Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-1214-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2011 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 11.04 : linux vulnerabilities (USN-1211-1)

It was discovered that the /proc filesystem did not correctly handle permission changes when programs executed. A local attacker could hold open files to examine details about programs running with higher privileges, potentially increasing the chances of exploiting additional vulnerabilities...

USN-1212-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities

Goldwyn Rodrigues discovered that the OCFS2 filesystem did not correctly clear memory when writing certain file holes. A local attacker could exploit this to read uninitialized data from the disk, leading to a loss of privacy. CVE-2011-0463 Timo Warns discovered that the LDM disk partition handli...

USN-1211-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the /proc filesystem did not correctly handle permission changes when programs executed. A local attacker could hold open files to examine details about programs running with higher privileges, potentially increasing the chances of exploiting additional vulnerabilities...

USN-1209-2: Libav vulnerabilities

It was discovered that Libav incorrectly handled certain malformed ogg files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted ogg file, an attacker could cause a denial of service via application crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program...

Ubuntu Update for librsvg USN-1206-1

Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-1206-1 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN12061.nasl 7964 2017-12-01 07:32:11Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for librsvg USN-1206-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2011 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This...

Ubuntu Update for cups USN-1207-1

Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-1207-1 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN12071.nasl 7964 2017-12-01 07:32:11Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for cups USN-1207-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2011 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This...

Ubuntu Update for quassel USN-1200-1

Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-1200-1 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN12001.nasl 7964 2017-12-01 07:32:11Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for quassel USN-1200-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2011 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This...

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 10.10 / 11.04 : quassel vulnerability (USN-1200-1)

It was discovered that Quassel did not properly handle CTCP requests. A remote attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has...

Ubuntu Update for ca-certificates USN-1197-5

Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-1197-5 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN11975.nasl 7964 2017-12-01 07:32:11Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for ca-certificates USN-1197-5 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2011 Greenbone Networks GmbH,...

Ubuntu 11.04 FTP Client Buffer Overflow

Ubuntu 11 and below ftp client seems to crash when passing large arguments to the "account" command, while a connection is made to any ftp server. Example: Ubuntu 11.04 x86: ================= gdb run 10.0.0.8 Starting program: /usr/bin/ftp 10.0.0.8 Connected to 10.0.0.8. 220 debianita FTP server...

FTP Client (Ubuntu 11.04) - Local Buffer Overflow Crash (PoC)

Ubuntu 11 and below ftp client seems to crash when passing large arguments to the "account" command, while a connection is made to any ftp server. Example: Ubuntu 11.04 x86: ================= gdb run 10.0.0.8 Starting program: /usr/bin/ftp 10.0.0.8 Connected to 10.0.0.8. 220 debianita FTP server...

Ubuntu Update for thunderbird USN-1197-2

Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-1197-2 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN11972.nasl 7964 2017-12-01 07:32:11Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for thunderbird USN-1197-2 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2011 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net...

BackBox Linux 2 released

BackBox Linux 2 released The BackBox team is proud to announce the release of BackBox. Linux 2.BackBox 2 features the following upstream components: Ubuntu 11.04, Linux Kernel 2.6.38 and Xfce 4.8. BackBox is an Ubuntu-based distribution developed to perform penetration tests and security...

USN-1199-1: Apache vulnerability

A flaw was discovered in the byterange filter in Apache. A remote attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service via resource exhaustion...

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 10.10 / 11.04 : firefox, xulrunner-1.9.2 vulnerability (USN-1197-1)

It was discovered that Dutch Certificate Authority DigiNotar had mis-issued multiple fraudulent certificates. These certificates could allow an attacker to perform a 'man in the middle' MITM attack which would make the user believe their connection is secure, but is actually being monitored. For...

Ubuntu Update for ecryptfs-utils USN-1196-1

Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-1196-1 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN11961.nasl 7964 2017-12-01 07:32:11Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for ecryptfs-utils USN-1196-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2011 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.n...

Ubuntu Update for foomatic-filters USN-1194-1

Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-1194-1 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN11941.nasl 7964 2017-12-01 07:32:11Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for foomatic-filters USN-1194-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2011 Greenbone Networks GmbH,...

Ubuntu Update for thunderbird USN-1185-1

Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-1185-1 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN11851.nasl 7964 2017-12-01 07:32:11Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for thunderbird USN-1185-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2011 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net...

Ubuntu Update for linux USN-1193-1

Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-1193-1 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN11931.nasl 7964 2017-12-01 07:32:11Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for linux USN-1193-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2011 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This...