USN-3734-1: OpenJDK 8 vulnerability

It was discovered that the PatternSyntaxException class in OpenJDK did not properly validate arguments passed to it. An attacker could use this to possibly construct a class that caused a denial of service excessive memory consumption...

Linux Kernel 4.14.7 (Ubuntu 16.04 / CentOS 7) Arbitrary File Read

// A proof-of-concept exploit for CVE-2017-18344. // Includes KASLR and SMEP bypasses. No SMAP bypass. // No support for 1 GB pages or 5 level page tables. // Tested on Ubuntu xenial 4.4.0-116-generic and 4.13.0-38-generic // and on CentOS 7 3.10.0-862.9.1.el7.x8664. // // gcc pwn.c -o pwn // // ...

Linux Kernel 4.14.7 (Ubuntu 16.04 CentOS 7) - (KASLR SMEP Bypass) Arbitrary File Read

Linux Kernel 4.14.7 Ubuntu 16.04 CentOS 7 - KASLR SMEP Bypass Arbitrary File Read // A proof-of-concept exploit for CVE-2017-18344. // Includes KASLR and SMEP bypasses. No SMAP bypass. // No support for 1 GB pages or 5 level page tables. // Tested on Ubuntu xenial 4.4.0-116-generic and...

Linux Kernel 4.14.7 (Ubuntu 16.04 / CentOS 7) - (KASLR & SMEP Bypass) Arbitrary File Read

// A proof-of-concept exploit for CVE-2017-18344. // Includes KASLR and SMEP bypasses. No SMAP bypass. // No support for 1 GB pages or 5 level page tables. // Tested on Ubuntu xenial 4.4.0-116-generic and 4.13.0-38-generic // and on CentOS 7 3.10.0-862.9.1.el7.x8664. // // gcc pwn.c -o pwn // // ...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel (HWE) vulnerability (USN-3732-2)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-3732-2 advisory. USN-3732-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : libxcursor vulnerability (USN-3729-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-3729-1 advisory. It was discovered that libxcursor incorrectly handled certain files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. Tenable h...

USN-3732-2: Linux kernel (HWE) vulnerability

USN-3732-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 18.04 LTS for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. Juha-Matti Tilli discovered that the TCP implementation in the Linux kernel performed...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : libmspack vulnerabilities (USN-3728-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3728-1 advisory. Hanno Bck discovered that libmspack incorrectly handled certain CHM files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : MySQL vulnerabilities (USN-3725-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3725-1 advisory. Multiple security issues were discovered in MySQL and this update includes new upstream MySQL versions to fix these issues. MySQL...

USN-3728-1: libmspack vulnerabilities

Hanno Böck discovered that libmspack incorrectly handled certain CHM files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. CVE-2018-14679, CVE-2018-14680 Jakub Wilk discovered that libmspack incorrectly handled certain KWAJ files. An attacker could possibly use this issue...

CVE-2016-8625

curl before version 7.51.0 uses outdated IDNA 2003 standard to handle International Domain Names and this may lead users to potentially and unknowingly issue network transfer requests to the wrong host...

USN-3725-1: MySQL vulnerabilities

Multiple security issues were discovered in MySQL and this update includes new upstream MySQL versions to fix these issues. MySQL has been updated to 5.5.61 in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS have been updated to MySQL 5.7.23. In addition to security fixes, the updated...

USN-3725-1 mysql-5.5, mysql-5.7 vulnerabilities

Multiple security issues were discovered in MySQL and this update includes new upstream MySQL versions to fix these issues. MySQL has been updated to 5.5.61 in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS have been updated to MySQL 5.7.23. In addition to security fixes, the updated...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : ClamAV regression (USN-3722-3)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-3722-3 advisory. USN-3722-1 fixed vulnerabilities in ClamAV. The updated ClamAV version removed some configuration options which caused the daemon to fail ...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : Evolution Data Server vulnerability (USN-3724-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-3724-1 advisory. Jon Kristensen discovered that Evolution Data Server would automatically downgrade a connection to an IMAP server if the IMAP server did not support...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3718-2)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 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-3718-2: Linux kernel (HWE) regression

USN-3695-2 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux Hardware Enablement Kernel HWE kernel for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. Unfortunately, the fix for CVE-2018-1108 introduced a regression where insufficient early entropy prevented services from starting, leading in some situations to a failure to boot, This updat...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : dns-root-data update (USN-3715-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-3715-1 advisory. This update adds the latest DNSSEC validation trust anchor required for the upcoming Root Zone KSK Rollover and refreshes the list of root hints. Tenable has...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Dnsmasq update (USN-3716-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-3716-1 advisory. This update adds the latest DNSSEC validation trust anchor required for the upcoming Root Zone KSK Rollover. Tenable has extracted the preceding description block...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : libpng vulnerabilities (USN-3712-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3712-1 advisory. Patrick Keshishian discovered that libpng incorrectly handled certain PNG files. An attacker could possibly use this to cause a...