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USN-3739-1: libxml2 vulnerabilities
Matias Brutti discovered that libxml2 incorrectly handled certain XML files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to expose sensitive information. CVE-2016-9318 It was discovered that libxml2 incorrectly handled certain files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of...
USN-3723-1: Tomcat vulnerabilities
It was discovered that Tomcat incorrectly handled decoding certain UTF-8 strings. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Tomcat to crash, resulting in a denial of service. CVE-2018-1336 It was discovered that the Tomcat WebSocket client incorrectly performed hostname verificatio...
USN-3691-1: OpenJDK 7 vulnerabilities
It was discovered that the Security component of OpenJDK did not correctly perform merging of multiple sections for the same file listed in JAR archive file manifests. An attacker could possibly use this to modify attributes in a manifest without invalidating the signature. CVE-2018-2790 Francesc...
USN-3396-1: OpenJDK 7 vulnerabilities
It was discovered that the JPEGImageReader class in OpenJDK would incorrectly read unused image data. An attacker could use this to specially construct a jpeg image file that when opened by a Java application would cause a denial of service. CVE-2017-10053 It was discovered that the JAR verifier ...
USN-3392-1: Linux kernel regression
USN-3378-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel. Unfortunately, a regression was introduced that prevented conntrack from working correctly in some situations. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: Fan Wu and Shixiong Zhao discovered a...
USN-3342-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
USN 3326-1 fixed a vulnerability in the Linux kernel. However, that fix introduced regressions for some Java applications. This update addresses the issue. We apologize for the inconvenience. It was discovered that a use-after-free flaw existed in the filesystem encryption subsystem in the Linux...
USN-3265-2: Linux kernel (Xenial HWE) vulnerabilities
USN-3265-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. It was discovered that a use-after-free flaw existed in the filesystem encryption...
USN-3235-1: libxml2 vulnerabilities
It was discovered that libxml2 incorrectly handled format strings. 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. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS...
USN-3129-2: Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi 2) vulnerabilities
Ondrej Kozina discovered that the keyring interface in the Linux kernel contained a buffer overflow when displaying timeout events via the /proc/keys interface. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2016-7042...
USN-3054-1: Linux kernel (Xenial HWE) vulnerabilities
Ben Hawkes discovered an integer overflow in the Linux netfilter implementation. On systems running 32 bit kernels, a local unprivileged attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code with administrative privileges. CVE-2016-3135 It was...
USN-3024-1: Tomcat vulnerabilities
It was discovered that Tomcat incorrectly handled pathnames used by web applications in a getResource, getResourceAsStream, or getResourcePaths call. A remote attacker could use this issue to possibly list a parent directory . This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu...
USN-2968-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Ralf Spenneberg discovered that the Aiptek Tablet USB device driver in the Linux kernel did not properly validate the endpoints reported by the device. An attacker with physical access could cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2015-7515 Ben Hawkes discovered that the Linux kernel's AIO...
USN-2647-1: Linux kernel vulnerability
Philip Pettersson discovered a privilege escalation when using overlayfs mounts inside of user namespaces. A local user could exploit this flaw to gain administrative privileges on the system...
USN-2541-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
The Linux kernel's splice system call did not correctly validate its parameters. A local, unprivileged user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2014-7822 A flaw was discovered in how Thread Local Storage TLS is handled by the task switching function in the Linux...
USN-2522-1: ICU vulnerabilities
It was discovered that ICU incorrectly handled memory operations when processing fonts. If an application using ICU processed crafted data, an attacker could cause it to crash or potentially execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. This issue only affected Ubun...
USN-2464-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities
Andy Lutomirski discovered that the Linux kernel does not properly handle faults associated with the Stack Segment SS register in the x86 architecture. A local attacker could exploit this flaw to gain administrative privileges. CVE-2014-9322 An information leak in the Linux kernel was discovered...
USN-2377-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities
Steven Vittitoe reported multiple stack buffer overflows in Linux kernel's magicmouse HID driver. A physically proximate attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code via specially crafted devices. CVE-2014-3181 A bounds check error...
USN-2221-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Matthew Daley reported an information leak in the floppy disk driver of the Linux kernel. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory. CVE-2014-1738 Matthew Daley reported a flaw in the handling of ioctl commands by the floppy...
USN-1693-1: OpenJDK 7 vulnerabilities
It was discovered that OpenJDK 7's security mechanism could be bypassed via Java applets. If a user were tricked into opening a malicious website, a remote attacker could exploit this to perform arbitrary code execution as the user invoking the program...
USN-1616-1: Python 3.1 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. This issue only affected Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. CVE-2008-5983 It was discovered that th...
USN-1481-1: PHP vulnerabilities
It was discovered that PHP incorrectly handled certain Tidy::diagnose operations on invalid objects. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause PHP to crash, leading to a denial of service. CVE-2012-0781 It was discovered that PHP incorrectly handled certain multi-file upload filenames. A...
USN-1471-1: Linux kernel (Oneiric backport) vulnerabilities
Andy Adamson discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel's NFSv4 implementation. A remote NFS server attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service. CVE-2011-4131 A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's KVM kernel virtual machine. An administrative user in the guest OS could leverage...
USN-1384-1: Linux kernel (Oneiric backport) 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 Paolo Bonzini...
USN-1355-1: Firefox vulnerabilities
It was discovered that if a user chose to export their Firefox Sync key the "Firefox Recovery Key.html" file is saved with incorrect permissions, making the file contents potentially readable by other users. CVE-2012-0450 Nicolas Gregoire and Aki Helin discovered that when processing a malformed...
USN-1286-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Vasily Averin discovered that the NFS Lock Manager NLM incorrectly handled unlock requests. A local attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service. CVE-2011-2491 Robert Swiecki discovered that mapping extensions were incorrectly handled. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the...
USN-990-1: OpenSSL vulnerability
Marsh Ray and Steve Dispensa discovered a flaw in the TLS and SSLv3 protocols. If an attacker could perform a machine-in-the-middle attack at the start of a TLS connection, the attacker could inject arbitrary content at the beginning of the user's session. This update adds backported support for...
USN-903-1: OpenOffice.org vulnerabilities
It was discovered that the XML HMAC signature system did not correctly check certain lengths. If an attacker sent a truncated HMAC, it could bypass authentication, leading to potential privilege escalation. CVE-2009-0217 Sebastian Apelt and Frank Reißner discovered that OpenOffice did not correct...
USN-857-1: Qt vulnerabilities
It was discovered that QtWebKit did not properly handle certain SVGPathList data structures. If a user were tricked into viewing a malicious website, an attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. CVE-2009-0945 Several flaws were...
USN-547-1: PCRE vulnerabilities
Tavis Ormandy and Will Drewry discovered multiple flaws in the regular expression handling of PCRE. By tricking a user or service into running specially crafted expressions via applications linked against libpcre3, a remote attacker could crash the application, monopolize CPU resources, or possib...
USN-460-1: Samba vulnerabilities
Paul Griffith and Andrew Hogue discovered that Samba did not fully drop root privileges while translating SIDs. A remote authenticated user could issue SMB operations during a small window of opportunity and gain root privileges. CVE-2007-2444 Brian Schafer discovered that Samba did not handle ND...
USN-406-1: OpenOffice.org vulnerability
An integer overflow was discovered in OpenOffice.org's handling of WMF files. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted WMF file, an attacker could execute arbitrary code with user privileges...
USN-350-1: Thunderbird vulnerabilities
This update upgrades Thunderbird from 1.0.8 to 1.5.0.7. This step was necessary since the 1.0.x series is not supported by upstream any more. Various flaws have been reported that allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code with user privileges by tricking the user into opening a malicious email...
USN-171-1: PHP4 vulnerabilities
CAN-2005-1751: The php4-dev package ships a copy of the "shtool" utility in /usr/lib/php4/build/, which provides useful functionality for developers of software packages. Eric Romang discovered that shtool created temporary files in an insecure manner. This could allow a symlink attack to create ...
USN-50-1: CUPS vulnerabilities
CAN-2004-1125: The recent USN-48-1 fixed a buffer overflow in xpdf. Since CUPS contains xpdf code to convert incoming PDF files to the PostScript format, this vulnerability applies to cups as well. In this case it could even lead to privilege escalation: if an attacker submitted a malicious PDF...
USN-7280-1: Python vulnerability
It was discovered that Python incorrectly handled parsing domain names that included square brackets. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform a Server-Side Request Forgery SSRF attack...
USN-6938-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
It was discovered that the device input subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly handle the case when an event code falls outside of a bitmap. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2022-48619 黄思聪 discovered that the NFC Controller Interface NCI...
USN-6737-1: GNU C Library vulnerability
Charles Fol discovered that the GNU C Library iconv feature incorrectly handled certain input sequences. An attacker could use this issue to cause the GNU C Library to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code...
USN-6416-2: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
It was discovered that the IPv6 implementation in the Linux kernel contained a high rate of hash collisions in connection lookup table. A remote attacker could use this to cause a denial of service excessive CPU consumption. CVE-2023-1206 Daniël Trujillo, Johannes Wikner, and Kaveh Razavi...
USN-6407-1: libx11 vulnerabilities
Gregory James Duck discovered that libx11 incorrectly handled certain keyboard symbols. If a user were tricked into connecting to a malicious X server, a remote attacker could use this issue to cause libx11 to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code...
USN-6256-1: Linux kernel (IoT) vulnerabilities
Jiasheng Jiang discovered that the HSA Linux kernel driver for AMD Radeon GPU devices did not properly validate memory allocation in certain situations, leading to a null pointer dereference vulnerability. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2022-3108...
USN-6252-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
It was discovered that the ext4 file system implementation in the Linux kernel contained a use-after-free vulnerability. An attacker could use this to construct a malicious ext4 file system image that, when mounted, could cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2022-1184 It was discovered tha...
USN-5938-1: Linux kernel (GKE) vulnerabilities
It was discovered that the Upper Level Protocol ULP subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly handle sockets entering the LISTEN state in certain protocols, leading to a use-after-free vulnerability. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execut...
USN-5925-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
It was discovered that the Upper Level Protocol ULP subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly handle sockets entering the LISTEN state in certain protocols, leading to a use-after-free vulnerability. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execut...
USN-5874-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
It was discovered that the Broadcom FullMAC USB WiFi driver in the Linux kernel did not properly perform bounds checking in some situations. A physically proximate attacker could use this to craft a malicious USB device that when inserted, could cause a denial of service system crash or possibly...
USN-5867-1: WebKitGTK vulnerabilities
Several 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 attacks, and...
USN-5816-1: Firefox vulnerabilities
Niklas Baumstark discovered that a compromised web child process of Firefox could disable web security opening restrictions, leading to a new child process being spawned within the file:// context. An attacker could potentially exploits this to obtain sensitive information. CVE-2023-23597 Tom...
USN-5794-1: Linux kernel (AWS) 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-5588-1: Linux kernel vulnerability
Zhenpeng Lin discovered that the network packet scheduler implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly remove all references to a route filter before freeing it in some situations. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or execute arbitrary code...
USN-5424-1: OpenLDAP vulnerability
It was discovered that OpenLDAP incorrectly handled certain SQL statements within LDAP queries in the experimental back-sql backend. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform an SQL injection attack and alter the database...