Ubuntu 11.10 : thunderbird vulnerabilities (USN-1282-1)

Yosuke Hasegawa discovered that the Mozilla browser engine mishandled invalid sequences in the Shift-JIS encoding. It may be possible to trigger this crash without the use of debugging APIs, which might allow malicious websites to exploit this vulnerability. An attacker could possibly use this fl...

USN-1282-1: Thunderbird vulnerabilities

Yosuke Hasegawa discovered that the Mozilla browser engine mishandled invalid sequences in the Shift-JIS encoding. It may be possible to trigger this crash without the use of debugging APIs, which might allow malicious websites to exploit this vulnerability. An attacker could possibly use this fl...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-1277-2)

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...

USN-1277-2: Mozvoikko and ubufox update

USN-1277-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. This update provides updated Mozvoikko and ubufox packages for use with Firefox 8. Original advisory details: Yosuke Hasegawa discovered that the Mozilla browser engine mishandled invalid sequences in the Shift-JIS encoding. It may be possible to trigg...

Ubuntu 11.10 : linux vulnerability (USN-1275-1)

Peter Huewe discovered an information leak in the handling of reading security-related TPM data. A local, unprivileged user could read the results of a previous TPM command. CVE-2011-1162 Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that taskstats did not enforce access restrictions. A local attacker could exploit...

USN-1275-1: Linux kernel vulnerability

Peter Huewe discovered an information leak in the handling of reading security-related TPM data. A local, unprivileged user could read the results of a previous TPM command. CVE-2011-1162 Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that taskstats did not enforce access restrictions. A local attacker could exploit...

USN-1267-1: FreeType vulnerabilities

It was discovered that FreeType did not correctly handle certain malformed Type 1 font files. If a user were tricked into using a specially crafted font file, a remote attacker could cause FreeType to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code with user privileges. CVE-2011-3256 It was discovered...

Ubuntu 11.04 / 11.10 : system-config-printer vulnerability (USN-1265-1)

Marc Deslauriers discovered that system-config-printer's cupshelpers scripts used by the Ubuntu automatic printer driver download service queried the OpenPrinting database using an insecure connection. If a remote attacker were able to perform a man-in-the-middle attack, this flaw could be...

USN-1266-1: OpenLDAP vulnerability

It was discovered that slapd contained an off-by-one error. An authenticated attacker could potentially exploit this by sending a crafted crafted LDIF entry containing an empty postalAddress...

CVE-2011-4405

The cupshelpers scripts in system-config-printer in Ubuntu 11.04 and 11.10, as used by the automatic printer driver download service, uses an "insecure connection" for queries to the OpenPrinting database, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a man-in-the-middle MITM attack...

Ubuntu 11.10 : lightdm vulnerabilities (USN-1262-1)

It was discovered that Light Display Manager incorrectly handled privileges when reading .dmrc files. A local attacker could exploit this issue to read arbitrary configuration files, bypassing intended permissions. CVE-2011-3153 It was discovered that Light Display Manager incorrectly handled lin...

USN-1262-1: Light Display Manager vulnerabilities

It was discovered that Light Display Manager incorrectly handled privileges when reading .dmrc files. A local attacker could exploit this issue to read arbitrary configuration files, bypassing intended permissions. CVE-2011-3153 It was discovered that Light Display Manager incorrectly handled lin...

USN-1260-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerability

Peter Huewe discovered an information leak in the handling of reading security-related TPM data. A local, unprivileged user could read the results of a previous TPM command. CVE-2011-1162 Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that taskstats did not enforce access restrictions. A local attacker could exploit...

[USN-1247-1] Nova vulnerability

========================================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1247-1 October 25, 2011 nova vulnerability ========================================================================== A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: - Ubun...

CVE-2011-3628

Untrusted search path vulnerability in pammotd aka the MOTD module in libpam-modules before 1.1.3-2ubuntu2.1 on Ubuntu 11.10, before 1.1.2-2ubuntu8.4 on Ubuntu 11.04, before 1.1.1-4ubuntu2.4 on Ubuntu 10.10, before 1.1.1-2ubuntu5.4 on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, and before 0.99.7.1-5ubuntu6.5 on Ubuntu 8.0...

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 10.10 / 11.04 / 11.10 : krb5 vulnerabilities (USN-1233-1)

Nalin Dahyabhai, Andrej Ota and Kyle Moffett discovered a NULL pointer dereference in the KDC LDAP backend. An unauthenticated remote attacker could use this to cause a denial of service. This issue affected Ubuntu 11.10. CVE-2011-1527 Mark Deneen discovered that an assert could be triggered in t...

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS / 10.04 LTS / 10.10 / 11.04 / 11.10 : php5 vulnerabilities (USN-1231-1)

Mateusz Kocielski, Marek Kroemeke and Filip Palian discovered that a stack-based buffer overflow existed in the socketconnect function's handling of long pathnames for AFUNIX sockets. A remote attacker might be able to exploit this to execute arbitrary code; however, the default compiler options...