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USN-852-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Solar Designer discovered that the z90crypt driver did not correctly check capabilities. A local attacker could exploit this to shut down the device, leading to a denial of service. Only affected Ubuntu 6.06. CVE-2009-1883 Michael Buesch discovered that the SGI GRU driver did not correctly check...
USN-6795-1: Linux kernel (Intel IoTG) vulnerabilities
Zheng Wang discovered that the Broadcom FullMAC WLAN driver in the Linux kernel contained a race condition during device removal, leading to a use- after-free vulnerability. A physically proximate attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2023-47233 It was...
USN-6766-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
It was discovered that the Open vSwitch implementation in the Linux kernel could overflow its stack during recursive action operations under certain conditions. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2024-1151 Sander Wiebing, Alvise de Faveri Tron, Herbert...
USN-6652-1: Linux kernel (Azure) vulnerabilities
Marek Marczykowski-Górecki discovered that the Xen event channel infrastructure implementation in the Linux kernel contained a race condition. An attacker in a guest VM could possibly use this to cause a denial of service paravirtualized device unavailability. CVE-2023-34324 Zheng Wang discovered...
USN-6316-1: Linux kernel (OEM) 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-6237-1: curl vulnerabilities
Hiroki Kurosawa discovered that curl incorrectly handled validating certain certificate wildcards. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to spoof certain website certificates using IDN hosts. CVE-2023-28321 Hiroki Kurosawa discovered that curl incorrectly handled callbacks when certain...
USN-5980-1: 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-5916-1: Linux kernel vulnerability
Jann Horn discovered that the Linux kernel did not properly track memory allocations for anonymous VMA mappings in some situations, leading to potential data structure reuse. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code...
USN-5844-1: OpenSSL vulnerabilities
David Benjamin discovered that OpenSSL incorrectly handled X.400 address processing. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to read arbitrary memory contents or cause OpenSSL to crash, resulting in a denial of service. CVE-2023-0286 Corey Bonnell discovered that OpenSSL incorrectly handl...
USN-5232-1: Fail2ban vulnerability
Jakub Żoczek discovered that certain Fail2ban actions handled whois responses in an insecure way. If Fail2ban was configured to use certain mail actions like 'mail-whois' on a target system, a remote attacker who was able to control whois responses to this target system could possibly execute...
USN-5537-2: MySQL vulnerability
USN-5537-1 fixed a vulnerability 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 5.7.39 in...
USN-5493-1: Linux kernel vulnerability
It was discovered that the 8 Devices USB2CAN interface implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly handle certain error conditions, leading to a double-free. A local attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service system crash...
USN-5329-1: tar vulnerability
It was discovered that tar incorrectly handled certain files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause tar to crash, resulting in a denial of service...
USN-5075-1: Ghostscript vulnerability
It was discovered that Ghostscript incorrectly handled certain PostScript files. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted file, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to access arbitrary files, execute arbitrary code, or cause a denial of service...
USN-5023-1: Aspell vulnerability
It was discovered that Aspell incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code or cause a crash...
USN-4888-1: ldb vulnerabilities
Douglas Bagnall discovered that ldb, when used with Samba, incorrectly handled certain LDAP attributes. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause the LDAP server to crash, resulting in a denial of service. CVE-2021-20277 Douglas Bagnall discovered that ldb, when used with Samba,...
USN-4800-1: Lynx vulnerabilities
It was discovered that Lynx incorrectly handled certain URLs. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information or other unspecified impact. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. CVE-2016-9179 It was discovered that Lynx incorrectly handled certain HTML files. A...
USN-4758-1: Go vulnerability
It was discovered that Go applications incorrectly handled uploaded content. If a user were tricked into visiting a malicious page, a remote attacker could exploit this with a crafted file to conduct cross-site scripting XSS attacks...
USN-4703-1: Mutt vulnerability
It was discovered that Mutt incorrectly handled certain email messages. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service...
USN-4546-1: 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, conduct cross-site scripting XSS attacks, spoof the site displayed in the download dialog, or execute...
USN-4239-1: PHP vulnerabilities
It was discovered that PHP incorrectly handled certain files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM, 16.04 LTS, 18.04 LTS, 19.04 and 19.10. CVE-2019-11045 It was discovered that PHP incorrectly handled certain inputs. An...
USN-4171-1: Apport vulnerabilities
Kevin Backhouse discovered Apport would read its user-controlled settings file as the root user. This could be used by a local attacker to possibly crash Apport or have other unspecified consequences. CVE-2019-11481 Sander Bos discovered a race-condition in Apport during core dump creation. This...
USN-4156-1: SDL vulnerabilities
It was discovered that SDL incorrectly handled certain images. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted image file, a remote attacker could use this issue to cause SDL to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code...
USN-4148-1: OpenEXR vulnerabilities
It was discovered that OpenEXR incorrectly handled certain malformed EXR image files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted EXR image file, a remote attacker could cause a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. CVE-2017-12596...
USN-4137-1: Mosquitto vulnerability
It was discovered that Mosquitto incorrectly handled certain specially crafted input and network packets. A remote attacker could use this to cause a denial of service...
USN-4088-1: PHP vulnerability
It was discovered that PHP incorrectly handled certain regular expressions. An attacker could possibly use this issue to expose sensitive information, cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code...
USN-3914-1: NTFS-3G vulnerability
A heap buffer overflow was discovered in NTFS-3G when executing it with a relative mount point path that is too long. A local attacker could potentially exploit this to execute arbitrary code as the administrator...
USN-3849-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
It was discovered that a NULL pointer dereference existed in the keyring subsystem of the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2017-2647 It was discovered that a race condition existed in the raw MIDI driver for the Linux kernel, leading to ...
USN-3741-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
It was discovered that memory present in the L1 data cache of an Intel CPU core may be exposed to a malicious process that is executing on the CPU core. This vulnerability is also known as L1 Terminal Fault L1TF. A local attacker in a guest virtual machine could use this to expose sensitive...
USN-3740-2: Linux kernel (HWE) vulnerabilities
USN-3740-1 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 memory present in the L1 data cache of an Intel CPU core may be...
USN-3655-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Jann Horn and Ken Johnson discovered that microprocessors utilizing speculative execution of a memory read may allow unauthorized memory reads via a sidechannel attack. This flaw is known as Spectre Variant 4. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information, including kernel memor...
USN-3619-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Jann Horn discovered that the Berkeley Packet Filter BPF implementation in the Linux kernel improperly performed sign extension in some situations. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2017-16995 It was discovered that a...
USN-3296-1: Samba vulnerability
It was discovered that Samba incorrectly handled shared libraries. A remote attacker could use this flaw to upload a shared library to a writable share and execute arbitrary code...
USN-3212-1: 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-3167-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Dmitry Vyukov discovered that the KVM implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly initialize the Code Segment CS in certain error cases. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information kernel memory. Baozeng Ding discovered a race condition that could lead to a use-after-...
USN-3119-1: Bind vulnerability
Tony Finch and Marco Davids discovered that Bind incorrectly handled certain responses containing a DNAME answer. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Bind to crash, resulting in a denial of service...
USN-3077-1: OpenJDK 6 vulnerabilities
A vulnerability was discovered in the OpenJDK JRE related to data integrity. An attacker could exploit this to expose sensitive data over the network or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2016-3458 Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in the OpenJDK JRE related to availability. An attacker...
USN-2994-1: libxml2 vulnerabilities
It was discovered that libxml2 incorrectly handled certain malformed documents. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted document, an attacker could possibly cause libxml2 to crash, resulting in a denial of service. CVE-2015-8806, CVE-2016-2073, CVE-2016-3627,...
USN-2943-1: PCRE vulnerabilities
It was discovered that PCRE incorrectly handled certain regular expressions. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause applications using PCRE to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code...
USN-1093-1: Linux Kernel vulnerabilities (Marvell Dove)
Dan Rosenberg discovered that the RDS network protocol did not correctly check certain parameters. A local attacker could exploit this gain root privileges. CVE-2010-3904 Nelson Elhage discovered several problems with the Acorn Econet protocol driver. A local user could cause a denial of service...
USN-5465-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
It was discovered that the Linux kernel did not properly restrict access to the kernel debugger when booted in secure boot environments. A privileged attacker could use this to bypass UEFI Secure Boot restrictions. CVE-2022-21499 Aaron Adams discovered that the netfilter subsystem in the Linux...
USN-5373-1: Django vulnerabilities
It was discovered that Django incorrectly handled certain certain column aliases in the QuerySet.annotate, aggregate, and extra methods. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform an SQL injection attack. CVE-2022-28346 It was discovered that Django incorrectly handled certain...
USN-5331-2: tcpdump vulnerabilities
USN-5331-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in tcpdump. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. Original advisory details: It was discovered that tcpdump incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial o...
USN-5345-1: Thunderbird vulnerabilities
Multiple security issues were discovered in Thunderbird. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted website in a browsing context, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service, bypass security restrictions, obtain sensitive information, cause undefined...
USN-5306-1: 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-5292-3: snapd vulnerabilities
USN-5292-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in snapd. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. Original advisory details: James Troup discovered that snap did not properly manage the permissions for the snap directories. A local attacker could possibly...
USN-5291-1: libarchive vulnerabilities
It was discovered that libarchive incorrectly handled symlinks. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted archive, an attacker could possibly use this issue to change modes, times, ACLs, and flags on arbitrary files. CVE-2021-23177, CVE-2021-31566 It was...
USN-5270-2: MySQL vulnerabilities
USN-5270-1 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-5200-1: Python vulnerabilities
It was discovered that the urllib.request.AbstractBasicAuthHandler class in Python contains regex allowing for catastrophic backtracking. Specially crafted traffic from a malicious HTTP server could cause a regular expression denial of service ReDoS condition for a client. CVE-2020-8492 It was...