Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : XStream vulnerabilities (USN-4714-1)

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4714-1 advisory. Zhihong Tian and Hui Lu found that XStream was vulnerable to remote code execution. A remote attacker could run arbitrary shell commands by...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-4706-1)

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: Security Advisory (USN-4711-1)

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: Security Advisory (USN-4709-1)

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 20.04 LTS : TCMU vulnerability (USN-4707-1)

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-4707-1 advisory. It was discovered that TCMU lacked a check for transport-layer restrictions, allowing remote attackers to read or write files via directory traversal in an XCOPY...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-4709-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4709-1 advisory. It was discovered that the LIO SCSI target implementation in the Linux kernel performed insufficient identifier checking in certain XCOPY requests. An...

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerability (USN-4713-1)

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-4713-1 advisory. It was discovered that the LIO SCSI target implementation in the Linux kernel performed insufficient identifier checking in certain XCOPY requests. An...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-4711-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4711-1 advisory. It was discovered that the LIO SCSI target implementation in the Linux kernel performed insufficient identifier checking in certain XCOPY...

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : Linux kernel regression (USN-4712-1)

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-4712-1 advisory. USN-4576-1 fixed a vulnerability in the overlay file system implementation in the Linux kernel. Unfortunately, that fix introduced a regression that...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerability (USN-4710-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-4710-1 advisory. Kiyin discovered that the perf subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly deallocate memory in some situations. A privileged attacker could use th...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : Sudo vulnerabilities (USN-4705-1)

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-4705-1 advisory. It was discovered that Sudo incorrectly handled memory when parsing command lines. A local attacker could possibly use this issue...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-4703-1)

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 : Mutt vulnerability (USN-4703-1)

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-4703-1 advisory. It was discovered that Mutt incorrectly handled certain email messages. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Pound vulnerabilities (USN-4702-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4702-1 advisory. It was discovered that Pound incorrectly handled certain HTTP requests A remote attacker could use it to retrieve some sensitive information...

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : Linux kernel update (USN-4689-4)

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4689-4 advisory. USN-4689-3 fixed vulnerabilities in the NVIDIA server graphics drivers. This update provides the corresponding updates for the NVIDIA Linux...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-4701-1)

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 : NVIDIA graphics drivers vulnerabilities (USN-4689-3)

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4689-3 advisory. It was discovered that the NVIDIA GPU display driver for the Linux kernel contained a vulnerability that allowed user-mode clients to access...

Ubuntu 20.10 : Thunderbird vulnerabilities (USN-4701-1)

The remote Ubuntu 20.10 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4701-1 advisory. Several security issues were fixed in Thunderbird. Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Note tha...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-4696-1)

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: Security Advisory (USN-4695-1)

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...