Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-4530-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 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: Security Advisory (USN-4532-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 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-4530-1: Debian-LAN vulnerabilities

Wolfgang Schweer discovered that Debian-LAN did not properly handle ACLs for the Kerberos admin server. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to change the passwords of other users, leading to root privilege escalation. CVE-2019-3467...

USN-4529-1: FreeImage vulnerabilities

It was discovered that FreeImage incorrectly handled certain memory operations. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted TIFF file, a remote attacker could use this issue to cause a heap buffer overflow, resulting in a denial of service attack. CVE-2019-12211 It was discovered that FreeImage...

USN-4528-1: Ceph vulnerabilities

Adam Mohammed discovered that Ceph incorrectly handled certain CORS ExposeHeader tags. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to preform an HTTP header injection attack. CVE-2020-10753 Lei Cao discovered that Ceph incorrectly handled certain POST requests with invalid tagging XML. A remo...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-4526-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4526-1 advisory. It was discovered that the AMD Cryptographic Coprocessor device driver in the Linux kernel did not properly deallocate memory in some...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-4521-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 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 18.04 LTS : FreeImage vulnerabilities (USN-4529-1)

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4529-1 advisory. It was discovered that FreeImage incorrectly handled certain memory operations. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted TIFF file, a remote attacke...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-4512-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 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-4516-1: GnuPG vulnerability

It was discovered that GnuPG signatures could be forged when the SHA-1 algorithm is being used. This update removes validating signatures based on SHA-1 that were generated after 2019-01-19. In environments where this is still required, a new option --allow-weak-key-signatures can be used to reve...

USN-4512-1: util-linux vulnerability

It was discovered that the umount bash completion script shipped in util-linux incorrectly handled certain mountpoints. If a local attacker were able to create arbitrary mountpoints, another user could be tricked into executing arbitrary code when attempting to run the umount command with bash...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-4502-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 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 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : websocket-extensions vulnerability (USN-4502-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-4502-1 advisory. It was discovered that websocket-extensions does not properly parse special headers. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause regex...

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS : PHPMailer vulnerability (USN-4505-1)

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-4505-1 advisory. Elar Lang discovered that PHPMailer did not properly escape double quote characters in filenames. A remote attacker could possibly exploit this with a crafted...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : libproxy vulnerability (USN-4514-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-4514-1 advisory. It was discovered that libproxy incorrectly handled certain PAC files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of...

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS : GnuPG vulnerability (USN-4516-1)

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-4516-1 advisory. It was discovered that GnuPG signatures could be forged when the SHA-1 algorithm is being used. This update removes validating signatures based on SHA-1 that were...

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS : util-linux vulnerability (USN-4512-1)

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-4512-1 advisory. It was discovered that the umount bash completion script shipped in util-linux incorrectly handled certain mountpoints. If a local attacker were able to create...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : Perl DBI module vulnerability (USN-4503-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-4503-1 advisory. It was discovered that Perl DBI module incorrectly handled certain calls. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. Tenable...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-4504-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 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-4505-1: PHPMailer vulnerability

Elar Lang discovered that PHPMailer did not properly escape double quote characters in filenames. A remote attacker could possibly exploit this with a crafted filename to bypass attachment filters that are based on matching filename extensions. CVE-2020-13625...