USN-3276-2: shadow regression

USN-3276-1 intended to fix a vulnerability in su. The solution introduced a regression in su signal handling. This update modifies the security fix. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: Sebastian Krahmer discovered integer overflows in shadow utilities. A local attacker...

USN-3149-1: Linux kernel vulnerability

Philip Pettersson discovered a race condition in the afpacket implementation in the Linux kernel. A local unprivileged attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or run arbitrary code with administrative privileges...

USN-3108-1: Bind vulnerability

Toshifumi Sakaguchi discovered that Bind incorrectly handled certain packets with malformed options. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Bind to crash, resulting in a denial of service...

USN-3064-1: GnuPG vulnerability

Felix Dörre and Vladimir Klebanov discovered that GnuPG incorrectly handled mixing functions in the random number generator. An attacker able to obtain 4640 bits from the RNG can trivially predict the next 160 bits of output...

USN-2998-1: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerabilities

Justin Yackoski discovered that the Atheros L2 Ethernet Driver in the Linux kernel incorrectly enables scatter/gather I/O. A remote attacker could use this to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory. CVE-2016-2117 Jann Horn discovered that eCryptfs improperly attempted to use...

USN-2949-1: Linux kernel (Vivid HWE) vulnerabilities

Venkatesh Pottem discovered a use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel's CXGB3 driver. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2015-8812 Xiaofei Rex Guo discovered a timing side channel vulnerability in the Linux...

USN-2923-1: BeanShell vulnerability

Alvaro Muñoz and Christian Schneider discovered that BeanShell incorrectly handled deserialization. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code...

USN-2883-1: OpenSSL vulnerability

Antonio Sanso discovered that OpenSSL reused the same private DH exponent for the life of a server process when configured with a X9.42 style parameter file. This could allow a remote attacker to possibly discover the server's private DH exponent when being used with non-safe primes...

USN-2751-1: Linux kernel (Vivid HWE) vulnerabilities

Benjamin Randazzo discovered an information leak in the md multiple device driver when the bitmapinfo.file is disabled. A local privileged attacker could use this to obtain sensitive information from the kernel. CVE-2015-5697 Marc-André Lureau discovered that the vhost driver did not properly...

USN-2734-1: Linux kernel vulnerability

It was discovered that an integer overflow error existed in the SCSI generic sg driver in the Linux kernel. A local attacker with write permission to a SCSI generic device could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or potentially escalate their privileges...

USN-2677-1: Oxide vulnerabilities

An uninitialized value issue was discovered in ICU. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service. CVE-2015-1270 A use-after-free was discovered in the GPU process implementation in Chromium. If a user wer...

USN-2693-1: Bind vulnerabilities

Jonathan Foote discovered that Bind incorrectly handled certain TKEY queries. A remote attacker could use this issue with a specially crafted packet to cause Bind to crash, resulting in a denial of service. CVE-2015-5477 Pories Ediansyah discovered that Bind incorrectly handled certain...

USN-2655-1: Tomcat vulnerabilities

It was discovered that Tomcat incorrectly handled data with malformed chunked transfer coding. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to conduct HTTP request smuggling attacks, or cause Tomcat to consume resources, resulting in a denial of service. CVE-2014-0227 It was discovered that...

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-2605-1: ICU vulnerabilities

Pedro Ribeiro discovered that ICU incorrectly handled certain memory operations when processing data. 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...

USN-2574-1: 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-2015-0460, CVE-2015-0469 Alexander Cherepanov discovered that...

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-2522-2: ICU regression

USN-2522-1 fixed vulnerabilities in ICU. On Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, the font patches caused a regression when using LibreOffice Calc. The patches have been temporarily backed out until the regression is investigated. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: It was discovered that...

USN-2498-1: Kerberos 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-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-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...

USN-2409-1: QEMU vulnerabilities

Laszlo Ersek discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled memory in the vga device. A malicious guest could possibly use this issue to read arbitrary host memory. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.10. CVE-2014-3615 Xavier Mehrenberger and Stephane Duverger discovered that QEMU...

USN-2327-1: Squid 3 vulnerability

Matthew Daley discovered that Squid 3 did not properly perform input validation in request parsing. A remote attacker could send crafted Range requests to cause a denial of service...

USN-2298-1: Oxide 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-2120-1: PostgreSQL vulnerabilities

Noah Misch and Jonas Sundman discovered that PostgreSQL did not correctly enforce ADMIN OPTION restrictions. An authenticated attacker could use this issue to possibly revoke access from others, contrary to expected permissions. CVE-2014-0060 Andres Freund discovered that PostgreSQL incorrectly...

USN-2117-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Saran Neti reported a flaw in the ipv6 UDP Fragmentation Offload UFI in the Linux kernel. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service panic. CVE-2013-4563 Mathy Vanhoef discovered an error in the the way the ath9k driver was handling the BSSID masking. A remote attacker...

USN-2044-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities

A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's dm snapshot facility. A remote authenticated user could exploit this flaw to obtain sensitive information or modify/corrupt data. CVE-2013-4299 Hannes Frederic Sowa discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel's UDP Fragmentation Offload UFO. An unprivileged...

USN-2032-1: Thunderbird vulnerabilities

Multiple security issues were discovered in Thunderbird. If a user were tricked into connecting to a malicious server, an attacker could possibly exploit these to cause a denial of service via application crash, potentially execute arbitrary code, or lead to information disclosure. CVE-2013-1741,...

USN-1924-2: Ubufox and Unity Firefox Extension update

USN-1924-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. This update provides the corresponding updates for Ubufox and Unity Firefox Extension. Original advisory details: Jeff Gilbert, Henrik Skupin, Ben Turner, Christian Holler, Andrew McCreight, Gary Kwong, Jan Varga and Jesse Ruderman discovered multiple...

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-1834-1: Linux kernel (Quantal HWE) vulnerabilities

A buffer overflow vulnerability was discovered in the Broadcom tg3 ethernet driver for the Linux kernel. A local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service crash the system or potentially escalate privileges on the system. CVE-2013-1929 A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's...

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-1735-1: OpenJDK vulnerabilities

Nadhem Alfardan and Kenny Paterson discovered that the TLS protocol as used in OpenJDK was vulnerable to a timing side-channel attack known as the "Lucky Thirteen" issue. A remote attacker could use this issue to perform plaintext-recovery attacks via analysis of timing data. CVE-2013-0169 A...

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-1699-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Jon Howell reported a flaw in the Linux kernel's KVM Kernel-based virtual machine subsystem's handling of the XSAVE feature. On hosts, using qemu userspace, without the XSAVE feature an unprivileged local attacker could exploit this flaw to crash the system. CVE-2012-4461 A flaw was discovered in...

USN-1589-1: GNU C Library vulnerabilities

It was discovered that positional arguments to the printf family of functions were not handled properly in the GNU C Library. An attacker could possibly use this to cause a stack-based buffer overflow, creating a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2012-3404, CVE-2012-3405,...

USN-1561-1: ubiquity-slideshow-ubuntu vulnerability

Paul Mutton discovered that ubiquity-slideshow-ubuntu incorrectly handled the Twitter feed displayed during system installation. A remote attacker could use this flaw to inject code into the Twitter feed and read arbitrary files off the filesystem during system installation. This flaw has been...

USN-1509-2: ubufox update

USN-1509-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. This update provides an updated ubufox package for use with the lastest Firefox. Original advisory details: Benoit Jacob, Jesse Ruderman, Christian Holler, Bill McCloskey, Brian Smith, Gary Kwong, Christoph Diehl, Chris Jones, Brad Lassey, and Kyle Hue...

USN-1459-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's KVM Kernel Virtual Machine virtual cpu setup. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to crash the system leading to a denial of service. CVE-2012-1601 Steve Grubb reported a flaw with Linux fscaps file system base capabilities when used to increa...

USN-1452-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's KVM Kernel Virtual Machine virtual cpu setup. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to crash the system leading to a denial of service. CVE-2012-1601 Steve Grubb reported a flaw with Linux fscaps file system base capabilities when used to increa...

USN-1450-1: Net-SNMP vulnerability

It was discovered that Net-SNMP incorrectly performed entry lookups in the extension table. A remote attacker could send a specially crafted request and cause the SNMP server to crash, leading to a denial of service...

USN-1409-1: Linux kernel (Oneiric backport) vulnerabilities

Somnath Kotur discovered an error in the Linux kernel's VLAN virtual lan and be2net drivers. An attacker on the local network could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service. CVE-2011-3347...

USN-1320-1: FFmpeg vulnerabilities

Steve Manzuik discovered that FFmpeg incorrectly handled certain malformed Matroska files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted Matroska file, an attacker could cause a denial of service via application crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking th...

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-1018-1: OpenSSL vulnerability

Rob Hulswit discovered a race condition in the OpenSSL TLS server extension parsing code when used within a threaded server. A remote attacker could trigger this flaw to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code with application privileges. CVE-2010-3864...

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-905-1: sudo vulnerabilities

It was discovered that sudo did not properly validate the path for the 'sudoedit' pseudo-command. A local attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary code as root if sudo was configured to allow the attacker to use sudoedit. The sudoedit pseudo-command is not used in the default installation...

USN-878-1: Firefox 3.5 and Xulrunner 1.9.1 regression

USN-874-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox and Xulrunner. The upstream changes introduced a regression when using NTLM authentication. This update fixes the problem and adds additional stability fixes. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: Jesse Ruderman, Josh Soref,...

USN-867-1: Ntp vulnerability

Robin Park and Dmitri Vinokurov discovered a logic error in ntpd. A remote attacker could send a crafted NTP mode 7 packet with a spoofed IP address of an affected server and cause a denial of service via CPU and disk resource consumption...

USN-821-1: Firefox and Xulrunner vulnerabilities

Several flaws were discovered in the Firefox browser and JavaScript engines. If a user were tricked into viewing a malicious website, a remote attacker could cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. CVE-2009-3070,...