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 5.10 / 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 : libgtop2 vulnerability (USN-407-1)

Liu Qishuai discovered a buffer overflow in the /proc parsing routines in libgtop. By creating and running a process in a specially crafted long path and tricking an user into running gnome-system-monitor, an attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary code with the user's privileges. Note...

Ubuntu 5.04 / 6.06 LTS : openoffice.org-amd64, openoffice.org vulnerabilities (USN-313-1)

It was possible to embed Basic macros in documents in a way that OpenOffice.org would not ask for confirmation about executing them. By tricking a user into opening a malicious document, this could be exploited to run arbitrary Basic code including local file access and modification with the user...

Ubuntu 5.04 / 5.10 : linux-source-2.6.10, linux-source-2.6.12 vulnerability (USN-319-2)

USN-319-1 fixed a Linux kernel vulnerability in Ubuntu 6.06 LTS. This followup advisory provides the corresponding updates for Ubuntu 5.04 and 5.10. For reference, these are the details of the original USN : A race condition has been discovered in the file permission handling of the /proc file...

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 : 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 5.10 / 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 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 5.04 / 5.10 : binutils vulnerability (USN-336-1)

A buffer overflow was discovered in gas the GNU assembler. By tricking an user or automated system like a compile farm into assembling a specially crafted source file with gcc or gas, this could be exploited to execute arbitrary code with the user's privileges. Note that Tenable Network Security...

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...

Ubuntu 5.04 / 5.10 / 6.06 LTS : imagemagick vulnerability (USN-337-1)

Damian Put discovered a buffer overflow in imagemagick's SGI file format decoder. By tricking an user or automated system into processing a specially crafted SGI image, this could be exploited to execute arbitrary code with the user's privileges. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted t...

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 6.10 : libnet-dns-perl vulnerabilities (USN-483-1)

Peter Johannes Holzer discovered that the Net::DNS Perl module had predictable sequence numbers. This could allow remote attackers to carry out DNS spoofing, leading to possible man-in-the-middle attacks. CVE-2007-3377 Steffen Ullrich discovered that the Net::DNS Perl module did not correctly...

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 6.10 / 7.04 / 7.10 : dhcp vulnerability (USN-531-1)

Nahuel Riva and Gerardo Richarte discovered that the DHCP server did not correctly handle certain client options. A remote attacker could send malicious DHCP replies to the server and execute arbitrary code. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly...

USN-416-2: nvidia-glx-config regression

USN-416-1 fixed various vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel. Unfortunately that update caused the 'nvidia-glx-config' script to not work any more. The new version fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience...

USN-417-3: PostgreSQL regression

USN-417-2 fixed a severe regression in the PostgreSQL server that was introduced in USN-417-1 and caused some valid queries to be aborted with a type error. This update fixes a similar but much less prominent error. At the same time, PostgreSQL is updated to version 8.1.8, which fixes a range of...

USN-398-3: Firefox theme regression

USN-398-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. Due to the updated version, a flaw was uncovered in the Firefox Themes bundle, which erroneously reported to be incompatible with the updated Firefox. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience...

USN-376-2: imlib2 regression fix

USN-376-1 provided an update to imlib2 to fix several security vulnerabilities. Unfortunately the update broke JPG file handling in certain situations. This update corrects this problem. We apologize for the inconvenience...