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-327-2: firefox regression

USN-327-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in Firefox. Unfortunately the new version introduced a regression in the handling of streamed media. Embedded media which were linked with a scheme other than http:// did not work any more. This update fixes this regression...

USN-5822-1: Samba vulnerabilities

It was discovered that Samba incorrectly handled the bad password count logic. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass bad passwords lockouts. This issue was only addressed in Ubuntu 22.10. CVE-2021-20251 Evgeny Legerov discovered that Samba incorrectly handled buffers in certai...

USN-5505-1: 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 Likang Luo discovered that a race condition existed in the Bluetoo...

USN-5399-1: libvirt vulnerabilities

It was discovered that libvirt incorrectly handled certain locking operations. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to cause libvirt to stop accepting connections, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. CVE-2021-3667 It was discovered that libvirt...

USN-5358-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the network traffic control implementation in the Linux kernel contained 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-2022-1055 It was discovered that the IPsec implementati...

USN-5259-1: Cron vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the postinst maintainer script in Cron unsafely handled file permissions during package install or update operations. An attacker could possibly use this issue to perform a privilege escalation attack. CVE-2017-9525 Florian Weimer discovered that Cron incorrectly handled...

USN-5079-4: curl regression

USN-5079-2 fixed vulnerabilities in curl. One of the fixes introduced a regression. This update fixes the problem. Original advisory details: Patrick Monnerat discovered that curl incorrectly handled upgrades to TLS. When receiving certain responses from servers, curl would continue without TLS...

USN-4969-2: DHCP vulnerability

USN-4969-1 fixed a vulnerability in DHCP. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and 16.04 ESM. Original advisory details: Jon Franklin and Pawel Wieczorkiewicz discovered that DHCP incorrectly handled lease file parsing. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue...

USN-4728-1: snapd vulnerability

Gilad Reti and Nimrod Stoler discovered that snapd did not correctly specify cgroup delegation when generating systemd service units for various container management snaps. This could allow a local attacker to escalate privileges via access to arbitrary devices of the container host from within a...

USN-4596-1: Tomcat vulnerabilities

It was discovered that Tomcat did not properly manage HTTP/2 streams. An attacker could possibly use this to cause Tomcat to consume resources, resulting in a denial of service. CVE-2020-11996 It was discovered that Tomcat did not properly release the HTTP/1.1 processor after the upgrade to HTTP/...

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-4185-2: Linux kernel (Azure) vulnerabilities

Stephan van Schaik, Alyssa Milburn, Sebastian Österlund, Pietro Frigo, Kaveh Razavi, Herbert Bos, Cristiano Giuffrida, Giorgi Maisuradze, Moritz Lipp, Michael Schwarz, Daniel Gruss, and Jo Van Bulck discovered that Intel processors using Transactional Synchronization Extensions TSX could expose...

USN-4128-1: Tomcat vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the Tomcat 8 SSI printenv command echoed user provided data without escaping it. An attacker could possibly use this issue to perform an XSS attack. CVE-2019-0221 It was discovered that Tomcat 8 did not address HTTP/2 connection window exhaustion on write while addressing...

USN-4075-1: Exim vulnerability

Jeremy Harris discovered that Exim incorrectly handled sort expansions. In environments where sort expansions are used, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code as root...

USN-4072-1: Ansible vulnerabilities

It was discovered that Ansible failed to properly handle sensitive information. A local attacker could use those vulnerabilities to extract them. CVE-2017-7481 CVE-2018-10855 CVE-2018-16837 CVE-2018-16876 CVE-2019-10156 It was discovered that Ansible could load configuration files from the curren...

USN-3872-1: Linux kernel (HWE) vulnerabilities

It was discovered that a race condition existed in the vsock address family implementation of the Linux kernel that could lead to a use-after-free condition. A local attacker in a guest virtual machine could use this to expose sensitive information host machine kernel memory. CVE-2018-14625 Cfir...

USN-3695-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Wen Xu discovered that the ext4 filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly initialize the crc32c checksum driver. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2018-1094 It was discovered that the cdrom driver in the Linux kernel contained an...

USN-3045-1: PHP vulnerabilities

It was discovered that PHP incorrectly handled certain SplMinHeap::compare operations. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause PHP to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. CVE-2015-4116 ...

USN-489-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

A flaw was discovered in dvb ULE decapsulation. A remote attacker could send a specially crafted message and cause a denial of service. CVE-2006-4623 The compatsysmount function allowed local users to cause a denial of service when mounting a smbfs filesystem in compatibility mode. CVE-2006-7203...

USN-6952-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Benedict Schlüter, Supraja Sridhara, Andrin Bertschi, and Shweta Shinde discovered that an untrusted hypervisor could inject malicious VC interrupts and compromise the security guarantees of AMD SEV-SNP. This flaw is known as WeSee. A local attacker in control of the hypervisor could use this to...

USN-6742-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Daniele Antonioli discovered that the Secure Simple Pairing and Secure Connections pairing in the Bluetooth protocol could allow an unauthenticated user to complete authentication without pairing credentials. A physically proximate attacker placed between two Bluetooth devices could use this to...

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-5905-1: PHP vulnerabilities

It was discovered that PHP incorrectly handled certain gzip files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. CVE-2022-31628 It was discovered that PHP incorrectly handled certain cookies. An attacker could possibly use this issue to compromise data integrity...

USN-5582-1: Linux kernel (Azure CVM) vulnerabilities

Arthur Mongodin discovered that the netfilter subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly perform data validation. A local attacker could use this to escalate privileges in certain situations. CVE-2022-34918 Zhenpeng Lin discovered that the network packet scheduler implementation in the Linux...

USN-5475-1: 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, obtain sensitive information, spoof the browser UI, conduct cross-site scripting XSS attacks, bypass...

USN-5283-1: Tar for Node.js vulnerability

It was discovered that Tar for Node.js did not properly sanitize path inputs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to read arbitrary files, resulting in a directory traversal attack...

USN-5229-1: 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, obtain sensitive information across domains, or execu...

USN-5210-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Nadav Amit discovered that the hugetlb implementation in the Linux kernel did not perform TLB flushes under certain conditions. A local attacker could use this to leak or alter data from other processes that use huge pages. CVE-2021-4002 It was discovered that the Linux kernel did not properly...

LSN-0082-1: Kernel Live Patch Security Notice

Jann Horn discovered that the tty subsystem of the Linux kernel did not use consistent locking in some situations, leading to a read-after-free vulnerability. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly expose sensitive information kernel...

USN-5009-2: libslirp vulnerabilities

USN-5009-1 fixed vulnerabilities in libslirp. This update provides the corresponding updates for Ubuntu 21.10. Original advisory details: Qiuhao Li discovered that libslirp incorrectly handled certain header data lengths. An attacker inside a guest could possibly use this issue to leak sensitive...

USN-5057-1: Squashfs-Tools vulnerability

Etienne Stalmans discovered that Squashfs-Tools mishandled certain malformed SQUASHFS files. An attacker could use this vulnerability to write arbitrary files to the filesystem...

USN-5052-1: MongoDB vulnerability

MongoDB would fail to properly invalidate existing sessions for deleted users. This could allow a remote authenticated attacker to gain elevated privileges if their user account was recreated with elevated privileges...

USN-5034-1: c-ares vulnerability

Philipp Jeitner and Haya Shulman discovered that c-ares incorrectly validated certain hostnames returned by DNS servers. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform Domain Hijacking attacks...

USN-4922-1: Ruby vulnerability

Juho Nurminen discovered that the REXML gem bundled with Ruby incorrectly parsed and serialized XML documents. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform an XML round-trip attack...

USN-4689-1: NVIDIA graphics drivers vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the NVIDIA GPU display driver for the Linux kernel contained a vulnerability that allowed user-mode clients to access legacy privileged APIs. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service or escalate privileges. CVE-2021-1052 It was discovered that the NVIDIA...

USN-4483-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Chuhong Yuan discovered that go7007 USB audio device driver in the Linux kernel did not properly deallocate memory in some failure conditions. A physically proximate attacker could use this to cause a denial of service memory exhaustion. CVE-2019-20810 Fan Yang discovered that the mremap...

USN-4325-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the IPMI message handler implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly deallocate memory in certain situations. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service kernel memory exhaustion. CVE-2019-19046 Al Viro discovered that the vfs layer in the Linux...

USN-4188-1: Linux kernel vulnerability

Stephan van Schaik, Alyssa Milburn, Sebastian Österlund, Pietro Frigo, Kaveh Razavi, Herbert Bos, Cristiano Giuffrida, Giorgi Maisuradze, Moritz Lipp, Michael Schwarz, Daniel Gruss, and Jo Van Bulck discovered that Intel processors using Transactional Synchronization Extensions TSX could expose...

USN-3712-1: libpng vulnerabilities

Patrick Keshishian discovered that libpng incorrectly handled certain PNG files. An attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. CVE-2016-10087 Thuan Pham discovered that libpng incorrectly handled certain PNG files...

USN-3360-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the Linux kernel did not properly initialize a Wake- on-Lan data structure. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information kernel memory. CVE-2014-9900 It was discovered that the Linux kernel did not properly restrict access to /proc/iomem. A local attacker...

USN-3270-1: NSS vulnerabilities

Karthik Bhargavan and Gaetan Leurent discovered that the DES and Triple DES ciphers were vulnerable to birthday attacks. A remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to obtain clear text data from long encrypted sessions. This update causes NSS to limit use of the same symmetric key...

USN-6819-4: Linux kernel (Oracle) 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-5463-1: NTFS-3G vulnerabilities

It was discovered that NTFS-3G incorrectly handled the ntfsck tool. If a user or automated system were tricked into using ntfsck on a specially crafted disk image, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. CVE-2021-46790 Roman Fiedler discovered that NTFS-3G...

USN-5378-1: Gzip vulnerability

Cleemy Desu Wayo discovered that Gzip incorrectly handled certain filenames. If a user or automated system were tricked into performing zgrep operations with specially crafted filenames, a remote attacker could overwrite arbitrary files...

USN-5301-1: Cyrus SASL vulnerability

It was discovered that the Cyrus SASL SQL plugin incorrectly handled SQL input. A remote attacker could use this issue to execute arbitrary SQL commands...

USN-5266-1: Linux kernel (GKE) vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the Packet network protocol implementation in the Linux kernel contained a double-free vulnerability. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2021-22600 Luo Likang discovered that the FireDTV Firewire...

LSN-0083-1: Kernel Live Patch Security Notice

The BPF subsystem in the Linux kernel before 4.17 mishandles situations with a long jump over an instruction sequence where inner instructions require substantial expansions into multiple BPF instructions, leading to an overflow. This affects kernel/bpf/core.c and net/core/filter.c.CVE-2018-25020...

USN-5192-1: Apache Log4j 2 vulnerability

Chen Zhaojun discovered that Apache Log4j 2 allows remote attackers to run programs via a special crafted input. An attacker could use this vulnerability to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. Please see the following link for more information:...

USN-5107-1: 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 another origin, or execute arbitrary code...