Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3012-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 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-2994-1 libxml2 vulnerabilities | Cloud Foundry

USN-2994-1 libxml2 vulnerabilities Medium Vendor GNOME XML library, Canonical Ubuntu Versions Affected Canonical Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Description Multiple researchers discovered that libxml2 incorrectly handled certain malformed documents. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a...

USN-2981-1 libarchive vulnerabilities | Cloud Foundry

USN-2981-1 libarchive vulnerabilities Medium Vendor Libarchive, Canonical Ubuntu Versions Affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Description It was discovered that libarchive incorrectly handled certain entry-size values in ZIP archives. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause libarchive to crash,...

USN-2983-1 Expat vulnerability | Cloud Foundry

USN-2983-1 Expat vulnerability Medium Vendor Expat, Canonical Ubuntu Versions Affected Canonical Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Description Gustavo Grieco discovered that Expat incorrectly handled malformed XML data. If a user or application linked against Expat were tricked into opening a crafted XML file, an...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2999-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 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-3000-1: Linux kernel (Utopic HWE) vulnerabilities

Justin Yackoski discovered that the Atheros L2 Ethernet Driver in the Linux kernel incorrectly enables scatter/gather I/O. A remote attacker could use this to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory. CVE-2016-2117 Jann Horn discovered that eCryptfs improperly attempted to use...

USN-2999-1: Linux kernel vulnerability

Jann Horn discovered that eCryptfs improperly attempted to use the mmap handler of a lower filesystem that did not implement one, causing a recursive page fault to occur. A local unprivileged attacker could use to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code with...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : Firefox vulnerabilities (USN-2993-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2993-1 advisory. Christian Holler, Gary Kwong, Jesse Ruderman, Tyson Smith, Timothy Nikkel, Sylvestre Ledru, Julian Seward, Olli Pettay, Karl Tomlinson,...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Xenial HWE) vulnerabilities (USN-3005-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3005-1 advisory. Justin Yackoski discovered that the Atheros L2 Ethernet Driver in the Linux kernel incorrectly enables scatter/gather I/O. A remote attacker could use th...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerability (USN-2999-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-2999-1 advisory. Jann Horn discovered that eCryptfs improperly attempted to use the mmap handler of a lower filesystem that did not implement one, causing a recursive page fault t...

USN-2989-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Justin Yackoski discovered that the Atheros L2 Ethernet Driver in the Linux kernel incorrectly enables scatter/gather I/O. A remote attacker could use this to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory. CVE-2016-2117 Jason A. Donenfeld discovered multiple out-of-bounds reads in t...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-2989-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2989-1 advisory. Justin Yackoski discovered that the Atheros L2 Ethernet Driver in the Linux kernel incorrectly enables scatter/gather I/O. A remote attacker could use th...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2987-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 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 : GNU C Library regression (USN-2985-2)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-2985-2 advisory. USN-2985-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the GNU C Library. The fix for CVE-2014-9761 introduced a regression which affected applications that use the libm library but...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : GNU C Library vulnerabilities (USN-2985-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2985-1 advisory. Martin Carpenter discovered that ptchown in the GNU C Library did not properly check permissions for tty files. A local attacker could use this to gain...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : PHP vulnerabilities (USN-2984-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2984-1 advisory. It was discovered that the PHP Fileinfo component incorrectly handled certain magic files. An attacker could use this issue to cause PHP to...

CVE-2015-8879

The odbcbindcols function in ext/odbc/phpodbc.c in PHP before 5.6.12 mishandles driver behavior for SQLWVARCHAR columns, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service application crash in opportunistic circumstances by leveraging use of the odbcfetcharray function to access a certain...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : Thunderbird vulnerabilities (USN-2973-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2973-1 advisory. Christian Holler, Tyson Smith, and Phil Ringalda discovered multiple memory safety issues in Thunderbird. If a user were tricked in to openin...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : Firefox regression (USN-2936-3)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-2936-3 advisory. USN-2936-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. The update caused an issue where a device update POST request was sent every time about:preferencessync w...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : Oxide vulnerabilities (USN-2960-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2960-1 advisory. An out of bounds write was discovered in Blink. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potential...