Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 6.10 / 7.04 / 7.10 : libcairo vulnerability (USN-550-1)

Peter Valchev discovered that Cairo did not correctly decode PNG image data. By tricking a user or automated system into processing a specially crafted PNG with Cairo, a remote attacker could execute arbitrary code with user privileges. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the precedi...

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 6.10 / 7.04 / 7.10 : php5 vulnerabilities (USN-549-1)

It was discovered that the wordwrap function did not correctly check lengths. Remote attackers could exploit this to cause a crash or monopolize CPU resources, resulting in a denial of service. CVE-2007-3998 Integer overflows were discovered in the strspn and strcspn functions. Attackers could...

Ubuntu 7.10 : pidgin vulnerability (USN-548-1)

It was discovered that Pidgin did not correctly handle certain logging events. A remote attacker could send specially crafted messages and cause the application to crash, leading to a denial of service. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from...

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 6.10 / 7.04 / 7.10 : poppler vulnerabilities (USN-542-1)

Secunia Research discovered several vulnerabilities in poppler. If a user were tricked into loading a specially crafted PDF file, a remote attacker could cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code with the user's privileges in applications linked against poppler. Note that Tenab...

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 6.10 / 7.04 / 7.10 : flac vulnerability (USN-540-1)

Sean de Regge discovered that flac did not properly perform bounds checking in many situations. An attacker could send a specially crafted FLAC audio file and execute arbitrary code as the user or cause a denial of service in flac or applications that link against flac. Note that Tenable Network...

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 6.10 / 7.04 : tar vulnerability (USN-506-1)

Dmitry V. Levin discovered that tar did not correctly detect the '..' file path element when unpacking archives. If a user or an automated system were tricked into unpacking a specially crafted tar file, arbitrary files could be overwritten with user privileges. Note that Tenable Network Security...

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 6.10 : slocate vulnerability (USN-425-1)

A flaw was discovered in the permission checking code of slocate. When reporting matching files, locate would not correctly respect the parent directory's 'read' bits. This could result in filenames being displayed when the file owner had expected them to remain hidden from other system users. No...

Ubuntu 5.04 / 5.10 / 6.06 LTS : kdelibs vulnerability (USN-322-1)

A Denial of Service vulnerability has been reported in the replaceChild method in KDE's DOM handler. A malicious remote web page could exploit this to cause Konqueror to crash. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security...

Ubuntu 7.10 : gnome-screensaver vulnerability (USN-537-1)

Jens Askengren discovered that gnome-screensaver became confused when running under Compiz, and could lose keyboard lock focus. A local attacker could exploit this to bypass the user's locked screen saver. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly...

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 6.10 / 7.04 : openssl vulnerabilities (USN-522-1)

It was discovered that OpenSSL did not correctly perform Montgomery multiplications. Local attackers might be able to reconstruct RSA private keys by examining another user's OpenSSL processes. CVE-2007-3108 Moritz Jodeit discovered that OpenSSL's SSLgetsharedciphers function did not correctly...

Ubuntu 5.10 / 6.06 LTS : firefox vulnerabilities (USN-381-1)

USN-351-1 fixed a flaw in the verification of PKCS certificate signatures. Ulrich Kuehn discovered a variant of the original attack which the original fix did not cover. CVE-2006-5462 Various flaws have been reported that allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code with user privileges by trickin...

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS : mozilla-thunderbird, thunderbird-quickfile updates (USN-297-2)

USN-297-1 fixed some security vulnerabilities in Thunderbird. This update provides new versions of packaged extensions which work with the current Thunderbird version. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory...

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 6.10 / 7.04 : imagemagick vulnerabilities (USN-523-1)

Multiple vulnerabilities were found in the image decoders of ImageMagick. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a malicious DCM, DIB, XBM, XCF, or XWD image, a remote attacker could execute arbitrary code with user privileges. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted...

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS : mozilla-thunderbird vulnerabilities (USN-329-1)

Various flaws have been reported that allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code with user privileges by tricking the user into opening a malicious email containing JavaScript. Please note that JavaScript is disabled by default for emails, and it is not recommended to enable it. CVE-2006-3113,...

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 6.10 : linux-restricted-modules-2.6.15, linux-restricted-modules-2.6.17 vulnerability (USN-377-1)

Derek Abdine discovered that the NVIDIA Xorg driver did not correctly verify the size of buffers used to render text glyphs. When displaying very long strings of text, the Xorg server would crash. If a user were tricked into viewing a specially crafted series of glyphs, this flaw could be exploit...

Ubuntu 5.04 / 5.10 / 6.06 LTS : bind9 vulnerabilities (USN-343-1)

bind did not sufficiently verify particular requests and responses from other name servers and users. By sending a specially crafted packet, a remote attacker could exploit this to crash the name server. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly fro...

Ubuntu 5.04 / 5.10 / 6.06 LTS : heartbeat vulnerability (USN-335-1)

Yan Rong Ge discovered that heartbeat did not sufficiently verify some packet input data, which could lead to an out-of-boundary memory access. A remote attacker could exploit this to crash the daemon Denial of Service. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description...

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 6.10 / 7.04 : gimp vulnerability (USN-467-1)

It was discovered that Gimp did not correctly handle RAS image format color tables. By tricking a user into opening a specially crafted RAS file with Gimp, an attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary code with the user's privileges. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the...

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 6.10 / 7.04 : t1lib vulnerability (USN-515-1)

It was discovered that t1lib does not properly perform bounds checking which can result in a buffer overflow vulnerability. An attacker could send specially crafted input to applications linked against t1lib which could result in a DoS or arbitrary code execution. Note that Tenable Network Securi...

Ubuntu 5.04 / 5.10 : mozilla vulnerabilities (USN-323-1)

Jonas Sicking discovered that under some circumstances persisted XUL attributes are associated with the wrong URL. A malicious website could exploit this to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user. MFSA 2006-35, CVE-2006-2775 Paul Nickerson discovered that content-defined setters o...