USN-3347-2: Libgcrypt vulnerability

USN-3347-1 fixed a vulnerability in Libgcrypt. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM. Original advisory details: Daniel J. Bernstein, Joachim Breitner, Daniel Genkin, Leon Groot Bruinderink, Nadia Heninger, Tanja Lange, Christine van Vredendaal, and Yuval Yarom...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : eglibc vulnerability (USN-3323-2) (Stack Clash)

USN-3323-1 fixed a vulnerability in the GNU C Library. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM. It was discovered that the GNU C library did not properly handle memory when processing environment variables for setuid programs. A local attacker could use this in...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux-lts-trusty vulnerabilities (USN-3343-2)

USN 3343-1 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. USN 3335-2 fixed a vulnerability in the Linux kernel. However, that fix introduced...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux regression (USN-3338-2) (Stack Clash)

USN-3338-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel. However, the fix for CVE-2017-1000364 introduced regressions for some Java applications. This update addresses the issue. We apologize for the inconvenience. It was discovered that the stack guard page for processes in the Linux kernel was not...

USN-3323-2: GNU C Library vulnerability

USN-3323-1 fixed a vulnerability in the GNU C Library. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM. Original advisory details: It was discovered that the GNU C library did not properly handle memory when processing environment variables for setuid programs. A local attacker...

USN-3338-2: Linux kernel regression

USN-3338-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel. However, the fix for CVE-2017-1000364 introduced regressions for some Java applications. This update addresses the issue. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: It was discovered that the stack guard page for processes ...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux-lts-trusty vulnerability (USN-3335-2)

USN-3335-1 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 the stack guard page for processes in the Linux kernel was not...

USN-3335-2: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerability

USN-3335-1 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 the stack guard page for processes in the Linux kernel was not...

USN-3338-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the stack guard page for processes in the Linux kernel was not sufficiently large enough to prevent overlapping with the heap. An attacker could leverage this with another vulnerability to execute arbitrary code and gain administrative privileges CVE-2017-1000364 Jesse Hert...

USN-3311-2: libnl vulnerability

USN-3311-1 fixed a vulnerability in libnl. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM. Original advisory details: It was discovered that libnl incorrectly handled memory when performing certain operations. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to cause libnl to...

USN-3296-2: Samba vulnerability

USN-3296-1 fixed a vulnerability in Samba. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM. Original advisory details: It was discovered that Samba incorrectly handled shared libraries. A remote attacker could use this flaw to upload a shared library to a writable share and...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : rtmpdump vulnerabilities (USN-3283-2)

Dave McDaniel discovered that rtmpdump incorrectly handled certain malformed streams. If a user were tricked into processing a specially crafted stream, a remote attacker could cause rtmpdump to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. Note that Tenable Network...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : FreeType vulnerabilities (USN-3282-2)

It was discovered that FreeType did not correctly handle certain malformed font files. If a user were tricked into using a specially crafted font file, a remote attacker could cause FreeType to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. Note that Tenable Network...

USN-3282-2: FreeType vulnerabilities

It was discovered that FreeType did not correctly handle certain malformed font files. If a user were tricked into using a specially crafted font file, a remote attacker could cause FreeType to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3264-2)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 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 12.04 LTS : linux-lts-trusty vulnerability (USN-3264-2)

USN-3264-1 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 LTS. Alexander Popov discovered that a race condition existed in the Stream Control...

USN-3264-2: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerability

USN-3264-1 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 LTS. Alexander Popov discovered that a race condition existed in the Stream Control...

CVE-2016-0727

The crontab script in the ntp package before 1:4.2.6.p3+dfsg-1ubuntu3.11 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, before 1:4.2.6.p5+dfsg-3ubuntu2.14.04.10 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, on Ubuntu Wily, and before 1:4.2.8p4+dfsg-3ubuntu5.3 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS allows local users with access to the ntp account to write to...

CVE-2016-0727

The crontab script in the ntp package before 1:4.2.6.p3+dfsg-1ubuntu3.11 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, before 1:4.2.6.p5+dfsg-3ubuntu2.14.04.10 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, on Ubuntu Wily, and before 1:4.2.8p4+dfsg-3ubuntu5.3 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS allows local users with access to the ntp account to write to...

CVE-2016-0727

The crontab script in the ntp package before 1:4.2.6.p3+dfsg-1ubuntu3.11 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, before 1:4.2.6.p5+dfsg-3ubuntu2.14.04.10 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, on Ubuntu Wily, and before 1:4.2.8p4+dfsg-3ubuntu5.3 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS allows local users with access to the ntp account to write to...