USN-2900-1 GNU libc vulnerability | Cloud Foundry

USN-2900-1 GNU libc vulnerability High Vendor glibc Versions Affected Ubuntu 14.04 Description It was discovered that the GNU C Library incorrectly handled receiving responses while performing DNS resolution. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause the GNU C Library to crash, resulting in...

USN-2871-1 Linux kernel vulnerability | Cloud Foundry

USN-2871-1 Linux kernel vulnerability High Vendor Ubuntu Versions Affected Ubuntu 14.04 Description Yevgeny Pats discovered that the session keyring implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly reference count when joining an existing session keyring. A local attacker could use this to cau...

USN-2869-1 OpenSSH vulnerability | Cloud Foundry

USN-2869-1 OpenSSH vulnerability High Vendor OpenSSH Versions Affected Ubuntu 14.04 Description It was discovered that the OpenSSH client experimental support for resuming connections contained multiple security issues. A malicious server could use this issue to leak client memory to the server,...

USN-2865-1 GnuTLS vulnerability | Cloud Foundry

USN-2865-1 GnuTLS vulnerability Medium Vendor GnuTLS Versions Affected Ubuntu 14.04 Description Karthikeyan Bhargavan and Gaetan Leurent discovered that GnuTLS incorrectly allowed MD5 to be used for TLS 1.2 connections. If a remote attacker were able to perform a man-in-the-middle attack, this fl...

USN-2842-1/USN-2842-2 Linux kernel vulnerability | Cloud Foundry

USN-2842-1/USN-2842-2 Linux kernel vulnerability Medium Vendor Linux kernel Versions Affected Ubuntu 14.04 Description Jan Beulich discovered that the KVM svm hypervisor implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly catch Debug exceptions on AMD processors. An attacker in a guest virtual...

USN-2857-1 Linux kernel vulnerability | Cloud Foundry

USN-2857-1 Linux kernel vulnerability High Vendor Linux kernel Versions Affected Ubuntu 14.04 Description Nathan Williams discovered that overlayfs in the Linux kernel incorrectly handled setattr operations. A local unprivileged attacker could use this to create files with administrative permissi...

USN-2836-1 grub2 vulnerability | Cloud Foundry

USN-2836-1 grub2 vulnerability Medium Vendor grub2 Versions Affected Ubuntu 14.04 Description Hector Marco and Ismael Ripoll discovered that GRUB incorrectly handled the backspace key when configured to use authentication. A local attacker could use this issue to bypass GRUB password protection...

USN-2830-1 OpenSSL vulnerability | Cloud Foundry

USN-2830-1 OpenSSL vulnerability Medium Vendor OpenSSL Versions Affected Ubuntu 14.04 Description Loïc Jonas Etienne discovered that OpenSSL incorrectly handled ASN.1 signatures with a missing PSS parameter. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause OpenSSL to crash, resulting in a...

USN-2834-1 libxml2 vulnerability | Cloud Foundry

USN-2834-1 libxml2 vulnerability Medium Vendor libxml2 Versions Affected Ubuntu 14.04 Description Kostya Serebryany discovered that libxml2 incorrectly handled certain malformed documents. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted document, an attacker could...

USN-2829-1 Linux kernel vulnerability | Cloud Foundry

USN-2829-1 Linux kernel vulnerability Medium Vendor Linux kernel Versions Affected Ubuntu 14.04 Description It was discovered that the SCTP protocol implementation in the Linux kernel performed an incorrect sequence of protocol-initialization steps. A local attacker could use this to cause a deni...

USN-2820-1 dpkg vulnerability | Cloud Foundry

USN-2820-1 dpkg vulnerability Medium Vendor dpkg Versions Affected Ubuntu 14.04 Description Hanno Boeck discovered that the dpkg-deb tool incorrectly handled certain old style Debian binary packages. If a user or an automated system were tricked into unpacking a specially crafted binary package, ...

USN-2820-1 GnuTLS vulnerability | Cloud Foundry

USN-2820-1 GnuTLS vulnerability High Vendor GnuTLS Versions Affected Ubuntu 14.04 Description It was discovered that GnuTLS incorrectly validated the first byte of padding in CBC modes. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform a padding oracle attack. The Cloud Foundry project...

USN-2810-1 Kerberos vulnerability | Cloud Foundry

USN-2810-1 Kerberos vulnerability Medium Vendor Kerberos Versions Affected Ubuntu 14.04 Description It was discovered that Kerberos incorrectly handled null bytes in certain data fields. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. It was discovered that the...

USN-2812-1 libxml2 vulnerability | Cloud Foundry

USN-2812-1 libxml2 vulnerability Medium Vendor libxml2 Versions Affected Ubuntu 14.04 Description Florian Weimer discovered that libxml2 incorrectly handled certain XML data. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted document, an attacker could possibly cause...

USN-2815-1 PNG vulnerability | Cloud Foundry

USN-2815-1 PNG vulnerability Medium Vendor PNG Versions Affected Ubuntu 14.04 Description Qixue Xiao discovered that libpng incorrectly handled certain time values. If a user or automated system using libpng were tricked into opening a specially crafted image, an attacker could exploit this to...

USN-2788-1 and USN-2788-2 unzip vulnerability | Cloud Foundry

USN-2788-1 and USN-2788-2 unzip vulnerability Medium Vendor unzip Versions Affected Ubuntu 14.04 Description Gustavo Grieco discovered that unzip incorrectly handled certain password protected archives. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted zip archive, an...

USN-2806-1 Linux kernel vulnerability | Cloud Foundry

USN-2806-1 Linux kernel vulnerability High Vendor Vivid Versions Affected Ubuntu 14.04 Description Ben Serebrin discovered that the KVM hypervisor implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly catch Alignment Check exceptions. An attacker in a guest virtual machine could use this to cause a...

USN-2798-1 Linux kernel vulnerability | Cloud Foundry

USN-2798-1 Linux kernel vulnerability Medium Vendor Vivid Versions Affected Ubuntu 14.04 Description It was discovered that in certain situations, a directory could be renamed outside of a bind mounted location. An attacker could use this to escape bind mount containment and gain access to...

USN-2778-1 Linux kernel vulnerabilities | Cloud Foundry

USN-2778-1 Linux kernel vulnerabilities Medium Vendor Vivid Versions Affected Ubuntu 14.04 Description It was discovered that the Linux kernel did not check if a new IPv6 MTU set by a user space application was valid. A remote attacker could forge a route advertisement with an invalid MTU that a...

USN-2765-1 Linux Kernel (Vivid HWE) Vulnerability | Cloud Foundry

USN-2765-1 Linux Kernel Vivid HWE Vulnerability High Vendor Canonical Ubuntu Versions Affected Canonical Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Description It was discovered that the Linux kernel did not properly initialize IPC object state in certain situations. A local attacker could use this to escalate their...