USN-4951-1: Flatpak vulnerability

Anton Lydike discovered that Flatpak did not properly handle special tokens in desktop files. An attacker could use this to specially craft a Flatpak application that could escape sandbox confinement...

CVE-2020-16123

An Ubuntu-specific patch in PulseAudio created a race condition where the snap policy module would fail to identify a client connection from a snap as coming from a snap if SCMCREDENTIALS were missing, allowing the snap to connect to PulseAudio without proper confinement. This could be exploited ...

CVE-2020-16123

The CVE-2020-16123 entry describes an Ubuntu-specific patch to PulseAudio that introduced a race condition in the snap policy module. If SCM_CREDENTIALS were missing, a snap-connected client could be treated as not from a snap, allowing it to connect to PulseAudio with insufficient confinement. T...

UBUNTU-CVE-2020-16123

An Ubuntu-specific patch in PulseAudio created a race condition where the snap policy module would fail to identify a client connection from a snap as coming from a snap if SCMCREDENTIALS were missing, allowing the snap to connect to PulseAudio without proper confinement. This could be exploited ...

DEBIAN-CVE-2020-11934

It was discovered that snapctl user-open allowed altering the $XDGDATADIRS environment variable when calling the system xdg-open. OpenURL in usersession/userd/launcher.go would alter $XDGDATADIRS to append a path to a directory controlled by the calling snap. A malicious snap could exploit this t...

UBUNTU-CVE-2020-11934

It was discovered that snapctl user-open allowed altering the $XDGDATADIRS environment variable when calling the system xdg-open. OpenURL in usersession/userd/launcher.go would alter $XDGDATADIRS to append a path to a directory controlled by the calling snap. A malicious snap could exploit this t...

Privilege Escalation

systemtap is vulnerable to privilege escalation. A race condition was discovered in SystemTap that could allow users in the stapusr group to elevate privileges to that of members of the stapdev group and hence root, bypassing directory confinement restrictions and allowing them to insert arbitrar...

Huawei EulerOS: Security Advisory for nss, nss-util (EulerOS-SA-2016-1084)

The remote host is missing an update for the Huawei EulerOS SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 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...

USN-3994-1 gnome-desktop3 vulnerability

It was discovered that gnome-desktop incorrectly confined thumbnailers. If a user were tricked into downloading a malicious image file, a remote attacker could possibly combine this issue with another vulnerability to escape the sandbox and execute arbitrary code...

Information Disclosure

NSS is vulnerable to information disclosure attacks. An attacker could use this flaw to recover private keys by confining the client DH key to small subgroup of the desired group which may leads to small subgroup confinement attacks...

CVE-2016-1579 UDM doesn't check for confinement before running post-processing commands

UDM provides support for running commands after a download is completed, this is currently made use of for click package installation. This functionality was not restricted to unconfined applications. Before UDM version 1.2+16.04.20160408-0ubuntu1 any confined application could make use of the UD...

CVE-2018-6553

The CUPS AppArmor profile incorrectly confined the dnssd backend due to use of hard links. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to escape confinement. This flaw affects versions prior to 2.2.7-1ubuntu2.1 in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, prior to 2.2.4-7ubuntu3.1 in Ubuntu 17.10, prior to...

CVE-2018-6553

The CUPS AppArmor profile incorrectly confined the dnssd backend due to use of hard links. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to escape confinement. This flaw affects versions prior to 2.2.7-1ubuntu2.1 in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, prior to 2.2.4-7ubuntu3.1 in Ubuntu 17.10, prior to...

Hardcoded credentials

The CUPS AppArmor profile incorrectly confined the dnssd backend due to use of hard links. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to escape confinement. This flaw affects versions prior to 2.2.7-1ubuntu2.1 in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, prior to 2.2.4-7ubuntu3.1 in Ubuntu 17.10, prior to...

CVE-2018-6553

The CUPS AppArmor profile incorrectly confined the dnssd backend due to use of hard links. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to escape confinement. This flaw affects versions prior to 2.2.7-1ubuntu2.1 in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, prior to 2.2.4-7ubuntu3.1 in Ubuntu 17.10, prior to...

CVE-2016-8635

It was found that Diffie Hellman Client key exchange handling in NSS 3.21.x was vulnerable to small subgroup confinement attack. An attacker could use this flaw to recover private keys by confining the client DH key to small subgroup of the desired group...

Design/Logic Flaw

It was found that Diffie Hellman Client key exchange handling in NSS 3.21.x was vulnerable to small subgroup confinement attack. An attacker could use this flaw to recover private keys by confining the client DH key to small subgroup of the desired group...

DEBIAN-CVE-2016-8635

It was found that Diffie Hellman Client key exchange handling in NSS 3.21.x was vulnerable to small subgroup confinement attack. An attacker could use this flaw to recover private keys by confining the client DH key to small subgroup of the desired group...

CVE-2016-8635

CVE-2016-8635 describes a small subgroup confinement attack in the Diffie-Hellman client key exchange within NSS 3.21.x, enabling potential private-key recovery. Connected docs show NSS-related advisories affecting IBM PowerKVM (PowerKVM 2.1/3.1 lines; fixes via PowerKVM updates to 2.1.1.3-65 and...

CVE-2016-8635

It was found that Diffie Hellman Client key exchange handling in NSS 3.21.x was vulnerable to small subgroup confinement attack. An attacker could use this flaw to recover private keys by confining the client DH key to small subgroup of the desired group...