Ubuntu 5.10 / 6.06 LTS / 6.10 : xmms vulnerabilities (USN-445-1)

Sven Krewitt of Secunia Research discovered that XMMS did not correctly handle BMP images when loading GUI skins. If a user were tricked into loading a specially crafted skin, a remote attacker could execute arbitrary code with user privileges. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the...

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 6.10 / 7.04 : samba vulnerabilities (USN-460-1)

Paul Griffith and Andrew Hogue discovered that Samba did not fully drop root privileges while translating SIDs. A remote authenticated user could issue SMB operations during a small window of opportunity and gain root privileges. CVE-2007-2444 Brian Schafer discovered that Samba did not handle ND...

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 6.10 / 7.04 / 7.10 : libpng vulnerabilities (USN-538-1)

It was discovered that libpng did not properly perform bounds checking and comparisons in certain operations. An attacker could send a specially crafted PNG image and cause a denial of service in applications linked against libpng. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding...

Ubuntu 5.04 : php4 regression (USN-320-2)

USN-320-2 fixed several vulnerabilities in PHP. James Manning discovered that the Ubuntu 5.04 update introduced a regression, the function tempnam caused a crash of the PHP interpreter in some circumstances. The updated packages fix this. We apologize for the inconvenience. Note that Tenable...

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...

Ubuntu 5.10 / 6.06 LTS / 6.10 : firefox vulnerability (USN-443-1)

A flaw was discovered in how Firefox handled PASV FTP responses. If a user were tricked into visiting a malicious FTP server, a remote attacker could perform a port-scan of machines within the user's network, leading to private information disclosure. Note that Tenable Network Security has...

Ubuntu 5.10 / 6.06 LTS : firefox vulnerabilities (USN-398-2)

USN-398-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox 2.0. This update provides the corresponding updates for Firefox 1.5. Various flaws have been reported that allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code with user privileges by tricking the user into opening a malicious web page containing JavaScript or SV...

Ubuntu 5.10 : mysql-dfsg-4.1 vulnerability (USN-321-1)

Jean-David Maillefer discovered a format string bug in the dateformat function's error reporting. By calling the function with invalid arguments, an authenticated user could exploit this to crash the server. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly...

Ubuntu 5.10 : mysql-dfsg-4.1 vulnerability (USN-306-1)

MySQL did not correctly handle NULL as the second argument to the strtodate function. An authenticated user could exploit this to crash the server. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to...

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 : linux-source-2.6.15 vulnerability (USN-319-1)

A race condition has been discovered in the file permission handling of the /proc file system. A local attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary code with full root privileges. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu securit...

Ubuntu 5.04 / 5.10 / 6.06 LTS : freetype vulnerabilities (USN-291-1)

Several integer overflows have been discovered in the FreeType library. By tricking a user into installing and/or opening a specially crafted font file, these could be exploited to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of that user. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the...

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 6.10 / 7.04 : pptpd vulnerability (USN-459-1)

A flaw was discovered in the PPTP tunnel server. Remote attackers could send a specially crafted packet and disrupt established PPTP tunnels, leading to a denial of service. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory...

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 / 6.10 : squid vulnerabilities (USN-414-1)

David Duncan Ross Palmer and Henrik Nordstrom discovered that squid incorrectly handled special characters in FTP URLs. Remote users with access to squid could crash the server leading to a denial of service. CVE-2007-0247 Erick Dantas Rotole and Henrik Nordstrom discovered that squid could end u...

Ubuntu 5.10 / 6.06 LTS / 6.10 : ekiga, gnomemeeting vulnerabilities (USN-426-1)

Mu Security discovered a format string vulnerability in Ekiga. If a user was running Ekiga and listening for incoming calls, a remote attacker could send a crafted call request, and execute arbitrary code with the user's privileges. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding...

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 6.10 / 7.04 : evolution-data-server vulnerability (USN-475-1)

Philip Van Hoof discovered that the IMAP client in Evolution did not correctly verify the SEQUENCE value. A malicious or spoofed server could exploit this to execute arbitrary code with user privileges. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from...

Ubuntu 7.04 : pulseaudio vulnerability (USN-465-1)

Luigi Auriemma discovered multiple flaws in pulseaudio's network processing code. If an unauthenticated attacker sent specially crafted requests to the pulseaudio daemon, it would crash, resulting in a denial of service. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description...

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 6.06 LTS / 6.10 / 7.04 : libapache2-mod-perl2 vulnerability (USN-488-1)

Alex Solovey discovered that modperl did not correctly validate certain regular expression matches. A remote attacker could send a specially crafted request to a web application using modperl, causing the web server to monopolize CPU resources. This could lead to a remote denial of service. Note...