USN-2743-2: Ubufox update

USN-2743-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubufox. Original advisory details: Andrew Osmond, Olli Pettay, Andrew Sutherland, Christian Holler, David Major, Andrew McCreight, Cameron McCormack, Bob Clary and Randell Jesup discovered multiple memo...

USN-2743-1: Firefox vulnerabilities

Andrew Osmond, Olli Pettay, Andrew Sutherland, Christian Holler, David Major, Andrew McCreight, Cameron McCormack, Bob Clary and Randell Jesup discovered multiple memory safety issues in Firefox. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially explo...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Unity Settings Daemon vulnerability (USN-2741-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-2741-1 advisory. It was discovered that the Unity Settings Daemon incorrectly allowed removable media to be mounted when the screen is locked. If a vulnerability were discovered i...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : ICU vulnerabilities (USN-2740-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2740-1 advisory. Atte Kettunen discovered that ICU incorrectly handled certain converter names. If an application using ICU processed crafted data, a remote attacker coul...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : OpenLDAP vulnerabilities (USN-2742-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2742-1 advisory. Denis Andzakovic discovered that OpenLDAP incorrectly handled certain BER data. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause OpenLDAP to cras...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : FreeType vulnerabilities (USN-2739-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-2739-1 advisory. 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...

USN-2737-1: Linux kernel (Vivid HWE) vulnerability

It was discovered that an integer overflow error existed in the SCSI generic sg driver in the Linux kernel. A local attacker with write permission to a SCSI generic device could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or potentially escalate their privileges...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Vivid HWE) vulnerability (USN-2737-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-2737-1 advisory. It was discovered that an integer overflow error existed in the SCSI generic sg driver in the Linux kernel. A local attacker with write permission to a SCSI gener...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Oxide vulnerabilities (USN-2735-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2735-1 advisory. It was discovered that the DOM tree could be corrupted during parsing in some circumstances. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted...

USN-2694-1 PCRE Vulnerabilities | Cloud Foundry

USN-2694-1 PCRE Vulnerabilities Medium Vendor Perl 5 Versions Affected Ubuntu 14.04 Description Michele Spagnuolo discovered that PCRE incorrectly handled certain regular expressions. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause applications using PCRE to crash, resulting in a denial of servic...

USN-2698-1 SQLite Vulnerabilities | Cloud Foundry

USN-2698-1 SQLite Vulnerabilities Medium Vendor SQLite Versions Affected Ubuntu 14.04 Description It was discovered that SQLite incorrectly handled skip-scan optimization. An attacker could use this issue to cause applications using SQLite to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly...

Wireshark <= 1.12.4 - Memory Corruption and Access Violation

Date of Testing: 26th April'2015 Vendor Homepage: http://www.wireshark.org Tested On : ubuntu 14.04 Steps to Reproduce the Crash Step 1: Create a File Using PoC Step 2: Go to wirehshark and in filter field, put ip.addr==Buffer Step 3: Click "Apply" Some other places for the Crash are: Statistics ...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : libvdpau vulnerabilities (USN-2729-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2729-1 advisory. Florian Weimer discovered that libvdpau incorrectly handled certain environment variables. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to gain...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2734-1)

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-2734-1: Linux kernel vulnerability

It was discovered that an integer overflow error existed in the SCSI generic sg driver in the Linux kernel. A local attacker with write permission to a SCSI generic device could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or potentially escalate their privileges...

USN-2730-1: OpenSLP vulnerabilities

Georgi Geshev discovered that OpenSLP incorrectly handled processing certain service requests. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause OpenSLP to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. CVE-2012-4428 Qinghao Tang...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Bind vulnerability (USN-2728-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-2728-1 advisory. Hanno Bck discovered that Bind incorrectly handled certain malformed keys when configured to perform DNSSEC validation. A remote attacker could use this issue wit...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Expat vulnerability (USN-2726-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-2726-1 advisory. It was discovered that Expat incorrectly handled malformed XML data. If a user or application linked against Expat were tricked into opening a crafted XML file, a...

[USN-2724-1] QEMU vulnerabilities

========================================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2724-1 August 27, 2015 qemu, qemu-kvm vulnerabilities ========================================================================== A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Firefox vulnerabilities (USN-2723-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2723-1 advisory. A use-after-free was discovered when resizing a canvas element during restyling in some circumstances. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially...