USN-1401-2: Thunderbird vulnerabilities

USN-1401-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Xulrunner. This update provides the corresponding fixes for Thunderbird. Original advisory details: It was discovered that a flaw in the Mozilla SVG implementation could result in an out-of-bounds memory access if SVG elements were removed during a...

USN-1390-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Dan Rosenberg reported errors in the OSS Open Sound System MIDI interface. A local attacker on non-x86 systems might be able to cause a denial of service. CVE-2011-1476 Dan Rosenberg reported errors in the kernel's OSS Open Sound System driver for Yamaha FM synthesizer chips. A local user can...

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-1293-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

A bug was discovered in the XFS filesystem's handling of pathnames. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service, or gain root privileges. CVE-2011-4077 Nick Bowler discovered the kernel GHASH message digest algorithm incorrectly handled error conditions...

USN-1291-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

A bug was discovered in the XFS filesystem's handling of pathnames. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service, or gain root privileges. CVE-2011-4077 A flaw was found in the Journaling Block Device JBD. A local attacker able to mount ext3 or ext4 file...

USN-1195-1: 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-1183-1: 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 Neil Horman discovered that NFSv4 did not correctly handle...

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-1042-2: PHP5 regression

USN-1042-1 fixed vulnerabilities in PHP5. The fix for CVE-2010-3436 introduced a regression in the openbasedir restriction handling code. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: It was discovered that attackers might be able to bypass...

USN-945-1: ClamAV vulnerabilities

It was discovered that ClamAV did not properly reallocate memory when processing certain PDF files. A remote attacker could send a specially crafted PDF and crash ClamAV. CVE-2010-1639 An out of bounds memory access flaw was discovered in ClamAV. A remote attacker could send a specially crafted...

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-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-614-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that PowerPC kernels did not correctly handle reporting certain system details. By requesting a specific set of information, a local attacker could cause a system crash resulting in a denial of service. CVE-2007-6694 A race condition was discovered between dnotify fcntl and clos...

USN-518-1: linux-source-2.6.15, linux-source-2.6.17, linux-source-2.6.20 vulnerabilities

Evan Teran discovered that the Linux kernel ptrace routines did not correctly handle certain requests robustly. Local attackers could exploit this to crash the system, causing a denial of service. CVE-2007-3731 It was discovered that hugetlb kernels on PowerPC systems did not prevent the stack fr...

USN-509-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

A flaw in the sysfsreaddir function allowed a local user to cause a denial of service by dereferencing a NULL pointer. CVE-2007-3104 A buffer overflow was discovered in the random number generator. In environments with granular assignment of root privileges, a local attacker could gain additional...

USN-353-2: OpenSSL vulnerability

USN-353-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in OpenSSL. However, Mark J Cox noticed that the applied patch for CVE-2006-2940 was flawed. This update corrects that patch. For reference, this is the relevant part of the original advisory: Certain types of public key could take disproportionate amounts ...

USN-353-1: openssl vulnerabilities

Dr. Henson of the OpenSSL core team and Open Network Security discovered a mishandled error condition in the ASN.1 parser. By sending specially crafted packet data, a remote attacker could exploit this to trigger an infinite loop, which would render the service unusable and consume all available...

USN-311-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

A race condition was discovered in the doaddcounters functions. Processes which do not run with full root privileges, but have the CAPNETADMIN capability can exploit this to crash the machine or read a random piece of kernel memory. In Ubuntu there are no packages that are affected by this, so th...

USN-40-1: PHP vulnerabilities

Stefan Esser reported several buffer overflows in PHP's variable unserializing handling. These could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on the server with the PHP interpreter's privileges by sending specially crafted input strings form data, cookie values, and similar. Additionally, Ilia...

USN-7345-1: .NET vulnerability

Zahid TOKAT discovered that .NET suffered from a weak authentication vulnerability. An attacker could possibly use this issue to elevate privileges...

USN-7085-1: X.Org X Server vulnerability

Jan-Niklas Sohn discovered that the X.Org X Server incorrectly handled certain memory operations in the X Keyboard Extension. An attacker could use this issue to cause the X Server to crash, leading to a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code...

USN-6886-1: Go vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the Go net/http module did not properly handle the requests when request's headers exceed MaxHeaderBytes. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a panic resulting into a denial of service. This issue only affected Go 1.21 in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS...

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...

USN-6538-1: PostgreSQL vulnerabilities

Jingzhou Fu discovered that PostgreSQL incorrectly handled certain unknown arguments in aggregate function calls. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information. CVE-2023-5868 Pedro Gallegos discovered that PostgreSQL incorrectly handled modifying certain SQL arra...

USN-6494-2: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Yu Hao discovered that the UBI driver in the Linux kernel did not properly check for MTD with zero erasesize during device attachment. A local privileged attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2023-31085 Lucas Leong discovered that the netfilter subsystem in the...

USN-6525-1: pysha3 vulnerability

Nicky Mouha discovered that pysha incorrectly handled certain SHA-3 operations. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause pysha3 to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code...

USN-6473-2: pip vulnerabilities

USN-6473-1 fixed vulnerabilities in urllib3. This update provides the corresponding updates for the urllib3 module bundled into pip. Original advisory details: It was discovered that urllib3 didn't strip HTTP Authorization header on cross-origin redirects. A remote attacker could possibly use thi...

USN-6429-3: curl vulnerabilities

USN-6429-1 fixed vulnerabilities in curl. This update provides the corresponding updates for Ubuntu 23.10. Original advisory details: Jay Satiro discovered that curl incorrectly handled hostnames when using a SOCKS5 proxy. In environments where curl is configured to use a SOCKS5 proxy, a remote...

USN-6342-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Tavis Ormandy discovered that some AMD processors did not properly handle speculative execution of certain vector register instructions. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information. CVE-2023-20593 Zheng Zhang discovered that the device-mapper implementation in the Linux kernel...

USN-6320-1: 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-2023-4573, CVE-2023-4574,...

LSN-0096-1: Kernel Live Patch Security Notice

It was discovered that the Broadcom FullMAC USB WiFi driver in the Linux kernel did not properly perform data buffer size validation in some situations. A physically proximate attacker could use this to craft a malicious USB device that when inserted, could cause a denial of service system crash ...

USN-6229-1: LibTIFF vulnerabilities

It was discovered that LibTIFF was not properly handling variables used to perform memory management operations when processing an image through tiffcrop, which could lead to a heap buffer overflow. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code...

USN-6193-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Hangyu Hua discovered that the Flower classifier implementation in the Linux kernel contained an out-of-bounds write vulnerability. An attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2023-35788, LP: 2023577 It was discovered that for some...

USN-6192-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Hangyu Hua discovered that the Flower classifier implementation in the Linux kernel contained an out-of-bounds write vulnerability. An attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2023-35788, LP: 2023577 Xingyuan Mo and Gengjia Chen...

USN-6138-1: libssh vulnerabilities

Philip Turnbull discovered that libssh incorrectly handled rekeying with algorithm guessing. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause libssh to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2023-1667 Kevin Backhouse discovered that libssh incorrectly...

USN-6109-1: Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi) vulnerabilities

Zheng Wang discovered that the Intel i915 graphics driver in the Linux kernel did not properly handle certain error conditions, leading to a double-free. A local attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2022-3707 Jordy Zomer and Alexandra Sandulescu discover...

USN-6051-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the Traffic-Control Index TCINDEX implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly perform filter deactivation in some situations. A local attacker could possibly use this to gain elevated privileges. Please note that with the fix for this CVE, kernel support for the...

USN-5987-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the KVM VMX implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly handle indirect branch prediction isolation between L1 and L2 VMs. An attacker in a guest VM could use this to expose sensitive information from the host OS or other guest VMs. CVE-2022-2196 It was discovered...

USN-5970-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the KVM VMX implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly handle indirect branch prediction isolation between L1 and L2 VMs. An attacker in a guest VM could use this to expose sensitive information from the host OS or other guest VMs. CVE-2022-2196 It was discovered...

USN-5955-1: Emacs vulnerability

It was discovered that Emacs did not properly manage certain files when using htmlfontify functionality. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary commands...

USN-5924-1: Linux kernel (Azure) 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-5884-1: Linux kernel (AWS) vulnerabilities

Kirill Tkhai discovered that the XFS file system implementation in the Linux kernel did not calculate size correctly when pre-allocating space in some situations. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information. CVE-2021-4155 Lee Jones discovered that a use-after-free vulnerabilit...

LSN-0091-1: Kernel Live Patch Security Notice

It was discovered that a race condition existed in the memory address space accounting implementation in the Linux kernel, leading to a use-after-free vulnerability. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code.CVE-2022-41222 Sönke...

USN-5829-1: Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi) 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-5767-1: Python vulnerabilities

Nicky Mouha discovered that Python incorrectly handled certain SHA-3 internals. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a crash or execute arbitrary code. CVE-2022-37454 It was discovered that Python incorrectly handled certain IDNA inputs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to...

USN-5759-1: LibBPF vulnerabilities

It was discovered that LibBPF incorrectly handled certain memory operations under certain circumstances. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause LibBPF to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.10. CVE-2021-45940,...

USN-5723-1: Vim vulnerabilities

It was discovered that Vim could be made to crash when searching specially crafted patterns. An attacker could possibly use this to crash Vim and cause denial of service. CVE-2022-1674 It was discovered that there existed a NULL pointer dereference in Vim. An attacker could possibly use this to...

USN-5716-1: SQLite vulnerability

It was discovered that SQLite incorrectly handled certain long string arguments. An attacker could use this issue to cause SQLite to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code...

USN-5694-1: LibreOffice vulnerabilities

It was discovered that LibreOffice incorrectly handled links using the Office URI Schemes. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted document, a remote attacker could use this issue to execute arbitrary scripts. CVE-2022-3140 Thomas Florian discovered that LibreOffice incorrectly...