USN-6452-1: Vim vulnerabilities

It was discovered that Vim could be made to divide by zero. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 23.04. CVE-2023-3896 It was discovered that Vim did not properly manage memory. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-6288-2)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 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-6451-1: ncurses vulnerability

It was discovered that ncurses could be made to read out of bounds. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-6403-2)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 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-6441-2: Linux kernel (GCP) vulnerabilities

Ross Lagerwall discovered that the Xen netback backend driver in the Linux kernel did not properly handle certain unusual packets from a paravirtualized network frontend, leading to a buffer overflow. An attacker in a guest VM could use this to cause a denial of service host system crash or...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM : libXpm vulnerabilities (USN-6408-2)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6408-2 advisory. USN-6408-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in libXpm. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and...

Ubuntu 18.04 ESM : Linux kernel (GCP) vulnerabilities (USN-6441-2)

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 ESM host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6441-2 advisory. Ross Lagerwall discovered that the Xen netback backend driver in the Linux kernel did not properly handle certain unusual packets from a paravirtualized...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : wpa_supplicant and hostapd vulnerability (USN-3745-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-3745-1 advisory. It was discovered that wpasupplicant and hostapd incorrectly handled certain messages. An attacker could possibly use this to access...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : Firefox regressions (USN-4234-2)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-4234-2 advisory. USN-4234-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. The update introduced various minor regressions. This update fixes the problems. We apologize for the...

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS : libmysofa vulnerabilities (USN-4473-1)

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4473-1 advisory. It was discovered that libmysofa incorrectly handled certain input files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or other...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : NTFS-3G vulnerability (USN-3914-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-3914-1 advisory. A heap buffer overflow was discovered in NTFS-3G when executing it with a relative mount point path that is too long. A local attacker could potential...

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS : Thunderbird vulnerabilities (USN-4202-1)

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4202-1 advisory. It was discovered that a specially crafted S/MIME message with an inner encryption layer could be displayed as having a valid signature in some...

Ubuntu 18.04 ESM : Gradle vulnerabilities (USN-4858-1)

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4858-1 advisory. It was discovered that Gradle used an insecure HTTP URL to download dependencies when the built-in JavaScript or CoffeeScript Gradle plugins were used. A...

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS : Linux kernel regression (USN-3878-3)

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-3878-3 advisory. USN-3878-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel. Unfortunately, that update introduced a regression that could prevent systems with certain graphics chipsets...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM : liveMedia vulnerabilities (USN-4853-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4853-1 advisory. It was discovered that liveMedia incorrectly handled certain network packets. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : Thunderbird vulnerabilities (USN-4150-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4150-1 advisory. It was discovered that encrypted S/MIME parts in a multipart message can leak plaintext contents when included in a HTML reply or forward in...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : Avahi vulnerabilities (USN-3876-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3876-1 advisory. Chad Seaman discovered that Avahi incorrectly handled certain messages. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a deni...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : GD Graphics Library vulnerabilities (USN-4316-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4316-1 advisory. It was discovered that GD Graphics Library incorrectly handled cloning an image. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause GD Graphi...

Ubuntu 18.04 ESM : NTP vulnerability (USN-4229-2)

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-4229-2 advisory. USN-4229-1 fixed a vulnerability in NTP. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 18.04 ESM. Tenable has extracted the preceding description block...

Ubuntu 18.04 ESM : Okular vulnerability (USN-4830-1)

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-4830-1 advisory. It was discovered that Okular mishandled certain crafted archives during extraction. An attacker could use this vulnerability to write arbitrary files to the...