Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 23.04 : SpiderMonkey vulnerabilities (USN-6227-1)

The remote Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 23.04 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6227-1 advisory. Several security issues were discovered in the SpiderMonkey JavaScript library. If a user were tricked into opening malicious JavaScript...

USN-5446-1: dpkg vulnerability

Max Justicz discovered that dpkg incorrectly handled unpacking certain source packages. If a user or an automated system were tricked into unpacking a specially crafted source package, a remote attacker could modify files outside the target unpack directory, leading to a denial of service or...