USN-2512-1: Linux kernel (EC2) vulnerabilities

A race condition was discovered in the Linux kernel's key ring. A local user could cause a denial of service memory corruption or panic or possibly have unspecified impact via the keyctl commands. CVE-2014-9529 A memory leak was discovered in the ISO 9660 CDROM file system when parsing rock ridge...

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-2388-1: OpenJDK 7 vulnerabilities

A vulnerability was discovered in the OpenJDK JRE related to information disclosure and data integrity. An attacker could exploit this to expose sensitive data over the network. CVE-2014-6457 Several vulnerabilities were discovered in the OpenJDK JRE related to data integrity. CVE-2014-6502,...

USN-2384-1: MySQL vulnerabilities

Multiple security issues were discovered in MySQL and this update includes a new upstream MySQL version to fix these issues. MySQL has been updated to 5.5.40. In addition to security fixes, the updated packages contain bug fixes, new features, and possibly incompatible changes. Please see the...

USN-2358-1: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerabilities

Jack Morgenstein reported a flaw in the page handling of the KVM Kerenl Virtual Machine subsystem in the Linux kernel. A guest OS user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service host OS memory corruption or possibly have other unspecified impact on the host OS. CVE-2014-3601 Jason...

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-2334-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

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. CVE-2014-3917 An information leak was discovered in the rdm...

USN-2332-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

A bug was discovered in the handling of pathname components when used with an autofs direct mount. A local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash via an open system call. CVE-2014-0203 Toralf Förster reported an error in the Linux kernels syscall auditing on 32 bit...

USN-2314-1: Linux kernel 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-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-2266-1: Linux kernel vulnerability

Andy Lutomirski discovered a flaw with the Linux kernel's ptrace syscall on x8664 processors. An attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service System Crash or potential gain administrative privileges...

USN-2263-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) 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-2230-1: chkrootkit vulnerability

Thomas Stangner discovered that chkrootkit incorrectly quoted certain values. A local attacker could use this issue to execute arbitrary code when chkrootkit is run and gain root privileges...

USN-2204-1: Linux kernel vulnerability

A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's pseudo tty pty device. An unprivileged user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash or potentially gain administrator privileges...

USN-2178-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

A flaw was discovered in the Kernel Virtual Machine KVM subsystem of the Linux kernel. A guest OS user could exploit this flaw to execute arbitrary code on the host OS. CVE-2014-0049 Al Viro discovered an error in how CIFS in the Linux kernel handles uncached write operations. An unprivileged loc...

USN-2173-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's handling of the SCTP handshake. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2014-0101 An error was discovered in the Linux kernel's DCCP protocol support. A remote attacked could exploit this flaw to cause a...

USN-2069-1: Linux kernel (Raring HWE) vulnerabilities

Hannes Frederic Sowa discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel's UDP Fragmentation Offload UFO. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly gain administrative privileges. CVE-2013-4470 Multiple integer overflow flaws were discovered in the...

USN-2067-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) 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 Hannes Frederic Sowa discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel's UDP Fragmentation Offload UFO. An unprivileged...

USN-2018-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities

A denial of service flaw was discovered in the Btrfs file system in the Linux kernel. A local user could cause a denial of service by creating a large number of files with names that have the same CRC32 hash value. CVE-2012-5374 A denial of service flaw was discovered in the Btrfs file system in...

USN-1825-1: Linux kernel vulnerability

An flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's perfevents interface. A local user could exploit this flaw to escalate privileges on the system...

USN-1755-1: OpenJDK 6 vulnerabilities

It was discovered that OpenJDK did not properly validate certain types of images. A remote attacker could exploit this to cause OpenJDK to crash. CVE-2013-0809 It was discovered that OpenJDK did not properly check return values when performing color conversion for images. If a user were tricked...

USN-1732-1: OpenSSL vulnerabilities

Adam Langley and Wolfgang Ettlingers discovered that OpenSSL incorrectly handled certain crafted CBC data when used with AES-NI. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause OpenSSL to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 12.10...

USN-1704-1: Linux kernel (Quantal HWE) vulnerabilities

Brad Spengler discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel's uname system call. An unprivileged user could exploit this flaw to read kernel stack memory. CVE-2012-0957 Jon Howell reported a flaw in the Linux kernel's KVM Kernel-based virtual machine subsystem's handling of the XSAVE feature. On hosts,...

USN-1700-1: 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-1610-1: Linux kernel vulnerability

Pablo Neira Ayuso discovered a flaw in the credentials of netlink messages. An unprivileged local attacker could exploit this by getting a netlink based service, that relies on netlink credentials, to perform privileged actions. CVE-2012-3520 Mathias Krause discovered information leak in the Linu...

USN-1609-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerability

A flaw was found in how the Linux kernel's KVM Kernel-based Virtual Machine subsystem handled MSI Message Signaled Interrupts. A local unprivileged user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service or potentially elevate privileges. CVE-2012-2137 Mathias Krause discover an error in Linux...

USN-1575-1: Linux kernel (Oneiric backport) vulnerabilities

Ben Hutchings reported a flaw in the Linux kernel with some network drivers that support TSO TCP segment offload. A local or peer user could exploit this flaw to to cause a denial of service. CVE-2012-3412 Jay Fenlason and Doug Ledford discovered a bug in the Linux kernel implementation of RDS...

USN-1574-1: Linux kernel (Natty backport) vulnerabilities

A flaw was found in how the Linux kernel passed the replacement session keyring to a child process. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service panic. CVE-2012-2745 Ben Hutchings reported a flaw in the Linux kernel with some network drivers that support TSO TCP...

USN-1548-1: Firefox 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 Firefox. If the user were tricked into opening a specially crafted page, an attacker could exploit...

USN-1496-1: OpenOffice.org vulnerabilities

A stack-based buffer overflow was discovered in the Lotus Word Pro import filter in OpenOffice.org. The default compiler options for affected releases should reduce the vulnerability to a denial of service. CVE-2011-2685 Huzaifa Sidhpurwala discovered that OpenOffice.org could be made to crash if...

USN-1445-1: 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 found in the Linux kernel's KVM Kernel Virtual Machine virtual cpu setup. An unprivileged local user coul...

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-1232-1: X.Org X server vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the X server incorrectly handled certain malformed input. An authorized attacker could exploit this to cause the X server to crash, leading to a denial or service, or possibly execute arbitrary code with root privileges. This issue only affected Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and 10.10...

USN-1149-2: Firefox regression

USN-1149-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. Unfortunately, a regression was introduced that prevented cookies from being stored properly when the hostname was a single character. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: Multiple memory...

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-1009-2: GNU C Library vulnerability

USN-1009-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the GNU C library. Colin Watson discovered that the fixes were incomplete and introduced flaws with setuid programs loading libraries that used dynamic string tokens in their RPATH. If the "man" program was installed setuid, a local attacker could exploit this ...

USN-1023-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Nelson Elhage discovered several problems with the Acorn Econet protocol driver. A local user could cause a denial of service via a NULL pointer dereference, escalate privileges by overflowing the kernel stack, and assign Econet addresses to arbitrary interfaces. CVE-2010-3848, CVE-2010-3849,...

USN-1011-3: Xulrunner vulnerability

USN-1011-1 fixed a vulnerability in Firefox. This update provides the corresponding update for Xulrunner. Original advisory details: Morten Krakvik discovered a heap-based buffer overflow in Firefox. If a user were tricked into navigating to a malicious site, an attacker could cause a denial of...

USN-1009-1: GNU C Library vulnerabilities

Tavis Ormandy discovered multiple flaws in the GNU C Library's handling of the LDAUDIT environment variable when running a privileged binary. A local attacker could exploit this to gain root privileges. CVE-2010-3847, CVE-2010-3856...

USN-978-1: Thunderbird vulnerabilities

Several dangling pointer vulnerabilities were discovered in Thunderbird. An attacker could exploit this to crash Thunderbird or possibly run arbitrary code as the user invoking the program. CVE-2010-2760, CVE-2010-2767, CVE-2010-3167 It was discovered that the XPCSafeJSObjectWrapper SJOW security...

USN-974-2: Linux kernel regression

USN-974-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel. The fixes for CVE-2010-2240 caused failures for Xen hosts. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: Gael Delalleu, Rafal Wojtczuk, and Brad Spengler discovered that the memory manager did not...

USN-930-2: apturl, Epiphany, gecko-sharp, gnome-python-extras, liferea, rhythmbox, totem, ubufox, yelp update

USN-930-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox and Xulrunner. This update provides updated packages for use with Firefox 3.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.2 on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS. Original advisory details: If was discovered that Firefox could be made to access freed memory. If a user were tricked into viewing a...

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-890-4: PyXML vulnerabilities

USN-890-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Expat. This update provides the corresponding updates for PyXML. Original advisory details: Jukka Taimisto, Tero Rontti and Rauli Kaksonen discovered that Expat did not properly process malformed XML. If a user or application linked against Expat were tricked in...

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-874-1: Firefox 3.5 and Xulrunner 1.9.1 vulnerabilities

Jesse Ruderman, Josh Soref, Martijn Wargers, Jose Angel, Olli Pettay, and David James discovered several flaws in the browser and JavaScript engines of Firefox. If a user were tricked into viewing a malicious website, a remote attacker could cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary...

USN-869-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

David Ford discovered that the IPv4 defragmentation routine did not correctly handle oversized packets. A remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic that would cause a system to crash, leading to a denial of service. The fix was included in the earlier kernels from USN-864-1...

USN-810-3: NSS regression

USN-810-1 fixed vulnerabilities in NSS. Jozsef Kadlecsik noticed that the new libraries on amd64 did not correctly set stack memory flags, and caused applications using NSS e.g. Firefox to have an executable stack. This reduced the effectiveness of some defensive security protections. This update...