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...

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-5142-2: Samba regressions

USN-5142-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Samba. Some of the upstream changes introduced regressions in name mapping and backups. Please see the following upstream bugs for more information: https://bugzilla.samba.org/showbug.cgi?id=14901 https://bugzilla.samba.org/showbug.cgi?id=14918 This update fixe...

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...

USN-5079-2: curl vulnerabilities

USN-5079-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in curl. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. Original advisory details: Patrick Monnerat discovered that curl incorrectly handled upgrades to TLS. When receiving certain responses from servers, curl woul...

USN-5008-1: Avahi vulnerabilities

Thomas Kremer discovered that Avahi incorrectly handled termination signals on the Unix socket. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Avahi to hang, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 20.10. CVE-2021-3468 It...

USN-4965-1: Apport vulnerabilities

Maik Münch discovered that Apport incorrectly handled certain information gathering operations. A local attacker could use these issues to read and write arbitrary files as an administrator, and possibly escalate privileges...

USN-4928-1: GStreamer Good Plugins vulnerabilities

It was discovered that GStreamer Good Plugins incorrectly handled certain files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause access sensitive information or cause a crash. CVE-2021-3497 It was discovered that GStreamer Good Plugins incorrectly handled certain files. An attacker could...

USN-4922-2: Ruby vulnerability

USN-4922-1 fixed a vulnerability in Ruby. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 21.04. Original advisory details: 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...

USN-4923-1: EDK II vulnerabilities

Laszlo Ersek discovered that EDK II incorrectly handled recursion. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause EDK II to consume resources, leading to a denial of service. CVE-2021-28210 Satoshi Tanda discovered that EDK II incorrectly handled decompressing certain images. A remote...

USN-4720-1: Apport vulnerabilities

Itai Greenhut discovered that Apport incorrectly parsed certain files in the /proc filesystem. A local attacker could use this issue to escalate privileges and run arbitrary code. CVE-2021-25682, CVE-2021-25683 Itai Greenhut discovered that Apport incorrectly handled opening certain special files...

USN-4696-1: HTMLDOC vulnerability

It was discovered that HTMLDOC incorrectly handled certain HTML files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service...

USN-4674-2: Dovecot vulnerability

USN-4674-1 fixed a vulnerability in Dovecot. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM. Original advisory details: Innokentii Sennovskiy discovered that Dovecot incorrectly handled MIME parsing. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Dovecot to crash,...

USN-4645-1: Mutt vulnerability

It was discovered that Mutt incorrectly handled certain connections. An attacker could possibly use this issue to expose sensitive information...

USN-4628-1: Intel Microcode vulnerabilities

Moritz Lipp, Michael Schwarz, Andreas Kogler, David Oswald, Catherine Easdon, Claudio Canella, and Daniel Gruss discovered that the Intel Running Average Power Limit RAPL feature of some Intel processors allowed a side- channel attack based on power consumption measurements. A local attacker coul...

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-4419-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that a race condition existed in the Precision Time Protocol PTP implementation in the Linux kernel, leading to a use-after- free vulnerability. A local attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2020-10690...

USN-4375-1: PHP vulnerability

It was discovered that PHP incorrectly handled certain files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service...

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-3988-1: MediaInfoLib vulnerabilities

It was discovered that MediaInfoLib contained multiple security issues when handling certain multimedia files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted multimedia file, an attacker could cause MediaInfoLib to crash, resulting in a denial of service...

USN-3965-1: aria2 vulnerability

Dhiraj Mishra discovered that aria2 incorrectly stored authentication information. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain credentials...

USN-3657-1: Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi 2) vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the netlink subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly restrict observations of netlink messages to the appropriate net namespace. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information kernel netlink traffic. CVE-2017-17449 Tuba Yavuz discovered that a...

USN-3314-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the keyring implementation in the Linux kernel in some situations did not prevent special internal keyrings from being joined by userspace keyrings. A privileged local attacker could use this to bypass module verification. CVE-2016-9604 It was discovered that a buffer...

USN-3279-1: Apache HTTP Server vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the Apache modsessioncrypto module was encrypting data and cookies using either CBC or ECB modes. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform padding oracle attacks. CVE-2016-0736 Maksim Malyutin discovered that the Apache modauthdigest module incorrectly...

USN-1397-1: MySQL vulnerabilities

Multiple security issues were discovered in MySQL and this update includes new upstream MySQL versions to fix these issues. MySQL has been updated to 5.1.61 in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, Ubuntu 10.10, Ubuntu 11.04 and Ubuntu 11.10. Ubuntu 8.04 LTS has been updated to MySQL 5.0.95. In addition to security...

USN-6839-1: MariaDB vulnerability

A security issue was discovered in MariaDB and this update includes new upstream MariaDB versions to fix the issue. MariaDB has been updated to 10.6.18 in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and to 10.11.8 in Ubuntu 23.10 and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. In addition to security fixes, the updated packages contain bug fixes, n...

USN-6819-1: 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-6446-2: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Ross Lagerwall discovered that the Xen netback backend driver in the Linux kernel did not properly handle certain unusual packets from a paravirtualized network frontend, leading to a buffer overflow. An attacker in a guest VM could use this to cause a denial of service host system crash or...

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-5372-1: Subversion vulnerabilities

Evgeny Kotkov discovered that Subversion servers did not properly follow path-based authorization rules in certain cases. An attacker could potentially use this issue to retrieve information about private paths. CVE-2021-28544 Thomas Weißschuh discovered that Subversion servers did not properly...

USN-5206-1: Linux kernel (OEM) vulnerability

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...

USN-5087-1: WebKitGTK vulnerabilities

A large number of security issues were discovered in the WebKitGTK Web and JavaScript engines. If a user were tricked into viewing a malicious website, a remote attacker could exploit a variety of issues related to web browser security, including cross-site scripting attacks, denial of service...

USN-5064-1: GNU cpio vulnerability

Maverick Chung and Qiaoyi Fang discovered that cpio incorrectly handled certain pattern files. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause cpio to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code...

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-4971-2: libwebp vulnerabilities

USN-4971-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in libwebp. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. Original advisory details: It was discovered that libwebp incorrectly handled certain malformed images. If a user or automated system were tricked into...

USN-4941-1: Exiv2 vulnerabilities

It was discovered that Exiv2 incorrectly handled certain images. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code or cause a crash. CVE-2021-29457 It was discovered that Exiv2 incorrectly handled certain images. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of...

USN-4756-1: 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, conduct cross-site scripting XSS attacks, bypass HTTP auth phishing warning...

LSN-0074-1: Kernel Live Patch Security Notice

Elena Petrova discovered that the pin controller device tree implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly handle string references. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information kernel memory. CVE-2020-0427 Andy Nguyen discovered that the Bluetooth A2MP implementation in...

USN-4692-1: tar vulnerabilities

Chris Siebenmann discovered that tar incorrectly handled extracting files resized during extraction when invoked with the --sparse flag. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 ESM, Ubuntu 14.04 ESM, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu...

USN-4360-1: json-c vulnerability

It was discovered that json-c incorrectly handled certain JSON files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code...

USN-3928-1: Dovecot vulnerability

It was discovered that Dovecot incorrectly handled reading certain headers from the index. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to escalate privileges...

USN-3923-1: QEMU vulnerabilities

Michael Hanselmann discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the Media Transfer Protocol MTP. An attacker inside the guest could use this issue to read or write arbitrary files and cause a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.10. CVE-2018-16867...

USN-3880-2: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerabilities

USN-3880-1 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. It was discovered that the CIFS client implementation in the Linux kernel did not...

USN-3523-3: Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi 2) vulnerabilities

Jann Horn discovered that the Berkeley Packet Filter BPF implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly check the relationship between pointer values and the BPF stack. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2017-1786...

USN-3315-1: Firefox vulnerabilities

Multiple security issues were discovered in Firefox. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service, read uninitialized memory, obtain sensitive information, spoof the addressbar contents, or execute...

USN-3196-1: PHP vulnerabilities

It was discovered that PHP incorrectly handled certain arguments to the localegetdisplayname function. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause PHP to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2014-9912 It was discovered that PHP incorrectly handled...

USN-2363-1: Bash vulnerability

Tavis Ormandy discovered that the security fix for Bash included in USN-2362-1 was incomplete. An attacker could use this issue to bypass certain environment restrictions. CVE-2014-7169...

USN-5850-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the Bluetooth HCI implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly deallocate memory in some situations. An attacker could possibly use this cause a denial of service memory exhaustion. CVE-2022-3619 It was discovered that the Broadcom FullMAC USB WiFi driver in the Linu...

USN-5400-1: MySQL vulnerabilities

Multiple security issues were discovered in MySQL and this update includes new upstream MySQL versions to fix these issues. MySQL has been updated to 8.0.29 in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 21.10, and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. Ubuntu 18.04 LTS has been updated to MySQL 5.7.38. In addition to security fixes, t...