USN-4791-1: Apache Tomcat 7 vulnerabilities

It was discovered that Apache Tomcat 7 did not protect applications from the presence of untrusted client data in an environment variable. A remote attacker could possible use this vulnerability to redirect the traffic to an arbitrary proxy and obtain sensitive information. CVE-2016-5388 It was...

USN-4733-2: GNOME Autoar regression

USN-4733-1 fixed a vulnerability in GNOME Autoar. The upstream fix introduced a regression when extracting archives containing directories. This update fixes the problem. Original advisory details: Yiğit Can Yılmaz discovered that GNOME Autoar could extract files outside of the intended directory...

USN-4646-2: poppler regression

USN-4646-1 fixed vulnerabilities in poppler. The fix for CVE-2019-10871 introduced a regression causing certain applications linked against poppler to fail. This update backs out the fix pending further investigation. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: It was discovere...

USN-4635-1: Kerberos vulnerability

Demi Obenour discovered that Kerberos incorrectly handled certain ASN.1. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service...

USN-4171-6: Apport regression

USN-4171-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Apport. The update caused a regression when handling configuration files. This update fixes the problem, and also introduces further hardening measures. Original advisory details: Kevin Backhouse discovered Apport would read its user-controlled settings file as...

USN-4584-1: HtmlUnit vulnerability

It was discovered that HtmlUnit incorrectly initialized Rhino engine. An Attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary Java code...

USN-4443-1: 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, obtain sensitive information, bypass iframe sandbox restrictions, confuse the user, or execute arbitrary...

USN-4384-1: GnuTLS vulnerability

It was discovered that GnuTLS incorrectly handled session ticket encryption keys. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass authentication or recover sensitive information...

USN-4237-1: SpamAssassin vulnerabilities

It was discovered that SpamAssassin incorrectly handled certain CF files. If a user or automated system were tricked into using a specially-crafted CF file, a remote attacker could possibly run arbitrary code. CVE-2018-11805 It was discovered that SpamAssassin incorrectly handled certain messages...

USN-3862-1: Irssi vulnerability

It was discovered that Irssi incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or to execute arbitrary code...

USN-3825-1: mod_perl vulnerability

Jan Ingvoldstad discovered that modperl incorrectly handled configuration options to disable being used by unprivileged users, contrary to the documentation. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary Perl code...

USN-3630-1: Linux kernel vulnerability

It was discovered that the Broadcom UniMAC MDIO bus controller driver in the Linux kernel did not properly validate device resources. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash...

USN-3581-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Mohamed Ghannam discovered that the IPv4 raw socket implementation in the Linux kernel contained a race condition leading to uninitialized pointer usage. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2017-17712 ChunYu Wang discovered that a...

USN-3444-2: Linux kernel (Xenial HWE) vulnerabilities

USN-3444-1 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. Jan H. Schönherr discovered that the Xen subsystem did not properly handle block IO...

USN-3420-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that a buffer overflow existed in the Bluetooth stack of the Linux kernel when handling L2CAP configuration responses. A physically proximate attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2017-1000251 It was discovered that the Flash-Friendly File System...

USN-3377-2: Linux kernel (HWE) vulnerabilities

USN-3377-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 17.04. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 17.04 for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. Fan Wu and Shixiong Zhao discovered a race condition between inotify events and vfs rename...

USN-3361-1: Linux kernel (HWE) vulnerabilities

USN-3358-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 17.04. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 17.04 for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. Please note that this update changes the Linux HWE kernel to the 4.10 based kernel from Ubuntu...

USN-3291-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Dmitry Vyukov discovered that the generic SCSI sg subsystem in the Linux kernel contained a stack-based buffer overflow. A local attacker with access to an sg device could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2017-7187 It was discovered that a...

USN-3220-1: 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-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-3145-2: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerabilities

USN-3145-1 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 LTS. Marco Grassi discovered that the driver for Areca RAID Controllers in the Linux kernel...

USN-3097-2: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities

Marco Grassi discovered a use-after-free condition could occur in the TCP retransmit queue handling code in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2016-6828 Pengfei Wang discovered a race condition in the...

USN-3043-1: OpenJDK 8 vulnerabilities

Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in the OpenJDK JRE related to information disclosure, data integrity, and availability. An attacker could exploit these to cause a denial of service, expose sensitive data over the network, or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2016-3587, CVE-2016-3598,...

USN-3018-2: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerabilities

USN-3018-1 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 LTS. Jesse Hertz and Tim Newsham discovered that the Linux netfilter implementation did not...

USN-3001-1: Linux kernel (Vivid HWE) 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-2976-1: Linux kernel (Utopic HWE) vulnerability

Philip Pettersson discovered that the Linux kernel's ASN.1 DER decoder did not properly process certificate files with tags of indefinite length. A local unprivileged attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code with administrative privilege...

USN-2950-2: libsoup update

USN-2950-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Samba. The updated Samba packages introduced a compatibility issue with NTLM authentication in libsoup. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: Jouni Knuutinen discovered that Samba contained multiple flaws ...

USN-2947-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Ralf Spenneberg discovered that the usbvision driver in the Linux kernel did not properly validate the interfaces and endpoints reported by the device. An attacker with physical access could cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2015-7833 Venkatesh Pottem discovered a use-after-free...

USN-2843-3: Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi 2) vulnerabilities

郭永刚 discovered that the ppp implementation in the Linux kernel did not ensure that certain slot numbers are valid. A local attacker with the privilege to call ioctl on /dev/ppp could cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2015-7799 Dmitry Vyukov discovered that the Linux kernel's keyring...

USN-2802-1: Linux kernel 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-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-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-2663-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Alexandre Oliva reported a race condition flaw in the btrfs file system's handling of extended attributes xattrs. A local attacker could exploit this flaw to bypass ACLs and potentially escalate privileges. CVE-2014-9710 A race condition was discovered in the Linux kernel's filehandle size...

USN-2636-1: Linux kernel (Vivid 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-2599-1: Linux kernel (Utopic 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-2514-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities

A flaw was discovered in the Kernel Virtual Machine's KVM emulation of the SYSTENTER instruction when the guest OS does not initialize the SYSENTER MSRs. A guest OS user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service of the guest OS crash or potentially gain privileges on the guest OS...

USN-2493-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities

Andy Lutomirski discovered an information leak in the Linux kernel's Thread Local Storage TLS implementation allowing users to bypass the espfix to obtain information that could be used to bypass the Address Space Layout Randomization ASLR protection mechanism. A local user could exploit this fla...

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-2468-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

A null pointer dereference flaw was discovered in the the Linux kernel's SCTP implementation when ASCONF is used. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash via a malformed INIT chunk. CVE-2014-7841 A race condition with MMIO and PIO transactions in the KV...

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-2261-1: Linux kernel (Saucy HWE) vulnerabilities

Salva Peiró discovered an information leak in the Linux kernel's media- device driver. A local attacker could exploit this flaw to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory. CVE-2014-1739 A bounds check error was discovered in the socket filter subsystem of the Linux kernel. A local user...

USN-2254-2: PHP updates

USN-2254-1 fixed vulnerabilities in PHP. The fix for CVE-2014-0185 further restricted the permissions on the PHP FastCGI Process Manager FPM UNIX socket. This update grants socket access to the www-data user and group so installations and documentation relying on the previous socket permissions...

USN-2214-1: libxml2 vulnerability

Daniel Berrange discovered that libxml2 would incorrectly perform entity substitution even when requested not to. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted document, an attacker could possibly cause resource consumption, resulting in a denial of service...

USN-2158-1: Linux kernel (Raring HWE) 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 Nico Golde and Fabian Yamaguchi reported buffer underflow errors in the implementation of the XFS filesystem...

USN-2136-1: Linux kernel (Raring HWE) 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-1998-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

An information leak was discovered in the Linux kernel when reading broadcast messages from the notifypolicy interface of the IPSec keysocket. A local user could exploit this flaw to examine potentially sensitive information in kernel memory. CVE-2013-2237 Kees Cook discovered flaw in the Human...

USN-1909-1: 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 5.1.70 in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Ubuntu 12.10 and Ubuntu 13.04 have been updated to MySQL 5.5.32. In addition to security fixes, the...

USN-1806-1: OpenJDK 7 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-1791-1: Thunderbird vulnerabilities

Olli Pettay, Jesse Ruderman, Boris Zbarsky, Christian Holler, Milan Sreckovic and Joe Drew discovered multiple memory safety issues affecting Thunderbird. If the user were tricked into opening a specially crafted message with scripting enabled, an attacker could possibly exploit these to cause a...