[Full-disclosure] [USN-380-1] Avahi vulnerability

=========================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-380-1 November 11, 2006 avahi vulnerability CVE-2006-5461 =========================================================== A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases: Ubuntu 5.10 Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Ubuntu...

USN-379-1: texinfo vulnerability

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...

USN-376-2: imlib2 regression fix

USN-376-1 provided an update to imlib2 to fix several security vulnerabilities. Unfortunately the update broke JPG file handling in certain situations. This update corrects this problem. We apologize for the inconvenience...

USN-377-1: NVIDIA vulnerability

Derek Abdine discovered that the NVIDIA Xorg driver did not correctly verify the size of buffers used to render text glyphs. When displaying very long strings of text, the Xorg server would crash. If a user were tricked into viewing a specially crafted series of glyphs, this flaw could be exploit...

USN-371-1: Ruby vulnerability

An error was found in Ruby's CGI library that did not correctly check for the end of multipart MIME requests. Using a crafted HTTP request, a remote user could cause a denial of service, where Ruby CGI applications would end up in a loop, monopolizing a CPU...

USN-369-1: PostgreSQL vulnerabilities

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...

USN-356-1: gdb vulnerability

Will Drewry, of the Google Security Team, discovered buffer overflows in GDB's DWARF processing. This would allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code with user privileges by tricking the user into using GDB to load an executable that contained malicious debugging information...

USN-351-1: firefox vulnerabilities

Various flaws have been reported that allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code with user privileges by tricking the user into opening a malicious web page containing JavaScript. CVE-2006-4253, CVE-2006-4565, CVE-2006-4566, CVE-2006-4568, CVE-2006-4569 CVE-2006-4571 The NSS library did not...

[Full-disclosure] [USN-347-1] Linux kernel vulnerabilities

=========================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-347-1 September 18, 2006 linux-source-2.6.10/-2.6.12/-2.6.15 vulnerabilities CVE-2006-4535, CVE-2006-4538 =========================================================== A security issue affects the following Ubunt...

USN-346-2: Fixed linux-restricted-modules-2.6.15 for previous Linux kernel update

USN-346-1 provided an updated Linux kernel to fix several security vulnerabilities. Unfortunately the update broke the binary 'nvidia' driver from linux-restricted-modules. This update corrects this problem. We apologize for the inconvenience...

USN-338-1: MySQL vulnerabilities

Dmitri Lenev discovered that arguments of setuid SQL functions were evaluated in the security context of the functions' definer instead of its caller. An authenticated user with the privilege to call such a function could exploit this to execute arbitrary statements with the privileges of the...

USN-337-1: imagemagick vulnerability

Damian Put discovered a buffer overflow in imagemagick's SGI file format decoder. By tricking an user or automated system into processing a specially crafted SGI image, this could be exploited to execute arbitrary code with the user's privileges...

USN-331-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

A Denial of service vulnerability was reported in iptables' SCTP conntrack module. On computers which use this iptables module, a remote attacker could expoit this to trigger a kernel crash. CVE-2006-2934 A buffer overflow has been discovered in the dvdreadbca function. By inserting a specially...

USN-327-2: firefox regression

USN-327-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in Firefox. Unfortunately the new version introduced a regression in the handling of streamed media. Embedded media which were linked with a scheme other than http:// did not work any more. This update fixes this regression...

USN-327-1: firefox vulnerabilities

Various flaws have been reported that allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code with user privileges by tricking the user into opening a malicious URL. CVE-2006-3113, CVE-2006-3677, CVE-2006-3801, CVE-2006-3803, CVE-2006-3805, CVE-2006-3806, CVE-2006-3807, CVE-2006-3809, CVE-2006-3811,...

[Full-disclosure] [USN-328-1] Apache vulnerability

=========================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-328-1 July 27, 2006 apache2 vulnerability CVE-2006-3747 =========================================================== A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases: Ubuntu 5.04 Ubuntu 5.10 Ubuntu 6.06 LT...

CVE-2006-3597

CVE-2006-3597 is substantiated by Ubuntu USN-316-1: on Ubuntu 6.06 LTS, the installer for alternate/server CDs could leave the root password blank instead of locking it when the user selects Go Back after Installation complete and continues from the main menu. The root password was zeroed in the ...

CVE-2006-3597

passwd before 1:4.0.13 on Ubuntu 6.06 LTS leaves the root password blank instead of locking it when the administrator selects the "Go Back" option after the final "Installation complete" message and uses the main menu, which causes the password to be zeroed out in the installer's memory...

USN-316-1: installer vulnerability

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...

USN-308-1: shadow vulnerability

Ilja van Sprundel discovered that passwd, when called with the -f, -g, or -s option, did not check the result of the setuid call. On systems that configure PAM limits for the maximum number of user processes, a local attacker could exploit this to execute chfn, gpasswd, or chsh with root...