USN-3693-1: JasPer vulnerabilities

It was discovered that JasPer incorrectly handled certain malformed JPEG-2000 image files. If a user or automated system using JasPer were tricked into opening a specially crafted image, an attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service or possibly execute code with the privileges of th...

USN-3688-1: Spidermonkey vulnerabilities

Multiple memory safety issues were fixed in Spidermonkey. An attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service, or execute arbitrary code...

USN-3631-2: Linux kernel (Xenial HWE) vulnerabilities

USN-3631-1 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. It was discovered that a buffer overread vulnerability existed in the keyring subsyste...

USN-3588-1: Memcached vulnerabilities

Daniel Shapira discovered an integer overflow issue in Memcached. A remote attacker could use this to cause a denial of service daemon crash. CVE-2017-9951 It was discovered that Memcached listened to UDP by default. A remote attacker could use this as part of a distributed denial of service...

USN-3586-1: DHCP vulnerabilities

Konstantin Orekhov discovered that the DHCP server incorrectly handled a large number of concurrent TCP sessions. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. CVE-2016-2774 It was discovered that the...

USN-3443-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that on the PowerPC architecture, the kernel did not properly sanitize the signal stack when handling sigreturn. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2017-1000255 Andrey Konovalov discovered that a...

USN-3388-1: Subversion vulnerabilities

Joern Schneeweisz discovered that Subversion did not properly handle host names in 'svn+ssh://' URLs. A remote attacker could use this to construct a subversion repository that when accessed could run arbitrary code with the privileges of the user. CVE-2017-9800 Daniel Shahaf and James McCoy...

USN-3331-1: Linux kernel (AWS) 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-3292-2: Linux kernel (HWE) vulnerability

USN-3292-1 fixed a vulnerability in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 16.10. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 16.10 for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. Jason Donenfeld discovered a heap overflow in the MACsec module in the Linux kernel. An attack...

USN-3251-1: Linux kernel vulnerability

It was discovered that the xfrm framework for transforming packets in the Linux kernel did not properly validate data received from user space. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or execute arbitrary code with administrative privileges...

USN-3170-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Dmitry Vyukov discovered that the KVM implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly initialize the Code Segment CS in certain error cases. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information kernel memory. CVE-2016-9756 Andrey Konovalov discovered that signed integer overflows...

USN-3162-2: Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi 2) vulnerabilities

CAI Qian discovered that shared bind mounts in a mount namespace exponentially added entries without restriction to the Linux kernel's mount table. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2016-6213 Andreas Gruenbacher and Jan Kara discovered that the...

USN-3128-1: Linux kernel vulnerability

Ondrej Kozina discovered that the keyring interface in the Linux kernel contained a buffer overflow when displaying timeout events via the /proc/keys interface. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash...

USN-3114-1: nginx vulnerability

Dawid Golunski discovered that the nginx package incorrectly handled log file permissions. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain root privileges...

USN-3107-2: Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi 2) vulnerability

It was discovered that a race condition existed in the memory manager of the Linux kernel when handling copy-on-write breakage of private read-only memory mappings. A local attacker could use this to gain administrative privileges...

USN-3104-2: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerability

It was discovered that a race condition existed in the memory manager of the Linux kernel when handling copy-on-write breakage of private read-only memory mappings. A local attacker could use this to gain administrative privileges...

USN-3062-1: OpenJDK 7 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-2016-3598, CVE-2016-3606,...

USN-3036-1: Linux kernel (Utopic HWE) vulnerability

Jan Stancek discovered that the Linux kernel's memory manager did not properly handle moving pages mapped by the asynchronous I/O AIO ring buffer to the other nodes. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash...

USN-3000-1: Linux kernel (Utopic 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-2989-1: Linux kernel 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 Jason A. Donenfeld discovered multiple out-of-bounds reads in t...

USN-2928-2: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerability

Andrey Konovalov discovered that the ALSA USB MIDI driver incorrectly performed a double-free. A local attacker with physical access could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code with administrative privileges...

USN-2922-1: Samba vulnerabilities

Jeremy Allison discovered that Samba incorrectly handled ACLs on symlink paths. A remote attacker could use this issue to overwrite the ownership of ACLs using symlinks. CVE-2015-7560 Garming Sam and Douglas Bagnall discovered that the Samba internal DNS server incorrectly handled certain DNS TXT...

USN-2891-1: QEMU vulnerabilities

Qinghao Tang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled PCI MSI-X support. An attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 15.10. CVE-2015-7549 Lian Yihan discovered that QEMU incorrectl...

USN-2887-2: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerabilities

It was discovered that a use-after-free vulnerability existed in the AFUNIX implementation in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use crafted epollctl calls to cause a denial of service system crash or expose sensitive information. CVE-2013-7446 It was discovered that the KVM implementation ...

USN-2886-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that a use-after-free vulnerability existed in the AFUNIX implementation in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use crafted epollctl calls to cause a denial of service system crash or expose sensitive information. CVE-2013-7446 It was discovered that the KVM implementation ...

USN-2881-1: 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 5.5.47 in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Ubuntu 15.04 and Ubuntu 15.10 have been updated to MySQL 5.6.28. In addition to security fixes, th...

USN-2850-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Felix Wilhelm discovered a race condition in the Xen paravirtualized drivers which can cause double fetch vulnerabilities. An attacker in the paravirtualized guest could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service crash the host or potentially execute arbitrary code on the host. CVE-2015-8550...

USN-2825-1: Oxide vulnerabilities

Multiple use-after-free bugs were discovered in the application cache implementation in Chromium. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code with the...

USN-2778-1: Linux kernel (Vivid HWE) vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the Linux kernel did not check if a new IPv6 MTU set by a user space application was valid. A remote attacker could forge a route advertisement with an invalid MTU that a user space daemon like NetworkManager would honor and apply to the kernel, causing a denial of service...

USN-2712-1: Thunderbird vulnerabilities

Gary Kwong, Christian Holler, and Byron Campen discovered multiple memory safety issues in Thunderbird. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted message, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code with...

USN-2691-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Andy Lutomirski discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel's handling of nested NMIs non-maskable interrupts. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash or potentially escalate their privileges. CVE-2015-3290 Colin King discovered a flaw in the addkey...

USN-2651-1: GNU patch vulnerabilities

Jakub Wilk discovered that GNU patch did not correctly handle file paths in patch files. An attacker could specially craft a patch file that could overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user invoking the program. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. CVE-2010-4651 László...

USN-2614-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Vincent Tondellier discovered an integer overflow in the Linux kernel's netfilter connection tracking accounting of loaded extensions. An attacker on the local area network LAN could potential exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash of targeted system. CVE-2014-9715 Jan Beulic...

USN-2562-1: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerabilities

Sun Baoliang discovered a use after free flaw in the Linux kernel's SCTP Stream Control Transmission Protocol subsystem during INIT collisions. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash or potentially escalate their privileges on the system. CVE-2015-1421...

USN-2516-1: 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-2515-1: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) 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-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-2492-1: Linux kernel 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-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-2359-1: Linux kernel 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-2357-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) 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 Chris Evans...

USN-2333-1: Linux kernel (EC2) 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-2272-1: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) 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-2268-1: 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-2262-1: Linux kernel (Quantal HWE) vulnerabilities

A bounds check error was discovered in the socket filter subsystem of the Linux kernel. A local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash via crafted BPF instructions. CVE-2014-3144 A remainder calculation error was discovered in the socket filter subsystem of the Lin...

USN-2232-2: OpenSSL regression

USN-2232-1 fixed vulnerabilities in OpenSSL. The upstream fix for CVE-2014-0224 caused a regression for certain applications that use tlssessionsecretcb, such as wpasupplicant. This update fixes the problem. Original advisory details: Jüri Aedla discovered that OpenSSL incorrectly handled invalid...

USN-2234-1: Linux kernel (EC2) vulnerabilities

Pinkie Pie discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel's futex subsystem. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash or gain administrative privileges. CVE-2014-3153 Dmitry Vyukov reported a flaw in the Linux kernel's handling of IPv6 UDP Fragmentation...

USN-2200-1: Linux kernel (Raring HWE) 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-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-2152-1: Apache HTTP Server vulnerabilities

Ning Zhang & Amin Tora discovered that the moddav module incorrectly handled whitespace characters in CDATA sections. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause the server to stop responding, resulting in a denial of service. CVE-2013-6438 Rainer M Canavan discovered that the modlogconfig...