USN-3624-2: Patch vulnerabilities

USN-3624-1 fixed a vulnerability in Patch. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM. Original advisory details: It was discovered that Patch incorrectly handled certain files. An attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service. CVE-2016-10713 It was...

USN-3587-2: Dovecot vulnerabilities

USN-3587-1 fixed a vulnerability in Dovecot. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM. Original advisory details: It was discovered that Dovecot incorrectly handled parsing certain email addresses. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause Dovecot to crash, resulti...

USN-3595-2: Samba vulnerability

USN-3595-1 fix a vulnerability in Samba. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM. Original advisory details: It was discovered that Samba incorrectly validated inputs to the RPC spoolss service. An authenticated attacker could use this issue to cause the service to cras...

USN-3603-2: Paramiko vulnerability

USN-3603-1 fixed a vulnerability in Paramiko. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM. Original advisory details: Matthijs Kooijman discovered that Paramiko's SSH server implementation did not properly require authentication before processing requests. An unauthenticate...

USN-3592-2: ClamAV vulnerabilities

USN-3592-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in ClamAV. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM. Original advisory details: It was discovered that ClamAV incorrectly handled parsing certain PDF files. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause ClamAV to crash, resultin...

USN-3583-2: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerabilities

USN-3583-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 14.04 LTS for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM. It was discovered that an out-of-bounds write vulnerability existed in the...

USN-3580-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Jann Horn discovered that microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and branch prediction may allow unauthorized memory reads via sidechannel attacks. This flaw is known as Spectre. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information, including kernel memory...

USN-3574-1: Bind vulnerability

It was discovered that Bind incorrectly handled DNSSEC validation. An attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service...

USN-3550-2: ClamAV vulnerabilities

USN-3550-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in ClamAV. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM. Original advisory details: It was discovered that ClamAV incorrectly handled parsing certain mail messages. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause ClamAV to crash,...

USN-3556-2: Dovecot vulnerabilities

USN-3556-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Dovecot. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM. It was discovered that Dovecot incorrectly handled certain authentications. An attacker could possibly use this to bypass authentication and access sensitive information. CVE-2013-6171...

USN-3555-2: w3m vulnerabilities

USN-3555-2 fixed vulnerabilities in w3m. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM. Original advisory details: It was discovered that w3m incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service. CVE-2018-6196, CVE-2018-6197 It...

USN-3554-2: curl vulnerability

USN-3554-1 fixed vulnerabilities in curl. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM. Original advisory details: It was discovered that curl could accidentally leak authentication data. An attacker could possibly use this to get access to sensitive information...

USN-3537-2: MySQL vulnerabilities

USN-3537-1 fixed vulnerabilities in MySQL. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM. Original advisory details: Multiple security issues were discovered in MySQL and this update includes new upstream MySQL versions to fix these issues. MySQL has been updated to 5.5.59 in...

USN-3543-2: rsync vulnerabilities

USN-3543-1 fixed vulnerabilities in rsync. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM. Original advisory details: It was discovered that rsync incorrectly handled certain data input. An attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code...

USN-3542-2: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerabilities

USN-3542-1 addressed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 14.04 LTS for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM. Jann Horn discovered that microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and bran...

USN-3535-2: Bind vulnerability

USN-3535-1 fixed a vulnerability in Bind. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM. Original advisory details: Jayachandran Palanisamy discovered that the Bind resolver incorrectly handled fetch cleanup sequencing. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause...

USN-3536-1: GNU C Library vulnerability

It was discovered that the GNU C library did not properly handle all of the possible return values from the kernel getcwd2 syscall. A local attacker could potentially exploit this to execute arbitrary code in setuid programs and gain administrative privileges. CVE-2018-1000001...

USN-3525-1: Linux kernel vulnerability

Jann Horn discovered that microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and indirect branch prediction may allow unauthorized memory reads via sidechannel attacks. This flaw is known as Meltdown. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information, including kernel memory...

USN-3524-2: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerability

USN-3524-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 14.04 LTS for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM. Jann Horn discovered that microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and indirect...

USN-3430-3: Dnsmasq regression

USN-3430-2 fixed several vulnerabilities. The update introduced a new regression that breaks DNS resolution. This update addresses the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: Felix Wilhelm, Fermin J. Serna, Gabriel Campana and Kevin Hamacher discovered that Dnsmasq...