USN-4500-1: bsdiff vulnerabilities

It was discovered that bsdiff mishandled certain input. If a user were tricked into opening a malicious file, an attacker could cause bsdiff to crash or potentially execute arbitrary code...

USN-4413-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Matthew Sheets discovered that the SELinux network label handling implementation in the Linux kernel could be coerced into de-referencing a NULL pointer. A remote attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2020-10711 It was discovered that the SCSI generic sg driver in...

USN-4405-1: GLib Networking vulnerability

It was discovered that glib-networking skipped hostname certificate verification if the application failed to specify the server identity. A remote attacker could use this to perform a person-in-the-middle attack and expose sensitive information...

USN-4383-1: 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 addressbar, or execute arbitrary code. CVE-2020-12405, CVE-2020-12406, CVE-2020-12407,...

USN-4379-1: FreeRDP vulnerabilities

It was discovered that FreeRDP incorrectly handled certain memory operations. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause FreeRDP to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly exeucte arbitrary code...

USN-4373-1: 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, or execute arbitrary code. CVE-2020-6831, CVE-2020-12387, CVE-2020-12395 It wa...

USN-4345-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Al Viro discovered that the Linux kernel for s390x systems did not properly perform page table upgrades for kernel sections that use secondary address mode. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or execute arbitrary code. CVE-2020-11884 It was discovered that t...

USN-4236-1: Libgcrypt vulnerability

It was discovered that Libgcrypt was susceptible to a ECDSA timing attack. An attacker could possibly use this attack to recover sensitive information...

USN-4197-1: Bind vulnerability

It was discovered that Bind incorrectly handled certain TCP-pipelined queries. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Bind to consume resources, resulting in a denial of service...

USN-4182-1: Intel Microcode update

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-4049-4: GLib regression

USN-4049-1 fixed a vulnerability in GLib. The update introduced a regression. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: It was discovered that GLib created directories and files without properly restricting permissions. An attacker could possibl...

USN-3953-2: PHP vulnerabilities

USN-3953-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in PHP. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM and Ubuntu 14.04 ESM. Original advisory details: It was discovered that PHP incorrectly handled certain exif tags in JPEG images. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause PHP...

USN-3936-1: AdvanceCOMP vulnerability

It was discovered that AdvanceCOMP incorrectly handled certain PNG files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code...

USN-3871-5: Linux kernel (Azure) vulnerabilities

Wen Xu discovered that a use-after-free vulnerability existed in the ext4 filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel. An attacker could use this to construct a malicious ext4 image that, when mounted, could cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code...

USN-3730-1: LXC vulnerability

Matthias Gerstner discovered that LXC incorrectly handled the lxc-user-nic utility. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to open arbitrary files...

USN-3695-2: Linux kernel (HWE) vulnerabilities

USN-3695-1 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. Wen Xu discovered that the ext4 file system implementation in the Linux kernel did not...

USN-3685-1: Ruby vulnerabilities

Some of these CVE were already addressed in previous USN: 3439-1, 3553-1, 3528-1. Here we address for the remain releases. It was discovered that Ruby incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could use this to cause a buffer overrun. CVE-2017-0898 It was discovered that Ruby incorrectly...

USN-3580-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Jann Horn discovered that microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and branch prediction may allow unauthorized memory reads via sidechannel attacks. This flaw is known as Spectre. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information, including kernel memory...

USN-3530-1: WebKitGTK+ vulnerabilities

It was discovered that speculative execution performed by modern CPUs could leak information through a timing side-channel attack, and that this could be exploited in web browser JavaScript engines. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially...

USN-3413-1: BlueZ vulnerability

It was discovered that an information disclosure vulnerability existed in the Service Discovery Protocol SDP implementation in BlueZ. A physically proximate unauthenticated attacker could use this to disclose sensitive information. CVE-2017-1000250...

USN-3359-1: 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 Dmitry Vyukov, Andrey Konovalov, Florian Westphal, and Eric Dumazet discovered that the netfiler subsyste...

USN-3271-1: Libxslt vulnerabilities

Holger Fuhrmannek discovered an integer overflow in the xsltAddTextString function in Libxslt. An attacker could use this to craft a malicious document that, when opened, could cause a denial of service application crash or possible execute arbitrary code. CVE-2017-5029 Nicolas Gregoire discovere...

USN-3161-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Tilman Schmidt and Sasha Levin discovered a use-after-free condition in the TTY implementation in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information kernel memory. CVE-2015-8964 It was discovered that the Video For Linux Two v4l2 implementation in the Linux kernel d...

USN-3131-1: ImageMagick vulnerabilities

It was discovered that ImageMagick incorrectly handled certain malformed image files. If a user or automated system using ImageMagick were tricked into opening a specially crafted image, an attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service or possibly execute code with the privileges of th...

USN-2971-2: Linux kernel (Wily HWE) vulnerabilities

USN-2971-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 15.10. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 15.10 for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Ralf Spenneberg discovered that the Aiptek Tablet USB device driver in the Linux kernel did no...

USN-2928-1: Linux kernel vulnerability

Andrey Konovalov discovered that the ALSA USB MIDI driver incorrectly performed a double-free. A local attacker with physical access could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code with administrative privileges...

USN-2840-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Dmitry Vyukov discovered that the Linux kernel's keyring handler attempted to garbage collect incompletely instantiated keys. A local unprivileged attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2015-7872 Jan Beulich discovered that the KVM svm hypervisor implementation in...

USN-2819-1: Thunderbird vulnerabilities

Christian Holler, David Major, Jesse Ruderman, Tyson Smith, Boris Zbarsky, Randell Jesup, Olli Pettay, Karl Tomlinson, Jeff Walden, and Gary Kwong discovered multiple memory safety issues in Thunderbird. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted message, an attacker could potential...

USN-2687-1: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerabilities

Andy Lutomirski discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel's handling of nested NMIs non-maskable interrupts. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash or potentially escalate their privileges. CVE-2015-3290 Colin King discovered a flaw in the addkey...

USN-2416-1: Linux kernel (EC2) vulnerabilities

Don Bailey discovered a flaw in the LZO decompress algorithm used by the Linux kernel. An attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service memory corruption or OOPS. CVE-2014-4608 Andy Lutomirski discovered that the Linux kernel was not checking the CAPSYSADMIN when remounting...

USN-2276-1: PHP vulnerabilities

Francisco Alonso discovered that the PHP Fileinfo component incorrectly handled certain CDF documents. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause PHP to hang or crash, resulting in a denial of service. CVE-2014-0207, CVE-2014-3478, CVE-2014-3479, CVE-2014-3480, CVE-2014-3487 Stefan Esser...

USN-2124-1: OpenJDK 6 vulnerabilities

A vulnerability was discovered in the OpenJDK JRE related to information disclosure and data integrity. An attacker could exploit this to expose sensitive data over the network. CVE-2014-0411 Several vulnerabilities were discovered in the OpenJDK JRE related to information disclosure, data...

USN-2089-1: OpenJDK 7 vulnerabilities

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in the OpenJDK JRE related to information disclosure and data integrity. An attacker could exploit these to expose sensitive data over the network. CVE-2013-3829, CVE-2013-5783, CVE-2013-5804, CVE-2014-0411 Several vulnerabilities were discovered in the...

USN-2049-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Miroslav Vadkerti discovered a flaw in how the permissions for network sysctls are handled in the Linux kernel. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to have privileged access to files in /proc/sys/net/. CVE-2013-4270 A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's dm snapshot facility. ...

USN-1939-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Vasily Kulikov discovered a flaw in the Linux Kernel's perf tool that allows for privilege escalation. A local user could exploit this flaw to run commands as root when using the perf tool. CVE-2013-1060 Michael S. Tsirkin discovered a flaw in how the Linux kernel's KVM subsystem allocates memory...

USN-1836-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities

An flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's perfevents interface. A local user could exploit this flaw to escalate privileges on the system. CVE-2013-2094 A buffer overflow vulnerability was discovered in the Broadcom tg3 ethernet driver for the Linux kernel. A local user could exploit this flaw...

USN-1819-1: OpenJDK 6 vulnerabilities

Ben Murphy discovered a vulnerability in the OpenJDK JRE related to information disclosure and data integrity. An attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary code. CVE-2013-0401 James Forshaw discovered a vulnerability in the OpenJDK JRE related to information disclosure, data integrity and...

USN-1796-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Andrew Jones discovered a flaw with the xeniret function in Linux kernel's Xen virtualizeation. In the 32-bit Xen paravirt platform an unprivileged guest OS user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service crash the system or gain guest OS privilege. CVE-2013-0228 Emese Revfy discovered...

USN-1596-1: Python 2.6 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-1380-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

A flaw was discovered in the TOMOYO LSM's handling of mount system calls. An unprivileged user could oops the system causing a denial of service. CVE-2011-2518 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. ...

USN-1357-1: OpenSSL vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the elliptic curve cryptography ECC subsystem in OpenSSL, when using the Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm ECDSA for the ECDHEECDSA cipher suite, did not properly implement curves over binary fields. This could allow an attacker to determine private keys via a timi...

USN-1263-2: OpenJDK 6 regression

USN-1263-1 fixed vulnerabilities in OpenJDK 6. The upstream patch for the chosen plaintext attack on the block-wise AES encryption algorithm CVE-2011-3389 introduced a regression that caused TLS/SSL connections to fail when using certain algorithms. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for...

USN-1301-1: Linux kernel (Natty backport) vulnerabilities

A bug was discovered in the XFS filesystem's handling of pathnames. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service, or gain root privileges. CVE-2011-4077 Nick Bowler discovered the kernel GHASH message digest algorithm incorrectly handled error conditions...

USN-1241-1: Linux kernel (i.MX51) vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the Stream Control Transmission Protocol SCTP implementation incorrectly calculated lengths. If the net.sctp.addipenable variable was turned on, a remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to crash the system. CVE-2011-1573 Ryan Sweat discovered that the kernel...

USN-1157-2: mozvoikko, ubufox, webfav update

USN-1157-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. This update provides updated packages for use with Firefox 5. Original advisory details: Bob Clary, Kevin Brosnan, Gary Kwong, Jesse Ruderman, Christian Biesinger, Bas Schouten, Igor Bukanov, Bill McCloskey, Olli Pettay, Daniel Veditz and Marcia Knous...

USN-927-6: NSS vulnerability

USN-927-1 fixed vulnerabilities in NSS on Ubuntu 9.10. This update provides the corresponding updates for Ubuntu 9.04. Original advisory details: 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...

USN-628-1: PHP vulnerabilities

It was discovered that PHP did not properly check the length of the string parameter to the fnmatch function. An attacker could cause a denial of service in the PHP interpreter if a script passed untrusted input to the fnmatch function. CVE-2007-4782 Maksymilian Arciemowicz discovered a flaw in t...

USN-7399-1: RabbitMQ Server vulnerability

It was discovered that RabbitMQ Server's management UI did not sanitize certain input. An attacker could possibly use this issue to inject code by performing a cross-site scripting XSS attack...

USN-7397-1: AOM vulnerability

Xiantong Hou discovered that AOM did not properly handle certain malformed media files. If an application using AOM opened a specially crafted file, a remote attacker could cause a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code...

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...