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USN-2542-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) 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-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-2458-2: Ubufox update
USN-2458-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. This update provides the corresponding version of Ubufox. Original advisory details: Christian Holler, Patrick McManus, Christoph Diehl, Gary Kwong, Jesse Ruderman, Byron Campen, Terrence Cole, and Nils Ohlmeier discovered multiple memory safety issues...
USN-2445-1: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) 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-2228-1: 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-2192-1: OpenSSL vulnerabilities
It was discovered that OpenSSL incorrectly handled memory in the ssl3readbytes function. A remote attacker could use this issue to possibly cause OpenSSL to crash, resulting in a denial of service. CVE-2010-5298 It was discovered that OpenSSL incorrectly handled memory in the dossl3write function...
USN-2019-1: Linux kernel (Quantal HWE) vulnerabilities
An information leak was discovered in the handling of ICMPv6 Router Advertisement RA messages in the Linux kernel's IPv6 network stack. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service excessive retries and address-generation outage, and consequently obtain sensitive...
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-1776-1: Linux kernel (EC2) vulnerabilities
A flaw was reported in the permission checks done by the Linux kernel for /dev/cpu//msr. A local root user with all capabilities dropped could exploit this flaw to execute code with full root capabilities. CVE-2013-0268 A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernels handling of memory ranges with...
USN-1617-1: WebKit vulnerabilities
A large number of security issues were discovered in the WebKit browser 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-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-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-1356-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities
A flaw was discovered in the XFS filesystem. If a local user mounts a specially crafted XFS image it could potential execute arbitrary code on the system. CVE-2012-0038 Chen Haogang discovered an integer overflow that could result in memory corruption. A local unprivileged user could use this to...
USN-1271-1: Linux kernel (FSL-IMX51) vulnerabilities
It was discovered that CIFS incorrectly handled authentication. When a user had a CIFS share mounted that required authentication, a local user could mount the same share without knowing the correct password. CVE-2011-1585 It was discovered that the GRE protocol incorrectly handled netns...
USN-1189-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
It was discovered that the /proc filesystem did not correctly handle permission changes when programs executed. A local attacker could hold open files to examine details about programs running with higher privileges, potentially increasing the chances of exploiting additional vulnerabilities...
USN-1153-1: libxml2 vulnerability
Chris Evans discovered that libxml2 incorrectly handled memory allocation. If an application using libxml2 opened a specially crafted XML file, an attacker could cause a denial of service or possibly execute code as the user invoking the program...
USN-1007-1: NSS vulnerabilities
Richard Moore discovered that NSS would sometimes incorrectly match an SSL certificate which had a Common Name that used a wildcard followed by a partial IP address. While it is very unlikely that a Certificate Authority would issue such a certificate, if an attacker were able to perform a...
USN-940-1: Kerberos vulnerabilities
It was discovered that Kerberos did not correctly free memory in the GSSAPI and kdb libraries. If a remote attacker were able to manipulate an application using these libraries carefully, the service could crash, leading to a denial of service. Only Ubuntu 6.06 LTS was affected. CVE-2007-5902,...
USN-873-1: Firefox 3.0 and Xulrunner 1.9 vulnerabilities
Jesse Ruderman, Josh Soref, Martijn Wargers, Jose Angel, Olli Pettay, and David James discovered several flaws in the browser and JavaScript engines of Firefox. If a user were tricked into viewing a malicious website, a remote attacker could cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary...
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-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-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-673-1: libxml2 vulnerabilities
Drew Yao discovered that libxml2 did not correctly handle certain corrupt XML documents. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a malicious XML document, a remote attacker could cause applications linked against libxml2 to enter an infinite loop, leading to a denial of service...
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-346-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
A Denial of service vulnerability was reported in iptables' SCTP conntrack module. On computers which use this iptables module, a remote attacker could expoit this to trigger a kernel crash. CVE-2006-2934 A buffer overflow has been discovered in the dvdreadbca function. By inserting a specially...
USN-209-1: SSH server vulnerability
An information disclosure vulnerability has been found in the SSH server. When the GSSAPIAuthentication option was enabled, the SSH server could send GSSAPI credentials even to users who attempted to log in with a method other than GSSAPI. This could inadvertently expose these credentials to an...
USN-147-1: PHP XMLRPC vulnerability
A remote code execution vulnerability has been discovered in the XMLRPC module of the PEAR PHP Extension and Application Repository extension of PHP. By sending specially crafted XMLRPC requests to an affected web server, a remote attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary code with the web...
USN-7455-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Jann Horn discovered that the watchqueue event notification subsystem in the Linux kernel contained an out-of-bounds write vulnerability. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or escalate their privileges. CVE-2022-0995 Several security issues were discovered i...
USN-7425-1: Erlang vulnerability
It was discovered that Erlang OTP's SSH module did not limit the size of certain data in initialization messages. An attacker could possibly use this issue to consume large amount of memory leading to a denial of service...
USN-6932-1: OpenJDK 21 vulnerabilities
It was discovered that the Hotspot component of OpenJDK 21 was not properly bounding certain UTF-8 strings, which could lead to a buffer overflow. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. CVE-2024-21131 It was discovered that the Hotspot...
USN-6890-1: Firefox vulnerabilities
Multiple security issues were discovered in Firefox. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service, obtain sensitive information across domains, or execute arbitrary code. CVE-2024-6601, CVE-2024-6604,...
USN-6558-1: audiofile vulnerabilities
It was discovered that audiofile could be made to dereference invalid memory. If a user or an automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted file, an attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS...
USN-6526-1: GStreamer Bad Plugins vulnerabilities
It was discovered that GStreamer Bad Plugins incorrectly handled certain media files. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause GStreamer Bad Plugins to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code...
USN-6466-1: Linux kernel (NVIDIA) vulnerabilities
Hyunwoo Kim discovered that the DVB Core driver in the Linux kernel contained a race condition during device removal, leading to a use-after- free vulnerability. A physically proximate attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code...
USN-6439-1: 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 Yu Hao and Weiteng Chen discovered that the Bluetooth HCI...
USN-6337-1: Linux kernel (Azure) vulnerabilities
It was discovered that the netlink implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly validate policies when parsing attributes in some situations. An attacker could use this to cause a denial of service infinite recursion. CVE-2020-36691 Billy Jheng Bing Jhong discovered that the CIFS network...
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-6008-1: Exo vulnerability
It was discovered that Exo did not properly sanitized desktop files. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to to cause a crash or arbitrary code execution...
USN-5939-1: Linux kernel (GCP) 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-5861-1: Linux kernel (Dell300x) 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-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-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-5472-1: FFmpeg vulnerabilities
It was discovered that FFmpeg would attempt to divide by zero when using Linear Predictive Coding LPC or AAC codecs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 21.10. CVE-2020-20445, CVE-2020-20446...
USN-5458-1: Vim vulnerabilities
It was discovered that Vim was incorrectly handling virtual column position operations, which could result in an out-of-bounds read. An attacker could possibly use this issue to expose sensitive information. CVE-2021-4193 It was discovered that Vim was not properly performing bounds checks when...
USN-5376-2: Git vulnerability
USN-5376-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Git. This update provides the corresponding updates for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. Original advisory details: 俞晨东 discovered that Git incorrectly handled certain repository paths in platforms with multiple users support. An attacker could possibly use this issue to run...
USN-5168-4: NSS regression
USN-5168-3 fixed a vulnerability in NSS. Unfortunately that update introduced a regression that could break SSL connections. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: Tavis Ormandy discovered that NSS incorrectly handled verifying DSA/RSA-PSS...
USN-5170-1: MariaDB vulnerability
A security issue was discovered in MariaDB and this update includes new upstream MariaDB versions to fix the issue. MariaDB has been updated to 10.3.32 in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and to 10.5.13 in Ubuntu 21.04 and Ubuntu 21.10. In addition to security fixes, the updated packages contain bug fixes, new...