USN-5102-2: Mercurial vulnerabilities

USN-5102-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Mercurial. This update provides the corresponding updates for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. Original advisory details: It was discovered that Mercurial mishandled symlinks in subrepositories. An attacker could use this issue to write arbitrary files to...

USN-4835-1: VCFtools vulnerabilities

It was discovered that VCFtools improperly handled certain input. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted input file, VCFtools could be made to crash or possibly cause other unspecified impact. CVE-2018-11099, CVE-2018-11129, CVE-2018-11130 It was discovered that VCFtools improperly handled...

USN-4843-1 phpmyadmin vulnerabilities

Javier Nieto and Andres Rojas discovered that phpMyAdmin incorrectly managed input in the form of passwords. An attacker could use this vulnerability to cause a denial-of-service DoS. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM. CVE-2014-9218 Emanuel Bronshtein discovered that phpMyAdmin failed to...

USN-4880-1: OpenJPEG vulnerabilities

It was discovered that OpenJPEG incorrectly handled certain image data. An attacker could use this issue to cause OpenJPEG to crash, leading to a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code...

USN-4877-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the Marvell WiFi-Ex device driver in the Linux kernel did not properly validate ad-hoc SSIDs. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2020-36158 吴异 discovered that the NFS implementation in the Linux...

USN-4876-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Olivier Benjamin and Pawel Wieczorkiewicz discovered a race condition the Xen paravirt block backend in the Linux kernel, leading to a use-after-free vulnerability. An attacker in a guest VM could use this to cause a denial of service in the host OS. CVE-2020-29569 It was discovered that the...

USN-4875-1: OpenSMTPD vulnerabilities

It was discovered that OpenSMTPD incorrectly verified the sender's or receiver's e-mail addresses under certain conditions. An attacker could possibly use this vulnerability to execute arbitrary commands as root. CVE-2020-7247 It was discovered that OpenSMTPD did not properly handle hardlinks und...

USN-4862-1: Neovim vulnerability

It was discovered that Neovim incorrectly handled certain files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code...

USN-4860-1: Monit vulnerabilities

Zack Flack discovered that Monit incorrectly handled certain input. A remote authenticated user could exploit this to conduct cross-site scripting XSS attacks. CVE-2019-11454 Zack Flack discovered a buffer overread when Monit decoded certain crafted URLs. An attacker could exploit this to...

USN-4859-1: MediaInfoLib vulnerabilities

It was discovered that MediaInfoLib contained multiple security issues when handling certain multimedia files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted multimedia file, an attacker could cause MediaInfoLib to crash, resulting in a denial of service...

USN-4858-1: Gradle vulnerabilities

It was discovered that Gradle used an insecure HTTP URL to download dependencies when the built-in JavaScript or CoffeeScript Gradle plugins were used. A remote unauthenticated attacker could possibly use this issue to perform a machine-in-the-middle attack. CVE-2019-11065 It was discovered that...

USN-4857-1: BWA vulnerability

It was discovered that Burrows-Wheeler Aligner BWA mishandled certain crafted .alt files. An attacker could use this vulnerability to cause a denial of service crash or possibly execute arbitrary code...

USN-4856-1: docker-credential-helpers vulnerability

Jasiel Spelman discovered that docker-credential-helpers has a double free. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service crash or possibly execute arbitrary code...

USN-4855-1: IPython vulnerability

It was discovered that IPython did not properly sanitize certain input. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted notebook file, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code...

USN-4854-1: AsyncSSH vulnerability

Matthijs Kooijman discovered that AsyncSSH server did not properly handle authentication under certain conditions. An attacker with a specially crafted client could use this vulnerability to skip authentication of SSH sessions...

USN-4853-1: liveMedia vulnerabilities

It was discovered that liveMedia incorrectly handled certain network packets. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. CVE-2018-4013 It was discovered that liveMedia incorrectly handled certain network sessions. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a deni...

USN-4852-1: VTK vulnerabilities

It was discovered that VTK incorrectly handled certain XML files in the embedded Expat library. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or expose sensitive information...

USN-4851-1: Libsolv vulnerabilities

It was discovered that Libsolv incorrectly handled certain malformed input. An attacker could use this issue to cause Libsolv to crash, resulting in a denial of service...

USN-4845-1: libcgroup vulnerability

It was discovered that libcgroup incorrectly handled log file permissions. An attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information...

USN-4844-1: Cinnamon vulnerability

Matthias Gerstner discovered that the cinnamon-settings-users utility in Cinnamon did not safely handle symlinks. An unprivileged attacker could potentially use this vulnerability to overwrite arbitrary files as root...