USN-3095-1 php5, php7.0 vulnerabilities

Taoguang Chen discovered that PHP incorrectly handled certain invalid objects when unserializing data. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause PHP to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2016-7124 Taoguang Chen discovered that PHP incorrectly...

USN-3041-1 oxide-qt vulnerabilities

Multiple security issues were discovered in Chromium. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit these to read uninitialized memory, cause a denial of service application crash or execute arbitrary code. CVE-2016-1705 It was discovered...

USN-3040-1 mysql-5.5, mysql-5.6, mysql-5.7 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 5.5.50 in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Ubuntu 15.10 has been updated to MySQL 5.6.31. Ubuntu 16.04 LTS has been updated to MySQL 5.7.13. ...

USN-3029-1 nss vulnerability

Tyson Smith and Jed Davis discovered that NSS incorrectly handled memory. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause NSS to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This update refreshes the NSS package to version 3.23 which includes the latest CA...

USN-3010-1 expat vulnerabilities

It was discovered that Expat unexpectedly called srand in certain circumstances. This could reduce the security of calling applications. CVE-2012-6702 It was discovered that Expat incorrectly handled seeding the random number generator. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a...

USN-2990-1 imagemagick vulnerabilities

Nikolay Ermishkin and Stewie discovered that ImageMagick incorrectly sanitized untrusted input. A remote attacker could use these issues to execute arbitrary code. These issues are known as "ImageTragick". This update disables problematic coders via the /etc/ImageMagick-6/policy.xml configuration...

USN-2984-1 php5, php7.0 vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the PHP Fileinfo component incorrectly handled certain magic files. An attacker could use this issue to cause PHP to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. CVE-2015-8865 Hans Jerry Illikainen...

USN-2960-1 oxide-qt vulnerabilities

An out of bounds write was discovered in Blink. 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. CVE-2016-1660 It was discovered that Blink assumes that a frame...

USN-2974-1 qemu, qemu-kvm vulnerabilities

Zuozhi Fzz discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled USB OHCI emulation support. A privileged attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service. CVE-2016-2391 Qinghao Tang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled USB Net emulation support. A...

USN-2963-1 openjdk-8 vulnerabilities

Multiple 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, expose sensitive data over the network, or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2016-0686, CVE-2016-0687,...

USN-2959-1 openssl vulnerabilities

Huzaifa Sidhpurwala, Hanno Böck, and David Benjamin discovered that OpenSSL incorrectly handled memory when decoding ASN.1 structures. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause OpenSSL to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2016-2108 Juraj...

USN-2954-1 mysql-5.7 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 5.7.12 in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. In addition to security fixes, the updated packages contain bug fixes, new features, and possibly incompatible changes...

USN-2952-1 php5 vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the PHP Zip extension incorrectly handled directories when processing certain zip files. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to create arbitrary directories. CVE-2014-9767 It was discovered that the PHP Soap client incorrectly validated data types. A remote...

USN-2917-3 firefox regressions

USN-2917-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. This update caused several web compatibility regressions. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: Francis Gabriel discovered a buffer overflow during ASN.1 decoding in NSS. If a user were tricked in...

USN-2948-1 linux-lts-utopic vulnerabilities

Ralf Spenneberg discovered that the USB driver for Clie devices in the Linux kernel did not properly validate the endpoints reported by the device. An attacker with physical access could cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2015-7566 Ralf Spenneberg discovered that the usbvision driver in...

USN-2935-2 pam regression

USN-2935-1 fixed vulnerabilities in PAM. The updates contained a packaging change that prevented upgrades in certain multiarch environments. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: It was discovered that the PAM pamuserdb module incorrectly us...

USN-2917-1 firefox vulnerabilities

Francis Gabriel discovered a buffer overflow during ASN.1 decoding in NSS. 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 application crash, or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user...

USN-2913-4 gnutls26 update

USN-2913-1 removed 1024-bit RSA CA certificates from the ca-certificates package. This update adds support for alternate certificate chains to the GnuTLS package to properly handle the removal. Original advisory details: The ca-certificates package contained outdated CA certificates. This update...

USN-2912-1 libssh vulnerabilities

Mariusz Ziulek discovered that libssh incorrectly handled certain packets. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause libssh to crash, resulting in a denial of service. CVE-2015-3146 Aris Adamantiadis discovered that libssh incorrectly generated ephemeral secret keys of 128 bits...

USN-2910-1 linux-lts-vivid vulnerabilities

halfdog discovered that OverlayFS, when mounting on top of a FUSE mount, incorrectly propagated file attributes, including setuid. A local unprivileged attacker could use this to gain privileges. CVE-2016-1576 halfdog discovered that OverlayFS in the Linux kernel incorrectly propagated security...

USN-2903-1 nss vulnerability

Hanno Böck discovered that NSS incorrectly handled certain division functions, possibly leading to cryptographic weaknesses. CVE-2016-1938 This update also refreshes the NSS package to version 3.21 which includes the latest CA certificate bundle, and removes the SPI CA...

USN-2884-1 openjdk-7 vulnerabilities

Multiple 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, expose sensitive data over the network, or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2016-0483, CVE-2016-0494 A...

USN-2864-1 nss vulnerability

Karthikeyan Bhargavan and Gaetan Leurent discovered that NSS incorrectly allowed MD5 to be used for TLS 1.2 connections. If a remote attacker were able to perform a machine-in-the-middle attack, this flaw could be exploited to view sensitive information...

USN-2849-1 linux-lts-utopic vulnerabilities

Felix Wilhelm discovered a race condition in the Xen paravirtualized drivers which can cause double fetch vulnerabilities. An attacker in the paravirtualized guest could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service crash the host or potentially execute arbitrary code on the host. CVE-2015-8550...

USN-2770-1 oxide-qt vulnerabilities

It was discovered that ContainerNode::parserInsertBefore in Blink would incorrectly proceed with a DOM tree insertion 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 restrictions. CVE-2015-67...

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-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-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...

USN-2624-1 openssl update

As a security improvement, this update removes the export cipher suites from the default cipher list to prevent their use in possible downgrade attacks...

USN-2622-1 openldap vulnerabilities

It was discovered that OpenLDAP incorrectly handled certain search queries that returned empty attributes. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause OpenLDAP to assert, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. CVE-2012-1164 Michael Vishchers discovered th...

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-2423-1 clamav vulnerabilities

Kurt Seifried discovered that ClamAV incorrectly handled certain JavaScript files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause ClamAV to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2013-6497 Damien Millescamp discovered that ClamAV incorrectly handled...

USN-2413-1 apparmor vulnerability

An AppArmor policy miscompilation flaw was discovered in apparmorparser. Under certain circumstances, a malicious application could use this flaw to perform operations that are not allowed by AppArmor policy. The flaw may also prevent applications from accessing resources that are allowed by...

USN-2412-1 ruby1.8, ruby1.9.1, ruby2.0, ruby2.1 vulnerability

Tomas Hoger discovered that Ruby incorrectly handled XML entity expansion. An attacker could use this flaw to cause Ruby to consume large amounts of resources, resulting in a denial of service...

USN-2345-1 oxide-qt vulnerabilities

Multiple use-after-free issues were discovered in Blink. 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 renderer crash, or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the sandboxed render process...

USN-2380-1 bash vulnerabilities

Michal Zalewski discovered that Bash incorrectly handled parsing certain function definitions. If an attacker were able to create an environment variable containing a function definition with a very specific name, these issues could possibly be used to bypass certain environment restrictions and...

USN-2370-1 apt vulnerability

Guillem Jover discovered that APT incorrectly created a temporary file when handling the changelog command. A local attacker could use this issue to overwrite arbitrary files. In the default installation of Ubuntu, this should be prevented by the kernel link restrictions...

USN-2319-3 openjdk-7 update

USN-2319-1 fixed vulnerabilities in OpenJDK 7. This update provides stability fixes for the arm64 and ppc64el architectures. Original advisory details: Several vulnerabilities were discovered in the OpenJDK JRE related to information disclosure, data integrity and availability. An attacker could...

USN-2328-1 eglibc vulnerability

Tavis Ormandy and John Haxby discovered that the GNU C Library contained an off-by-one error when performing transliteration module loading. A local attacker could exploit this to gain administrative privileges. CVE-2014-5119 USN-2306-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the GNU C Library. On Ubuntu 10.04...

USN-2323-1 horizon vulnerabilities

Jason Hullinger discovered that OpenStack Horizon did not properly perform input sanitization on Heat templates. If a user were tricked into using a specially crafted Heat template, an attacker could conduct cross-site scripting attacks. With cross-site scripting vulnerabilities, if a user were...

USN-2311-2 ceilometer vulnerability

USN-2311-1 fixed vulnerabilities in pyCADF. This update provides the corresponding updates for OpenStack Ceilometer. Original advisory details: Zhi Kun Liu discovered that pyCADF incorrectly filtered certain tokens. An attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain authentication tokens used in...

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-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-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-2183-2 dpkg vulnerability

USN-2183-1 fixed a vulnerability in dpkg. Javier Serrano Polo discovered that the fix introduced a vulnerability in releases with an older version of the patch utility. This update fixes the problem. Original advisory details: Jakub Wilk discovered that dpkg incorrectly certain paths and symlinks...

USN-2185-1 firefox vulnerabilities

Bobby Holley, Carsten Book, Christoph Diehl, Gary Kwong, Jan de Mooij, Jesse Ruderman, Nathan Froyd, John Schoenick, Karl Tomlinson, Vladimir Vukicevic and Christian Holler discovered multiple memory safety issues in Firefox. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an...

USN-8905-2 linux-gcp vulnerabilities

Several security issues were discovered in the Linux kernel. An attacker could possibly use these to compromise the system. This update corrects flaws in the following subsystems: - ARM32 architecture; - ARM64 architecture; - MIPS architecture; - x86 architecture; - Intel NPU Driver; - Auxiliary...

USN-8908-1 bluez vulnerabilities

Michael Bommarito discovered that BlueZ incorrectly handled codec capability storage in the A2DP profile. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a stack buffer overflow, resulting in a denial of service or arbitrary code execution. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22....

USN-8884-1 u-boot vulnerabilities

Timo Preißl discovered that U-Boot incorrectly handled certain malformed ZFS file system metadata. An attacker could possibly use this issue to trigger an integer overflow and out-of-bounds memory access, resulting in arbitrary code execution or a denial of service. CVE-2025-70290 Timo Preißl...