USN-2306-1 eglibc vulnerabilities

Maksymilian Arciemowicz discovered that the GNU C Library incorrectly handled the getaddrinfo function. An attacker could use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. CVE-2013-4357 It was discovered that the GNU C Library incorrectly handled the...

USN-2305-1 samba vulnerability

Volker Lendecke discovered that the Samba NetBIOS name service daemon incorrectly handled certain memory operations. A remote attacker could use this issue to execute arbitrary code as the root user...

USN-2304-1 kde4libs vulnerability

It was discovered that kauth was using polkit in an unsafe manner. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass intended polkit authorizations...

USN-2303-1 unity vulnerability

It was discovered that in certain circumstances Unity failed to successfully grab the keyboard when switching to the lock screen. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to run commands, and unlock the current session...

USN-2302-1 tomcat6, tomcat7 vulnerabilities

David Jorm discovered that Tomcat incorrectly handled certain requests submitted using chunked transfer encoding. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause the Tomcat server to consume resources, resulting in a denial of service. CVE-2014-0075 It was discovered that Tomcat did not properly...

USN-2300-1 lzo2 vulnerability

Don A. Bailey discovered that LZO incorrectly handled certain input data. An attacker could use this issue to cause LZO to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code...

USN-2298-1 oxide-qt vulnerabilities

A type confusion bug was discovered in V8. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via renderer crash, or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the sandboxed render process. CVE-2014-1730 A...

USN-2299-1 apache2 vulnerabilities

Marek Kroemeke discovered that the modproxy module incorrectly handled certain requests. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause the server to stop responding, leading to a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. CVE-2014-0117 Giancarlo Pellegrino and Davide Balzarot...

USN-2296-1 thunderbird vulnerabilities

Christian Holler, David Keeler and Byron Campen discovered multiple memory safety issues in Thunderbird. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted message with scripting enabled, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service via application crash, or...

USN-2295-1 firefox vulnerabilities

Christian Holler, David Keeler, Byron Campen, Gary Kwong, Jesse Ruderman, Andrew McCreight, Alon Zakai, Bobby Holley, Jonathan Watt, Shu-yu Guo, Steve Fink, Terrence Cole, Gijs Kruitbosch and Cătălin Badea discovered multiple memory safety issues in Firefox. If a user were tricked in to opening a...

USN-2294-1 libtasn1-3, libtasn1-6 vulnerabilities

It was discovered that Libtasn1 incorrectly handled certain ASN.1 data structures. An attacker could exploit this with specially crafted ASN.1 data and cause applications using Libtasn1 to crash, resulting in a denial of service. CVE-2014-3467 It was discovered that Libtasn1 incorrectly handled...

USN-2293-1 cups vulnerability

Francisco Alonso discovered that the CUPS web interface incorrectly validated permissions on rss files. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass file permissions and read arbitrary files, possibly leading to a privilege escalation...

USN-2292-1 liblwp-protocol-https-perl vulnerability

It was discovered that the LWP::Protocol::https perl module incorrectly disabled peer certificate verification completely when only hostname verification was requested to be disabled. If a remote attacker were able to perform a machine-in-the-middle attack, this flaw could possibly be exploited i...

USN-2291-1 mysql-5.5 vulnerabilities

Multiple security issues were discovered in MySQL and this update includes a new upstream MySQL version to fix these issues. MySQL has been updated to 5.5.38. In addition to security fixes, the updated packages contain bug fixes, new features, and possibly incompatible changes. Please see the...

USN-2290-1 linux vulnerabilities

Sasha Levin reported a flaw in the Linux kernel's point-to-point protocol PPP when used with the Layer Two Tunneling Protocol L2TP. A local user could exploit this flaw to gain administrative privileges. CVE-2014-4943 Salva Peiró discovered an information leak in the Linux kernel's media- device...

USN-2280-1 miniupnpc vulnerability

It was discovered that MiniUPnPc incorrectly handled certain buffer lengths. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause applications using MiniUPnPc to crash, resulting in a denial of service...

USN-2279-1 transmission vulnerability

Ben Hawkes discovered that Transmission incorrectly handled certain peer messages. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code...

USN-2278-1 file vulnerabilities

Mike Frysinger discovered that the file awk script detector used multiple wildcard with unlimited repetitions. An attacker could use this issue to cause file to consume resources, resulting in a denial of service. CVE-2013-7345 Francisco Alonso discovered that file incorrectly handled certain CDF...

USN-2276-1 php5 vulnerabilities

Francisco Alonso discovered that the PHP Fileinfo component incorrectly handled certain CDF documents. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause PHP to hang or crash, resulting in a denial of service. CVE-2014-0207, CVE-2014-3478, CVE-2014-3479, CVE-2014-3480, CVE-2014-3487 Stefan Esser...

USN-2275-1 dbus vulnerabilities

Alban Crequy discovered that dbus-daemon incorrectly sent AccessDenied errors to the service instead of the client when enforcing permissions. A local user can use this issue to possibly deny access to the service. CVE-2014-3477 Alban Crequy discovered that dbus-daemon incorrectly handled certain...

USN-2274-1 linux vulnerability

Andy Lutomirski discovered a flaw with the Linux kernel's ptrace syscall on x8664 processors. An attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service System Crash or potential gain administrative privileges...

USN-2265-1 nspr vulnerability

Abhishek Arya discovered that NSPR incorrectly handled certain console functions. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause NSPR to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. The default compiler options for affected releases should reduce the vulnerability...

USN-2258-1 gnupg, gnupg2 vulnerability

Jean-René Reinhard, Olivier Levillain and Florian Maury discovered that GnuPG incorrectly handled certain OpenPGP messages. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially-crafted message, GnuPG could consume resources, resulting in a denial of service...

USN-2257-1 samba vulnerabilities

Christof Schmitt discovered that Samba incorrectly initialized a certain response field when vfs shadow copy was enabled. A remote authenticated attacker could use this issue to possibly obtain sensitive information. This issue only affected Ubuntu 13.10 and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. CVE-2014-0178 It was...

USN-2256-1 swift vulnerability

John Dickinson discovered that Swift did not properly quote the WWW-Authenticate header value. If a user were tricked into navigating to a malicious Swift URL, an attacker could conduct cross-site scripting attacks. With cross-site scripting vulnerabilities, if a user were tricked into viewing...

USN-2255-1 neutron vulnerabilities

Darragh O'Reilly discovered that the Ubuntu packaging for OpenStack Neutron did not properly set up its sudo configuration. If a different flaw was found in OpenStack Neutron, this vulnerability could be used to escalate privileges. CVE-2013-6433 Stephen Ma and Christoph Thiel discovered that the...

USN-2254-2 php5 updates

USN-2254-1 fixed vulnerabilities in PHP. The fix for CVE-2014-0185 further restricted the permissions on the PHP FastCGI Process Manager FPM UNIX socket. This update grants socket access to the www-data user and group so installations and documentation relying on the previous socket permissions...

USN-2254-1 php5 vulnerabilities

Christian Hoffmann discovered that the PHP FastCGI Process Manager FPM set incorrect permissions on the UNIX socket. A local attacker could use this issue to possibly elevate their privileges. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Ubuntu 13.10, and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. CVE-2014-0185 Francisco...

USN-2232-3 openssl regression

USN-2232-1 fixed vulnerabilities in OpenSSL. The upstream fix for CVE-2014-0224 caused a regression for certain applications that use renegotiation, such as PostgreSQL. This update fixes the problem. Original advisory details: Jüri Aedla discovered that OpenSSL incorrectly handled invalid DTLS...

USN-2253-1 libreoffice vulnerability

It was discovered that LibreOffice unconditionally executed certain VBA macros, contrary to user expectations...

USN-2250-1 thunderbird vulnerabilities

Gary Kwong, Christoph Diehl, Christian Holler, Hannes Verschore, Jan de Mooij, Ryan VanderMeulen, Jeff Walden and Kyle Huey discovered multiple memory safety issues in Thunderbird. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted message with scripting enabled, an attacker could potential...

USN-2249-1 heat vulnerability

Jason Dunsmore discovered that OpenStack heat did not properly restrict access to template information. A remote authenticated attacker could exploit this to see URL provider templates of other tenants for a limited time...

USN-2248-1 cinder vulnerability

Darragh O'Reilly discovered that the Ubuntu packaging for OpenStack Cinder did not properly set up its sudo configuration. If a different flaw was found in OpenStack Cinder, this vulnerability could be used to escalate privileges. CVE-2013-1068...

USN-2247-1 nova vulnerabilities

Darragh O'Reilly discovered that the Ubuntu packaging for OpenStack Nova did not properly set up its sudo configuration. If a different flaw was found in OpenStack Nova, this vulnerability could be used to escalate privileges. This issue only affected Ubuntu 13.10 and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS...

USN-2246-1 apt vulnerability

Jakub Wilk discovered that APT did not correctly validate signatures when downloading source packages. If a remote attacker were able to perform a machine-in-the-middle attack, this flaw could potentially be used to install altered source packages...

USN-2214-3 libxml2 regression

USN-2214-1 fixed vulnerabilities in libxml2. The upstream fix introduced a number of regressions. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: Daniel Berrange discovered that libxml2 would incorrectly perform entity substitution even when requested...

USN-2232-2 openssl regression

USN-2232-1 fixed vulnerabilities in OpenSSL. The upstream fix for CVE-2014-0224 caused a regression for certain applications that use tlssessionsecretcb, such as wpasupplicant. This update fixes the problem. Original advisory details: Jüri Aedla discovered that OpenSSL incorrectly handled invalid...

USN-2245-1 json-c vulnerabilities

Florian Weimer discovered that json-c incorrectly handled buffer lengths. An attacker could use this issue with a specially-crafted large JSON document to cause json-c to crash, resulting in a denial of service. CVE-2013-6370 Florian Weimer discovered that json-c incorrectly handled hash arrays. ...

USN-2243-1 firefox vulnerabilities

Gary Kwong, Christoph Diehl, Christian Holler, Hannes Verschore, Jan de Mooij, Ryan VanderMeulen, Jeff Walden, Kyle Huey, Jesse Ruderman, Gregor Wagner, Benoit Jacob and Karl Tomlinson discovered multiple memory safety issues in Firefox. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted...

USN-2242-1 dpkg vulnerabilities

It was discovered that dpkg incorrectly handled certain patches when unpacking source packages. If a user or an automated system were tricked into unpacking a specially crafted source package, a remote attacker could modify files outside the target unpack directory, leading to a denial of service...

USN-2214-2 libxml2 regression

USN-2214-1 fixed vulnerabilities in libxml2. The upstream fix introduced a regression when using xmllint with the --postvalid option. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: Daniel Berrange discovered that libxml2 would incorrectly perform...

USN-2240-1 linux vulnerabilities

Pinkie Pie discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel's futex subsystem. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash or gain administrative privileges. CVE-2014-3153 An information leak was discovered in the netfilter subsystem of the Linux kernel. An...

USN-2232-1 openssl vulnerabilities

Jüri Aedla discovered that OpenSSL incorrectly handled invalid DTLS fragments. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause OpenSSL to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Ubuntu 13.10, and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS...

USN-2230-1 chkrootkit vulnerability

Thomas Stangner discovered that chkrootkit incorrectly quoted certain values. A local attacker could use this issue to execute arbitrary code when chkrootkit is run and gain root privileges...

USN-2229-1 gnutls26 vulnerability

Joonas Kuorilehto discovered that GnuTLS incorrectly handled Server Hello messages. A malicious remote server or a machine-in-the-middle could use this issue to cause GnuTLS to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code...

USN-2226-1 linux vulnerabilities

Matthew Daley reported an information leak in the floppy disk driver of the Linux kernel. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory. CVE-2014-1738 Matthew Daley reported a flaw in the handling of ioctl commands by the floppy...

USN-2222-1 mod-wsgi vulnerabilities

Róbert Kisteleki discovered modwsgi incorrectly checked setuid return values. A malicious application could use this issue to cause a local privilege escalation when using daemon mode. CVE-2014-0240 Buck Golemon discovered that modwsgi used memory that had been freed. A remote attacker could use...

USN-2217-1 lxml vulnerability

It was discovered that the lxml.html.clean module incorrectly stripped control characters. An attacked could potentially exploit this to conduct cross-site scripting XSS attacks...

USN-2216-1 pidgin vulnerability

It was discovered that Pidgin incorrectly handled certain messages from Gadu-Gadu file relay servers. A malicious remote server or a machine-in-the-middle could use this issue to cause Pidgin to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code...

USN-2214-1 libxml2 vulnerability

Daniel Berrange discovered that libxml2 would incorrectly perform entity substitution even when requested not to. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted document, an attacker could possibly cause resource consumption, resulting in a denial of service...