Ubuntu 5.04 / 5.10 / 6.06 LTS : imagemagick vulnerabilities (USN-340-1)

Tavis Ormandy discovered several buffer overflows in imagemagick's Sun Raster and XCF Gimp image decoders. By tricking a user or automated system into processing a specially crafted image, this could be exploited to execute arbitrary code with the users' privileges. Note that Tenable Network...

Ubuntu 5.04 / 5.10 / 6.06 LTS : linux-source-2.6.10/-2.6.12/-2.6.15 vulnerabilities (USN-311-1)

A race condition was discovered in the doaddcounters functions. Processes which do not run with full root privileges, but have the CAPNETADMIN capability can exploit this to crash the machine or read a random piece of kernel memory. In Ubuntu there are no packages that are affected by this, so th...

Ubuntu 5.10 / 6.06 LTS / 6.10 : libpng vulnerability (USN-383-1)

Tavis Ormandy discovered that libpng did not correctly calculate the size of sPLT structures when reading an image. By tricking a user or an automated system into processing a specially crafted PNG file, an attacker could exploit this weakness to crash the application using the library. Note that...

Ubuntu 5.04 / 5.10 / 6.06 LTS : php4, php5 vulnerabilities (USN-342-1)

The sscanf function did not properly check array boundaries. In applications which use sscanf with argument swapping, a remote attacker could potentially exploit this to crash the affected web application or even execute arbitrary code with the application's privileges. CVE-2006-4020 The fileexis...

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 6.10 / 7.04 : libapache2-mod-perl2 vulnerability (USN-488-1)

Alex Solovey discovered that modperl did not correctly validate certain regular expression matches. A remote attacker could send a specially crafted request to a web application using modperl, causing the web server to monopolize CPU resources. This could lead to a remote denial of service. Note...

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 6.10 / 7.04 : dovecot vulnerability (USN-487-1)

It was discovered that Dovecot, when configured to use non-system-user spools and compressed folders, would allow directory traversals in mailbox names. Remote authenticated users could potentially read email owned by other users. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding...

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS : mysql-dfsg-5.0 vulnerabilities (USN-338-1)

Dmitri Lenev discovered that arguments of setuid SQL functions were evaluated in the security context of the functions' definer instead of its caller. An authenticated user with the privilege to call such a function could exploit this to execute arbitrary statements with the privileges of the...

Ubuntu 6.10 : postgresql-8.1 vulnerabilities (USN-369-2)

USN-369-1 fixed three minor PostgreSQL 8.1 vulnerabilities for Ubuntu 6.06 LTS. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 6.10. Michael Fuhr discovered an incorrect type check when handling unknown literals. By attempting to coerce such a literal to the ANYARRAY type, a local...

Ubuntu 5.04 / 5.10 / 6.06 LTS : heartbeat vulnerability (USN-326-1)

Yan Rong Ge discovered that heartbeat did not set proper permissions for an allocated shared memory segment. A local attacker could exploit this to render the heartbeat service unavailable Denial of Service. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly...

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 6.10 / 7.04 : vim vulnerability (USN-505-1)

Ulf Harnhammar discovered that vim does not properly sanitise the 'helptagsone' function when running the 'helptags' command. By tricking a user into running a crafted help file, a remote attacker could execute arbitrary code with the user's privileges. Note that Tenable Network Security has...

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 6.10 / 7.04 : php5 vulnerabilities (USN-485-1)

It was discovered that the PHP xmlrpc extension did not correctly check heap memory allocation sizes. A remote attacker could send a specially crafted request to a PHP application using xmlrpc and execute arbitrary code as the Apache user. CVE-2007-1864 Stefan Esser discovered a flaw in the rando...

Ubuntu 5.10 / 6.06 LTS / 6.10 : firefox vulnerability (USN-443-1)

A flaw was discovered in how Firefox handled PASV FTP responses. If a user were tricked into visiting a malicious FTP server, a remote attacker could perform a port-scan of machines within the user's network, leading to private information disclosure. Note that Tenable Network Security has...

Ubuntu 5.10 : mysql-dfsg-4.1 vulnerability (USN-306-1)

MySQL did not correctly handle NULL as the second argument to the strtodate function. An authenticated user could exploit this to crash the server. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to...

Ubuntu 5.10 / 6.06 LTS / 6.10 : xine-lib vulnerability (USN-435-1)

Moritz Jodeit discovered that the DirectShow loader of Xine did not correctly validate the size of an allocated buffer. By tricking a user into opening a specially crafted media file, an attacker could execute arbitrary code with the user's privileges. Note that Tenable Network Security has...

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 6.10 : squid vulnerabilities (USN-414-1)

David Duncan Ross Palmer and Henrik Nordstrom discovered that squid incorrectly handled special characters in FTP URLs. Remote users with access to squid could crash the server leading to a denial of service. CVE-2007-0247 Erick Dantas Rotole and Henrik Nordstrom discovered that squid could end u...

Ubuntu 5.04 / 5.10 / 6.06 LTS : gzip vulnerabilities (USN-349-1)

Tavis Ormandy discovered that gzip did not sufficiently verify the validity of gzip or compress archives while unpacking. By tricking an user or automated system into unpacking a specially crafted compressed file, this could be exploited to execute arbitrary code with the user's privileges. Note...

Ubuntu 5.04 / 5.10 / 6.06 LTS : gnutls11, gnutls12 vulnerability (USN-348-1)

The GnuTLS library did not sufficiently check the padding of PKCS 1 v1.5 signatures if the exponent of the public key is 3 which is widely used for CAs. This could be exploited to forge signatures without the need of the secret key. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding...

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 6.10 / 7.04 : openoffice.org(2)/-amd64 vulnerability (USN-482-1)

John Heasman discovered that OpenOffice did not correctly validate the sizes of tags in RTF documents. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted document, a remote attacker could execute arbitrary code with user privileges. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the...

Ubuntu 5.10 / 6.06 LTS / 6.10 : ekiga, gnomemeeting vulnerabilities (USN-426-1)

Mu Security discovered a format string vulnerability in Ekiga. If a user was running Ekiga and listening for incoming calls, a remote attacker could send a crafted call request, and execute arbitrary code with the user's privileges. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding...

Ubuntu 5.04 / 5.10 / 6.06 LTS : qt-x11-free vulnerability (USN-368-1)

An integer overflow was discovered in Qt's image loader. By processing a specially crafted image with an application that uses this library like Konqueror, a remote attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary code with the application's privileges. Note that Tenable Network Security has...