USN-3219-1: Linux kernel vulnerability

Alexander Popov discovered that the NHDLC line discipline implementation in the Linux kernel contained a double-free vulnerability. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly gain administrative privileges...

USN-3206-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that a use-after-free vulnerability existed in the block device layer of the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly gain administrative privileges. CVE-2016-7910 Dmitry Vyukov discovered a use-after-free vulnerability ...

USN-3174-1: 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 5.5.54 in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.10 have been updated to MySQL 5.7.17. In addition to security fixes...

USN-3167-2: Linux kernel (OMAP4) 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. CVE-2016-9756 Baozeng Ding discovered a race condition that could lead to...

USN-3059-1: xmlrpc-epi vulnerability

It was discovered that xmlrpc-epi incorrectly handled lengths in the simplestringaddn function. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause applications using xmlrpc-epi such as PHP to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code...

USN-3004-1: Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi 2) vulnerabilities

Justin Yackoski discovered that the Atheros L2 Ethernet Driver in the Linux kernel incorrectly enables scatter/gather I/O. A remote attacker could use this to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory. CVE-2016-2117 Jann Horn discovered that eCryptfs improperly attempted to use...

USN-2950-4: Samba regressions

USN-2950-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Samba. The backported fixes introduced in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS caused interoperability issues. This update fixes compatibility with certain NAS devices, and allows connecting to Samba 3.6 servers by relaxing the "client ipc signing" parameter to "auto". We apologiz...

USN-2907-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

halfdog discovered that OverlayFS, when mounting on top of a FUSE mount, incorrectly propagated file attributes, including setuid. A local unprivileged attacker could use this to gain privileges. CVE-2016-1576 halfdog discovered that OverlayFS in the Linux kernel incorrectly propagated security...

USN-2785-1: Firefox vulnerabilities

Christian Holler, David Major, Jesse Ruderman, Tyson Smith, Boris Zbarsky, Randell Jesup, Olli Pettay, Karl Tomlinson, Jeff Walden, Gary Kwong, Andrew McCreight, Georg Fritzsche, and Carsten Book discovered multiple memory safety issues in Firefox. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially...

USN-2656-2: Firefox vulnerabilities

USN-2656-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and later releases. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. Original advisory details: Karthikeyan Bhargavan discovered that NSS incorrectly handled state transitions for the TLS state machine. If a remot...

USN-2501-1: PHP vulnerabilities

Stefan Esser discovered that PHP incorrectly handled unserializing objects. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause PHP to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2014-8142, CVE-2015-0231 Brian Carpenter discovered that the PHP CGI component...

USN-2123-1: file vulnerabilities

It was discovered that file incorrectly handled Composite Document files. An attacker could use this issue to cause file to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. CVE-2012-1571 Bernd Melchers discovered that file incorrectly handle...

USN-1907-1: 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-2013-1500, CVE-2013-2454, CVE-2013-2458 A vulnerability was discovered in the OpenJDK Javadoc related to...

USN-1879-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities

Kees Cook discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel's iSCSI subsystem. A remote unauthenticated attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash or potentially gain administrative privileges. CVE-2013-2850 An information leak was discovered in the Linux kernel when inotify i...

USN-1529-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's macvtap device driver, which is used in KVM Kernel-based Virtual Machine to create a network bridge between host and guest. A privleged user in a guest could exploit this flaw to crash the host, if the vhostnet module is loaded with the...

USN-1490-1: Linux kernel (Natty backport) vulnerabilities

Stephan Mueller reported a flaw in the Linux kernel's dl2k network driver's handling of ioctls. An unprivileged local user could leverage this flaw to cause a denial of service. CVE-2012-2313 Timo Warns reported multiple flaws in the Linux kernel's hfsplus filesystem. An unprivileged local user...

USN-1386-1: Linux kernel (Natty backport) vulnerabilities

The linux kernel did not properly account for PTE pages when deciding which task to kill in out of memory conditions. A local, unprivileged could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service. CVE-2011-2498 A flaw was discovered in the TOMOYO LSM's handling of mount system calls. An unprivileged...

USN-1364-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) 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...

USN-1358-2: PHP regression

USN 1358-1 fixed multiple vulnerabilities in PHP. The fix for CVE-2012-0831 introduced a regression where the state of the magicquotesgpc setting was not correctly reflected when calling the iniget function. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: It was discovered that PHP...

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-1263-1: IcedTea-Web, OpenJDK 6 vulnerabilities

Deepak Bhole discovered a flaw in the Same Origin Policy SOP implementation in the IcedTea web browser plugin. This could allow a remote attacker to open connections to certain hosts that should not be permitted. CVE-2011-3377 Juliano Rizzo and Thai Duong discovered that the block-wise AES...

USN-1253-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Ryan Sweat discovered that the kernel incorrectly handled certain VLAN packets. On some systems, a remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. CVE-2011-1576 Vasiliy Kulikov and Dan Rosenberg discovered that ecryptfs did not correctly...

USN-1237-1: PAM vulnerabilities

Kees Cook discovered that the PAM pamenv module incorrectly handled certain malformed environment files. A local attacker could use this flaw to cause a denial of service, or possibly gain privileges. The default compiler options for affected releases should reduce the vulnerability to a denial o...

USN-1209-2: Libav vulnerabilities

It was discovered that Libav incorrectly handled certain malformed ogg files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted ogg file, an attacker could cause a denial of service via application crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program...

USN-955-1: OPIE vulnerability

Maksymilian Arciemowicz and Adam Zabrocki discovered that OPIE incorrectly handled long usernames. A remote attacker could exploit this with a crafted username and make applications linked against libopie crash, leading to a denial of service...

USN-860-1: Apache vulnerabilities

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. The flaw is with TLS renegotiation and...

USN-826-1: Mono 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 It was discovered that Mono did not properly escape certain attributes in th...

USN-761-1: PHP vulnerabilities

It was discovered that PHP did not sanitize certain error messages when displayerrors is enabled, which could result in browsers becoming vulnerable to cross-site scripting attacks when processing the output. With cross-site scripting vulnerabilities, if a user were tricked into viewing server...

USN-731-1: Apache vulnerabilities

It was discovered that Apache did not sanitize the method specifier header from an HTTP request when it is returned in an error message, which could result in browsers becoming vulnerable to cross-site scripting attacks when processing the output. With cross-site scripting vulnerabilities, if a...

USN-728-3: Firefox vulnerabilities

Jesse Ruderman and Gary Kwong discovered flaws in the browser engine. If a user were tricked into viewing a malicious website, a remote attacker could cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. CVE-2009-0772, CVE-2009-0774...

USN-715-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Hugo Dias discovered that the ATM subsystem did not correctly manage socket counts. A local attacker could exploit this to cause a system hang, leading to a denial of service. CVE-2008-5079 It was discovered that the inotify subsystem contained watch removal race conditions. A local attacker coul...

USN-647-1: Thunderbird vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the same-origin check in Thunderbird could be bypassed. If a user had JavaScript enabled and were tricked into opening a malicious website, an attacker may be able to execute JavaScript in the context of a different website. CVE-2008-3835 Several problems were discovered in...

USN-575-1: Apache vulnerabilities

It was discovered that Apache did not sanitize the Expect header from an HTTP request when it is reflected back in an error message, which could result in browsers becoming vulnerable to cross-site scripting attacks when processing the output. With cross-site scripting vulnerabilities, if a user...

USN-472-1: libpng vulnerability

It was discovered that libpng did not correctly handle corrupted CRC in grayscale PNG images. By tricking a user into opening a specially crafted PNG, a remote attacker could cause the application using libpng to crash, resulting in a denial of service...

USN-362-1: PHP vulnerabilities

The stripos function did not check for invalidly long or empty haystack strings. In an application that uses this function on arbitrary untrusted data this could be exploited to crash the PHP interpreter. CVE-2006-4485 An integer overflow was discovered in the PHP memory allocation handling. On...

USN-7376-2: MariaDB vulnerability

USN-7376-1 fixed vulnerabilities in MariaDB. This update provides the corresponding updates for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. Original advisory details: A security issue was discovered in MariaDB and this update includes a new upstream MariaDB version to fix the issue. In addition to...

USN-7302-1: libxml2 vulnerabilities

It was discovered that libxml2 incorrectly handled certain memory operations. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause libxml2 to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS...

USN-6426-1: 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-6419-1: jQuery UI vulnerabilities

Hong Phat Ly discovered that jQuery UI did not properly manage parameters from untrusted sources, which could lead to arbitrary web script or HTML code injection. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform a cross-site scripting XSS attack. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LT...

USN-6321-1: Linux kernel 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-6131-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Patryk Sondej and Piotr Krysiuk discovered that a race condition existed in the netfilter subsystem of the Linux kernel when processing batch requests, leading to a use-after-free vulnerability. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrar...

USN-6042-1: Cloud-init vulnerability

James Golovich discovered that sensitive data could be exposed in logs. An attacker could use this information to find hashed passwords and possibly escalate their privilege...

USN-6040-1: Linux kernel (HWE) vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the Traffic-Control Index TCINDEX implementation in the Linux kernel contained a use-after-free vulnerability. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2023-1281 It was discovered that the OverlayFS...

USN-6001-1: Linux kernel (AWS) vulnerabilities

Xuewei Feng, Chuanpu Fu, Qi Li, Kun Sun, and Ke Xu discovered that the TCP implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly handle IPID assignment. A remote attacker could use this to cause a denial of service connection termination or inject forged data. CVE-2020-36516 Ke Sun, Alyssa Milburn,...

USN-5983-1: Nette vulnerability

Cyku Hong discovered that Nette was not properly handling and validating data used for code generation. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code...

USN-5857-1: Linux kernel (OEM) vulnerability

Davide Ornaghi discovered that the netfilter subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly handle VLAN headers in some situations. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code...

USN-5846-1: X.Org X Server vulnerability

Jan-Niklas Sohn discovered that the X.Org X Server incorrectly handled certain memory operations. An attacker could possibly use these issues to cause the X Server to crash, execute arbitrary code, or escalate privileges...

USN-5815-1: Linux kernel (BlueField) vulnerabilities

It was discovered that a race condition existed in the Android Binder IPC subsystem in the Linux kernel, leading to a use-after-free vulnerability. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2022-20421 David Leadbeater...

USN-5553-1: libjpeg-turbo vulnerabilities

It was discovered that libjpeg-turbo was not properly handling EOF characters, which could lead to excessive memory consumption through the execution of a large loop. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. CVE-2018-11813 It was discovered that libjpeg-turbo was no...

USN-5546-1: OpenJDK vulnerabilities

Neil Madden discovered that OpenJDK did not properly verify ECDSA signatures. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to insert, edit or obtain sensitive information. This issue only affected OpenJDK 17 and OpenJDK 18. CVE-2022-21449 It was discovered that OpenJDK incorrectly limited memo...