Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 6.10 : libnet-dns-perl vulnerabilities (USN-483-1)

Peter Johannes Holzer discovered that the Net::DNS Perl module had predictable sequence numbers. This could allow remote attackers to carry out DNS spoofing, leading to possible man-in-the-middle attacks. CVE-2007-3377 Steffen Ullrich discovered that the Net::DNS Perl module did not correctly...

Ubuntu 5.04 / 5.10 / 6.06 LTS : apache2 vulnerability (USN-328-1)

Mark Dowd discovered an off-by-one buffer overflow in the modrewrite module's ldap scheme handling. On systems which activate 'RewriteEngine on', a remote attacker could exploit certain rewrite rules to crash Apache, or potentially even execute arbitrary code this has not been verified...

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS : mysql-dfsg-5.0 vulnerabilities (USN-338-1)

Dmitri Lenev discovered that arguments of setuid SQL functions were evaluated in the security context of the functions' definer instead of its caller. An authenticated user with the privilege to call such a function could exploit this to execute arbitrary statements with the privileges of the...

Ubuntu 6.10 / 7.04 : hplip vulnerability (USN-530-1)

It was discovered that the hpssd tool of hplip did not correctly handle shell meta-characters. A local attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary commands as the hplip user. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security...

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 6.10 / 7.04 : tcpdump vulnerability (USN-492-1)

A flaw was discovered in the BGP dissector of tcpdump. Remote attackers could send specially crafted packets and execute arbitrary code with user privileges. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has...

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 6.10 / 7.04 : vim vulnerability (USN-505-1)

Ulf Harnhammar discovered that vim does not properly sanitise the 'helptagsone' function when running the 'helptags' command. By tricking a user into running a crafted help file, a remote attacker could execute arbitrary code with the user's privileges. Note that Tenable Network Security has...

Ubuntu 5.10 / 6.06 LTS / 6.10 : imlib2 regression fix (USN-376-2)

USN-376-1 provided an update to imlib2 to fix several security vulnerabilities. Unfortunately the update broke JPG file handling in certain situations. This update corrects this problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description...

Ubuntu 6.10 : postgresql-8.1 vulnerabilities (USN-369-2)

USN-369-1 fixed three minor PostgreSQL 8.1 vulnerabilities for Ubuntu 6.06 LTS. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 6.10. Michael Fuhr discovered an incorrect type check when handling unknown literals. By attempting to coerce such a literal to the ANYARRAY type, a local...

USN-416-2: nvidia-glx-config regression

USN-416-1 fixed various vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel. Unfortunately that update caused the 'nvidia-glx-config' script to not work any more. The new version fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience...

USN-417-3: PostgreSQL regression

USN-417-2 fixed a severe regression in the PostgreSQL server that was introduced in USN-417-1 and caused some valid queries to be aborted with a type error. This update fixes a similar but much less prominent error. At the same time, PostgreSQL is updated to version 8.1.8, which fixes a range of...

USN-398-3: Firefox theme regression

USN-398-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. Due to the updated version, a flaw was uncovered in the Firefox Themes bundle, which erroneously reported to be incompatible with the updated Firefox. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience...

USN-376-2: imlib2 regression fix

USN-376-1 provided an update to imlib2 to fix several security vulnerabilities. Unfortunately the update broke JPG file handling in certain situations. This update corrects this problem. We apologize for the inconvenience...

Ubuntu 5.04 / 5.10 : nagios vulnerability (USN-287-1)

The nagios CGI scripts did not sufficiently check the validity of the HTTP Content-Length attribute. By sending a specially crafted HTTP request with an invalidly large Content-Length value to the Nagios server, a remote attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary code with web server...

Ubuntu 5.04 / 5.10 : libnasl vulnerability (USN-279-1)

Jayesh KS discovered that the naslsplit function in the NASL Nessus Attack Scripting Language library did not check for a zero-length separator argument, which lead to an invalid memory allocation. This library is primarily used in the Nessus security scanner; a remote attacker could exploit this...

Ubuntu 5.04 / 5.10 : mysql-dfsg-4.1, mysql-dfsg vulnerabilities (USN-283-1)

Stefano Di Paola discovered an information leak in the login packet parser. By sending a specially crafted malformed login packet, a remote attacker could exploit this to read a random piece of memory, which could potentially reveal sensitive data. CVE-2006-1516 Stefano Di Paola also found a...

Ubuntu 4.10 / 5.04 / 5.10 : dia vulnerabilities (USN-266-1)

Three buffer overflows were discovered in the Xfig file format importer. By tricking a user into opening a specially crafted .fig file with dia, an attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary code with the user's privileges. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding...

Ubuntu 5.10 : linux-source-2.6.12 vulnerability (USN-250-1)

Herbert Xu discovered a remote Denial of Service vulnerability in the ICMP packet handler. In some situations a memory allocation was released twice, which led to memory corruption. A remote attacker could exploit this to crash the machine. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the...

Ubuntu 4.10 / 5.04 / 5.10 : unzip regression fix (USN-248-2)

USN-248-1 fixed a vulnerability in unzip. However, that update inadvertedly changed the field order in the contents listing output, which broke unzip frontends like file-roller. The updated packages fix this regression. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description...

Ubuntu 4.10 / 5.04 / 5.10 : imagemagick vulnerabilities (USN-246-1)

Florian Weimer discovered that the delegate code did not correctly handle file names which embed shell commands CVE-2005-4601. Daniel Kobras found a format string vulnerability in the SetImageInfo function CVE-2006-0082. By tricking a user into processing an image file with a specially crafted fi...

Ubuntu 4.10 / 5.04 / 5.10 : mailman vulnerabilities (USN-242-1)

Aliet Santiesteban Sifontes discovered a remote Denial of Service vulnerability in the attachment handler. An email with an attachment whose filename contained invalid UTF-8 characters caused mailman to crash. CVE-2005-3573 Mailman did not sufficiently verify the validity of email dates. Very lar...