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USN-2567-1 ntp vulnerabilities
Miroslav Lichvar discovered that NTP incorrectly validated MAC fields. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass authentication and spoof packets. CVE-2015-1798 Miroslav Lichvar discovered that NTP incorrectly handled certain invalid packets. A remote attacker could possibly use...
USN-2566-1 dpkg vulnerability
Jann Horn discovered that dpkg incorrectly validated signatures when extracting local source packages. If a user or an automated system were tricked into unpacking a specially crafted source package, a remote attacker could bypass signature verification checks...
USN-2564-1 linux-lts-utopic vulnerabilities
An integer overflow was discovered in the stack randomization feature of the Linux kernel on 64 bit platforms. A local attacker could exploit this flaw to bypass the Address Space Layout Randomization ASLR protection mechanism. CVE-2015-1593 An information leak was discovered in the Linux Kernel'...
USN-2563-1 linux vulnerabilities
Sun Baoliang discovered a use after free flaw in the Linux kernel's SCTP Stream Control Transmission Protocol subsystem during INIT collisions. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash or potentially escalate their privileges on the system. CVE-2015-1421...
USN-2559-1 libtasn1-3, libtasn1-6 vulnerability
Hanno Böck discovered that Libtasn1 incorrectly handled certain ASN.1 data. A remote attacker could possibly exploit this with specially crafted ASN.1 data and cause applications using Libtasn1 to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code...
USN-2558-1 mailman vulnerability
It was discovered that Mailman incorrectly handled special characters in list names. A local attacker could use this issue to perform a path traversal attack and execute arbitrary code as the Mailman user...
USN-2556-1 oxide-qt vulnerabilities
It was discovered that Chromium did not properly handle the interaction of IPC, the gamepad API and V8. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program...
USN-2557-1 firefox vulnerability
Muneaki Nishimura discovered a flaw in Mozilla's HTTP Alternative Services implementation which meant SSL certificate verification could be bypassed in some circumstances. A remote attacker could potentially exploit this to conduct a machine-in-the-middle attack. CVE-2015-0799...
USN-2552-1 thunderbird vulnerabilities
Olli Pettay and Boris Zbarsky discovered an issue during anchor navigations in some circumstances. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted message with scripting enabled, an attacker could potentially exploit this to bypass same-origin policy restrictions. CVE-2015-0801 Christoph...
USN-2553-2 tiff regression
USN-2553-1 fixed vulnerabilities in LibTIFF. One of the security fixes caused a regression when saving certain TIFF files with a Predictor tag. The problematic patch has been temporarily backed out until a more complete fix is available. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory...
USN-2550-1 firefox vulnerabilities
Olli Pettay and Boris Zbarsky discovered an issue during anchor navigations in some circumstances. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to bypass same-origin policy restrictions. CVE-2015-0801 Bobby Holley discovered that...
USN-2555-1 libgcrypt11, libgcrypt20 vulnerabilities
Daniel Genkin, Lev Pachmanov, Itamar Pipman, and Eran Tromer discovered that Libgcrypt was susceptible to an attack via physical side channels. A local attacker could use this attack to possibly recover private keys. CVE-2014-3591 Daniel Genkin, Adi Shamir, and Eran Tromer discovered that Libgcry...
USN-2554-1 gnupg, gnupg2 vulnerabilities
Daniel Genkin, Lev Pachmanov, Itamar Pipman, and Eran Tromer discovered that GnuPG was susceptible to an attack via physical side channels. A local attacker could use this attack to possibly recover private keys. CVE-2014-3591 Daniel Genkin, Adi Shamir, and Eran Tromer discovered that GnuPG was...
USN-2553-1 tiff vulnerabilities
William Robinet discovered that LibTIFF incorrectly handled certain malformed images. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted image, a remote attacker could crash the application, leading to a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code with user...
USN-2551-1 jakarta-taglibs-standard vulnerability
David Jorm discovered that the Apache Standard Taglibs incorrectly handled external XML entities. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code or perform other external XML entity attacks...
USN-2549-1 libarchive vulnerabilities
It was discovered that the libarchive bsdcpio utility extracted absolute paths by default without using the --insecure flag, contrary to expectations. If a user or automated system were tricked into extracting cpio archives containing absolute paths, a remote attacker may be able to write to...
USN-2548-1 batik vulnerability
Nicolas Gregoire and Kevin Schaller discovered that Batik would load XML external entities by default. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted SVG file, an attacker could possibly obtain access to arbitrary files or cause resource consumption...
USN-2547-1 mono vulnerabilities
It was discovered that the Mono TLS implementation was vulnerable to the SKIP-TLS vulnerability. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform client impersonation attacks. CVE-2015-2318 It was discovered that the Mono TLS implementation was vulnerable to the FREAK vulnerability. A...
USN-2545-1 linux-lts-utopic vulnerabilities
A flaw was discovered in the automatic loading of modules in the crypto subsystem of the Linux kernel. A local user could exploit this flaw to load installed kernel modules, increasing the attack surface and potentially using this to gain administrative privileges. CVE-2013-7421 A flaw was...
USN-2544-1 linux vulnerabilities
Eric Windisch discovered flaw in how the Linux kernel's XFS file system replaces remote attributes. A local access with access to an XFS file system could exploit this flaw to escalate their privileges. CVE-2015-0274 A flaw was discovered in the automatic loading of modules in the crypto subsyste...
USN-2540-1 gnutls26, gnutls28 vulnerabilities
It was discovered that GnuTLS did not perform date and time checks on CA certificates, contrary to expectations. This issue only affected Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. CVE-2014-8155 Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos discovered that GnuTLS incorrectly verified that signature algorithms matched. A remote attacker could...
USN-2539-1 python-django vulnerabilities
Andrey Babak discovered that Django incorrectly handled striptags. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Django to enter an infinite loop, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.10. CVE-2015-2316 Daniel Chatfield discovered tha...
USN-2538-1 firefox vulnerabilities
A flaw was discovered in the implementation of typed array bounds checking in the Javascript just-in-time compilation. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacked could exploit this to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox...
USN-2537-1 openssl vulnerabilities
It was discovered that OpenSSL incorrectly handled malformed EC private key files. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause OpenSSL to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or execute arbitrary code. CVE-2015-0209 Stephen Henson discovered that OpenSSL incorrectly handled...
USN-2536-1 libxfont vulnerabilities
Ilja van Sprundel, Alan Coopersmith, and William Robinet discovered that libXfont incorrectly handled malformed bdf fonts. A local attacker could use this issue to cause libXfont to crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code in order to gain privileges...
USN-2535-1 php5 vulnerabilities
Thomas Jarosch discovered that PHP incorrectly limited recursion in the fileinfo extension. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause PHP to consume resources or crash, resulting in a denial of service. CVE-2014-8117 S. Paraschoudis discovered that PHP incorrectly handled memory in...
USN-2532-1 cups-filters vulnerability
It was discovered that cups-browsed incorrectly filtered remote printer names and strings. A remote attacker could use this issue to possibly execute arbitrary commands...
USN-2533-1 sudo vulnerability
Jakub Wilk and Stephane Chazelas discovered that Sudo incorrectly handled the TZ environment variable. An attacker with Sudo access could possibly use this issue to open arbitrary files, bypassing intended permissions...
USN-2531-1 requests vulnerability
Matthew Daley discovered that Requests incorrectly handled cookies without host values when being redirected. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform session fixation or cookie stealing attacks...
USN-2529-1 linux-lts-utopic vulnerability
It was discovered that the Linux kernel's Infiniband subsystem did not properly sanitize its input parameters while registering memory regions from userspace. A local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash or to potentially gain administrative privileges...
USN-2528-1 linux vulnerability
It was discovered that the Linux kernel's Infiniband subsystem did not properly sanitize its input parameters while registering memory regions from userspace. A local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash or to potentially gain administrative privileges...
USN-2524-1 ecryptfs-utils vulnerability
Sylvain Pelissier discovered that eCryptfs did not generate a random salt when encrypting the mount passphrase with the login password. An attacker could use this issue to discover the login password used to protect the mount passphrase and gain unintended access to the encrypted files...
USN-2521-1 oxide-qt vulnerabilities
Several out-of-bounds write bugs were discovered in Skia. 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 application crash or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program...
USN-2523-1 apache2 vulnerabilities
Martin Holst Swende discovered that the modheaders module allowed HTTP trailers to replace HTTP headers during request processing. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass RequestHeaders directives. CVE-2013-5704 Mark Montague discovered that the modcache module incorrectly handl...
USN-2505-2 firefox regression
USN-2505-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. This update removed the deprecated "-remote" command-line switch that some older software still depends on. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: Matthew Noorenberghe discovered that allowlisted...
USN-2522-1 icu vulnerabilities
It was discovered that ICU incorrectly handled memory operations when processing fonts. If an application using ICU processed crafted data, an attacker could cause it to crash or potentially execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. This issue only affected Ubun...
USN-2516-3 linux vulnerabilities
USN-2516-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel, and the fix in USN-2516-2 was incomplete. There was an unrelated regression in the use of the virtual counter CNTVCT on arm64 architectures. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: A flaw w...
USN-2506-1 thunderbird vulnerabilities
Armin Razmdjou discovered that contents of locally readable files could be made available via manipulation of form autocomplete in some circumstances. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted message with scripting enabled, an attacker could potentially exploit this to obtain...
USN-2516-2 linux vulnerability
USN-2516-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel. There was an unrelated regression in the use of the virtual counter CNTVCT on arm64 architectures. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: A flaw was discovered in the Kernel Virtual...
USN-2520-1 cups vulnerability
Peter De Wachter discovered that CUPS incorrectly handled certain malformed compressed raster files. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause CUPS to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code...
USN-2519-1 eglibc, glibc vulnerabilities
Arnaud Le Blanc discovered that the GNU C Library incorrectly handled file descriptors when resolving DNS queries under high load. This may cause a denial of service in other applications, or an information leak. This issue only affected Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS...
USN-2517-1 linux-lts-utopic vulnerabilities
A flaw was discovered in the Kernel Virtual Machine's KVM emulation of the SYSTENTER instruction when the guest OS does not initialize the SYSENTER MSRs. A guest OS user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service of the guest OS crash or potentially gain privileges on the guest OS...
USN-2516-1 linux vulnerabilities
A flaw was discovered in the Kernel Virtual Machine's KVM emulation of the SYSTENTER instruction when the guest OS does not initialize the SYSENTER MSRs. A guest OS user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service of the guest OS crash or potentially gain privileges on the guest OS...
USN-2505-1 firefox vulnerabilities
Matthew Noorenberghe discovered that Mozilla domains in the allowlist could make UITour API calls from background tabs. If one of these domains were compromised and open in a background tab, an attacker could potentially exploit this to conduct clickjacking attacks. CVE-2015-0819 Jan de Mooij...
USN-2510-1 freetype vulnerabilities
Mateusz Jurczyk discovered that FreeType did not correctly handle certain malformed font files. If a user were tricked into using a specially crafted font file, a remote attacker could cause FreeType to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code with user privileges...
USN-2509-1 ca-certificates update
The ca-certificates package contained outdated CA certificates. This update refreshes the included certificates to those contained in the 20141019 package...
USN-2508-1 samba vulnerability
Richard van Eeden discovered that the Samba smbd file services incorrectly handled memory. A remote attacker could use this issue to possibly execute arbitrary code with root privileges...
USN-2507-1 e2fsprogs vulnerabilities
Jose Duart discovered that e2fsprogs incorrectly handled invalid block group descriptor data. A local attacker could use this issue with a crafted filesystem image to possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2015-0247, CVE-2015-1572...
USN-2504-1 nss update
The NSS package contained outdated CA certificates. This update refreshes the NSS package to version 3.17.4 which includes the latest CA certificate bundle...
USN-2503-1 bind9 vulnerability
Jan-Piet Mens discovered that Bind incorrectly handled Trust Anchor Management. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause bind to crash, resulting in a denial of service...