USN-2610-1: Oxide vulnerabilities

Several security issues were discovered in the DOM implementation in Blink. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit these to bypass Same Origin Policy restrictions. CVE-2015-1253, CVE-2015-1254 A use-after-free was discovered in the...

USN-2602-1: Firefox vulnerabilities

Jesse Ruderman, Mats Palmgren, Byron Campen, Steve Fink, Gary Kwong, Andrew McCreight, Christian Holler, Jon Coppeard, and Milan Sreckovic discovered multiple memory safety issues in Firefox. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit...

USN-2592-1: XML::LibXML vulnerability

Tilmann Haak discovered that XML::LibXML incorrectly handled the expandentities parameter in certain situations. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to access sensitive information...

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-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-2499-1: PostgreSQL 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-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-2196-1: Linux kernel vulnerability

A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's pseudo tty pty device. An unprivileged user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash or potentially gain administrator privileges...

USN-2129-1: Linux kernel (EC2) vulnerabilities

An information leak was discovered in the Linux kernel when inotify is used to monitor the /dev/ptmx device. A local user could exploit this flaw to discover keystroke timing and potentially discover sensitive information like password length. CVE-2013-0160 Vasily Kulikov reported a flaw in the...

USN-2002-1: Keystone vulnerabilities

Chmouel Boudjnah discovered that Keystone did not properly invalidate user tokens when a tenant was disabled which allowed an authenticated user to retain access via the token. CVE-2013-4222 Kieran Spear discovered that Keystone did not properly verify PKI tokens when performing revocation when...

USN-1984-1: Python 3.2 vulnerabilities

Florian Weimer discovered that Python incorrectly handled matching multiple wildcards in ssl certificate hostnames. An attacker could exploit this to cause Python to consume resources, resulting in a denial of service. CVE-2013-2099 Ryan Sleevi discovered that Python did not properly handle...

USN-1970-1: Linux kernel (Quantal HWE) vulnerabilities

Vince Weaver discovered a flaw in the perf subsystem of the Linux kernel on ARM platforms. A local user could exploit this flaw to gain privileges or cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2013-4254 A failure to validate block numbers was discovered in the Linux kernel's implementation of th...

USN-1943-1: Linux kernel (Raring HWE) vulnerabilities

Vasily Kulikov discovered a flaw in the Linux Kernel's perf tool that allows for privilege escalation. A local user could exploit this flaw to run commands as root when using the perf tool. CVE-2013-1060 A flaw was discovered in the Xen subsystem of the Linux kernel when it provides read-only...

USN-1846-1: Linux kernel vulnerability

Kees Cook discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel's iSCSI subsystem. A remote unauthenticated attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash or potentially gain administrative privileges...

USN-1833-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Andy Lutomirski discover an error in the Linux kernel's credential handling on unix sockets. A local user could exploit this flaw to gain administrative privileges. CVE-2013-1979 A buffer overflow vulnerability was discovered in the Broadcom tg3 ethernet driver for the Linux kernel. A local user...

USN-1744-1: Linux kernel vulnerability

Suleiman Souhlal, Salman Qazi, Aaron Durbin and Michael Davidson discovered a race condition in the Linux kernel's ptrace syscall. An unprivileged local attacker could exploit this flaw to run programs as an administrator. CVE-2013-0871 A flaw was discovered in the Edgeort USB serial converter...

USN-1719-1: Linux kernel (Oneiric backport) vulnerabilities

It was discovered that hypervkvpd, which is distributed in the Linux kernel, was not correctly validating the origin on Netlink messages. An untrusted local user can cause a denial of service of Linux guests in Hyper-V virtualization environments. CVE-2012-2669 Dmitry Monakhov reported a race...

USN-1687-1: NSS vulnerability

Two intermediate CA certificates were mis-issued by the TURKTRUST certificate authority. If a remote attacker were able to perform a machine-in-the-middle attack, this flaw could be exploited to view sensitive information...

USN-1619-1: OpenJDK vulnerabilities

Several information disclosure vulnerabilities were discovered in the OpenJDK JRE. CVE-2012-3216, CVE-2012-5069, CVE-2012-5072, CVE-2012-5075, CVE-2012-5077, CVE-2012-5085 Vulnerabilities were discovered in the OpenJDK JRE related to information disclosure and data integrity. CVE-2012-4416,...

USN-1580-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities

Ben Hutchings reported a flaw in the Linux kernel with some network drivers that support TSO TCP segment offload. A local or peer user could exploit this flaw to to cause a denial of service. CVE-2012-3412 Jay Fenlason and Doug Ledford discovered a bug in the Linux kernel implementation of RDS...

USN-1572-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Ben Hutchings reported a flaw in the Linux kernel with some network drivers that support TSO TCP segment offload. A local or peer user could exploit this flaw to to cause a denial of service. CVE-2012-3412 Jay Fenlason and Doug Ledford discovered a bug in the Linux kernel implementation of RDS...

USN-1540-2: NSS vulnerability

USN-1540-1 fixed vulnerabilities in NSS. This update provides the corresponding updates for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. Original advisory details: Kaspar Brand discovered a vulnerability in how the Network Security Services NSS ASN.1 decoder handles zero length items. If the user were tricked into opening ...

USN-1532-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities

An error was discovered in the Linux kernel's network TUN/TAP device implementation. A local user with access to the TUN/TAP interface which is not available to unprivileged users until granted by a root user could exploit this flaw to crash the system or potential gain administrative privileges...

USN-1493-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Stephan Mueller reported a flaw in the Linux kernel's dl2k network driver's handling of ioctls. An unprivileged local user could leverage this flaw to cause a denial of service. CVE-2012-2313 Timo Warns reported multiple flaws in the Linux kernel's hfsplus filesystem. An unprivileged local user...

USN-1399-1: gdm-guest-session vulnerability

Ryan Lortie discovered that gdm-guest-session improperly cleaned out certain guest session files. A local attacker could use this issue to delete arbitrary files...

USN-1330-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities

Clement Lecigne discovered a bug in the HFS filesystem. A local attacker could exploit this to cause a kernel oops. CVE-2011-2203 A bug was discovered in the XFS filesystem's handling of pathnames. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service, or gain ro...

USN-1318-1: Linux kernel (FSL-IMX51) vulnerabilities

Peter Huewe discovered an information leak in the handling of reading security-related TPM data. A local, unprivileged user could read the results of a previous TPM command. CVE-2011-1162 Clement Lecigne discovered a bug in the HFS filesystem. A local attacker could exploit this to cause a kernel...

USN-1299-1: Linux kernel (EC2) vulnerabilities

Peter Huewe discovered an information leak in the handling of reading security-related TPM data. A local, unprivileged user could read the results of a previous TPM command. CVE-2011-1162 Zheng Liu discovered a flaw in how the ext4 filesystem splits extents. A local unprivileged attacker could...

USN-1272-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that CIFS incorrectly handled authentication. When a user had a CIFS share mounted that required authentication, a local user could mount the same share without knowing the correct password. CVE-2011-1585 Andrea Righi discovered a race condition in the KSM memory merging support...

USN-1015-1: libvpx vulnerability

Christoph Diehl discovered that libvpx did not properly perform bounds checking. If an application using libvpx opened a specially crafted WebM file, an attacker could cause a denial of service or possibly execute code as the user invoking the program...

USN-976-1: Tomcat vulnerability

It was discovered that Tomcat incorrectly handled invalid Transfer-Encoding headers. A remote attacker could send specially crafted requests containing invalid headers to the server and cause a denial of service, or possibly obtain sensitive information from other requests...

USN-913-1: libpng vulnerabilities

It was discovered that libpng did not properly initialize memory when decoding certain 1-bit interlaced images. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing crafted PNG images, an attacker could possibly use this flaw to read sensitive information stored in memory. This issue only...

USN-719-1: pam-krb5 vulnerabilities

It was discovered that pamkrb5 parsed environment variables when run with setuid applications. A local attacker could exploit this flaw to bypass authentication checks and gain root privileges. CVE-2009-0360 Derek Chan discovered that pamkrb5 incorrectly handled refreshing existing credentials wh...

USN-557-1: GD library vulnerability

Mattias Bengtsson and Philip Olausson discovered that the GD library did not properly perform bounds checking when creating images. An attacker could send specially crafted input to applications linked against libgd2 and cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code...

USN-488-1: mod_perl vulnerability

Alex Solovey discovered that modperl did not correctly validate certain regular expression matches. A remote attacker could send a specially crafted request to a web application using modperl, causing the web server to monopolize CPU resources. This could lead to a remote denial of service...

USN-7454-1: libarchive vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the libarchive bsdunzip utility incorrectly handled certain ZIP archive files. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted ZIP archive, an attacker could use this issue to cause libarchive to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or...

USN-7436-1: WebKitGTK vulnerabilities

Several security issues were discovered in the WebKitGTK Web and JavaScript engines. If a user were tricked into viewing a malicious website, a remote attacker could exploit a variety of issues related to web browser security, including cross-site scripting attacks, denial of service attacks, and...

USN-6895-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the ATA over Ethernet AoE driver in the Linux kernel contained a race condition, leading to a use-after-free vulnerability. An attacker could use this to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2023-6270 It was discovered that the HugeTLB file syst...

LSN-0103-1: Kernel Live Patch Security Notice

Lonial Con discovered that the netfilter subsystem in the Linux kernel contained a memory leak when handling certain element flush operations. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information kernel memory.CVE-2023-4569 Xingyuan Mo discovered that the netfilter subsystem in the Lin...

USN-6707-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Lonial Con discovered that the netfilter subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly handle element deactivation in certain cases, leading to a use-after-free vulnerability. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code...

USN-6705-1: Linux kernel (AWS) vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the DesignWare USB3 for Qualcomm SoCs driver in the Linux kernel did not properly handle certain error conditions during device registration. A local attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2023-22995 It was discovered that the NVIDIA...

USN-6701-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Ruihan Li discovered that the bluetooth subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly perform permissions checks when handling HCI sockets. A physically proximate attacker could use this to cause a denial of service bluetooth communication. CVE-2023-2002 It was discovered that the NVIDIA Tegra...

USN-6681-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Wenqing Liu discovered that the f2fs file system implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly validate inode types while performing garbage collection. An attacker could use this to construct a malicious f2fs image that, when mounted and operated on, could cause a denial of service system...

USN-6491-1: Node.js vulnerabilities

Axel Chong discovered that Node.js incorrectly handled certain inputs. If a user or an automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted input file, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. CVE-2022-32212 Zeyu Zhang discovered that Node.js incorrectl...

USN-6357-1: Linux kernel (IBM) vulnerabilities

Daniel Moghimi discovered that some IntelR Processors did not properly clear microarchitectural state after speculative execution of various instructions. A local unprivileged user could use this to obtain to sensitive information. CVE-2022-40982 Ruihan Li discovered that the bluetooth subsystem ...

USN-6255-1: Linux kernel (Intel IoTG) vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the IP-VLAN network driver for the Linux kernel did not properly initialize memory in some situations, leading to an out-of- bounds write vulnerability. An attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2023-3090...

USN-6224-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the XFS file system implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly perform metadata validation when mounting certain images. An attacker could use this to specially craft a file system image that, when mounted, could cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2023-212...

USN-6155-1: Requests vulnerability

Dennis Brinkrolf and Tobias Funke discovered that Requests incorrectly leaked Proxy-Authorization headers. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information...

USN-6112-1: Perl vulnerability

It was discovered that Perl was not properly verifying TLS certificates when using CPAN together with HTTP::Tiny to download modules over HTTPS. If a remote attacker were able to intercept communications, this flaw could potentially be used to install altered modules...

USN-6087-1: Ruby vulnerabilities

It was discovered that Ruby incorrectly handled certain regular expressions. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. CVE-2023-28755 It was discovered that Ruby incorrectly handled certain regular expressions. An attacker could possily use this issue to cause a deni...