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USN-5917-1: 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-5845-2: OpenSSL vulnerabilities
USN-5845-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in OpenSSL. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. Original advisory details: David Benjamin discovered that OpenSSL incorrectly handled X.400 address processing. A remote attacker could possibly use this...
USN-5841-1: LibTIFF vulnerabilities
It was discovered that LibTIFF incorrectly handled certain malformed images. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted image, a remote attacker could crash the application, leading to a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code with user privileges...
USN-5549-1: Django vulnerability
It was discovered that Django incorrectly handled certain FileResponse. An attacker could possibly use this issue to expose sensitive information or gain access over user machine...
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...
USN-5451-1: InfluxDB vulnerability
Ilya Averyanov discovered that an InfluxDB vulnerability allowed attackers to bypass authentication and gain access to any known database user...
USN-3081-2: Tomcat vulnerability
Dawid Golunski discovered that the Tomcat init script incorrectly handled creating log files. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain root privileges...
USN-4551-1: Squid vulnerabilities
Alex Rousskov and Amit Klein discovered that Squid incorrectly handled certain Content-Length headers. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform an HTTP request smuggling attack, resulting in cache poisoning. CVE-2020-15049 Amit Klein discovered that Squid incorrectly validated...
USN-4476-1: NSS vulnerability
It was discovered that NSS incorrectly handled some inputs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to expose sensitive information...
USN-4445-1: Ghostscript vulnerability
It was discovered that Ghostscript incorrectly handled certain PostScript files. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted file, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to access arbitrary files, execute arbitrary code,...
USN-4247-3: python-apt vulnerabilities
USN-4247-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in python-apt. This update provides the corresponding updates for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM and Ubuntu 14.04 ESM. Original advisory details: It was discovered that python-apt would still use MD5 hashes to validate certain downloaded packages. If a remote attacker...
USN-4038-1: bzip2 vulnerabilities
Aladdin Mubaied discovered that bzip2 incorrectly handled certain files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. CVE-2016-3189 It was discovered that bzip2 incorrectly handled certain files. An attacker could possibly use...
USN-3941-1: Lua vulnerability
Fady Othman discovered that Lua incorrectly handled certain scripts. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service...
USN-3929-1: Firebird vulnerabilities
It was discovered that Firebird incorrectly handled certain malformed packets. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue with a specially crafted network packet to cause Firebird to crash, resulting in a denial of service. CVE-2014-9323 It was discovered that Firebird incorrectly handled...
USN-3918-3: Firefox regression
USN-3918-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. The update caused web compatibility issues with some websites. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: Multiple security issues were discovered in Firefox. If a user were tricked in to opening a...
USN-3836-2: Linux kernel (HWE) vulnerabilities
USN-3836-1 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. Jann Horn discovered that the Linux kernel mishandles mapping UID or GID ranges inside...
USN-3658-1: procps-ng vulnerabilities
It was discovered that the procps-ng top utility incorrectly read its configuration file from the current working directory. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to escalate privileges. CVE-2018-1122 It was discovered that the procps-ng ps tool incorrectly handled memory. A local user...
USN-3524-2: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerability
USN-3524-1 fixed 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 indirect...
USN-3368-1: libiberty vulnerabilities
It was discovered that libiberty incorrectly handled certain string operations. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted binary, a remote attacker could use this issue to cause libiberty to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrar...
USN-3327-1: Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi 2) vulnerability
It was discovered that the stack guard page for processes in the Linux kernel was not sufficiently large enough to prevent overlapping with the heap. An attacker could leverage this with another vulnerability to execute arbitrary code and gain administrative privileges...
USN-3169-2: Linux kernel (Xenial HWE) vulnerabilities
USN-3169-1 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. Dmitry Vyukov discovered that the KVM implementation in the Linux kernel did not...
USN-3151-3: Linux kernel (Qualcomm Snapdragon) vulnerability
Philip Pettersson discovered a race condition in the afpacket implementation in the Linux kernel. A local unprivileged attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or run arbitrary code with administrative privileges...
USN-3151-2: Linux kernel (Xenial HWE) vulnerability
USN-3151-1 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. Philip Pettersson discovered a race condition in the afpacket implementation in the...
USN-3144-2: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerability
Marco Grassi discovered that the driver for Areca RAID Controllers in the Linux kernel did not properly validate control messages. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly gain privileges...
USN-3099-2: Linux kernel (Xenial HWE) vulnerabilities
USN-3099-1 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. VladimÃr BeneÅ¡ discovered an unbounded recursion in the VLAN and TEB Generic Receive...
USN-3070-4: Linux kernel (Xenial HWE) vulnerabilities
USN-3070-1 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. A missing permission check when settings ACLs was discovered in nfsd. A local user cou...
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-3055-1: Linux kernel 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-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-2917-2: Firefox regressions
USN-2917-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. This update caused several regressions that could result in search engine settings being lost, the list of search providers appearing empty or the location bar breaking after typing an invalid URL. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the...
USN-2806-1: Linux kernel (Vivid HWE) vulnerability
Ben Serebrin discovered that the KVM hypervisor implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly catch Alignment Check exceptions. An attacker in a guest virtual machine could use this to cause a denial of service system crash in the host OS...
USN-2730-1: OpenSLP vulnerabilities
Georgi Geshev discovered that OpenSLP incorrectly handled processing certain service requests. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause OpenSLP to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. CVE-2012-4428 Qinghao Tang...
USN-2722-1: GDK-PixBuf vulnerability
Gustavo Grieco discovered that GDK-PixBuf incorrectly handled scaling bitmap images. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a BMP image file, a remote attacker could use this flaw to cause GDK-PixBuf to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code...
USN-2702-3: Firefox regression
USN-2702-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. After upgrading, some users in the US reported that their default search engine switched to Yahoo. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: Gary Kwong, Christian Holler, Byron Campen, Tyson Smith,...
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-2597-1: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerability
A race condition between chown and execve was discovered in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could exploit this race by using chown on a setuid-user-binary to gain administrative privileges...
USN-2587-1: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerabilities
A stack overflow was discovered in the the microcode loader for the intel x86 platform. A local attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service kernel crash or to potentially execute code with kernel privileges. CVE-2015-2666 It was discovered that the Linux kernel's IPv6 networking...
USN-2567-1: NTP vulnerabilities
Miroslav Lichvar discovered that NTP incorrectly validated MAC fields. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass authentication and spoof packets. CVE-2015-1798 Miroslav Lichvar discovered that NTP incorrectly handled certain invalid packets. A remote attacker could possibly use...
USN-2546-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
A flaw was discovered in the automatic loading of modules in the crypto subsystem of the Linux kernel. A local user could exploit this flaw to load installed kernel modules, increasing the attack surface and potentially using this to gain administrative privileges. CVE-2013-7421 A flaw was...
USN-2485-1: GNU C Library vulnerability
It was discovered that a buffer overflow existed in the gethostbyname and gethostbyname2 functions in the GNU C Library. An attacker could use this issue to execute arbitrary code or cause an application crash, resulting in a denial of service...
USN-2462-1: Linux kernel 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 Lars Bull reported a race condition in the PIT...
USN-2379-1: Linux kernel 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 Ben Hawkes reported...
USN-2284-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities
Sasha Levin reported a flaw in the Linux kernel's point-to-point protocol PPP when used with the Layer Two Tunneling Protocol L2TP. A local user could exploit this flaw to gain administrative privileges. CVE-2014-4943 Andy Lutomirski discovered a flaw with the Linux kernel's ptrace syscall on x86...
USN-2247-1: OpenStack Nova vulnerabilities
Darragh O'Reilly discovered that the Ubuntu packaging for OpenStack Nova did not properly set up its sudo configuration. If a different flaw was found in OpenStack Nova, this vulnerability could be used to escalate privileges. This issue only affected Ubuntu 13.10 and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS...
USN-2138-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Mathy Vanhoef discovered an error in the the way the ath9k driver was handling the BSSID masking. A remote attacker could exploit this error to discover the original MAC address after a spoofing atack. CVE-2013-4579 Andrew Honig reported a flaw in the Linux Kernel's kvmvmioctlcreatevcpu function ...
USN-2126-1: PHP vulnerabilities
Bernd Melchers discovered that PHP's embedded libmagic library incorrectly handled indirect offset values. An attacker could use this issue to cause PHP to consume resources or crash, resulting in a denial of service. CVE-2014-1943 It was discovered that PHP incorrectly handled certain values whe...
USN-2116-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities
Vasily Kulikov reported a flaw in the Linux kernel's implementation of ptrace. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory. CVE-2013-2929 A flaw in the handling of memory regions of the kernel virtual machine KVM subsystem was discovered. ...
USN-2110-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities
Vasily Kulikov reported a flaw in the Linux kernel's implementation of ptrace. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory. CVE-2013-2929 Stephan Mueller reported an error in the Linux kernel's ansi cprng random number generator. This flaw...
USN-1935-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Chanam Park reported a Null pointer flaw in the Linux kernel's Ceph client. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2013-1059 An information leak was discovered in the Linux kernel's fanotify interface. A local user could exploit this flaw to obtai...
USN-1931-1: Linux kernel (Quantal HWE) vulnerabilities
Chanam Park reported a Null pointer flaw in the Linux kernel's Ceph client. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2013-1059 An information leak was discovered in the Linux kernel's fanotify interface. A local user could exploit this flaw to obtai...