Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Vivid HWE) vulnerabilities (USN-2842-2)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2842-2 advisory. Jan Beulich discovered that the KVM svm hypervisor implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly catch Debug exceptions on AMD processors. An...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Utopic HWE) vulnerabilities (USN-2844-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2844-1 advisory. Jan Beulich discovered that the KVM svm hypervisor implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly catch Debug exceptions on AMD processors. An...

USN-2839-1: CUPS update

As a security improvement against the POODLE attack, this update disables SSLv3 support in the CUPS web interface. For legacy environments where SSLv3 support is still required, it can be re-enabled by adding "SSLOptions AllowSSL3" to /etc/cups/cupsd.conf...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : GRUB vulnerability (USN-2836-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-2836-1 advisory. Hector Marco and Ismael Ripoll discovered that GRUB incorrectly handled the backspace key when configured to use authentication. A local attacker could use this...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Firefox vulnerabilities (USN-2833-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2833-1 advisory. Andrei Vaida, Jesse Ruderman, Bob Clary, Christian Holler, Jesse Ruderman, Eric Rahm, Robert Kaiser, Harald Kirschner, and Michael Henretty discovered...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Bind vulnerability (USN-2837-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-2837-1 advisory. It was discovered that Bind incorrectly handled responses with malformed class attributes. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause Bind to crash, resultin...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Git vulnerability (USN-2835-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-2835-1 advisory. Blake Burkhart discovered that the Git git-remote-ext helper incorrectly handled recursive clones of git repositories. A remote attacker could possibly use this...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : libxml2 vulnerabilities (USN-2834-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2834-1 advisory. Kostya Serebryany discovered that libxml2 incorrectly handled certain malformed documents. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a...

USN-2825-1: Oxide vulnerabilities

Multiple use-after-free bugs were discovered in the application cache implementation in Chromium. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code with the...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : OpenSSL vulnerabilities (USN-2830-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2830-1 advisory. Guy Leaver discovered that OpenSSL incorrectly handled a ServerKeyExchange for an anonymous DH ciphersuite with the value of p set to 0. A remote attacke...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : cups-filters vulnerability (USN-2831-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-2831-1 advisory. Michal Kowalczyk discovered that the cups-filters foomatic-rip filter incorrectly stripped shell escape characters. A remote attacker could possibly use this issu...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : libsndfile vulnerabilities (USN-2832-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2832-1 advisory. It was discovered that libsndfile incorrectly handled memory when parsing malformed files. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause libsndfile to...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2831-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 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-2832-1 libsndfile vulnerabilities

It was discovered that libsndfile incorrectly handled memory when parsing malformed files. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause libsndfile to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. CVE-2014-9496 Joshua Rogers discovere...

USN-2829-2: Linux kernel (Vivid HWE) vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the SCTP protocol implementation in the Linux kernel performed an incorrect sequence of protocol-initialization steps. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2015-5283 Dmitry Vyukov discovered that the Linux kernel's keyring handler...

USN-2820-1 GnuTLS vulnerability | Cloud Foundry

USN-2820-1 GnuTLS vulnerability High Vendor GnuTLS Versions Affected Ubuntu 14.04 Description It was discovered that GnuTLS incorrectly validated the first byte of padding in CBC modes. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform a padding oracle attack. The Cloud Foundry project...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2828-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 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 : QEMU vulnerabilities (USN-2828-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2828-1 advisory. Jason Wang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the virtio-net device. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause guest network consumption,...

USN-2828-1: QEMU vulnerabilities

Jason Wang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the virtio-net device. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause guest network consumption, resulting in a denial of service. CVE-2015-7295 Qinghao Tang and Ling Liu discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the pcnet driver when used in...

Gnome Nautilus 3.16 Denial Of Service Vulnerability

Gnome Nautilus version 3.16 suffers from a denial of service vulnerability. Exploit Title: Gnome Nautilus Denial of Service Discovery Date: 2015/10/27 Public Disclosure Date: 2015/12/01 Exploit Author: Panagiotis Vagenas Contact: https://twitter.com/panVagenas Vendor Homepage:...