Ubuntu 18.04 ESM : poppler regression (USN-6508-2)

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-6508-2 advisory. USN-6508-1 fixed vulnerabilities in poppler. The update introduced one minor regression in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM : AFFLIB vulnerability (USN-6518-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-6518-1 advisory. Luis Rocha discovered that AFFLIB incorrectly handled certain input files. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially...

Ubuntu 18.04 ESM : EC2 hibagent update (USN-6519-1)

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 ESM host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-6519-1 advisory. The EC2 hibagent package has been updated to add IMDSv2 support, as IMDSv1 uses an insecure protocol and is no longer recommended. Tenable has extracted the...

USN-6514-1: Open vSwitch vulnerability

It was discovered that Open vSwitch did not correctly handle OpenFlow rules for ICMPv6 Neighbour Advertisement packets. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to redirect traffic to arbitrary IP addresses...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM : Apache HTTP Server vulnerability (USN-6510-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-6510-1 advisory. David Shoon discovered that the Apache HTTP Server modmacro module incorrectly handled certain memory operations. A remote attacker could possibly use...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM : Python vulnerabilities (USN-6513-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6513-1 advisory. It was discovered that Python incorrectly handled certain plist files. If a user or an automated system were tricked into processing a...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : poppler vulnerabilities (USN-6508-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6508-1 advisory. It was discovered that poppler incorrectly handled certain malformed PDF files. If a user or an automated system were...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : LibTIFF vulnerabilities (USN-6512-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6512-1 advisory. It was discovered that LibTIFF could be made to run into an infinite loop. If a user or an automated system were...

USN-6493-2: hibagent update

USN-6493-1 fixed a vulnerability in hibagent. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Original advisory details: On Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, the hibagent package has been updated to add IMDSv2 support, as IMDSv1 uses an insecure...

Ubuntu 20.04 ESM / 22.04 LTS / 23.04 : Mosquitto vulnerabilities (USN-6492-1)

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 ESM / 22.04 LTS / 23.04 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6492-1 advisory. Kathrin Kleinhammer discovered that Mosquitto incorrectly handled certain inputs. If a user or an automated system were provided with...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-6494-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6494-1 advisory. Yu Hao discovered that the UBI driver in the Linux kernel did not properly check for MTD with zero erasesize during device attachment. A loca...

Ubuntu 18.04 ESM / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.04 : Tang vulnerability (USN-6489-1)

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 ESM / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.04 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-6489-1 advisory. Brian McDermott discovered that Tang incorrectly handled permissions when creating/rotating keys. A local attacker could possibly...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.04 / 23.10 : Avahi vulnerabilities (USN-6487-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.04 / 23.10 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6487-1 advisory. Evgeny Vereshchagin discovered that Avahi contained several reachable assertions, which could lead to...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.04 / 23.10 : Intel Microcode vulnerability (USN-6485-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.04 / 23.10 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-6485-1 advisory. Benoit Morgan, Paul Grosen, Thais Moreira Hamasaki, Ke Sun, Alyssa Milburn, Hisham Shafi, Nir Shlomovich, Tavi...

Ubuntu 18.04 ESM / 20.04 ESM / 22.04 ESM : FFmpeg regression (USN-6449-2)

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 ESM / 20.04 ESM / 22.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-6449-2 advisory. USN-6449-1 fixed vulnerabilities in FFmpeg. Unfortunately that update could introduce a regression in tools using an FFmpeg library, like...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.04 / 23.10 : pip vulnerabilities (USN-6473-2)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.04 / 23.10 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6473-2 advisory. USN-6473-1 fixed vulnerabilities in urllib3. This update provides the corresponding updates for the...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM / 20.04 ESM / 22.04 ESM : Traceroute vulnerability (USN-6478-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM / 20.04 ESM / 22.04 ESM host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-6478-1 advisory. It was discovered that Traceroute did not properly parse command line arguments. An attacker could possibly use this issue to...

USN-6475-1: Cobbler vulnerabilities

It was discovered that Cobbler did not properly handle user input, which could result in an absolute path traversal. An attacker could possibly use this issue to read arbitrary files. CVE-2014-3225 It was discovered that Cobbler did not properly handle user input, which could result in command...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM : Cobbler vulnerabilities (USN-6475-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6475-1 advisory. It was discovered that Cobbler did not properly handle user input, which could result in an absolute path traversal. An attacker could possibly use this...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM / 20.04 ESM / 22.04 ESM : xrdp vulnerabilities (USN-6474-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM / 20.04 ESM / 22.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6474-1 advisory. It was discovered that xrdp incorrectly handled validation of client-supplied data, which could lead to out-of-bounds...