[USN-612-1] OpenSSL vulnerability

=========================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-612-1 May 13, 2008 openssl vulnerability CVE-2008-0166 =========================================================== A weakness has been discovered in the random number generator used by OpenSSL on Debian and...

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 7.04 / 7.10 / 8.04 LTS : speex vulnerability (USN-611-1)

It was discovered that Speex did not properly validate its input when processing Speex file headers. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted Speex file, an attacker could create a denial of service in applications linked against Speex or possibly execute...

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 6.10 : gnupg2, gpgme1.0 vulnerability (USN-432-2)

USN-432-1 fixed a vulnerability in GnuPG. This update provides the corresponding updates for GnuPG2 and the GPGME library. Gerardo Richarte from Core Security Technologies discovered that when gnupg is used without --status-fd, there is no way to distinguish initial unsigned messages from a...

Ubuntu 5.04 / 5.10 / 6.06 LTS : gnupg vulnerability (USN-304-1)

Evgeny Legerov discovered that GnuPG did not sufficiently check overly large user ID packets. Specially crafted user IDs caused a buffer overflow. By tricking an user or remote automated system into processing a malicous GnuPG message, an attacker could exploit this to crash GnuPG or possibly eve...

HPLIP: Privilege escalation

Background The Hewlett-Packard Linux Imaging and Printing system HPLIP provides drivers for HP's inkjet and laser printers, scanners and fax machines. It integrates with the Common UNIX Printing System CUPS and Scanner Access Now Easy SANE. Description Kees Cook from the Ubuntu Security team...

Smb4K: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Smb4K is a SMB/CIFS Windows share browser for KDE. Description Kees Cook of the Ubuntu Security Team has identified multiple vulnerabilities in Smb4K. The writeFile function of smb4k/core/smb4kfileio.cpp makes insecure usage of temporary files. The writeFile function also stores the...

[KOffice security advisory] KOffice OLEfilter integer overflow

KOffice Security Advisory: KOffice olefilters integer overflow Original Release Date: 2006-12-04 URL: http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20061204-1.txt 0. References CVE-2006-6120 1. Systems affected: KOffice 1.4.x and 1.6.0. 1.5.x releases are unaffected as well as 1.6.1 or newer. 2...

python -- buffer overrun in repr() for unicode strings

Benjamin C. Wiley Sittler reports: I discovered a buffer overrun in repr for unicode strings. This causes an unpatched non-debug wide UTF-32/UCS-4 build of python to abort. Ubuntu security team reports: If an application uses repr on arbitrary untrusted data, this bug could be exploited to execut...

Ubuntu 4.10 / 5.04 : postgresql vulnerabilities (USN-118-1)

It was discovered that unprivileged users were allowed to call internal character conversion functions. However, since these functions were not designed to be safe against malicious choices of argument values, this could potentially be exploited to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of th...

Ubuntu 4.10 : libexif vulnerabilities (USN-91-1)

Sylvain Defresne discovered that the EXIF library did not properly validate the structure of the EXIF tags. By tricking a user to load an image with a malicious EXIF tag, an attacker could exploit this to crash the process using the library, or even execute arbitrary code with the privileges of t...

Ubuntu 4.10 : cpio vulnerability (USN-75-1)

Recently it was discovered that cpio created world-writeable files when used in -o/--create mode with giving an output file with -O. This allowed any user to modify the created cpio archives. Now cpio respects the current umask setting of the user. Note: This vulnerability has already been fixed ...

Ubuntu 4.10 : lvm10 vulnerability (USN-15-1)

Recently, Trustix Secure Linux discovered a vulnerability in a supplemental script of the lvm10 package. The program 'lvmcreateinitrd' created a temporary directory in an insecure way, which could allow a symlink attack to create or overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user invoki...

Ubuntu 4.10 : evolution vulnerability (USN-69-1)

Max Vozeler discovered an integer overflow in camel-lock-helper. An user-supplied length value was not validated, so that a value of -1 caused a buffer allocation of 0 bytes; this buffer was then filled by an arbitrary amount of user-supplied data. A local attacker or a malicious POP3 server coul...

USN-118-1: PostgreSQL vulnerabilities

It was discovered that unprivileged users were allowed to call internal character conversion functions. However, since these functions were not designed to be safe against malicious choices of argument values, this could potentially be exploited to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of th...

[Full-Disclosure] [USN-36-1] NFS statd vulnerability

=========================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-36-1 December 01, 2004 nfs-utils vulnerability CAN-2004-1014 =========================================================== A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases: Ubuntu 4.10 Warty Warthog The...