[USN-2522-1] ICU vulnerabilities

========================================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2522-1 March 05, 2015 icu vulnerabilities ========================================================================== A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: - Ubunt...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : ICU vulnerabilities (USN-2522-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2522-1 advisory. It was discovered that ICU incorrectly handled memory operations when processing fonts. If an application using ICU processed crafted data, an attacker...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Thunderbird vulnerabilities (USN-2506-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2506-1 advisory. Armin Razmdjou discovered that contents of locally readable files could be made available via manipulation of form autocomplete in some circumstances. If...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2506-1)

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 : Linux kernel vulnerability regression (USN-2516-2)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-2516-2 advisory. USN-2516-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel. There was an unrelated regression in the use of the virtual counter CNTVCT on arm64 architectures. This upda...

USN-2516-2: Linux kernel vulnerability regression

USN-2516-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel. There was an unrelated regression in the use of the virtual counter CNTVCT on arm64 architectures. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: A flaw was discovered in the Kernel Virtual...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Utopic HWE) vulnerabilities (USN-2517-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2517-1 advisory. A flaw was discovered in the Kernel Virtual Machine's KVM emulation of the SYSTENTER instruction when the guest OS does not initialize the SYSENTER MSRs....

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-2516-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2516-1 advisory. A flaw was discovered in the Kernel Virtual Machine's KVM emulation of the SYSTENTER instruction when the guest OS does not initialize the SYSENTER MSRs....

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : CUPS vulnerability (USN-2520-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-2520-1 advisory. Peter De Wachter discovered that CUPS incorrectly handled certain malformed compressed raster files. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause CUPS to crash...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : GNU C Library vulnerabilities (USN-2519-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2519-1 advisory. Arnaud Le Blanc discovered that the GNU C Library incorrectly handled file descriptors when resolving DNS queries under high load. This may cause a denia...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Firefox vulnerabilities (USN-2505-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2505-1 advisory. Matthew Noorenberghe discovered that Mozilla domains in the allowlist could make UITour API calls from background tabs. If one of these domains were...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : FreeType vulnerabilities (USN-2510-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2510-1 advisory. Mateusz Jurczyk discovered that FreeType did not correctly handle certain malformed font files. If a user were tricked into using a specially crafted fon...

USN-2510-1: FreeType vulnerabilities

Mateusz Jurczyk 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 or possibly execute arbitrary code with user privileges...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Samba vulnerability (USN-2508-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-2508-1 advisory. Richard van Eeden discovered that the Samba smbd file services incorrectly handled memory. A remote attacker could use this issue to possibly execute arbitrary co...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : ca-certificates update (USN-2509-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-2509-1 advisory. The ca-certificates package contained outdated CA certificates. This update refreshes the included certificates to those contained in the 20141019 package. Tenabl...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : e2fsprogs vulnerabilities (USN-2507-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2507-1 advisory. Jose Duart discovered that e2fsprogs incorrectly handled invalid block group descriptor data. A local attacker could use this issue with a crafted...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : NSS update (USN-2504-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-2504-1 advisory. The NSS package contained outdated CA certificates. This update refreshes the NSS package to version 3.17.4 which includes the latest CA certificate bundle. Tenab...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Bind vulnerability (USN-2503-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-2503-1 advisory. Jan-Piet Mens discovered that Bind incorrectly handled Trust Anchor Management. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause bind to crash, resulting in a deni...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : X.Org X server vulnerabilities (USN-2500-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2500-1 advisory. Olivier Fourdan discovered that the X.Org X server incorrectly handled XkbSetGeometry requests resulting in an information leak. An attacker able to...

USN-2501-1: PHP vulnerabilities

Stefan Esser discovered that PHP incorrectly handled unserializing objects. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause PHP to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2014-8142, CVE-2015-0231 Brian Carpenter discovered that the PHP CGI component...