Ubuntu 16.04 ESM : Bind vulnerabilities (USN-5747-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5747-1 advisory. It was discovered that Bind incorrectly handled large query name when using lightweight resolver protocol. A remote attacker could use this issue to...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : shadow regression (USN-5745-2)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-5745-2 advisory. USN-5745-1 fixed vulnerabilities in shadow. Unfortunately that update introduced a regression that caused useradd to behave incorrectly in...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM : libsamplerate vulnerability (USN-5749-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-5749-1 advisory. Erik de Castro Lopo and Agostino Sarubbo discovered that libsamplerate did not properly perform bounds checking. If a user were tricked into processing a speciall...

USN-5746-1: HarfBuzz vulnerability

Behzad Najjarpour Jabbari discovered that HarfBuzz incorrectly handled certain inputs. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service...

USN-5744-1: libICE vulnerability

It was discovered that libICE was using a weak mechanism to generate the session cookies. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to perform a privilege escalation attack...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : shadow vulnerability (USN-5745-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-5745-1 advisory. Florian Weimer discovered that shadow was not properly copying and removing user directory trees, which could lead to a race...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM : HarfBuzz vulnerability (USN-5746-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-5746-1 advisory. Behzad Najjarpour Jabbari discovered that HarfBuzz incorrectly handled certain inputs. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of servic...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 LTS : libICE vulnerability (USN-5744-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-5744-1 advisory. It was discovered that libICE was using a weak mechanism to generate the session cookies. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to perform a...

USN-5743-1: LibTIFF vulnerability

It was discovered that LibTIFF incorrectly handled certain malformed images. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted image, a remote attacker could crash the application, leading to a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code with user privileges...

USN-5736-2: ImageMagick vulnerabilities

USN-5736-1 fixed vulnerabilities in ImageMagick. This update provides the corresponding updates for Ubuntu 20.04 ESM and Ubuntu 22.04 ESM. One of the issues, CVE-2021-20224, only affected Ubuntu 20.04 ESM, while CVE-2021-20245, CVE-2021-3574, CVE-2021-4219 and CVE-2022-1114 only affected Ubuntu...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 LTS : ImageMagick vulnerabilities (USN-5736-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5736-1 advisory. It was discovered that ImageMagick incorrectly handled certain values when processing PDF files. If a user or automated system using...

USN-5737-1: APR-util vulnerability

It was discovered that APR-util did not properly handle memory when using SDBM database files. A local attacker with write access to the database can make a program or process using these functions crash, and cause a denial of service...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM : APR-util vulnerability (USN-5737-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-5737-1 advisory. It was discovered that APR-util did not properly handle memory when using SDBM database files. A local attacker with write access to the database can make a progr...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM : Sysstat vulnerability (USN-5735-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-5735-1 advisory. It was discovered that Sysstat did not properly check bounds when perfoming certain arithmetic operations on 32 bit systems. An attacker could possibly use this...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : Expat vulnerability (USN-5638-3)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-5638-3 advisory. USN-5638-1 fixed a vulnerability in Expat. This update provides the corresponding updates for Ubuntu 16.04 ESM, Ubuntu 18.04...

USN-5735-1: Sysstat vulnerability

It was discovered that Sysstat did not properly check bounds when perfoming certain arithmetic operations on 32 bit systems. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a crash or arbitrary code execution...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : FLAC vulnerabilities (USN-5733-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5733-1 advisory. It was discovered that FLAC was not properly performing memory management operations, which could result in a memory...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-5686-2)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM : Git vulnerability (USN-5686-2)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-5686-2 advisory. USN-5686-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in Git. This update provides the corresponding fix for CVE-2022-39260 on Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. Tenable has extracted the...

USN-5686-2: Git vulnerability

USN-5686-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in Git. This update provides the corresponding fix for CVE-2022-39260 on Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. Original advisory details: Kevin Backhouse discovered that Git incorrectly handled certain command strings. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a cras...