Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : libvpx vulnerability (USN-7249-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-7249-1 advisory. Xiantong Hou discovered that libvpx would overflow when attempting to allocate memory for very large images. If an application using libvp...

CVE-2022-1736

Ubuntu's configuration of gnome-control-center allowed Remote Desktop Sharing to be enabled by default...

UBUNTU-CVE-2024-57965

In axios before 1.7.8, lib/helpers/isURLSameOrigin.js does not use a URL object when determining an origin, and has a potentially unwanted setAttribute'href',href call. NOTE: some parties feel that the code change only addresses a warning message from a SAST tool and does not fix a vulnerability...

UBUNTU-CVE-2024-45339

When logs are written to a widely-writable directory the default, an unprivileged attacker may predict a privileged process's log file path and pre-create a symbolic link to a sensitive file in its place. When that privileged process runs, it will follow the planted symlink and overwrite that...

UBUNTU-CVE-2024-45340

Credentials provided via the new GOAUTH feature were not being properly segmented by domain, allowing a malicious server to request credentials they should not have access to. By default, unless otherwise set, this only affected credentials stored in the users .netrc file...

UBUNTU-CVE-2025-23083

With the aid of the diagnosticschannel utility, an event can be hooked into whenever a worker thread is created. This is not limited only to workers but also exposes internal workers, where an instance of them can be fetched, and its constructor can be grabbed and reinstated for malicious usage...

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : Python vulnerability (USN-7218-1)

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-7218-1 advisory. It was discovered that Python incorrectly handled parsing bracketed hosts. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform a Server-Side...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : PoDoFo library vulnerabilities (USN-7217-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-7217-1 advisory. It was discovered that the PoDoFo library could dereference a NULL pointer when getting the number of pag...

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS : tqdm vulnerability (USN-7216-1)

The remote Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-7216-1 advisory. It was discovered that tqdm did not properly sanitize non-boolean CLI Arguments. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary...

UBUNTU-CVE-2024-50349

Git is a fast, scalable, distributed revision control system with an unusually rich command set that provides both high-level operations and full access to internals. When Git asks for credentials via a terminal prompt i.e. without using any credential helper, it prints out the host name for whic...

UBUNTU-CVE-2024-57655

An issue in the dfeninorder component of openlink virtuoso-opensource v7.2.11 allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service DoS via crafted SQL statements...

UBUNTU-CVE-2024-56786

Rejected reason: This CVE ID has been rejected or withdrawn by its CVE Numbering Authority...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS : Tinyproxy vulnerability (USN-7190-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-7190-1 advisory. It was discovered that Tinyproxy did not properly manage memory during the parsing of HTTP connection...

UBUNTU-CVE-2024-56694

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: fix recursive lock when verdict program return SKPASS When the streamverdict program returns SKPASS, it places the received skb into its own receive queue, but a recursive lock eventually occurs, leading to an operating syst...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 12/20/2024

New module content 4 GameOverlay Privilege Escalation and Container Escape Authors: bwatters-r7, g1vi, gardnerapp, and h00die Type: Exploit Pull request: 19460 contributed by gardnerapp Path: linux/local/gameoverlayprivesc AttackerKB reference: CVE-2023-2640 Description: Adds a module for...

UBUNTU-CVE-2024-12801

Server-Side Request Forgery SSRF in SaxEventRecorder by QOS.CH logback version 0.1 to 1.3.14 and 1.4.0 to 1.5.12 on the Java platform, allows an attacker to forge requests by compromising logback configuration files in XML. The attacks involves the modification of DOCTYPE declaration in XML...

UBUNTU-CVE-2024-12798

ACE vulnerability in JaninoEventEvaluator by QOS.CH logback-core upto including version 0.1 to 1.3.14 and 1.4.0 to 1.5.12 in Java applications allows attacker to execute arbitrary code by compromising an existing logback configuration file or by injecting an environment variable before program...

UBUNTU-CVE-2024-53580

iperf v3.17.1 was discovered to contain a segmentation violation via the iperfexchangeparameters function...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-7162-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024 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 / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 24.10 : Expat vulnerability (USN-7145-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 24.10 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-7145-1 advisory. It was discovered that Expat did not properly handle its internal state when attempting to...