Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-8112-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2026 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 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 25.04 / 25.10 : WebKitGTK vulnerabilities (USN-7914-1)

The remote Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 25.04 / 25.10 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-7914-1 advisory. Several security issues were discovered in the WebKitGTK Web and JavaScript engines. If a user were tricked into viewing a...

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 25.04 / 25.10 : OpenJDK 11 vulnerabilities (USN-7882-1)

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 25.04 / 25.10 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-7882-1 advisory. Jinfeng Guo discovered that the Security component of OpenJDK 11 did not correctly handle certain...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-7831-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2025 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 14.04 LTS : OpenLDAP vulnerabilities (USN-7698-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-7698-1 advisory. It was discovered that OpenLDAP incorrectly handled Certificate Exact Assertion processing. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : cifs-utils vulnerabilities (USN-7688-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-7688-1 advisory. Aurlien Aptel discovered that cifs-utils invoked a shell when requesting a password. In certain environments, a local attacker could possibly...

USN-6571-1 monit vulnerability

Youssef Rebahi-Gilbert discovered that Monit did not properly process credentials for disabled accounts. An attacker could possibly use this issue to login to the platform with an expired account and a valid password...

USN-5656-1 jackd2 vulnerability

Joseph Yasi discovered that JACK incorrectly handled the closing of a socket in certain conditions. An attacker could potentially use this issue to cause a crash...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM : Vim vulnerability (USN-5492-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-5492-1 advisory. It was discovered that Vim incorrectly handled memory when opening and searching the contents of certain files. If an attacker could trick a user into opening a...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : Firefox vulnerabilities (USN-4893-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4893-1 advisory. Multiple security issues were discovered in Firefox. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted website, an attacker...

USN-4403-1 mutt vulnerability and regression

It was discovered that Mutt incorrectly handled certain requests. An attacker could possibly use this issue to enable MITM attacks. CVE-2020-14954 This update also address a regression caused in the last update USN-4401-1. It only affected Ubuntu 12.04 ESM, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and...

Denial of service or RCE from libxml2 and libxslt

Nokogiri is affected by series of vulnerabilities in libxml2 and libxslt, which are libraries Nokogiri depends on. It was discovered that libxml2 and libxslt incorrectly handled certain malformed documents, which can allow malicious users to cause issues ranging from denial of service to remote...

[USN-2597-2] Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) regression

========================================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2597-2 May 08, 2015 linux-lts-trusty regression ========================================================================== A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: -...

USN-2363-1 bash vulnerability

Tavis Ormandy discovered that the security fix for Bash included in USN-2362-1 was incomplete. An attacker could use this issue to bypass certain environment restrictions. CVE-2014-7169...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux vulnerability (USN-1992-1)

An information leak was discovered in the Linux kernel when reading broadcast messages from the notifypolicy interface of the IPSec keysocket. A local user could exploit this flaw to examine potentially sensitive information in kernel memory. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS / 12.10 / 13.04 : libxv vulnerabilities (USN-1867-1)

Ilja van Sprundel discovered multiple security issues in various X.org libraries and components. An attacker could use these issues to cause applications to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding...

USN-1740-1 : linux-ti-omap4 vulnerability

Suleiman Souhlal, Salman Qazi, Aaron Durbin and Michael Davidson discovered a race condition in the Linux kernel's ptrace syscall. An unprivileged local attacker could exploit this flaw to run programs as an administrator. This script was automatically generated from Ubuntu Security Notice...

USN-1499-1 : linux-ti-omap4 vulnerability

A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's NFSv4 Network file system handling of ACLs access control lists. A remote NFS server attacker could cause a denial of service OOPS. This script was automatically generated from Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1499-1. It is released under the Nessus Script...

[USN-1444-1] BackupPC vulnerability

========================================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1444-1 May 17, 2012 backuppc vulnerability ========================================================================== A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: - Ubun...

USN-1392-1 : linux-fsl-imx51 vulnerability

Ben Hutchings reported a flaw in the kernel's handling of corrupt LDM partitions. A local user could exploit this to cause a denial of service or escalate privileges. This script was automatically generated from Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1392-1. It is released under the Nessus Script Licence...