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USN-3021-2: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities
Andrey Konovalov discovered that the CDC Network Control Model USB driver in the Linux kernel did not cancel work events queued if a later error occurred, resulting in a use-after-free. An attacker with physical access could use this to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2016-3951 Kangji...
USN-3002-1: Linux kernel (Wily 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-2843-3: Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi 2) vulnerabilities
éƒæ°¸åˆš 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-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-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-2643-1: Linux kernel vulnerability
Philip Pettersson discovered a privilege escalation when using overlayfs mounts inside of user namespaces. A local user could exploit this flaw to gain administrative privileges on the system...
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-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-2564-1: Linux kernel (Utopic HWE) vulnerabilities
An integer overflow was discovered in the stack randomization feature of the Linux kernel on 64 bit platforms. A local attacker could exploit this flaw to bypass the Address Space Layout Randomization ASLR protection mechanism. CVE-2015-1593 An information leak was discovered in the Linux Kernel'...
USN-2561-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities
It was discovered that the Linux kernel's Infiniband subsystem did not properly sanitize its input parameters while registering memory regions from userspace. A local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash or to potentially gain administrative privileges...
USN-2530-1: Linux kernel vulnerability
It was discovered that the Linux kernel's Infiniband subsystem did not properly sanitize its input parameters while registering memory regions from userspace. A local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash or to potentially gain administrative privileges...
USN-2518-1: Linux kernel 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-2486-1: OpenJDK 6 vulnerabilities
Several 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 or expose sensitive data over the network. CVE-2014-3566, CVE-2014-6587, CVE-2014-6601, CVE-2015-0395,...
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-2448-2: Linux kernel regression
USN-2448-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel. Due to an unrelated regression TCP Throughput drops to zero for several drivers after upgrading. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: An information leak in the Linux kernel was discover...
USN-2396-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Nadav Amit reported that the KVM Kernel Virtual Machine mishandles noncanonical addresses when emulating instructions that change the rip Instruction Pointer. A guest user with access to I/O or the MMIO can use this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash of the guest. CVE-2014-3647 A flaw...
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-2354-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Chris Evans reported an flaw in the Linux kernel's handling of iso9660 compact disk filesystem images. An attacker who can mount a custom iso9660 image either via a CD/DVD drive or a loopback mount could cause a denial of service system crash or reboot. CVE-2014-5471 Chris Evans reported an flaw ...
USN-2313-1: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerability
An flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's audit subsystem when auditing certain syscalls. A local attacker could exploit this flaw to obtain potentially sensitive single-bit values from kernel memory or cause a denial of service OOPS...
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-2098-1: LibYAML vulnerability
Florian Weimer discovered that LibYAML incorrectly handled certain large yaml documents. An attacker could use this issue to cause LibYAML to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code...
USN-2045-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's dm snapshot facility. A remote authenticated user could exploit this flaw to obtain sensitive information or modify/corrupt data. CVE-2013-4299 Alan Chester reported a flaw in the IPv6 Stream Control Transmission Protocol SCTP of the Linux kernel. A...
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-1983-1: Python 2.7 vulnerabilities
Florian Weimer discovered that Python incorrectly handled matching multiple wildcards in ssl certificate hostnames. An attacker could exploit this to cause Python to consume resources, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 13.04. CVE-2013-2099 Ryan Sleevi discovered th...
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-1686-1: FreeType vulnerabilities
Mateusz Jurczyk discovered that FreeType did not correctly handle certain malformed BDF font files. If a user were tricked into using a specially crafted font file, a remote attacker could cause FreeType to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code with user privileges...
USN-1551-1: Thunderbird vulnerabilities
Gary Kwong, Christian Holler, Jesse Ruderman, Steve Fink, Bob Clary, Andrew Sutherland, Jason Smith, John Schoenick, Vladimir Vukicevic and Daniel Holbert discovered memory safety issues affecting Thunderbird. If the user were tricked into opening a specially crafted E-Mail, an attacker could...
USN-1432-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
A flaw was found in the Linux's kernels ext4 file system when mounted with a journal. A local, unprivileged user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service. CVE-2011-4086 A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's cifs file system. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to...
USN-1426-1: Linux kernel (EC2) vulnerabilities
Sasha Levin discovered a flaw in the permission checking for device assignments requested via the kvm ioctl in the Linux kernel. A local user could use this flaw to crash the system causing a denial of service. CVE-2011-4347 Stephan Bärwolf discovered a flaw in the KVM kernel-based virtual machin...
USN-1325-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities
Peter Huewe discovered an information leak in the handling of reading security-related TPM data. A local, unprivileged user could read the results of a previous TPM command. CVE-2011-1162 Clement Lecigne discovered a bug in the HFS filesystem. A local attacker could exploit this to cause a kernel...
USN-1170-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Dan Rosenberg discovered that multiple terminal ioctls did not correctly initialize structure memory. A local attacker could exploit this to read portions of kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy. CVE-2010-4076, CVE-2010-4077 It was discovered that Xen did not correctly handle certain...
USN-1129-1: Perl vulnerabilities
It was discovered that the Safe.pm Perl module incorrectly handled Safe::reval and Safe::rdo access restrictions. An attacker could use this flaw to bypass intended restrictions and possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2010-1168, CVE-2010-1447 It was discovered that the CGI.pm Perl module...
USN-927-5: nspr update
USN-927-4 fixed vulnerabilities in NSS. This update provides the NSPR needed to use the new NSS. Original advisory details: 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,...
USN-942-1: PostgreSQL vulnerabilities
It was discovered that the Safe.pm module as used by PostgreSQL did not properly restrict PL/perl procedures. If PostgreSQL was configured to use Perl stored procedures, a remote authenticated attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary Perl code. CVE-2010-1169 It was discovered that...
USN-892-1: FUSE vulnerability
Dan Rosenberg discovered that FUSE did not correctly check mount locations. A local attacker, with access to use FUSE, could unmount arbitrary locations, leading to a denial of service...
USN-882-1: PHP vulnerabilities
Maksymilian Arciemowicz discovered that PHP did not properly handle the inirestore function. An attacker could exploit this issue to obtain random memory contents or to cause the PHP server to crash, resulting in a denial of service. CVE-2009-2626 It was discovered that the htmlspecialchars...
USN-854-1: GD library vulnerabilities
Tomas Hoger discovered that the GD library did not properly handle the number of colors in certain malformed GD images. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted GD image, an attacker could cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code...
USN-811-1: Firefox and Xulrunner vulnerability
Juan Pablo Lopez Yacubian discovered that Firefox did not properly display invalid URLs. If a user were tricked into accessing a malicious website, an attacker could exploit this to spoof the location bar, such as in a phishing attack. Furthermore, if the malicious website had a valid SSL...
USN-803-1: dhcp vulnerability
It was discovered that the DHCP client as included in dhcp3 did not verify the length of certain option fields when processing a response from an IPv4 dhcp server. If a user running Ubuntu 6.06 LTS or 8.04 LTS connected to a malicious dhcp server, a remote attacker could cause a denial of service...
USN-587-1: Kerberos vulnerabilities
It was discovered that krb5 did not correctly handle certain krb4 requests. An unauthenticated remote attacker could exploit this flaw by sending a specially crafted traffic, which could expose sensitive information, cause a crash, or execute arbitrary code. CVE-2008-0062, CVE-2008-0063 A flaw wa...
USN-334-1: krb5 vulnerabilities
Michael Calmer and Marcus Meissner discovered that several krb5 tools did not check the return values from setuid system calls. On systems that have configured user process limits, it may be possible for an attacker to cause setuid to fail via resource starvation. In that situation, the tools wil...
USN-7418-1: Ruby vulnerabilities
It was discovered that Ruby incorrectly handled parsing of an XML document that has specific XML characters in an attribute value using REXML gem. An attacker could use this issue to cause Ruby to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 24.04...
USN-6919-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Ziming Zhang discovered that the DRM driver for VMware Virtual GPU did not properly handle certain error conditions, leading to a NULL pointer dereference. A local attacker could possibly trigger this vulnerability to cause a denial of service. CVE-2022-38096 It was discovered that the ATA over...
USN-6846-1: Ansible vulnerabilities
It was discovered that Ansible incorrectly handled certain inputs when using towercallback parameter. If a user or an automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted input file, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information. This issue only affecte...
USN-6784-1: cJSON vulnerabilities
It was discovered that cJSON incorrectly handled certain input. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause cJSON to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 23.10. CVE-2023-50471, CVE-2023-50472 Luo Jin discovered that cJSON incorrectly...
USN-6736-2: klibc vulnerabilities
USN-6736-1 fixed vulnerabilities in klibc. This update provides the corresponding updates for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. Original advisory details: It was discovered that zlib, vendored in klibc, incorrectly handled pointer arithmetic. An attacker could use this issue to cause klibc to crash or to possibl...
USN-6726-2: Linux kernel (IoT) vulnerabilities
Pratyush Yadav discovered that the Xen network backend implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly handle zero length data request, leading to a null pointer dereference vulnerability. An attacker in a guest VM could possibly use this to cause a denial of service host domain crash...
USN-6696-1: OpenJDK 8 vulnerabilities
Yi Yang discovered that the Hotspot component of OpenJDK 8 incorrectly handled array accesses in the C1 compiler. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service, execute arbitrary code or bypass Java sandbox restrictions. CVE-2024-20918 It was discovered that the Hotspot...