USN-4004-2 db5.3 vulnerability

USN-4004-1 fixed a vulnerability in Berkeley DB. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM. Original advisory details: It was discovered that Berkeley DB incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to read sensitive information...

UBUNTU-CVE-2018-14653

The Gluster file system through versions 4.1.4 and 3.12 is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow in the 'servergetspec' function via the 'gfgetspecreq' RPC message. A remote authenticated attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service or other potential unspecified impact...

LightDM (Ubuntu 16.04/16.10) Privilege Escalation

Source: https://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/3134 Vulnerability Summary The following advisory describes a local privilege escalation via LightDM found in Ubuntu versions 16.10 / 16.04 LTS. Ubuntu is an open source software platform that runs everywhere from IoT devices, the smartphone...

USN-3184-1 irssi vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the Irssi buf.pl script set incorrect permissions. A local attacker could use this issue to retrieve another user's window contents. CVE-2016-7553 Joseph Bisch discovered that Irssi incorrectly handled comparing nicks. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause Irssi t...

UBUNTU-CVE-2015-7692

The cryptoxmit function in ntpd in NTP 4.2.x before 4.2.8p4, and 4.3.x before 4.3.77 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash. NOTE: This vulnerability exists due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2014-9750...

USN-2439-1 qemu, qemu-kvm vulnerabilities

Michael S. Tsirkin discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled certain parameters during ram load while performing a migration. An attacker able to manipulate savevm data could use this issue to possibly execute arbitrary code on the host. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS,...

CVE-2013-6427

upgrade.py in the hp-upgrade service in HP Linux Imaging and Printing HPLIP 3.x through 3.13.11 launches a program from an http URL, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to execute arbitrary code by gaining control over the client-server data stream...

USN-50-1: CUPS vulnerabilities

CAN-2004-1125: The recent USN-48-1 fixed a buffer overflow in xpdf. Since CUPS contains xpdf code to convert incoming PDF files to the PostScript format, this vulnerability applies to cups as well. In this case it could even lead to privilege escalation: if an attacker submitted a malicious PDF...