USN-603-1: poppler vulnerability

It was discovered that the poppler PDF library did not correctly handle certain malformed embedded fonts. If a user or an automated system were tricked into opening a malicious PDF, a remote attacker could execute arbitrary code with user privileges...

[USN-601-1] Squid vulnerability

=========================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-601-1 April 14, 2008 squid vulnerability CVE-2008-1612 =========================================================== A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases: Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Ubuntu 6.10 Ubuntu 7.04...

USN-599-1: Ghostscript vulnerability

Chris Evans discovered that Ghostscript contained a buffer overflow in its color space handling code. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a crafted Postscript file, an attacker could cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code with privileges of the user invoking the...

USN-593-1: Dovecot vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the default configuration of dovecot could allow access to any email files with group "mail" without verifying that a user had valid rights. An attacker able to create symlinks in their mail directory could exploit this to read or delete another user's email. CVE-2008-1199 ...

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 6.10 / 7.04 / 7.10 : icu vulnerabilities (USN-591-1)

Will Drewry discovered that libicu did not properly handle '\0' when processing regular expressions. If an application linked against libicu processed a crafted regular expression, an attacker could execute arbitrary code with privileges of the user invoking the program. CVE-2007-4770 Will Drewry...

USN-589-1: unzip vulnerability

Tavis Ormandy discovered that unzip did not correctly clean up pointers. If a user or automated service was tricked into processing a specially crafted ZIP archive, a remote attacker could execute arbitrary code with user privileges...

USN-578-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

The minix filesystem did not properly validate certain filesystem values. If a local attacker could trick the system into attempting to mount a corrupted minix filesystem, the kernel could be made to hang for long periods of time, resulting in a denial of service. CVE-2006-6058 Alexander Schulze...

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 6.10 / 7.04 / 7.10 : boost vulnerabilities (USN-570-1)

Will Drewry and Tavis Ormandy discovered that the boost library did not properly perform input validation on regular expressions. An attacker could send a specially crafted regular expression to an application linked against boost and cause a denial of service via application crash. Note that...

[USN-570-1] boost vulnerabilities

=========================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-570-1 January 16, 2008 boost vulnerabilities CVE-2008-0171, CVE-2008-0172 =========================================================== A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases: Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Ubun...

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 6.10 / 7.04 / 7.10 : pwlib vulnerability (USN-561-1)

Jose Miguel Esparza discovered that pwlib did not correctly handle large string lengths. A remote attacker could send specially crafted packets to applications linked against pwlib e.g. Ekiga causing them to crash, leading to a denial of service. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted t...

USN-566-1: OpenSSH vulnerability

Jan Pechanec discovered that ssh would forward trusted X11 cookies when untrusted cookie generation failed. This could lead to unintended privileges being forwarded to a remote host...

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 6.10 / 7.04 / 7.10 : libcairo vulnerability (USN-550-1)

Peter Valchev discovered that Cairo did not correctly decode PNG image data. By tricking a user or automated system into processing a specially crafted PNG with Cairo, a remote attacker could execute arbitrary code with user privileges. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the precedi...

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 6.10 / 7.04 / 7.10 : flac vulnerability (USN-540-1)

Sean de Regge discovered that flac did not properly perform bounds checking in many situations. An attacker could send a specially crafted FLAC audio file and execute arbitrary code as the user or cause a denial of service in flac or applications that link against flac. Note that Tenable Network...

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 6.10 : slocate vulnerability (USN-425-1)

A flaw was discovered in the permission checking code of slocate. When reporting matching files, locate would not correctly respect the parent directory's 'read' bits. This could result in filenames being displayed when the file owner had expected them to remain hidden from other system users. No...

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS : Installer vulnerability (USN-316-1)

Iwan Pieterse discovered that, if you select 'Go Back' at the final message displayed by the alternate or server CD installer 'Installation complete' and then continue with the installation from the installer's main menu, the root password is left blank rather than locked. This was due to an erro...

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 6.10 / 7.04 : jasper vulnerability (USN-501-1)

It was discovered that Jasper did not correctly handle corrupted JPEG2000 images. By tricking a user into opening a specially crafted JPG, a remote attacker could cause the application using libjasper to crash, resulting in a denial of service. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the...

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 6.10 / 7.04 : qt-x11-free vulnerability (USN-495-1)

Several format string vulnerabilities have been discovered in Qt warning messages. By causing an application to process specially crafted input data which triggered Qt warnings, this could be exploited to execute arbitrary code with the privilege of the user running the application. Note that...

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 6.10 / 7.04 : tar vulnerability (USN-506-1)

Dmitry V. Levin discovered that tar did not correctly detect the '..' file path element when unpacking archives. If a user or an automated system were tricked into unpacking a specially crafted tar file, arbitrary files could be overwritten with user privileges. Note that Tenable Network Security...

Ubuntu 5.10 / 6.06 LTS / 6.10 : texinfo vulnerability (USN-379-1)

Miloslav Trmac discovered a buffer overflow in texinfo's index processor. If a user is tricked into processing a .texi file with texindex, this could lead to arbitrary code execution with user privileges. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly fr...

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS : postgresql-8.1 vulnerabilities (USN-369-1)

Michael Fuhr discovered an incorrect type check when handling unknown literals. By attempting to coerce such a literal to the ANYARRAY type, a local authenticated attacker could cause a server crash. Josh Drake and Alvaro Herrera reported a crash when using aggregate functions in UPDATE statement...