USN-274-1: MySQL vulnerability

A logging bypass was discovered in the MySQL query parser. A local attacker could exploit this by inserting NUL characters into query strings even into comments, which would cause the query to be logged incompletely. This only affects you if you enabled the 'log' parameter in the MySQL...

USN-272-1: cyrus-sasl2 vulnerability

A Denial of Service vulnerability has been discovered in the SASL authentication library when using the DIGEST-MD5 plugin. By sending a specially crafted realm name, a malicious SASL server could exploit this to crash the application that uses SASL...

Ubuntu 4.10 / 5.04 / 5.10 : libtasn1-2 vulnerability (USN-251-1)

Evgeny Legerov discovered a buffer overflow in the DER format decoding function of the libtasn library. This library is mainly used by the GNU TLS library; by sending a specially crafted X.509 certificate to a server which uses TLS encryption/authentication, a remote attacker could exploit this t...

Ubuntu 4.10 / 5.04 / 5.10 : unzip regression fix (USN-248-2)

USN-248-1 fixed a vulnerability in unzip. However, that update inadvertedly changed the field order in the contents listing output, which broke unzip frontends like file-roller. The updated packages fix this regression. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description...

Ubuntu 4.10 / 5.04 / 5.10 : xpdf, poppler, kdegraphics vulnerabilities (USN-249-1)

The splash image handler in xpdf did not check the validity of coordinates. By tricking a user into opening a specially crafted PDF file, an attacker could exploit this to trigger a buffer overflow which could lead to arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the user. The poppler library a...

USN-261-1: PHP vulnerabilities

Stefan Esser discovered that the 'session' module did not sufficiently verify the validity of the user-supplied session ID. A remote attacker could exploit this to insert arbitrary HTTP headers into the response sent by the PHP application, which could lead to HTTP Response Splitting forging of...

USN-258-1: PostgreSQL vulnerability

Akio Ishida discovered that the SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION command did not properly verify the validity of its argument. An authenticated PostgreSQL user could exploit this to crash the server. However, this does not affect the official binary Ubuntu packages. The crash can only be triggered if th...

Ubuntu 5.04 : ffmpeg vulnerability (USN-230-1)

Simon Kilvington discovered a buffer overflow in the avcodecdefaultgetbuffer function of the ffmpeg library. By tricking an user into opening a malicious movie which contains specially crafted PNG images, this could be exploited to execute arbitrary code with the user's privileges. Note that...

Ubuntu 5.04 / 5.10 : texinfo regression bug fix (USN-194-2)

USN-194-1 fixed a vulnerability in the 'texindex' program. Unfortunately this update introduced a regression that caused the program to abort when cleaning up temporary files which are used with extraordinarily large input files. The updated packages fix this. Note that Tenable Network Security h...

Ubuntu 4.10 / 5.04 / 5.10 : perl vulnerability (USN-222-2)

USN-222-1 fixed a vulnerability in the Perl interpreter. It was discovered that the version of USN-222-1 was not sufficient to handle all possible cases of malformed input that could lead to arbitrary code execution, so another update is necessary. Original advisory : Jack Louis of Dyad Security...

USN-245-1: KDE library vulnerability

Maksim Orlovich discovered that kjs, the Javascript interpreter engine used by Konqueror and other parts of KDE, did not sufficiently verify the validity of UTF-8 encoded URIs. Specially crafted URIs could trigger a buffer overflow. By tricking an user into visiting a web site with malicious...

USN-242-1: mailman vulnerabilities

Aliet Santiesteban Sifontes discovered a remote Denial of Service vulnerability in the attachment handler. An email with an attachment whose filename contained invalid UTF-8 characters caused mailman to crash. CVE-2005-3573 Mailman did not sufficiently verify the validity of email dates. Very lar...

Ubuntu 4.10 / 5.04 : vim vulnerability (USN-154-1)

Georgi Guninski discovered that it was possible to construct Vim modelines that execute arbitrary shell commands by wrapping them in glob or expand function calls. If an attacker tricked an user to open a file with a specially crafted modeline, he could exploit this to execute arbitrary commands...

Ubuntu 5.04 : awstats vulnerability (USN-167-1)

Peter Vreugdenhil discovered a command injection vulnerability in AWStats. As part of the statistics reporting function, AWStats displays information about the most common referrer values that caused users to visit the website. Referer URLs could be crafted in a way that they contained arbitrary...

Ubuntu 4.10 / 5.04 : tcpdump vulnerability (USN-141-1)

It was discovered that certain invalid BGP packets triggered an infinite loop in tcpdump, which caused tcpdump to stop working. This could be abused by a remote attacker to bypass tcpdump analysis of network traffic. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block...

Ubuntu 4.10 / 5.04 : squid vulnerability (USN-129-1)

It was discovered that Squid did not verify the validity of DNS server responses. When Squid is started, it opens a DNS client UDP port whose number is randomly assigned by the operating system. Unless your network firewall is configured to accept DNS responses only from known good nameservers,...

Ubuntu 4.10 / 5.04 / 5.10 : lynx regression fix (USN-206-2)

USN-206-1 fixed a security vulnerability in lynx. Unfortunately the fix contained an error that caused lynx to crash under certain circumstances. The updated packages fix this. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security...

Ubuntu 5.04 : kdelibs fixed packages (USN-114-2)

USN-114-1 fixed a vulnerability in the PCX decoder of kimgio. Unfortunately it was discovered that the original patches were faulty and caused regressions. This update now has the correct patches. This update also fixes the disappearing KDE settings which were caused by the accidental removal of...

Ubuntu 5.04 : dia vulnerability (USN-193-1)

Joxean Koret discovered that the SVG import plugin did not properly sanitise data read from an SVG file. By tricking an user into opening a specially crafted SVG file, an attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user. Note that Tenable Network Security has...

Ubuntu 4.10 / 5.04 : courier vulnerabilities (USN-201-1)

Several Cross Site Scripting vulnerabilities were discovered in SqWebmail. A remote attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary JavaScript or other active HTML embeddable content in the web browser of an SqWebmail user by sending specially crafted emails to him. Please note that the...