Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-1341-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2012 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-1286-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2011 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-1175-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2011 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-1165-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2011 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-1107-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2011 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 10.10 : thunderbird vulnerabilities (USN-998-1)

Paul Nickerson, Jesse Ruderman, Olli Pettay, Igor Bukanov, Josh Soref, Gary Kwong, Martijn Wargers, Siddharth Agarwal and Michal Zalewski discovered various flaws in the browser engine. An attacker could exploit this to crash Thunderbird or possibly run arbitrary code as the user invoking the...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-1002-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2010 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-798-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2009 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 7.10 / 8.04 LTS / 8.10 : libpng vulnerabilities (USN-730-1)

It was discovered that libpng did not properly perform bounds checking in certain operations. An attacker could send a specially crafted PNG image and cause a denial of service in applications linked against libpng. This issue only affected Ubuntu 8.04 LTS. CVE-2007-5268, CVE-2007-5269 Tavis...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-647-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2009 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

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 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...

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 : 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 : 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 ...