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USN-3629-1: 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 5.5.60 in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 17.10 have been updated to MySQL 5.7.22. In addition to security fixes, the updated packag...
USN-3611-2: OpenSSL vulnerabilities
USN-3611-1 fixed a vulnerability in OpenSSL. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM. Original advisory details: It was discovered that OpenSSL incorrectly parsed the IPAddressFamily extension in X.509 certificates, resulting in an erroneous display of the certificate i...
USN-3597-2: Linux kernel (HWE) vulnerabilities
USN-3597-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 17.10. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 17.10 for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. USNS 3541-2 and 3523-2 provided mitigations for Spectre and Meltdown CVE-2017-5715,...
USN-3594-1: Linux kernel vulnerability
USN-3542-1 mitigated CVE-2017-5715 Spectre Variant 2 for the amd64 architecture in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. This update provides the compiler-based retpoline kernel mitigation for the amd64 and i386 architectures. Original advisory details: Jann Horn discovered that microprocessors utilizing speculative...
USN-3542-2: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerabilities
USN-3542-1 addressed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 14.04 LTS for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM. Jann Horn discovered that microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and bran...
USN-3225-1: libarchive vulnerabilities
It was discovered that libarchive incorrectly handled hardlink entries when extracting archives. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to overwrite arbitrary files. CVE-2016-5418 Christian Wressnegger, Alwin Maier, and Fabian Yamaguchi discovered that libarchive incorrectly handled...
USN-3210-1: LibreOffice vulnerability
Ben Hayak discovered that it was possible to make LibreOffice Calc and Writer disclose arbitrary files to an attacker if a user opened a specially crafted file with embedded links...
USN-3134-1: Python vulnerabilities
It was discovered that the smtplib library in Python did not return an error when StartTLS fails. A remote attacker could possibly use this to expose sensitive information. CVE-2016-0772 Rémi Rampin discovered that Python would not protect CGI applications from contents of the HTTPPROXY environme...
USN-3099-3: Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi 2) vulnerabilities
Vladimír Beneš discovered an unbounded recursion in the VLAN and TEB Generic Receive Offload GRO processing implementations in the Linux kernel, A remote attacker could use this to cause a stack corruption, leading to a denial of service system crash. CVE-2016-7039 Marco Grassi discovered a...
USN-3099-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Vladimír Beneš discovered an unbounded recursion in the VLAN and TEB Generic Receive Offload GRO processing implementations in the Linux kernel, A remote attacker could use this to cause a stack corruption, leading to a denial of service system crash. CVE-2016-7039 Marco Grassi discovered a...
USN-3088-1: Bind vulnerability
It was discovered that Bind incorrectly handled building responses to certain specially crafted requests. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Bind to crash, resulting in a denial of service...
USN-3087-1: OpenSSL vulnerabilities
Shi Lei discovered that OpenSSL incorrectly handled the OCSP Status Request extension. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause memory consumption, resulting in a denial of service. CVE-2016-6304 Guido Vranken discovered that OpenSSL used undefined behaviour when performing pointe...
USN-3084-4: Linux kernel (Qualcomm Snapdragon) vulnerabilities
Pengfei Wang discovered a race condition in the audit subsystem in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to corrupt audit logs or disrupt system-call auditing. CVE-2016-6136 It was discovered that the powerpc and powerpc64 hypervisor-mode KVM implementation in the Linux kernel for did...
USN-3072-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Kangjie Lu discovered an information leak in the Reliable Datagram Sockets RDS implementation in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory. CVE-2016-5244 Yue Cao et al discovered a flaw in the TCP implementation's handling of...
USN-3071-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Kangjie Lu discovered an information leak in the Reliable Datagram Sockets RDS implementation in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory. CVE-2016-5244 Yue Cao et al discovered a flaw in the TCP implementation's handling of...
USN-3020-1: Linux kernel (Vivid HWE) vulnerabilities
Jesse Hertz and Tim Newsham discovered that the Linux netfilter implementation did not correctly perform validation when handling 32 bit compatibility IPTSOSETREPLACE events on 64 bit platforms. A local unprivileged attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or execute...
USN-2971-3: Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi 2) 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 Zach Riggle discovered that the Linux kernel's list...
USN-2932-1: Linux kernel (Vivid HWE) vulnerabilities
Ben Hawkes discovered that the Linux netfilter implementation did not correctly perform validation when handling IPTSOSETREPLACE events. A local unprivileged attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code with administrative privileges...
USN-2710-2: OpenSSH regression
USN-2710-1 fixed vulnerabilities in OpenSSH. The upstream fix for CVE-2015-5600 caused a regression resulting in random authentication failures in non-default configurations. This update fixes the problem. Original advisory details: Moritz Jodeit discovered that OpenSSH incorrectly handled...
USN-2683-1: Linux kernel (Vivid HWE) vulnerabilities
A flaw was discovered in the kvm kernel virtual machine subsystem's kvmapichasevents function. A unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2015-4692 Daniel Borkmann reported a kernel crash in the Linux kernel's BPF filter JIT optimization. A...
USN-2635-1: Linux kernel (Utopic HWE) vulnerabilities
Xiong Zhou discovered a bug in the way the EXT4 filesystem handles fallocate zero range functionality when the page size is greater than the block size. A local attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2015-0275 Wen Xu discovered a use-after-free flaw in the...
USN-2505-1: Firefox vulnerabilities
Matthew Noorenberghe discovered that Mozilla domains in the allowlist could make UITour API calls from background tabs. If one of these domains were compromised and open in a background tab, an attacker could potentially exploit this to conduct clickjacking attacks. CVE-2015-0819 Jan de Mooij...
USN-2496-1: GNU binutils vulnerabilities
Michal Zalewski discovered that the setupgroup function in libbfd in GNU binutils did not properly check group headers in ELF files. An attacker could use this to craft input that could cause a denial of service application crash or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2014-8485 Hanno Böck...
USN-2444-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities
Rabin Vincent, Robert Swiecki, Russell King discovered that the ftrace subsystem of the Linux kernel does not properly handle private syscall numbers. A local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service OOPS. CVE-2014-7826 Rabin Vincent, Robert Swiecki, Russell Kinglaw discovered a...
USN-2421-1: Linux kernel 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-2235-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Pinkie Pie discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel's futex subsystem. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash or gain administrative privileges. CVE-2014-3153 A flaw was discovered in the vhost-net subsystem of the Linux kernel. Guest OS users...
USN-2233-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Pinkie Pie discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel's futex subsystem. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash or gain administrative privileges. CVE-2014-3153 Dmitry Vyukov reported a flaw in the Linux kernel's handling of IPv6 UDP Fragmentation...
USN-2065-1: Linux kernel (EC2) vulnerabilities
Stephan Mueller reported an error in the Linux kernel's ansi cprng random number generator. This flaw makes it easier for a local attacker to break cryptographic protections. CVE-2013-4345 A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's IP Virtual Server IPVS support. A local user with the CAPNETADMI...
USN-2037-1: Linux kernel (EC2) vulnerabilities
A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's KVM kernel virtual machine. An administrative user in the guest OS could leverage this flaw to cause a denial of service in the host OS. CVE-2012-2121 Multiple integer overflow flaws were discovered in the Alchemy LCD frame- buffer drivers in the Linux...
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-2009-1: Firefox vulnerabilities
Multiple memory safety issues were discovered in Firefox. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted page, an attacker could possibly exploit these to cause a denial of service via application crash, or potentially execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking...
USN-1698-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities
A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's handling of script execution when module loading is enabled. A local attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a leak of kernel stack contents. CVE-2012-4530 Florian Weimer discovered that hypervkvpd, which is distributed in the Linux kernel, was not...
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-1598-1: Linux kernel vulnerability
An error was discovered in the Linux kernel's network TUN/TAP device implementation. A local user with access to the TUN/TAP interface which is not available to unprivileged users until granted by a root user could exploit this flaw to crash the system or potential gain administrative privileges...
USN-1534-1: Linux kernel (EC2) vulnerabilities
An error was discovered in the Linux kernel's network TUN/TAP device implementation. A local user with access to the TUN/TAP interface which is not available to unprivileged users until granted by a root user could exploit this flaw to crash the system or potential gain administrative privileges...
USN-1531-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
An error was discovered in the Linux kernel's network TUN/TAP device implementation. A local user with access to the TUN/TAP interface which is not available to unprivileged users until granted by a root user could exploit this flaw to crash the system or potential gain administrative privileges...
USN-1350-1: Thunderbird vulnerabilities
Jesse Ruderman and Bob Clary discovered memory safety issues affecting Thunderbird. If the user were tricked into opening a specially crafted page, an attacker could exploit these to cause a denial of service via application crash, or potentially execute code with the privileges of the user...
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-1061-1: iTALC vulnerability
Stéphane Graber discovered that the iTALC private keys shipped with the Edubuntu Live DVD were not correctly regenerated once Edubuntu was installed. If an iTALC client was installed with the vulnerable keys, a remote attacker could gain control of the system. Only systems using keys from the...
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-862-1: PHP vulnerabilities
Maksymilian Arciemowicz discovered that PHP did not properly validate arguments to the dbareplace function. If a script passed untrusted input to the dbareplace function, an attacker could truncate the database. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 6.06 LTS, 8.04 LTS, and 8.10. CVE-2008-7068 It was...
USN-814-1: OpenJDK 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 JAR bundles would appear signed if only one element w...
USN-810-1: NSS vulnerabilities
Moxie Marlinspike discovered that NSS did not properly handle regular expressions in certificate names. A remote attacker could create a specially crafted certificate to cause a denial of service via application crash or execute arbitrary code as the user invoking the program. CVE-2009-2404 Moxie...
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-571-1: X.org vulnerabilities
Multiple overflows were discovered in the XFree86-Misc, XInput-Misc, TOG-CUP, EVI, and MIT-SHM extensions which did not correctly validate function arguments. An authenticated attacker could send specially crafted requests and gain root privileges. CVE-2007-5760, CVE-2007-6427, CVE-2007-6428,...
USN-429-1: tcpdump vulnerability
Moritz Jodeit discovered that tcpdump had an overflow in the 802.11 packet parser. Remote attackers could send specially crafted packets, crashing tcpdump, possibly leading to a denial of service...
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-7315-1: PostgreSQL vulnerability
Stephen Fewer discovered that PostgreSQL incorrectly handled quoting syntax in certain scenarios. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform SQL injection attacks...
USN-7278-1: OpenSSL vulnerabilities
George Pantelakis and Alicja Kario discovered that OpenSSL had a timing side-channel when performing ECDSA signature computations. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to recover private data. CVE-2024-13176 It was discovered that OpenSSL incorrectly handled certain memory operations...