USN-4216-2 firefox vulnerabilities

USN-4216-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. Original advisory details: Multiple security issues were discovered in Firefox. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : QEMU vulnerabilities (USN-4191-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4191-1 advisory. It was discovered that the LSI SCSI adapter emulator implementation in QEMU did not properly validate executed scripts. A local attacker coul...

USN-4107-1 giflib vulnerabilities

It was discovered that GIFLIB incorrectly handled certain GIF files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. CVE-2016-3977 It was discovered that GIFLIB incorrectly handled certain GIF files. An attacker could possibly use...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : Ghostscript vulnerabilities (USN-3768-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3768-1 advisory. Tavis Ormandy discovered multiple security issues in Ghostscript. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a...

USN-3741-3 linux regressions

USN-3741-1 introduced mitigations in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS to address L1 Terminal Fault L1TF vulnerabilities CVE-2018-3620, CVE-2018-3646. Unfortunately, the update introduced regressions that caused kernel panics when booting in some environments as well as preventing Java...

USN-3744-1 postgresql-10, postgresql-9.3, postgresql-9.5 vulnerabilities

Andrew Krasichkov discovered that the PostgreSQL client library incorrectly reset its internal state between connections. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass certain client-side connection security features. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : Tomcat vulnerabilities (USN-3519-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3519-1 advisory. It was discovered that Tomcat incorrectly handled certain pipelined requests when sendfile was used. A remote attacker could use this issue t...

USN-3404-2 linux-hwe vulnerability

USN-3404-1 fixed a vulnerability in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 17.04. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 17.04 for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. A reference count bug was discovered in the Linux kernel ipx protocol stack. A local attacker...

USN-3385-2 linux-lts-xenial vulnerabilities

USN-3385-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Andrey Konovalov discovered a race condition in the UDP Fragmentation Offload UFO code...

USN-3256-2 linux-hwe, linux-lts-trusty, linux-lts-xenial vulnerability

USN-3256-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 16.10. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel for each of the respective prior Ubuntu LTS releases. Andrey Konovalov discovered that the...

USN-3177-1 tomcat6, tomcat7, tomcat8 vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the Tomcat realm implementations incorrectly handled passwords when a username didn't exist. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to enumerate usernames. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. CVE-2016-0762 Alvaro Muno...

USN-3116-1: DBus vulnerabilities | Cloud Foundry

USN-3116-1: DBus vulnerabilities Medium Vendor Canonical Ubuntu Versions Affected Canonical Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Description It was discovered that DBus incorrectly validated the source of Activation Failure signals. A local attacker could use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only...

USN-3146-2 linux-lts-xenial vulnerabilities

USN-3146-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. It was discovered that the getuserasmex implementation in the Linux kernel for x86/x86...

USN-3099-2 linux-lts-xenial vulnerabilities

USN-3099-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Vladimír Beneš discovered an unbounded recursion in the VLAN and TEB Generic Receive...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : WebKitGTK+ vulnerabilities (USN-2937-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2937-1 advisory. A large number of security issues were discovered in the WebKitGTK+ Web and JavaScript engines. If a user were tricked into viewing a malicious website, ...

USN-2910-2 linux-lts-vivid regression

USN-2910-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Ubuntu 15.04 Linux kernel backported to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. An incorrect locking fix caused a regression that broke graphics displays for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS guests running the Ubuntu 15.04 backport kernel within VMWare virtual machines. This update fixes the...

USN-2906-1 cpio vulnerabilities

Alexander Cherepanov discovered that GNU cpio incorrectly handled symbolic links when used with the --no-absolute-filenames option. If a user or automated system were tricked into extracting a specially-crafted cpio archive, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to write arbitrary files...

USN-2810-1 krb5 vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the Kerberos kpasswd service incorrectly handled certain UDP packets. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause resource consumption, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. CVE-2002-2443 It was discovered that Kerberos...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : audiofile vulnerability (USN-2787-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-2787-1 advisory. Fabrizio Gennari discovered that audiofile incorrectly handled changing both the sample format and the number of channels. If a user or automated system were...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Spice vulnerability (USN-2736-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-2736-1 advisory. Frediano Ziglio discovered that Spice incorrectly handled monitor configs. A malicious guest could use this issue to cause a denial of service, or possibly execut...