USN-3133-1: Oxide vulnerabilities

Multiple security vulnerabilities were discovered in Chromium. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit these to obtain sensitive information, cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code. CVE-2016-5198,...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3146-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : Thunderbird vulnerabilities (USN-3141-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3141-1 advisory. Christian Holler, Jon Coppeard, Olli Pettay, Ehsan Akhgari, Gary Kwong, Tooru Fujisawa, and Randell Jesup discovered multiple memory safety...

USN-3146-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the getuserasmex implementation in the Linux kernel for x86/x8664 contained extended asm statements that were incompatible with the exception table. A local attacker could use this to gain administrative privileges. CVE-2016-9644 Andreas Gruenbacher and Jan Kara discovered...

USN-3143-1: c-ares vulnerability

Gzob Qq discovered that c-ares incorrectly handled certain hostnames. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause applications using c-ares to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code...

CVE-2016-1247

The nginx package before 1.6.2-5+deb8u3 on Debian jessie, the nginx packages before 1.4.6-1ubuntu3.6 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, before 1.10.0-0ubuntu0.16.04.3 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, and before 1.10.1-0ubuntu1.1 on Ubuntu 16.10, and the nginx ebuild before 1.10.2-r3 on Gentoo allow local users with access...

Code injection

The nginx package before 1.6.2-5+deb8u3 on Debian jessie, the nginx packages before 1.4.6-1ubuntu3.6 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, before 1.10.0-0ubuntu0.16.04.3 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, and before 1.10.1-0ubuntu1.1 on Ubuntu 16.10, and the nginx ebuild before 1.10.2-r3 on Gentoo allow local users with access...

CVE-2016-1247

The nginx package before 1.6.2-5+deb8u3 on Debian jessie, the nginx packages before 1.4.6-1ubuntu3.6 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, before 1.10.0-0ubuntu0.16.04.3 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, and before 1.10.1-0ubuntu1.1 on Ubuntu 16.10, and the nginx ebuild before 1.10.2-r3 on Gentoo allow local users with access...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : python-cryptography vulnerability (USN-3138-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-3138-1 advisory. Markus Dring discovered that python-cryptography incorrectly handled certain HKDF lengths. This could result in python-cryptography returning an empty string...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3138-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

USN-3138-1: python-cryptography vulnerability

Markus Döring discovered that python-cryptography incorrectly handled certain HKDF lengths. This could result in python-cryptography returning an empty string instead of the expected derived key...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : GStreamer Good Plugins vulnerability (USN-3135-2)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-3135-2 advisory. USN-3135-1 fixed a vulnerability in GStreamer Good Plugins. The original security fix was incomplete. This update fixes the problem. Tenable has...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : MoinMoin vulnerabilities (USN-3137-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3137-1 advisory. It was discovered that MoinMoin did not properly sanitize certain inputs, resulting in cross-site scripting XSS vulnerabilities. With...

USN-3136-1: LXC vulnerability

Roman Fiedler discovered a directory traversal flaw in lxc-attach. An attacker with access to an LXC container could exploit this flaw to access files outside of the container...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : LXC vulnerability (USN-3136-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-3136-1 advisory. Roman Fiedler discovered a directory traversal flaw in lxc-attach. An attacker with access to an LXC container could exploit this flaw to access files...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : Python vulnerabilities (USN-3134-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3134-1 advisory. It was discovered that the smtplib library in Python did not return an error when StartTLS fails. A remote attacker could possibly use this t...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : GStreamer Good Plugins vulnerability (USN-3135-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-3135-1 advisory. Chris Evans discovered that GStreamer Good Plugins did not correctly handle malformed FLC movie files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted F...

USN-3135-1: GStreamer Good Plugins vulnerability

Chris Evans discovered that GStreamer Good Plugins did not correctly handle malformed FLC movie files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted FLC movie file with a GStreamer application, an attacker could cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code with the...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : tar vulnerability (USN-3132-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-3132-1 advisory. Harry Sintonen discovered that tar incorrectly handled extracting files when path names are specified on the command line. If a user or automated syst...

USN-3132-1: tar vulnerability

Harry Sintonen discovered that tar incorrectly handled extracting files when path names are specified on the command line. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted archive, an attacker could possibly overwrite arbitrary files...