USN-2384-1: MySQL vulnerabilities

Multiple security issues were discovered in MySQL and this update includes a new upstream MySQL version to fix these issues. MySQL has been updated to 5.5.40. In addition to security fixes, the updated packages contain bug fixes, new features, and possibly incompatible changes. Please see the...

USN-2373-1: Thunderbird vulnerabilities

Bobby Holley, Christian Holler, David Bolter, Byron Campen and Jon Coppeard discovered multiple memory safety issues in Thunderbird. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted message with scripting enabled, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service vi...

[USN-2383-1] wpa_supplicant vulnerability

========================================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2383-1 October 14, 2014 wpa, wpasupplicant vulnerability ========================================================================== A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2383-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2014 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 : Firefox vulnerabilities (USN-2372-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2372-1 advisory. Bobby Holley, Christian Holler, David Bolter, Byron Campen, Jon Coppeard, Carsten Book, Martijn Wargers, Shih-Chiang Chien, Terrence Cole and Jeff Walden...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : wpa_supplicant vulnerability (USN-2383-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-2383-1 advisory. Jouni Malinen discovered that the wpacli tool incorrectly sanitized strings when being used with action scripts. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue t...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Oxide vulnerabilities (USN-2345-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2345-1 advisory. Multiple use-after-free issues were discovered in Blink. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2382-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2014 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-2382-1] Requests vulnerabilities

========================================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2382-1 October 14, 2014 requests vulnerabilities ========================================================================== A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: ...

USN-2345-1: Oxide vulnerabilities

Multiple use-after-free issues were discovered in Blink. 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 renderer crash, or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the sandboxed render process...

[USN-2379-1] Linux kernel vulnerabilities

========================================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2379-1 October 09, 2014 linux vulnerabilities ========================================================================== A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: -...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-2379-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2379-1 advisory. Steven Vittitoe reported multiple stack buffer overflows in Linux kernel's magicmouse HID driver. A physically proximate attacker could exploit this flaw...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Rsyslog vulnerabilities (USN-2381-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2381-1 advisory. It was discovered that Rsyslog incorrectly handled invalid PRI values. An attacker could use this issue to send malformed messages to the Rsyslog server...

USN-2380-1: Bash vulnerabilities

Michal Zalewski discovered that Bash incorrectly handled parsing certain function definitions. If an attacker were able to create an environment variable containing a function definition with a very specific name, these issues could possibly be used to bypass certain environment restrictions and...

USN-2379-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Steven Vittitoe reported multiple stack buffer overflows in Linux kernel's magicmouse HID driver. A physically proximate attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code via specially crafted devices. CVE-2014-3181 Ben Hawkes reported...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Exuberant Ctags vulnerability (USN-2371-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-2371-1 advisory. It was discovered that Exuberant Ctags incorrectly handled certain minified js files. An attacker could use this issue to possibly cause Exuberant Ctags to consum...

USN-2371-1: Exuberant Ctags vulnerability

It was discovered that Exuberant Ctags incorrectly handled certain minified js files. An attacker could use this issue to possibly cause Exuberant Ctags to consume resources, resulting in a denial of service...

USN-2370-1: APT vulnerability

Guillem Jover discovered that APT incorrectly created a temporary file when handling the changelog command. A local attacker could use this issue to overwrite arbitrary files. In the default installation of Ubuntu, this should be prevented by the kernel link restrictions...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : file vulnerability (USN-2369-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-2369-1 advisory. It was discovered that file incorrectly handled certain CDF documents. A attacker could use this issue to cause file to hang or crash, resulting in a denial of...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : libvirt vulnerabilities (USN-2366-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2366-1 advisory. Daniel P. Berrange and Richard Jones discovered that libvirt incorrectly handled XML documents containing XML external entity declarations. An attacker...