USN-185-1: CUPS vulnerability

A flaw was detected in the printer access control list checking in the CUPS server. Printer names were compared in a case sensitive manner; by modifying the capitalization of printer names, a remote attacker could circumvent ACLs and print to printers he should not have access to. The Ubuntu 5.04...

USN-183-1: Squid vulnerabilities

A Denial of Service vulnerability was discovered in the handling of aborted requests. A remote attacker could exploit this to crash Squid by sending specially crafted requests. CAN-2005-2794 Alex Masterov discovered a Denial of Service vulnerability in the sslConnectTimeout function. By sending...

USN-83-2: LessTif 1 vulnerabilities

USN-83-1 fixed some vulnerabilities in the "lesstif2" library. The older "lesstif1" library was also affected, however, a fix was not yet available at that time. This USN fixes the flaws for lesstif1. Please note that there are no supported applications that use this library, so this only affects...

USN-180-1: MySQL vulnerability

AppSecInc Team SHATTER discovered a buffer overflow in the "CREATE FUNCTION" statement. By specifying a specially crafted long function name, a local or remote attacker with function creation privileges could crash the server or execute arbitrary code with server privileges. However, the right to...

[Full-disclosure] [USN-182-1] X server vulnerability

=========================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-182-1 September 12, 2005 xorg, xfree86 vulnerabilities CAN-2005-2495 =========================================================== A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases: Ubuntu 4.10 Warty Warthog...

USN-178-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Oleg Nesterov discovered a local Denial of Service vulnerability in the timer handling. When a non group-leader thread called exec to execute a different program while an itimer was pending, the timer expiry would signal the old group leader task, which did not exist any more. This caused a kerne...

USN-175-1: ntp server vulnerability

Thomas Biege discovered a flaw in the privilege dropping of the NTP server. When ntpd was configured to drop root privileges, and the group to run under was specified as a name as opposed to a numeric group ID, ntpd changed to the wrong group. Depending on the actual group it changed to, this cou...

USN-173-3: Fixed apache2 packages for USN-173-2

USN-173-2 fixed a vulnerability in Apache's regular expression parser. However, the packages from that advisories had a bug that prevented Apache from starting. This update fixes this. We apologize for the inconvenience!...

USN-173-2: PCRE vulnerability

USN-173-1 fixed a buffer overflow vulnerability in the PCRE library. However, it was determined that this did not suffice to prevent all possible overflows, so another update is necessary. In addition, it was found that the Ubuntu 4.10 version of Apache 2 contains a static copy of the library cod...

[USN-169-1] Linux kernel vulnerabilities

=========================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-169-1 August 19, 2005 linux-source-2.6.8.1, linux-source-2.6.10 vulnerabilities CAN-2005-2098, CAN-2005-2456, CAN-2005-2457, CAN-2005-2458, CAN-2005-2459, CAN-2005-2548, CAN-2005-2555...

USN-168-1: Gaim vulnerabilities

Daniel Atallah discovered a Denial of Service vulnerability in the file transfer handler of OSCAR the module that handles various instant messaging protocols like ICQ. A remote attacker could crash the Gaim client of an user by attempting to send him a file with a name that contains invalid UTF-8...

USN-166-1: Evolution vulnerabilities

Ulf Harnhammar disovered several format string vulnerabilities in Evolution. By tricking an user into viewing a specially crafted vCard attached to an email, specially crafted contact data from an LDAP server, specially crafted task lists from remote servers, or saving Calendar entries with this...

USN-163-1: xpdf vulnerability

xpdf and kpdf did not sufficiently verify the validity of the "loca" table in PDF files, a table that contains glyph description information for embedded TrueType fonts. After detecting the broken table, xpdf attempted to reconstruct the information in it, which caused the generation of a huge...

USN-157-2: Updated Mozilla Thunderbird Enigmail plugin for Ubuntu 4.10

USN-157-1 fixed some vulnerabilities in the Mozilla Thunderbird email client. The updated Thunderbird version broke compatibility with the Enigmail plugin. As announced in USN-157-1, the Enigmail package was now updated for Ubuntu 4.10 Warty Warthog to work with the new Thunderbird version...

USN-157-1: Mozilla Thunderbird vulnerabilities

Vladimir V. Perepelitsa discovered a bug in Thunderbird's handling of anonymous functions during regular expression string replacement. A malicious HTML email could exploit this to capture a random block of client memory. CAN-2005-0989 Georgi Guninski discovered that the types of certain XPInstal...

USN-153-1: fetchmail vulnerability

Ross Boylan discovered a remote buffer overflow in fetchmail. By sending invalid responses with very long UIDs, a faulty or malicious POP server could crash fetchmail or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking fetchmail. fetchmail is commonly run as root to fetch mail for...

USN-152-1: PAM/NSS LDAP vulnerabilitiy

Andrea Barisani discovered a flaw in the SSL handling of pam-ldap and libnss-ldap. When a client connected to a consumer LDAP server using SSL, the consumer server did not use SSL as well when contacting the LDAP provider server. This caused passwords and other confident information to be...

USN-144-1: dbus vulnerability

Besides providing the global system-wide communication bus, dbus also offers per-user "session" buses which applications in an user's session can create and use to communicate with each other. Daniel Reed discovered that the default configuration of the session dbus allowed a local user to connec...

USN-142-1: sudo vulnerability

Charles Morris discovered a race condition in sudo which could lead to privilege escalation. If /etc/sudoers allowed a user the execution of selected programs, and this was followed by another line containing the pseudo-command "ALL", that user could execute arbitrary commands with sudo by creati...

USN-136-2: Fixed packages for USN-136-1

It was discovered that the packages from USN-136-1 had a flawed patch with regressions that caused the ld linker to fail. The updated packages fix this. We apologize for the inconvenience...