USN-4890-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities | Cloud Foundry

Severity High Vendor Canonical Ubuntu Versions Affected Canonical Ubuntu 16.04 Description Piotr Krysiuk discovered that the BPF subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly compute a speculative execution limit on pointer arithmetic in some situations. A local attacker could use this to expose...

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS : Linux kernel (OEM) vulnerabilities (USN-4912-1)

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4912-1 advisory. Piotr Krysiuk discovered that the BPF JIT compiler for x86 in the Linux kernel did not properly validate computation of branch displacements in some...

Ubuntu 20.10 : NetworkManager vulnerability (USN-4914-1)

The remote Ubuntu 20.10 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-4914-1 advisory. NetworkManager could be made to crash if it received specially crafted input. Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-4904-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4904-1 advisory. Ben Harris discovered that the Linux kernel would strip extended privilege attributes of files when performing a failed unprivileged system call. A local...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-4907-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4907-1 advisory. Wen Xu discovered that the xfs file system implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly validate the number of extents in an inode. An...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : X.Org X Server vulnerability (USN-4905-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-4905-1 advisory. Jan-Niklas Sohn discovered that the X.Org X Server incorrectly handled certain lengths of XInput extension ChangeFeedbackControl requests...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : Underscore vulnerability (USN-4913-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-4913-1 advisory. It was discovered that Underscore incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to inject arbitrary code...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-4561-2)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 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: Security Advisory (USN-4902-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 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 LTS / 20.04 LTS : Rack vulnerabilities (USN-4561-2)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4561-2 advisory. USN-4561-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Rack. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : Django vulnerability (USN-4902-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-4902-1 advisory. Dennis Brinkrolf discovered that Django incorrectly handled certain filenames. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to create o...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-4899-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 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 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : curl vulnerabilities (USN-4898-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4898-1 advisory. Viktor Szakats discovered that curl did not strip off user credentials from referrer header fields. A remote attacker could...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : OpenEXR vulnerabilities (USN-4900-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4900-1 advisory. It was discovered that OpenEXR incorrectly handled certain malformed EXR image files. If a user were tricked into opening a craft...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : SpamAssassin vulnerability (USN-4899-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-4899-1 advisory. Damian Lukowski discovered that SpamAssassin incorrectly handled certain CF files. If a user or automated system were tricked into using a...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-4895-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 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 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : Squid vulnerabilities (USN-4895-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4895-1 advisory. Alex Rousskov and Amit Klein discovered that Squid incorrectly handled certain Content-Length headers. A remote attacker could...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-4893-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 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 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : Firefox vulnerabilities (USN-4893-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4893-1 advisory. Multiple security issues were discovered in Firefox. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted website, an attacker...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-4888-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 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...