Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM / 20.04 ESM : Sympa vulnerabilities (USN-4442-2)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM / 20.04 ESM host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4442-2 advisory. USN-4442-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Sympa. This update provides the corresponding updates for Ubuntu 16.04 ESM, Ubuntu 18.04 ESM...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM : musl vulnerabilities (USN-4768-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4768-1 advisory. It was discovered that musl did not properly handle kernel syscalls. An attacker could use this vulnerability to cause a denial of service crash or...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM : Smarty vulnerabilities (USN-5348-2)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5348-2 advisory. USN-5348-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in Smarty. This update provides the fixes for CVE-2021-21408, CVE-2021-26119, CVE-2021-26120 and CVE-2021-29454...

Ubuntu 20.04 ESM : Tar for Node.js vulnerability (USN-5283-1)

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 ESM host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-5283-1 advisory. It was discovered that Tar for Node.js did not properly sanitize path inputs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to read arbitrary files, resulting in a...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM : mpg123 vulnerability (USN-4806-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4806-1 advisory. It was discovered that mpg123 failed to handle certain malformed mp3 files. An attacker could use this vulnerability to potentially leak sensitive...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM : VNC4 vulnerabilities (USN-4772-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4772-1 advisory. USN-2500-1 addressed CVE-2015-0255 for xorg-server. This update provides the corresponding fix for VNC4 on Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM : R vulnerability (USN-4799-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-4799-1 advisory. It was discovered that a buffer overflow in R causes memory corruption. An attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM : FFmpeg vulnerabilities (USN-5167-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5167-1 advisory. It was discovered that FFmpeg did not properly verify certain input when processing video and audio files. An attacker could possibly use this to send...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM : Apache Log4j 1.2 vulnerability (USN-5223-2)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-5223-2 advisory. USN-5223-1 fixed a vulnerability in Apache Log4j 1.2. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. Tenable has extracted the preceding...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-6440-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6440-1 advisory. Seth Jenkins discovered that the Linux kernel did not properly perform address randomization for a per-cpu memory management structure. A loc...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM : BWA vulnerability (USN-4857-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-4857-1 advisory. It was discovered that Burrows-Wheeler Aligner BWA mishandled certain crafted .alt files. An attacker could use this vulnerability to cause a denial of service...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-6439-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6439-1 advisory. It was discovered that the IPv6 implementation in the Linux kernel contained a high rate of hash collisions in connection lookup table. A remote attacker...

Ubuntu 18.04 ESM : VCFtools vulnerabilities (USN-4835-1)

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 ESM host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4835-1 advisory. It was discovered that VCFtools improperly handled certain input. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted input file, VCFtools could be made to cra...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM : HTCondor vulnerabilities (USN-4771-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4771-1 advisory. It was discovered that HTCondor incorrectly invoked the mailx utility. An attacker could use this vulnerability to execute arbitrary commands. This issue...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM : Salt vulnerabilities (USN-4769-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4769-1 advisory. It was discovered that Salt allowed remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a special crafted file. An attacker could use this vulnerability to...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM : Apache Tomcat 7 vulnerabilities (USN-4791-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4791-1 advisory. It was discovered that Apache Tomcat 7 did not protect applications from the presence of untrusted client data in an environment variable. A remote...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM : game-music-emu vulnerability (USN-4816-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-4816-1 advisory. It was discovered that game-music-emu mishandled certain crafted input. A remote attacker could use this vulnerability to cause game-music-emu to crash. Tenable h...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM : LibASS vulnerabilities (USN-4797-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4797-1 advisory. It was discovered that LibASS incorrectly handled certain ASS files. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. One of...

Ubuntu 20.04 ESM : LibBPF vulnerabilities (USN-5759-2)

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5759-2 advisory. USN-5759-1 fixed vulnerabilities in LibBPF. This update provides the corresponding updates for Ubuntu 20.04 ESM. Tenable has extracted the preceding...

USN-6440-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Seth Jenkins discovered that the Linux kernel did not properly perform address randomization for a per-cpu memory management structure. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information kernel memory or in conjunction with another kernel vulnerability. CVE-2023-0597 It was discovere...