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USN-5334-1: man-db vulnerability
It was discovered that man-db incorrectly handled permission changing operations in its daily cron job, and was therefore affected by a race condition. An attacker could possibly use this issue to escalate privileges and execute arbitrary code...
USN-5328-1: OpenSSL vulnerability
Tavis Ormandy discovered that OpenSSL incorrectly parsed certain certificates. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause OpenSSH to stop responding, resulting in a denial of service...
USN-5114-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
It was discovered that a race condition existed in the Atheros Ath9k WiFi driver in the Linux kernel. An attacker could possibly use this to expose sensitive information WiFi network traffic. CVE-2020-3702 It was discovered that the KVM hypervisor implementation in the Linux kernel did not proper...
USN-4715-1: Django vulnerability
Wang Baohua discovered that Django incorrectly extracted archive files. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to extract files outside of their expected location...
USN-4695-1: icoutils vulnerabilities
Choongwoo Han discovered that icoutils incorrectly handled certain files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. CVE-2017-5208 It was discovered that icoutils incorrectly handled certain files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to...
USN-4392-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
It was discovered that the Marvell WiFi-Ex Driver in the Linux kernel did not properly validate status lengths in messages received from an access point, leading to a buffer overflow. A physically proximate attacker controlling an access point could use this to construct messages that could...
USN-3861-1: PolicyKit vulnerability
It was discovered that PolicyKit incorrectly handled certain large user UIDs. A local attacker with a large UID could possibly use this issue to perform privileged actions...
USN-3816-2: systemd vulnerability
USN-3816-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in systemd. However, the fix for CVE-2018-6954 was not sufficient. This update provides the remaining fixes. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: Jann Horn discovered that unitdeserialize incorrectly handled status messages above ...
USN-3259-1: Bind vulnerabilities
It was discovered that the resolver in Bind made incorrect assumptions about ordering when processing responses containing a CNAME or DNAME. An attacker could use this cause a denial of service. CVE-2017-3137 Oleg Gorokhov discovered that in some situations, Bind did not properly handle DNS64...
USN-6464-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Yu Hao and Weiteng Chen discovered that the Bluetooth HCI UART driver in the Linux kernel contained a race condition, leading to a null pointer dereference vulnerability. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2023-31083 Lin Ma discovered that the Netlink...
USN-5587-1: curl vulnerability
Axel Chong discovered that when curl accepted and sent back cookies containing control bytes that a HTTPS server might return a 400 Bad Request Error response. A malicious cookie host could possibly use this to cause denial-of-service...
USN-5489-1: QEMU vulnerabilities
Alexander Bulekov discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled floppy disk emulation. A privileged attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly leak sensitive information. CVE-2021-3507 It was discovered that QEMU incorrectly...
USN-5325-1: Zsh vulnerabilities
Sam Foxman discovered that Zsh incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to regain dropped privileges. CVE-2019-20044 It was discovered that Zsh incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. CVE-2021-45...
LSN-0084-1: Kernel Live Patch Security Notice
William Liu and Jamie Hill-Daniel discovered that the file system context functionality in the Linux kernel contained an integer underflow vulnerability, leading to an out-of-bounds write. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or execute arbitrary...
USN-5020-1: Ruby vulnerabilities
It was discovered that Ruby incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. CVE-2021-31799 It was discovered that Ruby incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to conduct port scans and service banner...
USN-4906-1: Nettle vulnerability
It was discovered that Nettle incorrectly handled signature verification. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause Nettle to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly force invalid signatures...
USN-4707-1: TCMU vulnerability
It was discovered that TCMU lacked a check for transport-layer restrictions, allowing remote attackers to read or write files via directory traversal in an XCOPY request...
USN-4674-1: Dovecot vulnerabilities
It was discovered that Dovecot incorrectly handled certain imap hibernation commands. A remote authenticated attacker could possibly use this issue to access other users' email. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 20.10. CVE-2020-24386 Innokentii Sennovskiy...
USN-4391-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
It was discovered that the ext4 file system implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly handle setxattr operations in some situations. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2019-19319 It was discovered that memory...
USN-4077-1: tmpreaper vulnerability
It was discovered that tmpreaper incorrectly handled certain mount operations. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to create arbitrary files, leading to privilege escalation...
USN-4071-2: Patch vulnerabilities
USN-4071-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in Patch. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM. Original advisory details: It was discovered that Patch incorrectly handled certain files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to access sensitive information. CVE-2019-136...
USN-3762-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
It was discovered that the VirtIO subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly initialize memory in some situations. A local attacker could use this to possibly expose sensitive information kernel memory. CVE-2018-1118 Seunghun Han discovered an information leak in the ACPI handling code in the...
USN-2783-1: NTP vulnerabilities
Aleksis Kauppinen discovered that NTP incorrectly handled certain remote config packets. In a non-default configuration, a remote authenticated attacker could possibly use this issue to cause NTP to crash, resulting in a denial of service. CVE-2015-5146 Miroslav Lichvar discovered that NTP...
USN-6341-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Jordy Zomer and Alexandra Sandulescu discovered that syscalls invoking the doprlimit function in the Linux kernel did not properly handle speculative execution barriers. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information kernel memory. CVE-2023-0458 It was discovered that a...
USN-5985-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
It was discovered that the System V IPC implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly handle large shared memory counts. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service memory exhaustion. CVE-2021-3669 It was discovered that the KVM VMX implementation in the Linux kernel did no...
USN-5541-1: Linux kernel (Azure) vulnerabilities
Eric Biederman discovered that the cgroup process migration implementation in the Linux kernel did not perform permission checks correctly in some situations. A local attacker could possibly use this to gain administrative privileges. CVE-2021-4197 Jann Horn discovered that the FUSE file system i...
USN-5259-2: Cron vulnerabilities
USN-5259-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in Cron. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Original advisory details: It was discovered that the postinst maintainer script in Cron unsafely handled file permissions during package install or update operations. An attacker...
USN-5365-1: H2 vulnerabilities
It was discovered that H2 was vulnerable to deserialization of untrusted data. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. CVE-2021-42392 It was discovered that H2 incorrectly handled some specially crafted connection URLs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to...
USN-5330-1: LibreOffice vulnerability
It was discovered that LibreOffice incorrectly handled digital signatures. An attacker could possibly use this issue to create a specially crafted document that would display a validly signed indicator, contrary to expectations...
USN-5235-1: Ruby vulnerabilities
It was discovered that Ruby incorrectly handled certain HTML files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a crash. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 21.04, and Ubuntu 21.10. CVE-2021-41816 It was discovered that Ruby incorrectly handled certain regular expressions. An...
USN-5103-1: docker.io vulnerability
Lei Wang and Ruizhi Xiao discovered that the Moby Docker engine in Docker incorrectly allowed the docker cp command to make permissions changes in the host filesystem in some situations. A local attacker could possibly use to this to expose sensitive information or gain administrative privileges...
USN-5029-1: GnuTLS vulnerabilities
It was discovered that GnuTLS incorrectly handled sending certain extensions when being used as a client. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause GnuTLS to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code...
USN-4892-1: OpenJDK vulnerability
It was discovered that OpenJDK incorrectly verified Jar signatures. An attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass intended security restrictions when using Jar files signed with a disabled algorithm...
USN-4755-1: 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-4702-1: Pound vulnerabilities
It was discovered that Pound incorrectly handled certain HTTP requests A remote attacker could use it to retrieve some sensitive information. CVE-2016-10711, CVE-2018-21245...
USN-4688-1: JasPer vulnerabilities
It was discovered that Jasper incorrectly certain files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a crash. CVE-2018-18873 It was discovered that Jasper incorrectly handled certain files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. CVE-2018-19542 It was...
USN-4366-1: Exim vulnerability
It was discovered that Exim incorrectly handled certain inputs. An remote attacker could possibly use this issue to access sensitive information or authentication bypass...
USN-4269-1: systemd vulnerabilities
It was discovered that systemd incorrectly handled certain PIDFile files. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to trick systemd into killing privileged processes. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. CVE-2018-16888 It was discovered that systemd incorrectly handled certain udevadm...
USN-8928-1: OpenSSH vulnerabilities
It was discovered that OpenSSH's sftp client incorrectly handled paths returned by the server during a recursive copy operation. A remote attacker controlling the server could possibly use this issue to write files to unintended locations. CVE-2026-106552 It was discovered that OpenSSH's sshd...
USN-6916-1: Lua vulnerabilities
It was discovered that Lua did not properly generate code when "ENV" is constant. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary unstrusted lua code. CVE-2022-28805 It was discovered that Lua did not properly handle C stack overflows during error...
USN-6172-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
It was discovered that the TUN/TAP driver in the Linux kernel did not properly initialize socket data. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2023-1076 It was discovered that the Real-Time Scheduling Class implementation in the Linux kernel contained a type...
USN-5494-1: SpiderMonkey JavaScript Library vulnerabilities
It was discovered that SpiderMonkey JavaScript Library incorrectly generated certain assembly code. An remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a crash or expose sensitive information. CVE-2022-28285 It was discovered that SpiderMonkey JavaScript Library incorrectly generated certai...
USN-4781-1: Slurm vulnerabilities
It was discovered that Slurm incorrectly handled certain messages between the daemon and the user. An attacker could possibly use this issue to assume control of an arbitrary file on the system. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. CVE-2016-10030 It was discovered that Slurm mishandled SPAN...
USN-5371-1: nginx vulnerabilities
It was discovered that nginx Lua module mishandled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to perform an HTTP Request Smuggling attack. This issue was fixed for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. CVE-2020-11724 It was discovered that nginx Lua module mishandled certain input...
USN-5113-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
It was discovered that a race condition existed in the Atheros Ath9k WiFi driver in the Linux kernel. An attacker could possibly use this to expose sensitive information WiFi network traffic. CVE-2020-3702 Alois Wohlschlager discovered that the overlay file system in the Linux kernel did not...
USN-5073-3: Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi) vulnerabilities
Norbert Slusarek discovered that the CAN broadcast manger bcm protocol implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly initialize memory in some situations. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information kernel memory. CVE-2021-34693 Murray McAllister discovered that the...
USN-4673-1: libproxy vulnerability
Li Fei discovered that libproxy incorrectly handled certain PAC files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a crash or execute arbitrary code...
USN-4592-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Andy Nguyen discovered that the Bluetooth L2CAP implementation in the Linux kernel contained a type-confusion error. A physically proximate remote attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2020-12351 Andy Nguyen discovered that the...
USN-4317-1: Firefox vulnerabilities
Two use-after-free bugs were discovered in Firefox. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could exploit these to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code...