USN-2835-1 git vulnerability | Cloud Foundry

USN-2835-1 git vulnerability Medium Vendor git Versions Affected Ubuntu 14.04 Description Blake Burkhart discovered that the Git git-remote-ext helper incorrectly handled recursive clones of git repositories. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code by injecting...

USN-2842-1/USN-2842-2 Linux kernel vulnerability | Cloud Foundry

USN-2842-1/USN-2842-2 Linux kernel vulnerability Medium Vendor Linux kernel Versions Affected Ubuntu 14.04 Description Jan Beulich discovered that the KVM svm hypervisor implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly catch Debug exceptions on AMD processors. An attacker in a guest virtual...

USN-2836-1 grub2 vulnerability | Cloud Foundry

USN-2836-1 grub2 vulnerability Medium Vendor grub2 Versions Affected Ubuntu 14.04 Description Hector Marco and Ismael Ripoll discovered that GRUB incorrectly handled the backspace key when configured to use authentication. A local attacker could use this issue to bypass GRUB password protection...

USN-2857-1 Linux kernel vulnerability | Cloud Foundry

USN-2857-1 Linux kernel vulnerability High Vendor Linux kernel Versions Affected Ubuntu 14.04 Description Nathan Williams discovered that overlayfs in the Linux kernel incorrectly handled setattr operations. A local unprivileged attacker could use this to create files with administrative permissi...

USN-2829-1 Linux kernel vulnerability | Cloud Foundry

USN-2829-1 Linux kernel vulnerability Medium Vendor Linux kernel Versions Affected Ubuntu 14.04 Description It was discovered that the SCTP protocol implementation in the Linux kernel performed an incorrect sequence of protocol-initialization steps. A local attacker could use this to cause a deni...

CVE-2015-5350 Garden Nstar vulnerability | Cloud Foundry

CVE-2015-5350 Garden Nstar vulnerability High Vendor Cloud Foundry Foundation Versions Affected Garden versions 0.22.0-0.329.0 Description A vulnerability has been discovered in the garden-linux nstar executable that allows access to files on the host system. By staging an application on Cloud...

USN-2820-1 GnuTLS vulnerability | Cloud Foundry

USN-2820-1 GnuTLS vulnerability High Vendor GnuTLS Versions Affected Ubuntu 14.04 Description It was discovered that GnuTLS incorrectly validated the first byte of padding in CBC modes. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform a padding oracle attack. The Cloud Foundry project...

USN-2820-1 dpkg vulnerability | Cloud Foundry

USN-2820-1 dpkg vulnerability Medium Vendor dpkg Versions Affected Ubuntu 14.04 Description Hanno Boeck discovered that the dpkg-deb tool incorrectly handled certain old style Debian binary packages. If a user or an automated system were tricked into unpacking a specially crafted binary package, ...

USN-2812-1 libxml2 vulnerability | Cloud Foundry

USN-2812-1 libxml2 vulnerability Medium Vendor libxml2 Versions Affected Ubuntu 14.04 Description Florian Weimer discovered that libxml2 incorrectly handled certain XML data. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted document, an attacker could possibly cause...

USN-2815-1 PNG vulnerability | Cloud Foundry

USN-2815-1 PNG vulnerability Medium Vendor PNG Versions Affected Ubuntu 14.04 Description Qixue Xiao discovered that libpng incorrectly handled certain time values. If a user or automated system using libpng were tricked into opening a specially crafted image, an attacker could exploit this to...

USN-2787-1 audiofile vulnerability | Cloud Foundry

USN-2787-1 audiofile vulnerability Medium Vendor audiofile Versions Affected Ubuntu 14.04 Description Fabrizio Gennari discovered that audiofile incorrectly handled changing both the sample format and the number of channels. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially...

USN-2810-1 Kerberos vulnerability | Cloud Foundry

USN-2810-1 Kerberos vulnerability Medium Vendor Kerberos Versions Affected Ubuntu 14.04 Description It was discovered that Kerberos incorrectly handled null bytes in certain data fields. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. It was discovered that the...

USN-2788-1 and USN-2788-2 unzip vulnerability | Cloud Foundry

USN-2788-1 and USN-2788-2 unzip vulnerability Medium Vendor unzip Versions Affected Ubuntu 14.04 Description Gustavo Grieco discovered that unzip incorrectly handled certain password protected archives. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted zip archive, an...

USN-2798-1 Linux kernel vulnerability | Cloud Foundry

USN-2798-1 Linux kernel vulnerability Medium Vendor Vivid Versions Affected Ubuntu 14.04 Description It was discovered that in certain situations, a directory could be renamed outside of a bind mounted location. An attacker could use this to escape bind mount containment and gain access to...

USN-2806-1 Linux kernel vulnerability | Cloud Foundry

USN-2806-1 Linux kernel vulnerability High Vendor Vivid Versions Affected Ubuntu 14.04 Description Ben Serebrin discovered that the KVM hypervisor implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly catch Alignment Check exceptions. An attacker in a guest virtual machine could use this to cause a...

USN-2778-1 Linux kernel vulnerabilities | Cloud Foundry

USN-2778-1 Linux kernel vulnerabilities Medium Vendor Vivid Versions Affected Ubuntu 14.04 Description It was discovered that the Linux kernel did not check if a new IPv6 MTU set by a user space application was valid. A remote attacker could forge a route advertisement with an invalid MTU that a...

USN-2767-1 GDK-Pixbuf library vulnerability | Cloud Foundry

USN-2767-1 GDK-Pixbuf library vulnerability Medium Vendor GDK Pixbuf Versions Affected Ubuntu 14.04 Description Gustavo Grieco discovered that the GDK-PixBuf library did not properly handle scaling tga image files, leading to a heap overflow. If a user or automated system were tricked into openin...

USN-2751-1 Linux Kernel (Vivid HWE) Vulnerability | Cloud Foundry

USN-2751-1 Linux Kernel Vivid HWE Vulnerability Medium to Low Vendor Canonical Ubuntu Versions Affected Canonical Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Description Several security issues were fixed in the kernel. Benjamin Randazzo discovered an information leak in the md multiple device driver when the bitmapinfo.fi...

USN-2722-1 GDK-PixBuf Vulnerabilities | Cloud Foundry

USN-2722-1 GDK-PixBuf Vulnerabilities Medium Vendor Canonical Ubuntu Versions Affected libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.30.7-0ubuntu1.1 Description It was discovered that GDK-PixBuf incorrectly handled scaling bitmap images. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a BMP image file, a remote...

Golang 1.4.3 CVE Fixes | Cloud Foundry

Golang 1.4.3 CVE Fixes Low Vendor Google Versions Affected Golang v1.4.2 and lower Description Several security issues were fixed in Go’s net / http package. The CVE issue descriptions and fixes are linked below: CVE-2015-5739 – ‘Content Length’ treated as valid header:...