USN-6038-1: Go vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the Go net/http module incorrectly handled Transfer-Encoding headers in the HTTP/1 client. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform an HTTP Request Smuggling attack. CVE-2022-1705 It was discovered that Go did not properly manage memory under certain...

USN-5990-1 musl vulnerabilities

It was discovered that musl did not handle certain i386 math functions properly. An attacker could use this vulnerability to cause a denial of service crash or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM, Ubuntu 16.04 ESM, and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. CVE-2019-14697 It was...

USN-5937-1: Opusfile vulnerability

It was discovered that Opusfile was not properly validating pointer arguments in some of its functions, which could lead to a NULL pointer dereference. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or have other unspecified impacts...

Vulnerabilities fixed in ImageMagick

Several vulnerabilities have been fixed in ImageMagick. A malicious party could potentially exploit the vulnerabilities to cause a denial-of-service or to gain access to sensitive data. To do this, the malicious party must have a specially prepared file to be processed by ImageMagick. Canonical h...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : Long Range ZIP vulnerabilities (USN-5840-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5840-1 advisory. It was discovered that Long Range ZIP incorrectly handled pointers. If a user or an automated system were tricked int...

USN-5745-2 shadow regression

USN-5745-1 fixed vulnerabilities in shadow. Unfortunately that update introduced a regression that caused useradd to behave incorrectly in Ubuntu 14.04 ESM, Ubuntu 16.04 ESM, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. This update reverts the security fix pending further investigation. We apologize fo...

USN-5675-1 heimdal vulnerabilities

Isaac Boukris and Andrew Bartlett discovered that Heimdal's KDC was not properly performing checksum algorithm verifications in the S4U2Self extension module. An attacker could possibly use this issue to perform a machine-in-the-middle attack and request S4U2Self tickets for any user known by the...

USN-5575-1: Libxslt vulnerabilities

Nicolas Grégoire discovered that Libxslt incorrectly handled certain XML. An attacker could possibly use this issue to expose sensitive information or execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. CVE-2019-5815 Alexey Neyman incorrectly handled certain HTML pages. An attacker...

USN-5561-1 epiphany-browser vulnerabilities

It was discovered that GNOME Web incorrectly filtered certain strings. A remote attacker could use this issue to perform cross-site scripting XSS attacks. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. CVE-2021-45085, CVE-2021-45086, CVE-2021-45087 It was discovered that GNOME Web incorrectly handled...

USN-5544-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the Atheros ath9k wireless device driver in the Linux kernel did not properly handle some error conditions, leading to a use-after-free vulnerability. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2022-1679...

USN-5446-1: dpkg vulnerability

Max Justicz discovered that dpkg incorrectly handled unpacking certain source packages. If a user or an automated system were tricked into unpacking a specially crafted source package, a remote attacker could modify files outside the target unpack directory, leading to a denial of service or...

Vulnerabilities fixed in Tomcat for Ubuntu

Vulnerabilities have been fixed in Tomcat. The vulnerabilities potentially allow a malicious party to cause a denial-of-service cause, access sensitive data or execute code execute code with privileges from the vulnerable application. These vulnerabilities have already been described in several...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : curl vulnerability (USN-3765-1)

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-3765-1 advisory. It was discovered that curl incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use this to execute arbitrary code. Tenable has...

Vulnerabilities fixed in Ubuntu kernel

Vulnerabilities have been fixed in the Ubuntu Linux kernel. The vulnerabilities allow a malicious person to carry out attacks execute attacks that lead to the following categories of damage: Denial-of-Service DoS. Remote code execution Administrator/Root rights Access to sensitive data Increased...

USN-5067-1 sssd vulnerabilities

Jakub Hrozek discovered that SSSD incorrectly handled file permissions. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to read the sudo rules available for any user. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. CVE-2018-10852 It was discovered that SSSD incorrectly handled Group Policy Objects. Whe...

USN-4725-1 qemu vulnerabilities

It was discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled memory in iSCSI emulation. An attacker inside the guest could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. CVE-2020-11947 Alexander Bulekov discovered tha...

USN-4504-1 openssl, openssl1.0 vulnerabilities

Robert Merget, Marcus Brinkmann, Nimrod Aviram, and Juraj Somorovsky discovered that certain Diffie-Hellman ciphersuites in the TLS specification and implemented by OpenSSL contained a flaw. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to eavesdrop on encrypted communications. This was fixed i...

USN-4450-1: Whoopsie vulnerabilities

Seong-Joong Kim discovered that Whoopsie incorrectly handled memory. A local attacker could use this issue to cause Whoopsie to consume memory, resulting in a denial of service. CVE-2020-11937 Seong-Joong Kim discovered that Whoopsie incorrectly handled parsing files. A local attacker could use...

USN-4338-2 re2c vulnerability

USN-4338-1 fixed vulnerabilities in re2c. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. Original advisory details: Agostino Sarubbo discovered that re2c incorrectly handled certain files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code...

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...