USN-5535-1: Intel Microcode vulnerabilities

Joseph Nuzman discovered that some Intel processors did not properly initialise shared resources. A local attacker could use this to obtain sensitive information. CVE-2021-0145 Mark Ermolov, Dmitry Sklyarov and Maxim Goryachy discovered that some Intel processors did not prevent test and debug...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM : Intel Microcode vulnerabilities (USN-5535-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5535-1 advisory. Joseph Nuzman discovered that some Intel processors did not properly initialise shared resources. A local attacker could use this to obtain sensitive...

USN-5533-1: Vim vulnerability

It was discovered that Vim incorrectly handled memory access. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted file, an attacker could possibly use this issue to cause the corruption of sensitive information, a crash, or arbitrary code execution...

USN-5532-2: Bottle vulnerability

USN-5532-1 fixed a vulnerability in Bottle. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM Original advisory details: It was discovered that Bottle incorrectly handled errors during early request binding. An attacker could possibly use this issue to disclo...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM : ImageMagick vulnerabilities (USN-5534-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5534-1 advisory. It was discovered that ImageMagick incorrectly handled certain values. If a user were tricked into processing a specially crafted image file, an attacker...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM : Vim vulnerability (USN-5533-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-5533-1 advisory. It was discovered that Vim incorrectly handled memory access. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted file, an attacker could possibly use this...

USN-5527-2: Checkmk vulnerabilities

USN-5527-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Checkmk. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. Original advisory details: It was discovered that Checkmk incorrectly handled authentication. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a race condition leading to information...

USN-5523-1: LibTIFF vulnerabilities

It was discovered that LibTIFF was not properly performing checks to guarantee that allocated memory space existed, which could lead to a NULL pointer dereference via a specially crafted file. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. CVE-2022-0907, CVE-2022-0908 It...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM : LibTIFF vulnerabilities (USN-5523-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5523-1 advisory. It was discovered that LibTIFF was not properly performing checks to guarantee that allocated memory space existed, which could lead to a NULL pointer...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM : HTTP-Daemon vulnerability (USN-5520-2)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-5520-2 advisory. USN-5520-1 fixed a vulnerability in HTTP-Daemon. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. Tenable has extracted th...

USN-5521-1: containerd vulnerabilities

It was discovered that containerd insufficiently restricted permissions on container root and plugin directories. If a user or automated system were tricked into launching a specially crafted container image, a remote attacker could traverse directory contents and modify files and execute program...

USN-5519-1: Python vulnerability

It was discovered that Python incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM : Vim vulnerabilities (USN-5516-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5516-1 advisory. It was discovered that Vim incorrectly handled memory access. An attacker could potentially use this issue to cause the corruption of sensitive...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-5515-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5515-1 advisory. Eric Biederman discovered that the cgroup process migration implementation in the Linux kernel did not perform permission checks correctly in...

USN-5516-1: Vim vulnerabilities

It was discovered that Vim incorrectly handled memory access. An attacker could potentially use this issue to cause the corruption of sensitive information, a crash, or arbitrary code execution...

USN-5473-2: ca-certificates update

USN-5473-1 updated ca-certificates. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. Original advisory details: The ca-certificates package contained outdated CA certificates. This update refreshes the included certificates to those contained in the 2.50 version of the Mozilla...

USN-5510-2: X.Org X Server vulnerabilities

USN-5510-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in X.Org. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. Original advisory details: Jan-Niklas Sohn discovered that the X.Org X Server incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could use this issue to cause the server to crash,...

USN-5503-2: GnuPG vulnerability

USN-5503-1 fixed a vulnerability in GnuPG. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. Original advisory details: Demi Marie Obenour discovered that GnuPG incorrectly handled injection in the status message. A remote attacker could possibly use this...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM : GnuPG vulnerability (USN-5503-2)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-5503-2 advisory. USN-5503-1 fixed a vulnerability in GnuPG. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. Tenable has extracted the...

USN-5220-1: Composer vulnerability

It was discovered that Composer did not properly sanitize URLs for Mercurial repositories in the root composer.json and package source download URLs. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code...