USN-4336-2: GNU binutils vulnerabilities

USN-4336-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in GNU binutils. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. Original advisory details: It was discovered that GNU binutils contained a large number of security issues. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a...

USN-3984-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Ke Sun, Henrique Kawakami, Kekai Hu, Rodrigo Branco, Giorgi Maisuradze, Dan Horea Lutas, Andrei Lutas, Volodymyr Pikhur, Stephan van Schaik, Alyssa Milburn, Sebastian Österlund, Pietro Frigo, Kaveh Razavi, Herbert Bos, Cristiano Giuffrida, Moritz Lipp, Michael Schwarz, and Daniel Gruss discovered...

USN-3781-2: WebKitGTK+ regression

USN-3781-1 fixed vulnerabilities in WebKitGTK+. The updated package was missing some header files, preventing certain applications from building. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: A large number of security issues were discovered in the...

USN-6125-1: snapd vulnerability

It was discovered that the snap sandbox did not restrict the use of the ioctl system call with a TIOCLINUX request. This could be exploited by a malicious snap to inject commands into the controlling terminal which would then be executed outside of the snap sandbox once the snap had exited. This...

USN-5261-1: Phusion Passenger vulnerabilities

It was discovered that Phusion Passenger incorrectly handled a file path in the application root folder. An attacker could possibly use this issue to read arbitrary files. CVE-2017-16355 It was discovered that Phusion Passenger had a race condition in the nginx module that could be used to perfor...

USN-4011-2: Jinja2 vulnerabilities

USN-4011-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in Jinja2. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM and Ubuntu 14.04 ESM. Original advisory details: Olivier Dony discovered that Jinja incorrectly handled str.format. An attacker could possibly use this issue to escape the sandbo...

USN-3834-1: Perl vulnerabilities

Jayakrishna Menon discovered that Perl incorrectly handled Perlmysetenv. An attacker could use this issue to cause Perl to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2018-18311 Eiichi Tsukata discovered that Perl incorrectly handled certain regular expression...

USN-5485-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that some Intel processors did not completely perform cleanup actions on multi-core shared buffers. A local attacker could possibly use this to expose sensitive information. CVE-2022-21123 It was discovered that some Intel processors did not completely perform cleanup actions on...

USN-4302-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Paulo Bonzini discovered that the KVM hypervisor implementation in the Linux kernel could improperly let a nested level 2 guest access the resources of a parent level 1 guest in certain situations. An attacker could use this to expose sensitive information. CVE-2020-2732 Gregory Herrero discovere...

USN-4000-1: Corosync vulnerability

It was discovered that Corosync incorrectly handled certain requests. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code...

USN-3997-1: Thunderbird vulnerabilities

Multiple security issues were discovered in Thunderbird. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website in a browsing context, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service, bypass same-origin protections, or execute arbitrary code. CVE-2019-18511,...

USN-1898-1: OpenSSL vulnerability

The TLS protocol 1.2 and earlier can encrypt compressed data without properly obfuscating the length of the unencrypted data, which allows machine-in-the-middle attackers to obtain plaintext content by observing length differences during a series of guesses in which a provided string potentially...

USN-4706-1: Ceph vulnerabilities

Olle Segerdahl found that ceph-mon and ceph-mgr daemons did not properly restrict access, resulting in gaining access to unauthorized resources. An authenticated user could use this vulnerability to modify the configuration and possibly conduct further attacks. CVE-2020-10736 Adam Mohammed found...

USN-3902-1: PHP vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the PHP XML-RPC module incorrectly handled decoding XML data. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause PHP to crash, resulting in a denial of service. CVE-2019-9020, CVE-2019-9024 It was discovered that the PHP PHAR module incorrectly handled certain...

USN-6818-4: Linux kernel (HWE) vulnerabilities

Alon Zahavi discovered that the NVMe-oF/TCP subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly validate H2C PDU data, leading to a null pointer dereference vulnerability. A remote attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2023-6356, CVE-2023-6535, CVE-2023-6536 It was...

USN-6430-1: FFmpeg vulnerabilities

It was discovered that FFmpeg did not properly handle certain inputs in vflagfun.c, resulting in a buffer overflow vulnerability. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service via application crash. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. CVE-2020-22024 It was discover...

USN-6114-1: nth-check vulnerability

Yeting Li discovered that nth-check 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 cause a denial of service...

USN-4141-1: Exim vulnerability

It was discovered that Exim incorrectly handled certain string operations. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause Exim to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code...

USN-6315-1: Linux kernel 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 Tavis Ormandy discovered that some AMD processors...

USN-5328-2: OpenSSL vulnerability

USN-5328-1 fixed a vulnerability in OpenSSL. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. Original advisory details: Tavis Ormandy discovered that OpenSSL incorrectly parsed certain certificates. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause...

USN-4116-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that a use-after-free error existed in the block layer subsystem of the Linux kernel when certain failure conditions occurred. A local attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2018-20856 Amit Klein and Ben...

USN-4012-1: elfutils vulnerabilities

It was discovered that elfutils incorrectly handled certain malformed files. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted file, elfutils could be made to crash or consume resources, resulting in a denial of service...

USN-4002-1: Doxygen vulnerability

It was discovered that Doxygen incorrectly handled certain queries. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code and compromise sensitive information...

USN-625-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Dirk Nehring discovered that the IPsec protocol stack did not correctly handle fragmented ESP packets. A remote attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. CVE-2007-6282 Johannes Bauer discovered that the 64bit kernel did not correctly handle hrtimer updates. ...

USN-4367-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the btrfs implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly detect that a block was marked dirty in some situations. An attacker could use this to specially craft a file system image that, when unmounted, could cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2019-19377 It was...

USN-4113-2: Apache HTTP Server regression

USN-4113-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Apache HTTP server. Unfortunately, that update introduced a regression when proxying balancer manager connections in some configurations. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: Stefan Eissing discovered...

USN-3995-1: Keepalived vulnerability

It was discovered that Keepalived incorrectly handled certain HTTP status response codes. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause Keepalived to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code...

USN-3906-1: LibTIFF vulnerabilities

It was 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 privileges...

USN-5000-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Norbert Slusarek discovered a race condition in the CAN BCM networking protocol of the Linux kernel leading to multiple use-after-free vulnerabilities. A local attacker could use this issue to execute arbitrary code. CVE-2021-3609 Piotr Krysiuk discovered that the eBPF implementation in the Linux...

USN-4258-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the Atheros 802.11ac wireless USB device driver in the Linux kernel did not properly validate device metadata. A physically proximate attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2019-15099 It was discovered that a race condition existed in the...

USN-4030-1: web2py vulnerabilities

It was discovered that web2py does not properly check denied hosts before verifying passwords. An attacker could possibly use this issue to perform brute-force attacks. CVE-2016-10321 It was discovered that web2py allows remote attackers to obtain environment variable values. An attacker could...

USN-3976-4: Samba vulnerability

USN-3976-1 fixed a vulnerability in Samba. The update introduced a regression causing Samba to occasionally crash. This update fixes the problem. Original advisory details: Isaac Boukris and Andrew Bartlett discovered that Samba incorrectly checked S4U2Self packets. In certain environments, a...

USN-5560-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Zhenpeng Lin discovered that the network packet scheduler implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly remove all references to a route filter before freeing it in some situations. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or execute arbitrary code...

USN-4015-2: DBus vulnerability

USN-4015-1 fixed a vulnerability in DBus. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM and Ubuntu 14.04 ESM. Original advisory details: Joe Vennix discovered that DBus incorrectly handled DBUSCOOKIESHA1 authentication. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass...

USN-4011-1: Jinja2 vulnerabilities

Olivier Dony discovered that Jinja incorrectly handled str.format. An attacker could possibly use this issue to escape the sandbox. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. CVE-2016-10745 Brian Welch discovered that Jinja incorrectly handled str.formatmap. An attacker could possibly use this...

USN-3968-2: Sudo vulnerability

USN-3968-1 fixed a vulnerability in Sudo. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM. Original advisory details: It was discovered that Sudo did not properly parse the contents of /proc/pid/stat when attempting to determine its controlling tty. A local attacker in some...

USN-3566-2: PHP vulnerabilities

USN-3566-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in PHP. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM and Ubuntu 14.04 ESM. It was discovered that PHP incorrectly handled certain files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to access sensitive information. CVE-2018-20783 It was...

USN-3784-1: AppArmor update

As a security improvement, this update adjusts the private-files abstraction to disallow writing to thumbnailer configuration files. Additionally adjust the private-files, private-files-strict and user-files abstractions to disallow writes on parent directories of sensitive files...

USN-3777-2: Linux kernel (HWE) vulnerabilities

USN-3777-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 18.04 LTS for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. Jann Horn discovered that the vmacache subsystem did not properly handle sequence numb...

USN-5123-2: MySQL vulnerabilities

USN-5123-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in MySQL. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. Original advisory details: Multiple security issues were discovered in MySQL and this update includes new upstream MySQL versions to fix these issues. MySQL has been updated to...

USN-4876-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Olivier Benjamin and Pawel Wieczorkiewicz discovered a race condition the Xen paravirt block backend in the Linux kernel, leading to a use-after-free vulnerability. An attacker in a guest VM could use this to cause a denial of service in the host OS. CVE-2020-29569 It was discovered that the...

USN-4578-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Hadar Manor discovered that the DCCP protocol implementation in the Linux kernel improperly handled socket reuse, 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. CVE-2020-16119 Wen Xu discover...

USN-4147-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the Intel Wi-Fi device driver in the Linux kernel did not properly validate certain Tunneled Direct Link Setup TDLS. A physically proximate attacker could use this to cause a denial of service Wi-Fi disconnect. CVE-2019-0136 It was discovered that the Bluetooth UART...

USN-4001-1: libseccomp vulnerability

Jann Horn discovered that libseccomp did not correctly generate 64-bit syscall argument comparisons with arithmetic operators LT, GT, LE, GE. An attacker could use this to bypass intended access restrictions for argument-filtered system calls...

USN-3381-2: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerabilities

USN-3381-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 14.04 LTS for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM. Peter Pi discovered that the colormap handling for frame buffer devices in the Linux...

USN-5288-1: Expat vulnerabilities

It was discovered that Expat incorrectly handled certain files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a crash or execute arbitrary code...

USN-5279-1: util-linux vulnerabilities

It was discovered that util-linux incorrectly handled unmounting FUSE filesystems. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to unmount FUSE filesystems belonging to other users...

USN-4994-2: Apache HTTP Server vulnerabilities

USN-4994-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in Apache. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. Original advisory details: Antonio Morales discovered that the Apache modauthdigest module incorrectly handled certain Digest nonces. A remote attacker coul...

USN-4118-1: Linux kernel (AWS) vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the alarmtimer implementation in the Linux kernel contained an integer overflow vulnerability. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service. CVE-2018-13053 Wen Xu discovered that the XFS filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly track...

USN-3879-2: Linux kernel (Xenial HWE) vulnerabilities

USN-3879-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Wen Xu discovered that the ext4 file system implementation in the Linux kernel could...