USN-605-1: Thunderbird vulnerabilities

Various flaws were discovered in the JavaScript engine. If a user had JavaScript enabled and were tricked into opening a malicious email, an attacker could escalate privileges within Thunderbird, perform cross-site scripting attacks and/or execute arbitrary code with the user's privileges...

USN-603-1: poppler vulnerability

It was discovered that the poppler PDF library did not correctly handle certain malformed embedded fonts. If a user or an automated system were tricked into opening a malicious PDF, a remote attacker could execute arbitrary code with user privileges...

[USN-601-1] Squid vulnerability

=========================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-601-1 April 14, 2008 squid vulnerability CVE-2008-1612 =========================================================== A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases: Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Ubuntu 6.10 Ubuntu 7.04...

USN-599-1: Ghostscript vulnerability

Chris Evans discovered that Ghostscript contained a buffer overflow in its color space handling code. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a crafted Postscript file, an attacker could cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code with privileges of the user invoking the...

USN-593-1: Dovecot vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the default configuration of dovecot could allow access to any email files with group "mail" without verifying that a user had valid rights. An attacker able to create symlinks in their mail directory could exploit this to read or delete another user's email. CVE-2008-1199 ...

USN-589-1: unzip vulnerability

Tavis Ormandy discovered that unzip did not correctly clean up pointers. If a user or automated service was tricked into processing a specially crafted ZIP archive, a remote attacker could execute arbitrary code with user privileges...

Code injection

The TFTP dissector in Wireshark formerly Ethereal 0.6.0 through 0.99.7, when running on Ubuntu 7.10, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash or memory consumption via a malformed packet, possibly related to a Cairo library bug...

CVE-2008-1072

The TFTP dissector in Wireshark formerly Ethereal 0.6.0 through 0.99.7, when running on Ubuntu 7.10, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash or memory consumption via a malformed packet, possibly related to a Cairo library bug...

DEBIAN-CVE-2008-1072

The TFTP dissector in Wireshark formerly Ethereal 0.6.0 through 0.99.7, when running on Ubuntu 7.10, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash or memory consumption via a malformed packet, possibly related to a Cairo library bug...

CVE-2008-1072

The CVE-2008-1072 entry concerns the TFTP dissector in Wireshark (Ethereal) versions 0.6.0–0.99.7 running on Ubuntu 7.10. A malformed TFTP packet can cause a denial of service, either crashing the process or causing memory consumption, with a possible link to a Cairo library bug. The connected Ne...

CVE-2008-1072

The TFTP dissector in Wireshark formerly Ethereal 0.6.0 through 0.99.7, when running on Ubuntu 7.10, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash or memory consumption via a malformed packet, possibly related to a Cairo library bug...

CVE-2008-1072: Undefined Security Weakness

The TFTP dissector in Wireshark formerly Ethereal 0.6.0 through 0.99.7, when running on Ubuntu 7.10, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash or memory consumption via a malformed packet, possibly related to a Cairo library bug...

USN-579-1: Qt vulnerability

It was discovered that QSslSocket did not properly verify SSL certificates. A remote attacker may be able to trick applications using QSslSocket into accepting invalid SSL certificates...

USN-573-1: PulseAudio vulnerability

It was discovered that PulseAudio did not properly drop privileges when running as a daemon. Local users may be able to exploit this and gain privileges. The default Ubuntu configuration is not affected...

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 6.10 / 7.04 / 7.10 : boost vulnerabilities (USN-570-1)

Will Drewry and Tavis Ormandy discovered that the boost library did not properly perform input validation on regular expressions. An attacker could send a specially crafted regular expression to an application linked against boost and cause a denial of service via application crash. Note that...

[USN-570-1] boost vulnerabilities

=========================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-570-1 January 16, 2008 boost vulnerabilities CVE-2008-0171, CVE-2008-0172 =========================================================== A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases: Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Ubun...

USN-567-1: Dovecot vulnerability

It was discovered that in very rare configurations using LDAP, Dovecot may reuse cached connections for users with the same password. As a result, a user may be able to login as another if the connection is reused. The default Ubuntu configuration of Dovecot was not vulnerable...

USN-566-1: OpenSSH vulnerability

Jan Pechanec discovered that ssh would forward trusted X11 cookies when untrusted cookie generation failed. This could lead to unintended privileges being forwarded to a remote host...

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 6.10 / 7.04 / 7.10 : libcairo vulnerability (USN-550-1)

Peter Valchev discovered that Cairo did not correctly decode PNG image data. By tricking a user or automated system into processing a specially crafted PNG with Cairo, a remote attacker could execute arbitrary code with user privileges. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the precedi...

Ubuntu 7.10 : pidgin vulnerability (USN-548-1)

It was discovered that Pidgin did not correctly handle certain logging events. A remote attacker could send specially crafted messages and cause the application to crash, leading to a denial of service. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from...