Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : libyaml-libyaml-perl vulnerability (USN-2461-2)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-2461-2 advisory. Stanisaw Pitucha and Jonathan Gray discovered that libyaml-libyaml-perl did not properly handle wrapped strings. An attacker could create specially crafted YAML...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : LibYAML vulnerability (USN-2461-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-2461-1 advisory. Stanisaw Pitucha and Jonathan Gray discovered that LibYAML did not properly handle wrapped strings. An attacker could create specially crafted YAML data to trigge...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : PyYAML vulnerability (USN-2461-3)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-2461-3 advisory. Stanisaw Pitucha and Jonathan Gray discovered that PyYAML did not properly handle wrapped strings. An attacker could create specially crafted YAML data to trigger...

USN-2461-1: LibYAML vulnerability

Stanisław Pitucha and Jonathan Gray discovered that LibYAML did not properly handle wrapped strings. An attacker could create specially crafted YAML data to trigger an assert, causing a denial of service...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : NSS vulnerability (USN-2452-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-2452-1 advisory. It was discovered that NSS incorrectly handled certain ASN.1 lengths. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform a data-smuggling attack. Tenable...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : bsd-mailx vulnerability (USN-2455-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-2455-1 advisory. It was discovered that bsd-mailx contained a feature that allowed syntactically valid email addresses to be treated as shell commands. A remote attacker could...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : mime-support vulnerability (USN-2453-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-2453-1 advisory. Timothy D. Morgan discovered that the run-mailcap tool incorrectly filtered certain shell metacharacters in filenames. If a user or automated system were tricked...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : strongSwan vulnerability (USN-2450-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-2450-1 advisory. Mike Daskalakis discovered that strongSwan incorrectly handled IKEv2 payloads that contained the Diffie- Hellman group 1025. A remote attacker could use this issu...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : NTP vulnerabilities (USN-2449-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2449-1 advisory. Neel Mehta discovered that NTP generated weak authentication keys. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to brute force the authentication key...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Utopic HWE) regression (USN-2447-2)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-2447-2 advisory. USN-2447-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel. Due to an unrelated regression TCP Throughput drops to zero for several drivers after upgrading. This update...

USN-2447-2: Linux kernel (Utopic HWE) regression

USN-2447-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel. Due to an unrelated regression TCP Throughput drops to zero for several drivers after upgrading. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: An information leak in the Linux kernel was discover...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-2446-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2446-1 advisory. Andy Lutomirski discovered that the Linux kernel does not properly handle faults associated with the Stack Segment SS register in the x86 architecture. A...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : NVIDIA graphics drivers vulnerabilities (USN-2438-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2438-1 advisory. It was discovered that the NVIDIA graphics drivers incorrectly handled GLX indirect rendering support. An attacker able to connect to an X server, either...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Utopic HWE) vulnerabilities (USN-2447-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2447-1 advisory. Andy Lutomirski discovered that the Linux kernel does not properly handle faults associated with the Stack Segment SS register in the x86 architecture. A...

USN-2439-1: QEMU vulnerabilities

Michael S. Tsirkin discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled certain parameters during ram load while performing a migration. An attacker able to manipulate savevm data could use this issue to possibly execute arbitrary code on the host. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS,...

[USN-2435-1] Graphviz vulnerability

========================================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2435-1 December 09, 2014 graphviz vulnerability ========================================================================== A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: -...

[USN-2438-1] NVIDIA graphics drivers vulnerabilities

========================================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2438-1 December 10, 2014 nvidia-graphics-drivers-304, nvidia-graphics-drivers-304-updates, nvidia-graphics-drivers-331, nvidia-graphics-drivers-331-updates vulnerabilities...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : X.Org X server vulnerabilities (USN-2436-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2436-1 advisory. Ilja van Sprundel discovered a multitude of security issues in the X.Org X server. An attacker able to connect to an X server, either locally or remotely...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : X.Org X server vulnerabilities (USN-2436-2)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-2436-2 advisory. USN-2436-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the X.Org X server. Since publication, additional fixes have been made available for these issues. This update adds the...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Bind vulnerability (USN-2437-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-2437-1 advisory. Florian Maury discovered that Bind incorrectly handled delegation. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Bind to consume resources and crash,...