Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM : OpenLDAP vulnerability (USN-6197-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-6197-1 advisory. It was discovered that OpenLDAP was not properly performing bounds checks when executing functions related to LDAP URLs. An attacker could possibly us...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM : GNU Screen vulnerability (USN-6198-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-6198-1 advisory. It was discovered that GNU Screen was not properly checking user identifiers before sending certain signals to target processes. If GNU Screen was...

USN-6191-1: Linux kernel regression

USN-6081-1, USN-6084-1, USN-6092-1 and USN-6095-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel. Unfortunately, that update introduced a spurious warning in the IPv6 subsystem. This update removes the undesired warning message...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM : OpenSSL vulnerability (USN-6188-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-6188-1 advisory. Matt Caswell discovered that OpenSSL incorrectly handled certain ASN.1 object identifiers. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause OpenSSL to...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM / 20.04 LTS : pngcheck vulnerabilities (USN-6182-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM / 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6182-1 advisory. It was discovered that pngcheck incorrectly handled certain inputs. If a user or an automated system were tricked into opening a...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM / 20.04 ESM / 22.04 ESM : VLC media player vulnerabilities (USN-6180-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM / 20.04 ESM / 22.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6180-1 advisory. It was discovered that VLC could be made to read out of bounds when decoding image files. If a user were tricked into...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-6083-2)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 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-6083-2: cups-filters vulnerability

USN-6083-1 fixed a vulnerability in cups-filters. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. Original advisory details: It was discovered that cups-filters incorrectly handled the beh CUPS backend. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause the backend to st...

USN-6177-1: Jettison vulnerabilities

It was discovered that Jettison incorrectly handled certain inputs. If a user or an automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted input file, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service...

USN-6167-1: QEMU vulnerabilities

It was discovered that QEMU did not properly manage the guest drivers when shared buffers are not allocated. A malicious guest driver could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubunt...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : PyPDF2 vulnerability (USN-6176-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-6176-1 advisory. It was discovered that PyPDF2 incorrectly handled certain PDF files. If a user or automated system were tricked into processin...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.04 : QEMU vulnerabilities (USN-6167-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.04 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6167-1 advisory. It was discovered that QEMU did not properly manage the guest drivers when shared buffers are not allocated. ...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM : cups-filters vulnerability (USN-6083-2)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-6083-2 advisory. USN-6083-1 fixed a vulnerability in cups-filters. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. Tenable has extracted the preceding...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : Jettison vulnerabilities (USN-6177-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6177-1 advisory. It was discovered that Jettison incorrectly handled certain inputs. If a user or an automated system were tricked int...

USN-6169-1: GNU SASL vulnerability

It was discovered that GNU SASL's GSSAPI server could make an out-of-bounds reads if given specially crafted GSS-API authentication data. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or to expose sensitive information...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 ESM : pano13 vulnerabilities (USN-6163-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6163-1 advisory. It was discovered that pano13 did not properly validate the prefix provided for PTcrop's output. An attacker could us...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-6154-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 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-6142-1: nghttp2 vulnerability

Gal Goldshtein discovered that nghttp2 incorrectly handled certain inputs. If a user or an automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted input file, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.04 : Python vulnerability (USN-6139-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.04 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-6139-1 advisory. Yebo Cao discovered that Python incorrectly handled certain URLs. An attacker could use this issue to bypass...

USN-6128-2: CUPS vulnerability

USN-6128-1 fixed a vulnerability in CUPS. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. Original advisory details: It was discovered that CUPS incorrectly handled logging. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause CUPS to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or...