USN-5422-1 libxml2 vulnerabilities

Shinji Sato discovered that libxml2 incorrectly handled certain XML files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM, and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. CVE-2022-23308 It was...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : libxml2 vulnerabilities (USN-5422-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5422-1 advisory. Shinji Sato discovered that libxml2 incorrectly handled certain XML files. An attacker could possibly use this issue ...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM : Vorbis vulnerabilities (USN-5420-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5420-1 advisory. It was discovered that Vorbis incorrectly handled certain files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service, or possibly...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM : Rsyslog vulnerabilities (USN-5419-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5419-1 advisory. It was discovered that Rsyslog improperly handled certain invalid input. An attacker could use this issue to cause Rsyslog to crash. Tenable has extracte...

USN-5420-1: Vorbis vulnerabilities

It was discovered that Vorbis incorrectly handled certain files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2017-14160, CVE-2018-10392, CVE-2018-10393...

USN-5418-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Ke Sun, Alyssa Milburn, Henrique Kawakami, Emma Benoit, Igor Chervatyuk, Lisa Aichele, and Thais Moreira Hamasaki discovered that the Spectre Variant 2 mitigations for AMD processors on Linux were insufficient in some situations. A local attacker could possibly use this to expose sensitive...

USN-5413-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Jeremy Cline discovered a use-after-free in the nouveau graphics driver of the Linux kernel during device removal. A privileged or physically proximate attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2020-27820 It was discovered that a race condition existed in the network...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-5413-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5413-1 advisory. Jeremy Cline discovered a use-after-free in the nouveau graphics driver of the Linux kernel during device removal. A privileged or physically proximate...

USN-5411-1: 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 permission prompts, obtain sensitive information, bypass security...

USN-5412-1: curl vulnerabilities

Axel Chong discovered that curl incorrectly handled percent-encoded URL separators. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to trick curl into using the wrong URL and bypass certain checks or filters. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. CVE-2022-27780 Florian Kohnhuser discovered...

USN-5259-3: Cron regression

USN-5259-1 and USN-5259-2 fixed vulnerabilities in Cron. Unfortunately that update was incomplete and could introduce a regression. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: It was discovered that the postinst maintainer script in Cron unsafely...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM : libsndfile vulnerability (USN-5409-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-5409-1 advisory. It was discovered that libsndfile was incorrectly performing memory management operations and incorrectly using buffers when executing its FLAC codec. If a user o...

USN-5409-1: libsndfile vulnerability

It was discovered that libsndfile was incorrectly performing memory management operations and incorrectly using buffers when executing its FLAC codec. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted sound file, an attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a...

USN-5408-1: Dnsmasq vulnerability

Petr Menšík and Richard Johnson discovered that Dnsmasq incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code or expose sensitive information...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM : Cairo vulnerabilities (USN-5407-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5407-1 advisory. Gustavo Grieco, Alberto Garcia, Francisco Oca, Suleman Ali, and others discovered that Cairo incorrectly handled certain files. An attacker could possibl...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM : BusyBox vulnerability (USN-5179-2)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-5179-2 advisory. USN-5179-1 fixed vulnerabilities in BusyBox. This update provides the corresponding updates for Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. Tenable has extracted the preceding description...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM : jbig2dec vulnerabilities (USN-5405-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5405-1 advisory. It was discovered that jbig2dec incorrectly handled memory when parsing invalid files. An attacker could use this issue to cause jbig2dec to crash, leadi...

USN-5405-1: jbig2dec vulnerabilities

It was discovered that jbig2dec incorrectly handled memory when parsing invalid files. An attacker could use this issue to cause jbig2dec to crash, leading to a denial of service. CVE-2017-9216 It was discovered that jbig2dec incorrectly handled memory when processing untrusted input. An attacker...

USN-5354-2: Twisted vulnerability

USN-5354-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Twisted. This update provides the corresponding updates for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM, Ubuntu 16.04 ESM and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. Original advisory details: It was discovered that Twisted incorrectly processed SSH handshake data on connection establishments. A remote attack...

USN-5395-2: networkd-dispatcher regression

USN-5395-1 fixed vulnerabilities in networkd-dispatcher. Unfortunately that update was incomplete and could introduce a regression. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: It was discovered that networkd-dispatcher incorrectly handled internal...