USN-5120-1: Linux kernel (Azure) vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the f2fs file system in the Linux kernel did not properly validate metadata in some situations. An attacker could use this to construct a malicious f2fs image that, when mounted and operated on, could cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code...

USN-4926-1: Firefox vulnerabilities

Multiple security issues were discovered in Firefox. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service, spoof the browser UI, bypass security restrictions, trick the user into disclosing confidential...

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-4255-2: Linux kernel (HWE) vulnerabilities

USN-4255-1 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. It was discovered that the Linux kernel did not properly clear data structures on...

USN-4109-1: OpenJPEG vulnerabilities

It was discovered that OpenJPEG incorrectly handled certain PGX files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or possibly remote code execution. CVE-2017-17480 It was discovered that OpenJPEG incorrectly handled certain files. An attacker could possibly use this...

USN-3912-1: GDK-PixBuf vulnerability

It was discovered that the GDK-PixBuf library did not properly handle certain BMP images. If an user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted BMP file, a remote attacker could use this flaw to cause GDK-PixBuf to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execut...

USN-3822-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Jim Mattson discovered that the KVM implementation in the Linux kernel mismanages the BP and OF exceptions. A local attacker in a guest virtual machine could use this to cause a denial of service guest OS crash. CVE-2016-9588 It was discovered that the generic SCSI driver in the Linux kernel did...

USN-6026-1: Vim vulnerabilities

It was discovered that Vim was incorrectly processing Vim buffers. An attacker could possibly use this issue to perform illegal memory access and expose sensitive information. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. CVE-2021-4166 It was discovered that Vim was using freed memory when dealing...

USN-5882-1: DCMTK vulnerabilities

Gjoko Krstic discovered that DCMTK incorrectly handled buffers. If a user or an automated system were tricked into opening a certain specially crafted input file, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. CVE-2015-8979...

USN-5376-1: Git vulnerability

俞晨东 discovered that Git incorrectly handled certain repository paths in platforms with multiple users support. An attacker could possibly use this issue to run arbitrary commands...

USN-5331-1: tcpdump vulnerabilities

It was discovered that tcpdump incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2018-16301 It was discovered that tcpdump incorrectly handled certain captured data. An attacker could possibly use th...

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-5109-1: nginx vulnerability

It was discovered that nginx incorrectly handled files with certain modification dates. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or other unspecified impact...

LSN-0076-1: Kernel Live Patch Security Notice

It was discovered that the overlayfs implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly validate the application of file system capabilities with respect to user namespaces. A local attacker could use this to gain elevated privileges.CVE-2021-3493 Piotr Krysiuk discovered that the BPF JIT compil...

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-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...

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-4098-1: wpa_supplicant and hostapd vulnerability

It was discovered that wpasupplicant and hostapd were vulnerable to a side channel attack against EAP-pwd. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to recover certain passwords...

USN-3922-2: PHP vulnerabilities

USN-3922-1 fixed vulnerabilities in PHP. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. It was discovered that PHP incorrectly handled certain files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to access sensitive information. CVE-2019-9022 It was discovered that PHP incorrectl...

USN-3865-1: poppler vulnerabilities

It was discovered that poppler incorrectly handled certain PDF files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. CVE-2018-20481, CVE-2018-20650...

USN-6819-2: Linux kernel 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 Chenyuan...

USN-5879-1: Linux kernel (HWE) vulnerabilities

Kyle Zeng discovered that the sysctl implementation in the Linux kernel contained a stack-based buffer overflow. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or execute arbitrary code. CVE-2022-4378 Tamás Koczka discovered that the Bluetooth L2CAP handshake...

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-5357-2: Linux kernel vulnerability

It was discovered that the IPsec implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly allocate enough memory when performing ESP transformations, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code...

USN-5071-3: Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi) vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the KVM hypervisor implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly perform reference counting in some situations, leading to a use-after-free vulnerability. An attacker who could start and control a VM could possibly use this to expose sensitive information or execute...

USN-5035-1: GPSd vulnerability

It was discovered that GPSd incorrectly handled certain leap second events which would result in the time jumping back 1024 weeks on 2021-10-31...

USN-4714-1: XStream vulnerabilities

Zhihong Tian and Hui Lu found that XStream was vulnerable to remote code execution. A remote attacker could run arbitrary shell commands by manipulating the processed input stream. CVE-2020-26217 It was discovered that XStream was vulnerable to server-side forgery attacks. A remote attacker could...

USN-4387-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the F2FS file system implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly perform bounds checking on xattrs in some situations. A local attacker could possibly use this to expose sensitive information kernel memory. CVE-2020-0067 It was discovered that memory contents...

USN-4004-2: Berkeley DB vulnerability

USN-4004-1 fixed a vulnerability in Berkeley DB. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM. Original advisory details: It was discovered that Berkeley DB incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to read sensitive information...

USN-1592-1: Python 2.7 vulnerabilities

Niels Heinen discovered that the urllib and urllib2 modules would process Location headers that specify a redirection to file: URLs. A remote attacker could exploit this to obtain sensitive information or cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 11.04. CVE-2011-1521 It was...

USN-6817-3: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Ziming Zhang discovered that the DRM driver for VMware Virtual GPU did not properly handle certain error conditions, leading to a NULL pointer dereference. A local attacker could possibly trigger this vulnerability to cause a denial of service. CVE-2022-38096 Zheng Wang discovered that the Broadc...

USN-6119-1: OpenSSL vulnerabilities

Matt Caswell discovered that OpenSSL incorrectly handled certain ASN.1 object identifiers. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause OpenSSL to consume resources, resulting in a denial of service. CVE-2023-2650 Anton Romanov discovered that OpenSSL incorrectly handled AES-XTS ciphe...

USN-5792-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Mingwei Zhang discovered that the KVM implementation for AMD processors in the Linux kernel did not properly handle cache coherency with Secure Encrypted Virtualization SEV. A local attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service host system crash. CVE-2022-0171 It was discovered th...

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...

LSN-0085-1: Kernel Live Patch Security Notice

Yiqi Sun and Kevin Wang discovered that the cgroups implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly restrict access to the cgroups v1 releaseagent feature. A local attacker could use this to gain administrative privileges.CVE-2022-0492 Nick Gregory discovered that the Linux kernel incorrectly...

USN-5301-2: Cyrus SASL vulnerability

USN-5301-1 fixed a vulnerability in Cyrus. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. Original advisory details: It was discovered that the Cyrus SASL SQL plugin incorrectly handled SQL input. A remote attacker could use this issue to execute arbitrar...

USN-5286-1: cryptsetup vulnerability

Milan Broz discovered that cryptsetup incorrectly handled LUKS2 reencryption recovery. An attacker with physical access to modify the encrypted device header may trigger the device to be unencrypted the next time it is mounted by the user. On Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, this issue was fixed by disabling th...

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-5051-4: OpenSSL regression

USN-5051-2 introduced a regression in OpenSSL that affected only Ubuntu 14.04 ESM. This update fix the regression. Original advisory details: Ingo Schwarze discovered that OpenSSL incorrectly handled certain ASN.1 strings. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause OpenSSL to crash, resultin...

USN-4957-1: DjVuLibre vulnerabilities

It was discovered that DjVuLibre incorrectly handled certain memory operations. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted DjVu file, a remote attacker could cause applications to hang or crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary co...

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-4747-1: GNU Screen vulnerability

Felix Weinmann discovered that GNU Screen incorrectly handled certain character sequences. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause GNU Screen to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code...

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-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-4203-1: NSS vulnerability

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

USN-3627-2: Apache HTTP Server vulnerabilities

USN-3627-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Apache HTTP Server. This update provides the corresponding updates for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Original advisory details: Alex Nichols and Jakob Hirsch discovered that the Apache HTTP Server modauthnzldap module incorrectly handled missing charset encoding headers. A...

USN-3382-1: PHP vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the PHP opcache created keys for files it cached based on their filepath. A local attacker could possibly use this issue in a shared hosting environment to obtain sensitive information. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. CVE-2015-8994 It was discovered that the PHP...

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-5335-1: ImageMagick vulnerabilities

It was discovered that ImageMagick incorrectly handled certain values when processing XPM image data or large images. If a user or automated system using ImageMagick were tricked into opening a specially crafted image, an attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service or possibly execut...