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...

USN-2502-1 unzip vulnerabilities

William Robinet discovered that unzip incorrectly handled certain malformed zip archives. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted zip archive, an attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code...

USN-2501-1 php5 vulnerabilities

Stefan Esser discovered that PHP incorrectly handled unserializing objects. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause PHP to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2014-8142, CVE-2015-0231 Brian Carpenter discovered that the PHP CGI component...

USN-2500-1 xorg-server, xorg-server-lts-trusty, xorg-server-lts-utopic vulnerabilities

Olivier Fourdan discovered that the X.Org X server incorrectly handled XkbSetGeometry requests resulting in an information leak. An attacker able to connect to an X server, either locally or remotely, could use this issue to possibly obtain sensitive information. CVE-2015-0255 It was discovered...

USN-2499-1 postgresql-8.4, postgresql-9.1, postgresql-9.3, postgresql-9.4 vulnerabilities

Stephen Frost discovered that PostgreSQL incorrectly displayed certain values in error messages. An authenticated user could gain access to seeing certain values, contrary to expected permissions. CVE-2014-8161 Andres Freund, Peter Geoghegan and Noah Misch discovered that PostgreSQL incorrectly...

USN-2498-1 krb5 vulnerabilities

It was discovered that Kerberos incorrectly sent old keys in response to a -randkey -keepold request. An authenticated remote attacker could use this issue to forge tickets by leveraging administrative access. This issue only affected Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS...

USN-2495-1 oxide-qt vulnerabilities

A use-after-free bug was discovered in the DOM implementation 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 with the privileges of the sandboxed rende...

USN-2496-1 binutils vulnerabilities

Michal Zalewski discovered that the setupgroup function in libbfd in GNU binutils did not properly check group headers in ELF files. An attacker could use this to craft input that could cause a denial of service application crash or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2014-8485 Hanno Böck...

USN-2497-1 ntp vulnerabilities

Stephen Roettger, Sebastian Krahmer, and Harlan Stenn discovered that NTP incorrectly handled the length value in extension fields. A remote attacker could use this issue to possibly obtain leaked information, or cause the NTP daemon to crash, resulting in a denial of service. CVE-2014-9297 Steph...

USN-2494-1 file vulnerabilities

Francisco Alonso discovered that file incorrectly handled certain ELF files. An attacker could use this issue to cause file to crash, resulting in a denial of service. CVE-2014-3710 Thomas Jarosch discovered that file incorrectly handled certain ELF files. An attacker could use this issue to caus...

USN-2489-1 unzip vulnerability

Michal Zalewski discovered that unzip incorrectly handled certain malformed zip archives. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted zip archive, an attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code...

USN-2488-1 clamav vulnerability

Sebastian Andrzej Siewior discovered that ClamAV incorrectly handled certain upack packer files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause ClamAV to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code...

USN-2487-1 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-2014-3566, CVE-2014-6587, CVE-2014-6601, CVE-2015-0395,...

USN-2458-3 firefox regression

USN-2458-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. This update introduced a regression which could make websites that use CSP fail to load under some circumstances. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: Christian Holler, Patrick McManus, Christoph...