Ubuntu 16.04 ESM : ca-certificates update (USN-5473-2)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-5473-2 advisory. USN-5473-1 updated ca-certificates. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. Tenable has extracted the preceding description block...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-5515-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5515-1 advisory. Eric Biederman discovered that the cgroup process migration implementation in the Linux kernel did not perform permission checks correctly in...

USN-5516-1: Vim vulnerabilities

It was discovered that Vim incorrectly handled memory access. An attacker could potentially use this issue to cause the corruption of sensitive information, a crash, or arbitrary code execution...

USN-5473-2: ca-certificates update

USN-5473-1 updated ca-certificates. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. Original advisory details: The ca-certificates package contained outdated CA certificates. This update refreshes the included certificates to those contained in the 2.50 version of the Mozilla...

USN-5514-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the implementation of the 6pack and mkiss protocols in the Linux kernel did not handle detach events properly in some situations, leading to a use-after-free vulnerability. A local attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2022-1195...

USN-5513-1: Linux kernel (AWS) vulnerabilities

Norbert Slusarek discovered a race condition in the CAN BCM networking protocol of the Linux kernel leading to multiple use-after-free vulnerabilities. A local attacker could use this issue to execute arbitrary code. CVE-2021-3609 Likang Luo discovered that a race condition existed in the Bluetoo...

USN-5256-1: uriparser vulnerabilities

It was discovered that uriparser incorrectly handled certain memory operations. An attacker could use this to cause a denial of service. CVE-2021-46141, CVE-2021-46142...

USN-5510-2: X.Org X Server vulnerabilities

USN-5510-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in X.Org. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. Original advisory details: Jan-Niklas Sohn discovered that the X.Org X Server incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could use this issue to cause the server to crash,...

USN-5503-2: GnuPG vulnerability

USN-5503-1 fixed a vulnerability in GnuPG. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. Original advisory details: Demi Marie Obenour discovered that GnuPG incorrectly handled injection in the status message. A remote attacker could possibly use this...

USN-5503-2 gnupg, gnupg2 vulnerability

USN-5503-1 fixed a vulnerability in GnuPG. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. Original advisory details: Demi Marie Obenour discovered that GnuPG incorrectly handled injection in the status message. A remote attacker could possibly use this...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM : X.Org X Server vulnerabilities (USN-5510-2)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5510-2 advisory. USN-5510-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in X.Org. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. Tenable has extracted the precedin...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM : GnuPG vulnerability (USN-5503-2)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-5503-2 advisory. USN-5503-1 fixed a vulnerability in GnuPG. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. Tenable has extracted the...

USN-5220-1: Composer vulnerability

It was discovered that Composer did not properly sanitize URLs for Mercurial repositories in the root composer.json and package source download URLs. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code...

USN-5507-1: Vim vulnerabilities

It was discovered that Vim incorrectly handled memory access. An attacker could potentially use this issue to cause the program to crash, use unexpected values, or execute arbitrary code. CVE-2022-1968 It was discovered that Vim incorrectly handled memory access. An attacker could potentially use...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM : Vim vulnerabilities (USN-5507-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5507-1 advisory. It was discovered that Vim incorrectly handled memory access. An attacker could potentially use this issue to cause the program to crash, use unexpected...

USN-5479-3: PHP regression

USN-5479-1 fixed vulnerabilities in PHP. Unfortunately that update for CVE-2022-31625 was incomplete for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: Charles Fol discovered that PHP incorrectly handled initializing certain arrays...

USN-5505-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Norbert Slusarek discovered a race condition in the CAN BCM networking protocol of the Linux kernel leading to multiple use-after-free vulnerabilities. A local attacker could use this issue to execute arbitrary code. CVE-2021-3609 Likang Luo discovered that a race condition existed in the Bluetoo...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM : OpenSSL vulnerability (USN-5488-2)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-5488-2 advisory. USN-5488-1 fixed vulnerabilities in OpenSSL. This update provides the corresponding updates for Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. Tenable has extracted the preceding description...

USN-5488-2: OpenSSL vulnerability

USN-5488-1 fixed vulnerabilities in OpenSSL. This update provides the corresponding updates for Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. Original advisory details: Chancen and Daniel Fiala discovered that OpenSSL incorrectly handled the crehash script. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary...

USN-5504-1: Firefox vulnerabilities

Multiple security issues were discovered in Firefox. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service, spoof the browser UI, bypass CSP restrictions, bypass sandboxed iframe restrictions, obtain sensitive...