USN-4467-3: QEMU regression

USN-4467-1 fixed vulnerabilities in QEMU. The fix for CVE-2020-13754 introduced a regression in certain environments. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: Ren Ding, Hanqing Zhao, Alexander Bulekov, and Anatoly Trosinenko discovered that the...

Ubuntu 20.10 : Thunderbird vulnerabilities (USN-4736-1)

The remote Ubuntu 20.10 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4736-1 advisory. Several security issues were fixed in Thunderbird. Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Note tha...

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS : PostgreSQL vulnerability (USN-4735-1)

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-4735-1 advisory. Heikki Linnakangas discovered that PostgreSQL incorrectly leaked values of denied columns when handling certain errors. A remote attacker could possibly use this...

Ubuntu 20.10 : SQLite vulnerability (USN-4732-1)

The remote Ubuntu 20.10 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-4732-1 advisory. SQLite could be made to crash or run programs if it processed a specially crafted query. Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubunt...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-4729-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : GNOME Autoar vulnerability (USN-4733-1)

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-4733-1 advisory. Yiit Can Ylmaz discovered that GNOME Autoar could extract files outside of the intended directory. If a user were tricked into extracting a specially...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : JUnit 4 vulnerability (USN-4731-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-4731-1 advisory. It was discovered that JUnit 4 contains a local information disclosure vulnerability. An attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-4713-2)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-4731-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : wpa_supplicant and hostapd vulnerabilities (USN-4734-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4734-1 advisory. It was discovered that wpasupplicant did not properly handle P2P Wi-Fi Direct group information in some situations, leading to a...

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS : PostSRSd vulnerability (USN-4730-1)

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-4730-1 advisory. It was discovered that PostSRSd mishandled certain input. A remote attacker could use this vulnerability to cause a denial of service via a long timestamp tag in ...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-4727-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerability (USN-4713-2)

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-4713-2 advisory. It was discovered that the LIO SCSI target implementation in the Linux kernel performed insufficient identifier checking in certain XCOPY requests. An attacker wi...

USN-4705-1: Sudo vulnerabilities | Cloud Foundry

Severity High Vendor Canonical Ubuntu Versions Affected Canonical Ubuntu 16.04 Canonical Ubuntu 18.04 Description It was discovered that Sudo incorrectly handled memory when parsing command lines. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain unintended access to the administrator...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : snapd vulnerability (USN-4728-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-4728-1 advisory. Gilad Reti and Nimrod Stoler discovered that snapd did not correctly specify cgroup delegation when generating systemd service units for...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-4726-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

USN-4680-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities | Cloud Foundry

Severity Medium Vendor Canonical Ubuntu Versions Affected Canonical Ubuntu 16.04 Description It was discovered that debugfs in the Linux kernel as used by blktrace contained a use-after-free in some situations. A privileged local attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service syste...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : Open vSwitch vulnerability (USN-4729-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-4729-1 advisory. Joakim Hindersson discovered that Open vSwitch incorrectly parsed certain network packets. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause...

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerability (USN-4727-1)

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-4727-1 advisory. Alexander Popov discovered that multiple race conditions existed in the AFVSOCK implementation in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to cause a...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-4728-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...