Ubuntu 5.04 : mozilla-firefox bug fix (USN-124-2)

USN-124-1 fixed several vulnerabilities of Firefox. After that update, several users experienced XML errors on various actions like adding bookmarks see https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/showbug.cgi?id=10643. After installing these new packages and restarting the browser, these problems should be fixed...

Ubuntu 4.10 : mozilla-firefox vulnerabilities (USN-186-2)

USN-186-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in the Firefox browser for Ubuntu 5.04. This update provides fixed packages for Ubuntu 4.10, which was vulnerable to the same issues. The original advisory is available at http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-186-1 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted...

Ubuntu 4.10 / 5.04 : vim vulnerability (USN-154-1)

Georgi Guninski discovered that it was possible to construct Vim modelines that execute arbitrary shell commands by wrapping them in glob or expand function calls. If an attacker tricked an user to open a file with a specially crafted modeline, he could exploit this to execute arbitrary commands...

Ubuntu 4.10 / 5.04 / 5.10 : libgda2 vulnerability (USN-212-1)

Steve Kemp discovered two format string vulnerabilities in the logging handler of the Gnome database access library. Depending on the application that uses the library, this could have been exploited to execute arbitrary code with the permission of the user running the application. Note that...

Ubuntu 4.10 / 5.04 : php4 vulnerability (USN-207-1)

A bug has been found in the handling of the openbasedir directive handling. Contrary to the specification, the value of openbasedir was handled as a prefix instead of a proper directory name even if it was terminated by a slash '/'. For example, this allowed PHP scripts to access the directory...

Ubuntu 4.10 : imlib2 vulnerabilities (USN-55-1)

Recently, Pavel Kankovsky discovered several buffer overflows in imlib which were fixed in USN-53-1. It was found that imlib2 was vulnerable to similar issues. If an attacker tricked a user into loading a malicious XPM or BMP image, he could exploit this to execute arbitrary code in the context o...

Ubuntu 4.10 / 5.04 / 5.10 : ucd-snmp vulnerability (USN-190-2)

USN-190-1 fixed a vulnerability in the net-snmp library. It was discovered that the same problem also affects the ucs-snmp implementation which is used by the Cyrus email server. Original advisory : A remote Denial of Service has been discovered in the SMNP Simple Network Management Protocol...

Ubuntu 5.04 : kdelibs vulnerability (USN-114-1)

Bruno Rohee discovered a buffer overflow in the PCX decoder of kimgio. If an attacker tricked a user into loading a malicious PCX image with a KDE application, he could exploit this to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user opening the image. Note that Tenable Network Security has...

Ubuntu 4.10 : libdbi-perl vulnerabilities (USN-70-1)

Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pena from the Debian Security Audit Project discovered that the module DBI::ProxyServer in Perl's DBI library created a PID file in an insecure manner. This could allow a symbolic link attack to create or overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user invoking...

USN-194-2: texinfo regression fix

USN-194-1 fixed a vulnerability in the 'texindex' program. Unfortunately this update introduced a regression that caused the program to abort when cleaning up temporary files which are used with extraordinarily large input files. The updated packages fix this...

USN-206-2: Fixed lynx packages for USN-206-1

USN-206-1 fixed a security vulnerability in lynx. Unfortunately the fix contained an error that caused lynx to crash under certain circumstances. The updated packages fix this...

USN-168-1: Gaim vulnerabilities

Daniel Atallah discovered a Denial of Service vulnerability in the file transfer handler of OSCAR the module that handles various instant messaging protocols like ICQ. A remote attacker could crash the Gaim client of an user by attempting to send him a file with a name that contains invalid UTF-8...

USN-157-2: Updated Mozilla Thunderbird Enigmail plugin for Ubuntu 4.10

USN-157-1 fixed some vulnerabilities in the Mozilla Thunderbird email client. The updated Thunderbird version broke compatibility with the Enigmail plugin. As announced in USN-157-1, the Enigmail package was now updated for Ubuntu 4.10 Warty Warthog to work with the new Thunderbird version...

USN-151-1: zlib vulnerability

USN-148-1 fixed an improver input verification of zlib CAN-2005-2096. Markus Oberhumer discovered additional ways a disrupted stream could trigger a buffer overflow and crash the application using zlib, so another update is necessary. zlib is used by hundreds of server and client applications, so...

USN-147-2: Fixed php4-pear packages for USN-147-1

USN-147-1 1 fixed a remote code execution vulnerability in the XMLRPC module of the PEAR library. Unfortunately the packages announced in USN-147-1 were faulty and shipped broken xmlrpc modules. The updated packages ship correct modules. We apologize for the inconvenience. 1...

USN-136-2: Fixed packages for USN-136-1

It was discovered that the packages from USN-136-1 had a flawed patch with regressions that caused the ld linker to fail. The updated packages fix this. We apologize for the inconvenience...

USN-124-2: Fixed packages for USN-124-1

USN-124-1 fixed several vulnerabilities of Firefox. After that update, several users experienced XML errors on various actions like adding bookmarks see https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/showbug.cgi?id=10643. After installing these new packages and restarting the browser, these problems should be fixed...

USN-99-2: Fixed php4 packages for USN-99-1

USN-99-1 fixed a safe mode bypass which allowed malicious PHP scripts to circumvent path restrictions by creating a specially crafted directory whose length exceeded the capacity of the realpath function CAN-2004-1064. However, this caused severe regressions, some applications like SquirrelMail a...