, fixed buffer handling in tcsd, as well as changed the license to BSD. -- SL6 x86_64 trousers-0.3.13-2.el6.i686.rpm trousers-0.3.13-2.el6.x86_64.rpm trousers-debuginfo-0.3.13-2.el6.i686.rpm trousers-debuginfo-0.3.13-2.el6.x86_64.rpm trousers-devel-0.3.13-2.el6.i686.rpm trousers-devel-0.3.13-2.el6.x86_64.rpm trousers-static-0.3.13-2.el6.x86_64.rpm i386 trousers-0.3.13-2.el6.i686.rpm trousers-debuginfo-0.3.13-2.el6.i686.rpm trousers-devel-0.3.13-2.el6.i686.rpm trousers-static-0.3.13-2.el6.i686.rpm - Scientific Linux Development Team . Pants maintenance enhancement for Scientific Linux resolves a minor vulnerability and improves performance.. Trousers Update, Scientific Linux, Security Patch, Bug Fix, Low Threat. . Severity: Low. LinuxSecurity.com Team

Oct 22, 2014 •Low Scientific Linux