USN-5048-2 inetutils vulnerability

USN-5048-1 fixed a vulnerability in Inetutils for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding fixes for Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. Original advisory details: It was discovered that Inetutils telnet server allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via short writes ...

USN-5034-2 c-ares vulnerability

USN-5034-1 fixed a vulnerability in c-ares. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. Original advisory details: Philipp Jeitner and Haya Shulman discovered that c-ares incorrectly validated certain hostnames returned by DNS servers. A remote attacker could possibly use...

USN-4967-2: nginx vulnerability

USN-4967-1 fixed a vulnerability in nginx. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and 16.04 ESM. Original advisory details: Luis Merino, Markus Vervier, and Eric Sesterhenn discovered that nginx incorrectly handled responses to the DNS resolver. A remote attacker could...

USN-4967-2 nginx vulnerability

USN-4967-1 fixed a vulnerability in nginx. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and 16.04 ESM. Original advisory details: Luis Merino, Markus Vervier, and Eric Sesterhenn discovered that nginx incorrectly handled responses to the DNS resolver. A remote attacker could...

USN-4843-1 phpmyadmin vulnerabilities

Javier Nieto and Andres Rojas discovered that phpMyAdmin incorrectly managed input in the form of passwords. An attacker could use this vulnerability to cause a denial-of-service DoS. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM. CVE-2014-9218 Emanuel Bronshtein discovered that phpMyAdmin failed to...

USN-4859-1: MediaInfoLib vulnerabilities

It was discovered that MediaInfoLib contained multiple security issues when handling certain multimedia files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted multimedia file, an attacker could cause MediaInfoLib to crash, resulting in a denial of service...

USN-4851-1: Libsolv vulnerabilities

It was discovered that Libsolv incorrectly handled certain malformed input. An attacker could use this issue to cause Libsolv to crash, resulting in a denial of service...

USN-4734-2 wpa vulnerabilities

USN-4734-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in wpasupplicant. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM. It was discovered that wpasupplicant did not properly handle P2P Wi-Fi Direct group information in some situations, leading to a heap overflow. A physically proximate...

USN-4668-4 python-apt vulnerability

USN-4668-1 fixed a vulnerability in python-apt. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM. Original advisory details: Kevin Backhouse discovered that python-apt incorrectly handled resources. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to cause python-apt to consume...

USN-4667-2 apt vulnerability

USN-4667-1 fixed a vulnerability in APT. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM. Original advisory details: Kevin Backhouse discovered that APT incorrectly handled certain packages. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to cause APT to crash or stop responding...

USN-4517-1: Email-Address-List vulnerability

It was discovered that Email-Address-List does not properly parse email addresses during email-ingestion. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause an algorithmic complexity attack, resulting in a denial of service. CVE-2018-18898...

USN-4376-2 openssl vulnerabilities

USN-4376-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in OpenSSL. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM and Ubuntu 14.04 ESM. Original advisory details: Cesar Pereida García, Sohaib ul Hassan, Nicola Tuveri, Iaroslav Gridin, Alejandro Cabrera Aldaya, and Billy Brumley discovered...

USN-4277-1 libexif vulnerabilities

Liu Bingchang discovered that libexif incorrectly handled certain files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to access sensitive information or cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 ESM, Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. CVE-2016-6328 Lili Xu and Bingchang Li...

USN-4167-2 samba vulnerabilities

USN-4167-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in Samba. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM and Ubuntu 14.04 ESM. Original advisory details: Michael Hanselmann discovered that the Samba client code incorrectly handled path separators. If a user were tricked into connecti...

USN-4110-2 dovecot vulnerability

USN-4110-1 fixed a vulnerability in Dovecot. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM and Ubuntu 14.04 ESM. Original advisory details: Nick Roessler and Rafi Rubin discovered that Dovecot incorrectly handled certain data. An attacker could possibly use this issue to caus...

USN-3976-3: Samba regression

USN-3976-1 fixed a vulnerability in Samba. The update introduced a regression causing Samba to occasionally crash. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: Isaac Boukris and Andrew Bartlett discovered that Samba incorrectly checked S4U2Self...

USN-3782-1: Liblouis vulnerabilities

Henri Salo discovered that Liblouis incorrectly handled certain files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. CVE-2018-12085 It was discovered that Liblouis incorrectly handled certain files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. Thi...

USN-3773-1: Ghostscript vulnerabilities

It was discovered that Ghostscript contained multiple security issues. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted file, a remote attacker could possibly use these issues to access arbitrary files, execute arbitrary code, or cause a denial of service...

USN-3762-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the VirtIO subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly initialize memory in some situations. A local attacker could use this to possibly expose sensitive information kernel memory. CVE-2018-1118 Seunghun Han discovered an information leak in the ACPI handling code in the...

USN-3047-2: QEMU regression

USN-3047-1 fixed vulnerabilities in QEMU. The patch to fix CVE-2016-5403 caused a regression which resulted in save/restore failures when virtio memory balloon statistics are enabled. This update temporarily reverts the security fix for CVE-2016-5403 pending further investigation. We apologize fo...