Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 8.04 LTS / 8.10 / 9.04 / 9.10 : linux, linux-source-2.6.15 vulnerabilities (USN-894-1)

Amerigo Wang and Eric Sesterhenn discovered that the HFS and ext4 filesystems did not correctly check certain disk structures. If a user were tricked into mounting a specially crafted filesystem, a remote attacker could crash the system or gain root privileges. CVE-2009-4020, CVE-2009-4308 It was...

Ubuntu Update for lintian vulnerabilities USN-891-1

Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-891-1 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN8911.nasl 7965 2017-12-01 07:38:25Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for lintian vulnerabilities USN-891-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2010 Greenbone Networks GmbH,...

Ubuntu Update for dhcp3 vulnerability USN-803-2

Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-803-2 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN8032.nasl 7965 2017-12-01 07:38:25Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for dhcp3 vulnerability USN-803-2 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2010 Greenbone Networks GmbH,...

Ubuntu Update for python-xml vulnerabilities USN-890-4

Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-890-4 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN8904.nasl 7965 2017-12-01 07:38:25Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for python-xml vulnerabilities USN-890-4 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2010 Greenbone Networks GmbH,...

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 8.04 LTS / 8.10 / 9.04 / 9.10 : fuse vulnerability (USN-892-1)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that FUSE did not correctly check mount locations. A local attacker, with access to use FUSE, could unmount arbitrary locations, leading to a denial of service. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-892-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2010 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-803-2)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2010 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-890-3)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2010 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 6.06 LTS / 8.04 LTS / 8.10 / 9.04 / 9.10 : gzip vulnerabilities (USN-889-1)

It was discovered that gzip incorrectly handled certain malformed compressed files. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted gzip file, an attacker could cause gzip to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program...

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 8.04 LTS / 8.10 / 9.04 / 9.10 : expat vulnerabilities (USN-890-1)

Jukka Taimisto, Tero Rontti and Rauli Kaksonen discovered that Expat did not properly process malformed XML. If a user or application linked against Expat were tricked into opening a crafted XML file, an attacker could cause a denial of service via application crash. CVE-2009-2625, CVE-2009-3720 ...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-887-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2010 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-883-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2010 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-885-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2010 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-881-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2010 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...

USN-886-1: Pidgin vulnerabilities

It was discovered that Pidgin did not properly handle certain topic messages in the IRC protocol handler. If a user were tricked into connecting to a malicious IRC server, an attacker could cause Pidgin to crash, leading to a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, Ubuntu 8.1...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-877-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2010 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 8.04 LTS / 8.10 / 9.04 / 9.10 : transmission vulnerabilities (USN-885-1)

It was discovered that the Transmission web interface was vulnerable to cross-site request forgery CSRF attacks. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted web page in a browser while Transmission was running, an attacker could trigger commands in Transmission. This issue affected...

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 8.04 LTS / 8.10 / 9.04 / 9.10 : openssl vulnerability (USN-884-1)

It was discovered that OpenSSL did not correctly free unused memory in certain situations. A remote attacker could trigger this flaw in services that used SSL, causing the service to use all available system memory, leading to a denial of service. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted...

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS / 8.10 / 9.04 / 9.10 : gimp vulnerabilities (USN-880-1)

Stefan Cornelius discovered that GIMP did not correctly handle certain malformed BMP files. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted BMP file, an attacker could execute arbitrary code with the user's privileges. CVE-2009-1570 Stefan Cornelius discovered that GIMP did not correctly...

Ubuntu USN-873-1 (xulrunner-1.9)

The remote host is missing an update to xulrunner-1.9 announced via advisory USN-873-1. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: ubuntu8731.nasl 7969 2017-12-01 09:23:16Z santu $ $Id: ubuntu8731.nasl 7969 2017-12-01 09:23:16Z santu $ Description: Auto-generated from advisory USN-873-1 xulrunner-1.9 Author...