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USN-2709-1 pollinate update
The pollinate package bundles the certificate for entropy.ubuntu.com. This update refreshes the certificate to match the new certificate for the server...
USN-2702-2 ubufox update
USN-2702-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. This update provides the corresponding updates for Ubufox. Original advisory details: Gary Kwong, Christian Holler, Byron Campen, Tyson Smith, Bobby Holley, Chris Coulson, and Eric Rahm discovered multiple memory safety issues in Firefox. If a user wer...
USN-2702-1 firefox vulnerabilities
Gary Kwong, Christian Holler, Byron Campen, Tyson Smith, Bobby Holley, Chris Coulson, and Eric Rahm discovered multiple memory safety issues in Firefox. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service via...
USN-2707-1 firefox vulnerability
Cody Crews discovered a way to violate the same-origin policy to inject script in to a non-privileged part of the PDF viewer. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could exploit this to read sensitive information from local files. CVE-2015-4495...
USN-2705-1 python-keystoneclient, python-keystonemiddleware vulnerabilities
Qin Zhao discovered Keystone disabled certification verification when the "insecure" option is set in a paste configuration paste.ini file regardless of the value, which allows remote attackers to conduct machine-in-the-middle attacks via a crafted certificate. CVE-2014-7144 Brant Knudson...
USN-2704-1 swift vulnerabilities
Rajaneesh Singh discovered Swift does not properly enforce metadata limits. An attacker could abuse this issue to store more metadata than allowed by policy. CVE-2014-7960 Clay Gerrard discovered Swift allowed users to delete the latest version of object regardless of object permissions when...
USN-2677-1 oxide-qt vulnerabilities
An uninitialized value issue was discovered in ICU. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service. CVE-2015-1270 A use-after-free was discovered in the GPU process implementation in Chromium. If a user wer...
USN-2700-1 linux vulnerabilities
Andy Lutomirski discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel's handling of nested NMIs non-maskable interrupts. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash or potentially escalate their privileges. CVE-2015-3290 Andy Lutomirski discovered a flaw that allo...
USN-2699-1 hplip vulnerability
Enrico Zini discovered that HPLIP used a short GPG key ID when downloading keys from the keyserver. An attacker could possibly use this to return a different key with a duplicate short key id and perform a machine-in-the-middle attack on printer plugin installations...
USN-2698-1 sqlite3 vulnerabilities
It was discovered that SQLite incorrectly handled skip-scan optimization. An attacker could use this issue to cause applications using SQLite to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. CVE-2013-7443 Michal Zalewski...
USN-2697-1 ghostscript vulnerability
William Robinet and Stefan Cornelius discovered that Ghostscript did not correctly handle certain Postscript files. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted file, an attacker could cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code...
USN-2696-1 openjdk-7 vulnerabilities
Several vulnerabilities were discovered in the OpenJDK JRE related to information disclosure, data integrity, and availability. An attacker could exploit these to cause a denial of service or expose sensitive data over the network. CVE-2015-2590, CVE-2015-2628, CVE-2015-4731, CVE-2015-4732,...
USN-2695-1 tidy vulnerabilities
Fernando Muñoz discovered that HTML Tidy incorrectly handled memory. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing specially crafted data, applications linked against HTML Tidy could be made to crash, leading to a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code...
USN-2694-1 pcre3 vulnerabilities
Michele Spagnuolo discovered that PCRE incorrectly handled certain regular expressions. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause applications using PCRE to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. CVE-2014-8964...
USN-2693-1 bind9 vulnerabilities
Jonathan Foote discovered that Bind incorrectly handled certain TKEY queries. A remote attacker could use this issue with a specially crafted packet to cause Bind to crash, resulting in a denial of service. CVE-2015-5477 Pories Ediansyah discovered that Bind incorrectly handled certain...
USN-2692-1 qemu vulnerabilities
Matt Tait discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled PIT emulation. In a non-default configuration, a malicious guest could use this issue to cause a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code on the host as the user running the QEMU process. In the default installation, when QEMU is use...
USN-2690-1 linux-lts-vivid vulnerabilities
Andy Lutomirski discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel's handling of nested NMIs non-maskable interrupts. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash or potentially escalate their privileges. CVE-2015-3290 Colin King discovered a flaw in the addkey...
USN-2689-1 linux-lts-utopic vulnerabilities
Andy Lutomirski discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel's handling of nested NMIs non-maskable interrupts. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash or potentially escalate their privileges. CVE-2015-3290 Colin King discovered a flaw in the addkey...
USN-2688-1 linux vulnerabilities
Andy Lutomirski discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel's handling of nested NMIs non-maskable interrupts. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash or potentially escalate their privileges. CVE-2015-3290 Colin King discovered a flaw in the addkey...
USN-2686-1 apache2 vulnerabilities
It was discovered that the Apache HTTP Server incorrectly parsed chunk headers. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform HTTP request smuggling attacks. CVE-2015-3183 It was discovered that the Apache HTTP Server incorrectly handled the apsomeauthrequired API. A remote attacker...
USN-2683-1 linux-lts-vivid vulnerabilities
A flaw was discovered in the kvm kernel virtual machine subsystem's kvmapichasevents function. A unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2015-4692 Daniel Borkmann reported a kernel crash in the Linux kernel's BPF filter JIT optimization. A...
USN-2682-1 linux-lts-utopic vulnerabilities
A flaw was discovered in the kvm kernel virtual machine subsystem's kvmapichasevents function. A unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2015-4692 A flaw was discovered in how the Linux kernel handles invalid UDP checksums. A remote attacker...
USN-2681-1 linux vulnerabilities
A flaw was discovered in the user space memory copying for the pipe iovecs in the Linux kernel. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash or potentially escalate their privileges. CVE-2015-1805 A flaw was discovered in the kvm kernel virtual...
USN-2676-1 nbd vulnerabilities
It was discovered that NBD incorrectly handled IP address matching. A remote attacker could use this issue with an IP address that has a partial match and bypass access restrictions. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. CVE-2013-6410 Tuomas Räsänen discovered that NBD incorrectly handled...
USN-2675-1 lxc vulnerabilities
Roman Fiedler discovered that LXC had a directory traversal flaw when creating lock files. A local attacker could exploit this flaw to create an arbitrary file as the root user. CVE-2015-1331 Roman Fiedler discovered that LXC incorrectly trusted the container's proc filesystem to set up AppArmor...
USN-2674-1 mysql-5.5, mysql-5.6 vulnerabilities
Multiple security issues were discovered in MySQL and this update includes new upstream MySQL versions to fix these issues. MySQL has been updated to 5.5.44 in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.10. Ubuntu 15.04 has been updated to MySQL 5.6.25. In addition to security fixes, the...
USN-2673-1 thunderbird vulnerabilities
Karthikeyan Bhargavan discovered that NSS incorrectly handled state transitions for the TLS state machine. If a remote attacker were able to perform a machine-in-the-middle attack, this flaw could be exploited to skip the ServerKeyExchange message and remove the forward-secrecy property...
USN-2656-1 firefox vulnerabilities
Karthikeyan Bhargavan discovered that NSS incorrectly handled state transitions for the TLS state machine. If a remote attacker were able to perform a machine-in-the-middle attack, this flaw could be exploited to skip the ServerKeyExchange message and remove the forward-secrecy property...
USN-2672-1 nss vulnerabilities
Karthikeyan Bhargavan discovered that NSS incorrectly handled state transitions for the TLS state machine. If a remote attacker were able to perform a machine-in-the-middle attack, this flaw could be exploited to skip the ServerKeyExchange message and remove the forward-secrecy property...
USN-2671-1 python-django vulnerabilities
Eric Peterson and Lin Hua Cheng discovered that Django incorrectly handled session records. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause a denial of service. CVE-2015-5143 Sjoerd Job Postmus discovered that DJango incorrectly handled newline characters when performing validation. A remote...
USN-2670-1 libwmf vulnerabilities
Fernando Muñoz and Stefan Cornelius discovered that libwmf incorrectly handled certain malformed images. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a crafted image file, an attacker could cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code with privileges of the user invoking the...
USN-2669-1 bind9 vulnerability
Breno Silveira Soares discovered that Bind incorrectly handled certain zone data when configured to perform DNSSEC validation. A remote attacker could use this issue with specially crafted zone data to cause Bind to crash, resulting in a denial of service...
USN-2665-1 linux-lts-vivid vulnerabilities
A race condition was discovered in the Linux kernel's filehandle size verification. A local user could exploit this flaw to read potentially sensative memory locations. CVE-2015-1420 A underflow error was discovered in the Linux kernel's Ozmo Devices USB over WiFi host controller driver. A remote...
USN-2664-1 linux-lts-utopic vulnerabilities
A race condition was discovered in the Linux kernel's filehandle size verification. A local user could exploit this flaw to read potentially sensative memory locations. CVE-2015-1420 A underflow error was discovered in the Linux kernel's Ozmo Devices USB over WiFi host controller driver. A remote...
USN-2663-1 linux vulnerabilities
Alexandre Oliva reported a race condition flaw in the btrfs file system's handling of extended attributes xattrs. A local attacker could exploit this flaw to bypass ACLs and potentially escalate privileges. CVE-2014-9710 A race condition was discovered in the Linux kernel's filehandle size...
USN-2658-1 php5 vulnerabilities
Neal Poole and Tomas Hoger discovered that PHP incorrectly handled NULL bytes in file paths. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass intended restrictions and create or obtain access to sensitive files. CVE-2015-3411, CVE-2015-3412, CVE-2015-4025, CVE-2015-4026, CVE-2015-4598...
USN-2659-1 cups-filters vulnerabilities
Petr Sklenar discovered that the cups-filters texttopdf filter incorrectly handled line sizes. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code as the lp user. CVE-2015-3258, CVE-2015-3279...
USN-2652-1 oxide-qt vulnerabilities
It was discovered that Chromium did not properly consider the scheme when determining whether a URL is associated with a WebUI SiteInstance. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to bypass security restrictions. CVE-2015-1266 ...
USN-2657-1 unattended-upgrades vulnerability
It was discovered that unattended-upgrades incorrectly performed authentication checks in certain configurations. If a remote attacker were able to perform a machine-in-the-middle attack, this flaw could potentially be used to install altered packages...
USN-2654-1 tomcat7 vulnerabilities
It was discovered that the Tomcat XML parser incorrectly handled XML External Entities XXE. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to read arbitrary files. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. CVE-2014-0119 It was discovered that Tomcat incorrectly handled data with malformed chunk...
USN-2653-1 python2.7, python3.2, python3.4 vulnerabilities
It was discovered that multiple Python protocol libraries incorrectly limited certain data when connecting to servers. A malicious ftp, http, imap, nntp, pop or smtp server could use this issue to cause a denial of service. CVE-2013-1752 It was discovered that the Python xmlrpc library did not...
USN-2651-1 patch vulnerabilities
Jakub Wilk discovered that GNU patch did not correctly handle file paths in patch files. An attacker could specially craft a patch file that could overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user invoking the program. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. CVE-2010-4651 László...
USN-2644-2 linux-lts-utopic regression
The Fix for CVE-2015-1328 introduced a regression into the Linux kernel's overlayfs file system. The removal of a directory that only exists on the lower layer results in a kernel panic. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: Philip Pettersson discovered a privilege...
USN-2643-2 linux regression
The Fix for CVE-2015-1328 introduced a regression into the Linux kernel's overlayfs file system. The removal of a directory that only exists on the lower layer results in a kernel panic. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: Philip Pettersson discovered a privilege...
USN-2650-1 wpa, wpasupplicant vulnerabilities
Kostya Kortchinsky discovered multiple flaws in wpasupplicant and hostapd. A remote attacker could use these issues to cause wpasupplicant or hostapd to crash, resulting in a denial of service. CVE-2015-4141, CVE-2015-4142, CVE-2015-4143, CVE-2015-4144, CVE-2015-4145, CVE-2015-4146...
USN-2649-1 devscripts vulnerability
It was discovered that the uupdate tool incorrectly handled symlinks. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing specially crafted files, a remote attacker could possibly replace arbitrary files, leading to a privilege escalation...
USN-2648-1 aptdaemon vulnerability
Tavis Ormandy discovered that Aptdeamon incorrectly handled the simulate dbus method. A local attacker could use this issue to possibly expose sensitive information, or perform other file access as the root user...
USN-2645-1 linux-lts-vivid vulnerability
Philip Pettersson discovered a privilege escalation when using overlayfs mounts inside of user namespaces. A local user could exploit this flaw to gain administrative privileges on the system...
USN-2644-1 linux-lts-utopic vulnerability
Philip Pettersson discovered a privilege escalation when using overlayfs mounts inside of user namespaces. A local user could exploit this flaw to gain administrative privileges on the system...
USN-2643-1 linux vulnerability
Philip Pettersson discovered a privilege escalation when using overlayfs mounts inside of user namespaces. A local user could exploit this flaw to gain administrative privileges on the system...