Ubuntu 5.04 / 5.10 / 6.06 LTS : linux-source-2.6.10/-2.6.12/-2.6.15 vulnerabilities (USN-311-1)

A race condition was discovered in the doaddcounters functions. Processes which do not run with full root privileges, but have the CAPNETADMIN capability can exploit this to crash the machine or read a random piece of kernel memory. In Ubuntu there are no packages that are affected by this, so th...

Ubuntu 5.04 / 5.10 / 6.06 LTS : python2.3, python2.4 vulnerability (USN-359-1)

Benjamin C. Wiley Sittler discovered that Python's repr function did not properly handle UTF-32/UCS-4 strings. If an application uses repr on arbitrary untrusted data, this could be exploited to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the python application. Note that Tenable Network Securi...

Ubuntu 5.04 / 5.10 / 6.06 LTS : gdb vulnerability (USN-356-1)

Will Drewry, of the Google Security Team, discovered buffer overflows in GDB's DWARF processing. This would allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code with user privileges by tricking the user into using GDB to load an executable that contained malicious debugging information. Note that Tenable...

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS : mysql-dfsg-5.0 vulnerabilities (USN-338-1)

Dmitri Lenev discovered that arguments of setuid SQL functions were evaluated in the security context of the functions' definer instead of its caller. An authenticated user with the privilege to call such a function could exploit this to execute arbitrary statements with the privileges of the...

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 6.10 / 7.04 : krb5 vulnerabilities (USN-477-1)

Wei Wang discovered that the krb5 RPC library did not correctly handle certain error conditions. A remote attacker could cause kadmind to free an uninitialized pointer, leading to a denial of service or possibly execution of arbitrary code with root privileges. CVE-2007-2442 Wei Wang discovered...

Ubuntu 5.04 / 5.10 / 6.06 LTS : openssl vulnerability (USN-339-1)

Philip Mackenzie, Marius Schilder, Jason Waddle and Ben Laurie of Google Security discovered that the OpenSSL library did not sufficiently check the padding of PKCS 1 v1.5 signatures if the exponent of the public key is 3 which is widely used for CAs. This could be exploited to forge signatures...

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 6.10 / 7.04 : xfce4-terminal vulnerability (USN-497-1)

Lasse Karkkainen discovered that the Xfce Terminal did not correctly escape shell meta-characters during 'Open Link' actions. If a remote attacker tricked a user into opening a specially crafted URI, they could execute arbitrary commands with the user's privileges. Note that Tenable Network...

Ubuntu 5.04 / 5.10 / 6.06 LTS : libwmf vulnerability (USN-333-1)

An integer overflow was found in the handling of the MaxRecordSize field in the WMF header parser. By tricking a user into opening a specially crafted WMF image file with an application that uses this library, an attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary code with the user's privileges. No...

Ubuntu 5.10 / 6.06 LTS : libapache2-mod-python vulnerability (USN-430-1)

Miles Egan discovered that modpython, when used in output filter mode, did not handle output larger than 16384 bytes, and would display freed memory, possibly disclosing private data. Thanks to Jim Garrison of the Software Freedom Law Center for identifying the original bug as a security...

Ubuntu 5.04 / 5.10 / 6.06 LTS : apache2 vulnerability (USN-328-1)

Mark Dowd discovered an off-by-one buffer overflow in the modrewrite module's ldap scheme handling. On systems which activate 'RewriteEngine on', a remote attacker could exploit certain rewrite rules to crash Apache, or potentially even execute arbitrary code this has not been verified...

Ubuntu 5.10 / 6.06 LTS / 6.10 : freetype, libxfont, xorg, xorg-server vulnerabilities (USN-448-1)

Sean Larsson of iDefense Labs discovered that the MISC-XC extension of Xorg did not correctly verify the size of allocated memory. An authenticated user could send a specially crafted X11 request and execute arbitrary code with root privileges. CVE-2007-1003 Greg MacManus of iDefense Labs...

Ubuntu 5.10 / 6.06 LTS / 6.10 : file vulnerability (USN-439-1)

Jean-Sebastien Guay-Leroux discovered that 'file' did not correctly check the size of allocated heap memory. If a user were tricked into examining a specially crafted file with the 'file' utility, a remote attacker could execute arbitrary code with user privileges. Note that Tenable Network...

Ubuntu 5.10 / 6.06 LTS / 6.10 : kdegraphics, koffice, poppler vulnerability (USN-410-1)

The poppler PDF loader library did not limit the recursion depth of the page model tree. By tricking a user into opening a specially crafter PDF file, this could be exploited to trigger an infinite loop and eventually crash an application that uses this library. kpdf in Ubuntu 5.10, and KOffice i...

Ubuntu 5.10 / 6.06 LTS / 6.10 : evince vulnerability (USN-390-2)

USN-390-1 fixed a vulnerability in evince. The original fix did not fully solve the problem, allowing for a denial of service in certain situations. A buffer overflow was discovered in the PostScript processor included in evince. By tricking a user into opening a specially crafted PS file, an...

Ubuntu 5.10 / 6.06 LTS / 6.10 : libgtop2 vulnerability (USN-407-1)

Liu Qishuai discovered a buffer overflow in the /proc parsing routines in libgtop. By creating and running a process in a specially crafted long path and tricking an user into running gnome-system-monitor, an attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary code with the user's privileges. Note...

Ubuntu 5.04 / 5.10 : binutils vulnerability (USN-336-1)

A buffer overflow was discovered in gas the GNU assembler. By tricking an user or automated system like a compile farm into assembling a specially crafted source file with gcc or gas, this could be exploited to execute arbitrary code with the user's privileges. Note that Tenable Network Security...

Ubuntu 5.04 / 5.10 / 6.06 LTS : openssh vulnerabilities (USN-355-1)

Tavis Ormandy discovered that the SSH daemon did not properly handle authentication packets with duplicated blocks. By sending specially crafted packets, a remote attacker could exploit this to cause the ssh daemon to drain all available CPU resources until the login grace time expired...

Ubuntu 5.04 / 5.10 / 6.06 LTS : imagemagick vulnerability (USN-337-1)

Damian Put discovered a buffer overflow in imagemagick's SGI file format decoder. By tricking an user or automated system into processing a specially crafted SGI image, this could be exploited to execute arbitrary code with the user's privileges. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted t...

Ubuntu 5.10 / 6.06 LTS : imagemagick vulnerability (USN-386-1)

Daniel Kobras discovered multiple buffer overflows in ImageMagick's SGI file format decoder. By tricking a user or an automated system into processing a specially crafted SGI image, this could be exploited to execute arbitrary code with the user's privileges. Note that Tenable Network Security ha...

Fedora 8 : glib2-2.14.3-1.fc8 (2007-2944)

The latest stable upstream release of GLib includes a new version of PCRE, which fixes several vulnerabilities. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it a...