Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : PHP vulnerabilities (USN-2984-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2984-1 advisory. It was discovered that the PHP Fileinfo component incorrectly handled certain magic files. An attacker could use this issue to cause PHP to...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : Firefox regression (USN-2936-3)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-2936-3 advisory. USN-2936-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. The update caused an issue where a device update POST request was sent every time about:preferencessync w...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : Thunderbird vulnerabilities (USN-2973-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2973-1 advisory. Christian Holler, Tyson Smith, and Phil Ringalda discovered multiple memory safety issues in Thunderbird. If a user were tricked in to openin...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : Oxide vulnerabilities (USN-2960-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2960-1 advisory. An out of bounds write was discovered in Blink. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potential...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : libndp vulnerability (USN-2980-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-2980-1 advisory. Julien Bernard discovered that libndp incorrectly performed origin checks when receiving Neighbor Discovery Protocol NDP messages. A remote attacker outside of th...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : libarchive vulnerabilities (USN-2981-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-2981-1 advisory. It was discovered that libarchive incorrectly handled certain entry-size values in ZIP archives. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause...

USN-2981-1: libarchive vulnerabilities

It was discovered that libarchive incorrectly handled certain entry-size values in ZIP archives. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause libarchive to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 15.10 and...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Qualcomm Snapdragon) vulnerability (USN-2979-4)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-2979-4 advisory. Philip Pettersson discovered that the Linux kernel's ASN.1 DER decoder did not properly process certificate files with tags of indefinite length. A local...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2980-1)

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: Security Advisory (USN-2979-4)

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: Security Advisory (USN-2979-1)

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: Security Advisory (USN-2954-1)

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 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-2979-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2979-1 advisory. David Matlack discovered that the Kernel-based Virtual Machine KVM implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly restrict variable Memory Type Rang...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi 2) vulnerability (USN-2979-3)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-2979-3 advisory. Philip Pettersson discovered that the Linux kernel's ASN.1 DER decoder did not properly process certificate files with tags of indefinite length. A local...

USN-2979-4: Linux kernel (Qualcomm Snapdragon) vulnerability

Philip Pettersson discovered that the Linux kernel's ASN.1 DER decoder did not properly process certificate files with tags of indefinite length. A local unprivileged attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code with administrative privilege...

USN-2979-3: Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi 2) vulnerability

Philip Pettersson discovered that the Linux kernel's ASN.1 DER decoder did not properly process certificate files with tags of indefinite length. A local unprivileged attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code with administrative privilege...

USN-2979-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

David Matlack discovered that the Kernel-based Virtual Machine KVM implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly restrict variable Memory Type Range Registers MTRR in KVM guests. A privileged user in a guest VM could use this to cause a denial of service system crash in the host, expose...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : QEMU vulnerabilities (USN-2974-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2974-1 advisory. Zuozhi Fzz discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled USB OHCI emulation support. A privileged attacker inside the guest could use this issue t...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-2965-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2965-1 advisory. Jann Horn discovered that the extended Berkeley Packet Filter eBPF implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly reference count file descriptors,...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Qualcomm Snapdragon) vulnerability (USN-2965-4)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2965-4 advisory. Jann Horn discovered that the extended Berkeley Packet Filter eBPF implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly reference count file descriptors,...