USN-4599-1: 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, spoof the prompt for opening an external application, obtain sensitive information, or execute arbitrary...

USN-4421-1: Thunderbird vulnerabilities

Multiple security issues were discovered in Thunderbird. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website in a browsing context, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service, obtain sensitive information, or execute arbtirary code. CVE-2020-12405,...

USN-4316-1: GD Graphics Library vulnerabilities

It was discovered that GD Graphics Library incorrectly handled cloning an image. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause GD Graphics Library to crash, resulting in a denial of service. CVE-2018-14553 It was discovered that GD Graphics Library incorrectly handled loading images from X...

USN-4298-1: SQLite vulnerabilities

It was discovered that SQLite incorrectly handled certain shadow tables. An attacker could use this issue to cause SQLite to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2019-13734, CVE-2019-13750, CVE-2019-13753 It was discovered that SQLite incorrectly handle...

USN-4288-1: ppp vulnerability

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

USN-4190-1: libjpeg-turbo vulnerabilities

It was discovered that libjpeg-turbo incorrectly handled certain BMP images. An attacker could possibly use this issue to expose sensitive information. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. CVE-2018-14498 It was discovered that libjpeg-turbo incorrectly handled certain...

USN-4142-1: e2fsprogs vulnerability

It was discovered that e2fsprogs incorrectly handled certain ext4 partitions. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code...

USN-4086-1: Mercurial vulnerability

It was discovered that Mercurial mishandled symlinks in subrepositories. An attacker could use this vulnerability to write arbitrary files to the target's filesystem...

USN-4028-1: Thunderbird vulnerabilities

Multiple memory safety issues were discovered in Thunderbird. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted message, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service, or execute arbitrary code...

USN-3940-1: ClamAV vulnerabilities

It was discovered that ClamAV incorrectly handled scanning certain PDF documents. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause ClamAV to crash, resulting in a denial of service. CVE-2019-1787 It was discovered that ClamAV incorrectly handled scanning certain OLE2 files. A remote...

USN-3926-1: GPAC vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the GPAC MP4Box utility incorrectly handled certain memory operations. If an user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted MP4 file, a remote attacker could use this issue to cause MP4Box to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execu...

USN-3921-1: XMLTooling vulnerability

It was discovered that XMLTooling incorrectly handled certain XML files with invalid data. An attacker could use this issue to cause XMLTooling to crash, resulting in a denial of service...

USN-3918-1: 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 via application crash, denial of service via successive FTP authorization prompts or modal alerts, trick...

USN-3913-1: P7ZIP vulnerabilities

It was discovered that p7zip did not correctly handle certain malformed archives. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted archive with p7zip, then p7zip could be made to crash, possibly leading to abitrary code execution...

USN-3874-1: 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, gain additional privileges by escaping the sandbox, or execute arbitrary code. CVE-2018-18500,...

USN-3861-2: PolicyKit vulnerability

USN-3861-1 fixed a vulnerability in PolicyKit. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM. Original advisory details: 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...

USN-3752-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that, when attempting to handle an out-of-memory situation, a null pointer dereference could be triggered in the Linux kernel in some circumstances. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2018-1000200 Wen Xu discovered that the XFS...

USN-3614-1: OpenJDK 7 vulnerabilities

It was discovered that a race condition existed in the cryptography implementation in OpenJDK. An attacker could possibly use this to expose sensitive information. CVE-2018-2579 It was discovered that the LDAP implementation in OpenJDK did not properly encode login names. A remote attacker could...

USN-3497-1: OpenJDK 7 vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the Smart Card IO subsystem in OpenJDK did not properly maintain state. An attacker could use this to specially construct an untrusted Java application or applet to gain access to a smart card, bypassing sandbox restrictions. CVE-2017-10274 Gaston Traberg discovered that th...

USN-2419-1: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerabilities

A flaw was discovered in how the Linux kernel's KVM Kernel Virtual Machine subsystem handles the CR4 control register at VM entry on Intel processors. A local host OS user can exploit this to cause a denial of service kill arbitrary processes, or system disruption by leveraging /dev/kvm access...

USN-2139-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities

Mathy Vanhoef discovered an error in the the way the ath9k driver was handling the BSSID masking. A remote attacker could exploit this error to discover the original MAC address after a spoofing atack. CVE-2013-4579 Andrew Honig reported a flaw in the Linux Kernel's kvmvmioctlcreatevcpu function ...

USN-1613-1: Python 2.5 vulnerabilities

It was discovered that Python would prepend an empty string to sys.path under certain circumstances. A local attacker with write access to the current working directory could exploit this to execute arbitrary code. CVE-2008-5983 It was discovered that the audioop module did not correctly perform...

USN-1363-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

A bug was discovered in the Linux kernel's calculation of OOM Out of memory scores, that would result in the wrong process being killed. A user could use this to kill the process with the highest OOM score, even if that process belongs to another user or the system. CVE-2011-4097 A flaw was found...

USN-1105-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Dan Rosenberg discovered that multiple terminal ioctls did not correctly initialize structure memory. A local attacker could exploit this to read portions of kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy. CVE-2010-4075 Dan Rosenberg discovered that the socket filters did not correctly...

USN-593-1: Dovecot vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the default configuration of dovecot could allow access to any email files with group "mail" without verifying that a user had valid rights. An attacker able to create symlinks in their mail directory could exploit this to read or delete another user's email. CVE-2008-1199 ...

USN-6950-4: Linux kernel (HWE) vulnerabilities

Several security issues were discovered in the Linux kernel. An attacker could possibly use these to compromise the system. This update corrects flaws in the following subsystems: - ARM32 architecture; - ARM64 architecture; - Block layer subsystem; - Bluetooth drivers; - Clock framework and...

USN-6898-3: Linux kernel 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 Gui-Dong Han discovered that the...

USN-6701-3: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Ruihan Li discovered that the bluetooth subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly perform permissions checks when handling HCI sockets. A physically proximate attacker could use this to cause a denial of service bluetooth communication. CVE-2023-2002 It was discovered that the NVIDIA Tegra...

USN-5953-1: IPython vulnerabilities

It was discovered that IPython incorrectly processed REST API POST requests. An attacker could possibly use this issue to launch a cross-site request forgery CSRF attack and leak user's sensitive information. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM. CVE-2015-5607 It was discovered that IPython...

USN-5804-2: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the NFSD implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly handle some RPC messages, leading to a buffer overflow. A remote attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2022-43945 Tamás Koczka discovered that th...

USN-5803-1: Linux kernel 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-5271-1: Adminer vulnerabilities

It was discovered that Adminer did not escape data in the history parameter of the default URI. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform cross-site scripting XSS attacks. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 ESM. CVE-2020-35572 Adam Crosser and Brian Sizemore discovered that...

USN-5417-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Ke Sun, Alyssa Milburn, Henrique Kawakami, Emma Benoit, Igor Chervatyuk, Lisa Aichele, and Thais Moreira Hamasaki discovered that the Spectre Variant 2 mitigations for AMD processors on Linux were insufficient in some situations. A local attacker could possibly use this to expose sensitive...

USN-5397-1: curl vulnerabilities

Patrick Monnerat discovered that curl incorrectly handled certain OAUTH2. An attacker could possibly use this issue to access sensitive information. CVE-2022-22576 Harry Sintonen discovered that curl incorrectly handled certain requests. An attacker could possibly use this issue to expose sensiti...

USN-5336-1: libjpeg9 vulnerabilities

Aladdin Mubaied discovered that the cjpeg utility in libjpeg9 did not properly validate the input image's size. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. CVE-2016-3616 It was discovered that the cjpeg utility in libjpeg9 incorrectly handled...

USN-5323-1: NBD vulnerabilities

It was discovered that NBD incorrectly handled name length fields. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause NBD to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code...

USN-5243-1: AIDE vulnerability

David Bouman discovered that AIDE incorrectly handled base64 operations. A local attacker could use this issue to cause AIDE to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code...

USN-5158-1: ImageMagick vulnerabilities

It was discovered that ImageMagick incorrectly handled certain values when processing visual effects based image files. By tricking a user into opening a specially crafted image file, an attacker could crash the application causing a denial of service. CVE-2021-20244 It was discovered that...

USN-5132-1: 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, spoof another origin, or execute arbitrary code...

USN-5121-2: Mailman vulnerabilities

USN-5009-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Mailman. This update provides the corresponding updates for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. In addition, the following CVEs were fixed: It was discovered that Mailman allows arbitrary content injection. An attacker could use this to inject malicious content. CVE-2020-12108,...

USN-5084-1: LibTIFF vulnerability

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-4959-1: GStreamer Base Plugins vulnerability

It was discovered that GStreamer Base Plugins incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to expose sensitive information...

USN-4646-1: poppler vulnerabilities

It was discovered that Poppler incorrectly handled certain files. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a crafted PDF file, an attacker could cause a denial of service...

USN-4600-1: Netty vulnerabilities

It was discovered that Netty had HTTP request smuggling vulnerabilities. A remote attacker could used it to extract sensitive information. CVE-2019-16869, CVE-2019-20444, CVE-2019-20445, CVE-2020-7238...

USN-4243-1: libbsd vulnerabilities

It was discovered that libbsd incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM. CVE-2016-2090 It was discovered that libbsd incorrectly handled certain strings. An attacker could possibly use this...

USN-4123-1: npm/fstream vulnerability

It was discovered that npm/fstream incorrectly handled certain crafted tarballs. An attacker could use this vulnerability to write aritrary files to the filesystem...

USN-4073-1: libEBML vulnerability

It was discovered that libEBML incorrectly handled certain media files. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted media file, libEBML could possibly be made to crash, resulting in a denial of service...

USN-3918-4: Firefox regressions

USN-3918-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. The update caused web compatibility and performance issues with some websites. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: Multiple security issues were discovered in Firefox. If a user were tricked in ...

USN-3939-2: Samba vulnerability

USN-3939-1 fixed a vulnerability in Samba. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM. Original advisory details: Michael Hanselmann discovered that Samba incorrectly handled registry files. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to create new registry files outsi...

USN-3641-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Nick Peterson discovered that the Linux kernel did not properly handle debug exceptions following a MOV/POP to SS instruction. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash. This issue only affected the amd64 architecture. CVE-2018-8897 Andy Lutomirski discovered that...