USN-3594-1: Linux kernel vulnerability

USN-3542-1 mitigated CVE-2017-5715 Spectre Variant 2 for the amd64 architecture in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. This update provides the compiler-based retpoline kernel mitigation for the amd64 and i386 architectures. Original advisory details: Jann Horn discovered that microprocessors utilizing speculative...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : PostgreSQL vulnerability (USN-3589-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-3589-1 advisory. It was discovered that PostgreSQL incorrectly handled certain settings. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. Tenable h...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : Irssi vulnerabilities (USN-3590-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3590-1 advisory. It was discovered that Irssi incorrectly handled certain empty nick names. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3587-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 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 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : Dovecot vulnerabilities (USN-3587-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3587-1 advisory. It was discovered that Dovecot incorrectly handled parsing certain email addresses. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause Dovecot t...

USN-3587-1: Dovecot vulnerabilities

It was discovered that Dovecot incorrectly handled parsing certain email addresses. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause Dovecot to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly obtain sensitive information. CVE-2017-14461 It was discovered that Dovecot incorrectly handled TLS S...

USN-3575-2: QEMU regression

USN-3575-1 fixed vulnerabilities in QEMU. The fix for CVE-2017-11334 caused a regression in Xen environments. This update removes the problematic fix pending further investigation. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: It was discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled guest...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3586-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 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-3554-1: curl vulnerabilities | Cloud Foundry

Severity Medium Vendor Canonical Ubuntu Versions Affected Canonical Ubuntu 14.04 Description It was discovered that curl incorrectly handled certain data. An attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service or even to get access to sensitive data. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.0...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3584-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 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-3584-1: sensible-utils vulnerability

Gabriel Corona discovered that sensible-utils incorrectly validated strings when launcher a browser with the sensible-browser tool. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue with a specially crafted URL to conduct an argument injection attack and execute arbitrary code...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-3583-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3583-1 advisory. It was discovered that an out-of-bounds write vulnerability existed in the Flash-Friendly File System f2fs in the Linux kernel. An attacker could constru...

USN-3583-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that an out-of-bounds write vulnerability existed in the Flash-Friendly File System f2fs in the Linux kernel. An attacker could construct a malicious file system that, when mounted, could cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2017-0750 It...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Xenial HWE) vulnerabilities (USN-3582-2)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3582-2 advisory. USN-3582-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enableme...

USN-3582-2: Linux kernel (Xenial HWE) vulnerabilities

USN-3582-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Mohamed Ghannam discovered that the IPv4 raw socket implementation in the Linux kernel...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : LibreOffice vulnerability (USN-3579-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-3579-1 advisory. It was discovered that =WEBSERVICE calls in a document could be used to read arbitrary files. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : QEMU vulnerabilities (USN-3575-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3575-1 advisory. It was discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled guest ram. A privileged attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : CUPS vulnerability (USN-3577-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-3577-1 advisory. Jann Horn discovered that CUPS permitted HTTP requests with the Host header set to localhost.localdomain from the loopback interface. If a user were...

USN-3573-1: Quagga vulnerabilities

It was discovered that a double-free vulnerability existed in the Quagga BGP daemon when processing certain forms of UPDATE message. A remote attacker could use this to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2018-5379 It was discovered that the Quagga BGP daemon did not...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : Quagga vulnerabilities (USN-3573-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3573-1 advisory. It was discovered that a double-free vulnerability existed in the Quagga BGP daemon when processing certain forms of UPDATE message. A remote...