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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-2326-1: Oxide vulnerabilities
A use-after-free was discovered in the SVG implementation in Blink. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via renderer crash, or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the sandboxed render...
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-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-2298-1: Oxide vulnerabilities
A type confusion bug was discovered in V8. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via renderer crash, or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the sandboxed render process. CVE-2014-1730 A...
USN-2281-1: Linux kernel (EC2) 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 An flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's audit subsystem when auditing...
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-2251-1: Linux kernel 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-2245-1: json-c vulnerabilities
Florian Weimer discovered that json-c incorrectly handled buffer lengths. An attacker could use this issue with a specially-crafted large JSON document to cause json-c to crash, resulting in a denial of service. CVE-2013-6370 Florian Weimer discovered that json-c incorrectly handled hash arrays. ...
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-2187-1: OpenJDK 7 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-2014-0429, CVE-2014-0446, CVE-2014-0451, CVE-2014-0452,...
USN-2096-1: Linux kernel vulnerability
Pageexec reported a bug in the Linux kernel's recvmmsg syscall when called from code using the x32 ABI. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash or gain administrator privileges...
USN-2075-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Vasily Kulikov reported a flaw in the Linux kernel's implementation of ptrace. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory. CVE-2013-2929 Dave Jones and Vince Weaver reported a flaw in the Linux kernel's per event subsystem that allows...
USN-2073-1: Linux kernel 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-2072-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities
Dave Jones and Vince Weaver reported a flaw in the Linux kernel's per event subsystem that allows normal users to enable function tracing. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to obtain potentially sensitive information from the kernel. CVE-2013-2930 Stephan Mueller reported an erro...
USN-2038-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
An information leak was discovered in the handling of ICMPv6 Router Advertisement RA messages in the Linux kernel's IPv6 network stack. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service excessive retries and address-generation outage, and consequently obtain sensitive...
USN-1877-1: Linux kernel (EC2) vulnerabilities
Andrew Honig reported a flaw in the way KVM Kernel-based Virtual Machine emulated the IOAPIC. A privileged guest user could exploit this flaw to read host memory or cause a denial of service crash the host. CVE-2013-1798 An information leak was discovered in the Linux kernel's rcvmsg path for ATM...
USN-1835-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
A buffer overflow vulnerability was discovered in the Broadcom tg3 ethernet driver for the Linux kernel. A local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service crash the system or potentially escalate privileges on the system. CVE-2013-1929 A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's...
USN-1808-1: Linux kernel (EC2) vulnerabilities
Mathias Krause discovered an information leak in the Linux kernel's getsockname implementation for Logical Link Layer llc sockets. A local user could exploit this flaw to examine some of the kernel's stack memory. CVE-2012-6542 Mathias Krause discovered information leaks in the Linux kernel's...
USN-1788-1: Linux kernel (Oneiric backport) vulnerabilities
Emese Revfy discovered that in the Linux kernel signal handlers could leak address information across an exec, making it possible to bypass ASLR Address Space Layout Randomization. A local user could use this flaw to bypass ASLR to reliably deliver an exploit payload that would otherwise be stopp...
USN-1659-1: GIMP vulnerability
It was discovered that GIMP incorrectly handled malformed XWD files. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted XWD file, an attacker could cause GIMP to crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code with the user's privileges...
USN-1638-2: ubufox update
USN-1638-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. This update provides an updated ubufox package for use with the latest Firefox. Original advisory details: Gary Kwong, Jesse Ruderman, Christian Holler, Bob Clary, Kyle Huey, Ed Morley, Chris Lord, Boris Zbarsky, Julian Seward, Bill McCloskey, and Andr...
USN-1563-1: Linux kernel (Oneiric backport) vulnerability
A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's Reliable Datagram Sockets RDS protocol implementation. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to cause a denial of service. CVE-2012-2372 Mathias Krause discovered an information leak in the Linux kernel's TUN/TAP device driver. A local user could...
USN-1554-1: Linux kernel vulnerability
A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's Reliable Datagram Sockets RDS protocol implementation. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to cause a denial of service. CVE-2012-2372 Mathias Krause discovered an information leak in the Linux kernel's TUN/TAP device driver. A local user could...
USN-1505-2: IcedTea-Web regression
USN-1505-1 fixed vulnerabilities in OpenJDK 6. As part of the update, IcedTea-Web packages were upgraded to a new version. That upgrade introduced a regression which prevented the IcedTea-Web plugin from working with the Chromium web browser in Ubuntu 11.04 and Ubuntu 11.10. This update fixes the...
USN-1530-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities
Andy Adamson discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel's NFSv4 implementation. A remote NFS server attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service. CVE-2011-4131 Steve Grubb reported a flaw with Linux fscaps file system base capabilities when used to increase the permissions of a proces...
USN-1510-1: Thunderbird vulnerabilities
Benoit Jacob, Jesse Ruderman, Christian Holler, Bill McCloskey, Brian Smith, Gary Kwong, Christoph Diehl, Chris Jones, Brad Lassey, and Kyle Huey discovered memory safety issues affecting Thunderbird. If the user were tricked into opening a specially crafted page, an attacker could possibly explo...
USN-1474-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities
A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's KVM kernel virtual machine. An administrative user in the guest OS could leverage this flaw to cause a denial of service in the host OS. CVE-2012-2121 Schacher Raindel discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel's memory handling when hugetlb is enabled. An...
USN-1361-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Han-Wen Nienhuys reported a flaw in the FUSE kernel module. A local user who can mount a FUSE file system could cause a denial of service. CVE-2011-3353 A flaw was found in KVM's Programmable Interval Timer PIT. When a virtual interrupt control is not available a local user could use this to caus...
USN-1278-1: Linux (Maverick backport) vulnerabilities
It was discovered that CIFS incorrectly handled authentication. When a user had a CIFS share mounted that required authentication, a local user could mount the same share without knowing the correct password. CVE-2011-1585 Andrea Righi discovered a race condition in the KSM memory merging support...
USN-1275-1: Linux kernel vulnerability
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 Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that taskstats did not enforce access restrictions. A local attacker could exploit...
USN-1259-1: Apache vulnerabilities
It was discovered that the modproxy module in Apache did not properly interact with the RewriteRule and ProxyPassMatch pattern matches in the configuration of a reverse proxy. This could allow remote attackers to contact internal webservers behind the proxy that were not intended for external...
USN-1184-1: Firefox and Xulrunner vulnerabilities
Gary Kwong, Igor Bukanov, and Bob Clary discovered multiple memory vulnerabilities in the browser rendering engine. An attacker could use these to possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. CVE-2011-2982 It was discovered that a vulnerability in event...
USN-1097-1: Tomcat vulnerabilities
It was discovered that the Tomcat SecurityManager did not properly restrict the working directory. An attacker could use this flaw to read or write files outside of the intended working directory. CVE-2010-3718 It was discovered that Tomcat did not properly escape certain parameters in the Manage...
USN-1056-1: OpenOffice.org vulnerabilities
Charlie Miller discovered several heap overflows in PPT processing. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted PPT document, a remote attacker could execute arbitrary code with user privileges. Ubuntu 10.10 was not affected. CVE-2010-2935, CVE-2010-2936 Marc...
USN-972-1: FreeType vulnerabilities
It was discovered that FreeType did not correctly handle certain malformed 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-930-6: Firefox and Xulrunner vulnerability
USN-957-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox and Xulrunner. Daniel Holbert discovered that the fix for CVE-2010-1214 introduced a regression which did not properly initialize a plugin pointer. If a user were tricked into viewing a malicious site, a remote attacker could use this to crash the browse...
USN-759-1: poppler vulnerabilities
Will Dormann, Alin Rad Pop, Braden Thomas, and Drew Yao discovered that poppler contained multiple security issues in its JBIG2 decoder. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a crafted PDF file, an attacker could cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code with privilege...
USN-664-1: Tk vulnerability
It was discovered that Tk could be made to overrun a buffer when loading certain images. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted GIF image, remote attackers could cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code with user privileges...
USN-626-1: Firefox and xulrunner vulnerabilities
A flaw was discovered in the browser engine. A variable could be made to overflow causing the browser to crash. If a user were tricked into opening a malicious web page, an attacker could cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the...
USN-629-1: Thunderbird vulnerabilities
Various flaws were discovered in the browser engine. If a user had Javascript enabled and were tricked into opening a malicious web page, an attacker could cause a denial of service via application crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program...
USN-612-3: OpenVPN vulnerability
A weakness has been discovered in the random number generator used by OpenSSL on Debian and Ubuntu systems. As a result of this weakness, certain encryption keys are much more common than they should be, such that an attacker could guess the key through a brute-force attack given minimal knowledg...
USN-592-1: Firefox vulnerabilities
Alexey Proskuryakov, Yosuke Hasegawa and Simon Montagu discovered flaws in Firefox's character encoding handling. If a user were tricked into opening a malicious web page, an attacker could perform cross-site scripting attacks. CVE-2008-0416 Various flaws were discovered in the JavaScript engine...
USN-568-1: PostgreSQL vulnerabilities
Nico Leidecker discovered that PostgreSQL did not properly restrict dblink functions. An authenticated user could exploit this flaw to access arbitrary accounts and execute arbitrary SQL queries. CVE-2007-3278, CVE-2007-6601 It was discovered that the TCL regular expression parser used by...
USN-538-1: libpng vulnerabilities
It was discovered that libpng did not properly perform bounds checking and comparisons in certain operations. An attacker could send a specially crafted PNG image and cause a denial of service in applications linked against libpng...
USN-477-1: krb5 vulnerabilities
Wei Wang discovered that the krb5 RPC library did not correctly handle certain error conditions. A remote attacker could cause kadmind to free an uninitialized pointer, leading to a denial of service or possibly execution of arbitrary code with root privileges. CVE-2007-2442 Wei Wang discovered...
USN-470-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
USN-464-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel. Some additional code changes were accidentally included in the Feisty update which caused trouble for some people who were not using UUID-based filesystem mounts. These changes have been reverted. We apologize for the inconvenience. For...
USN-32-1: mysql vulnerabilities
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the MySQL database server. Lukasz Wojtow discovered a potential buffer overflow in the function mysqlrealconnect. A malicious name server could send specially crafted DNS packages which might result in execution of arbitrary code with the database...
USN-6979-1: Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi) vulnerabilities
Several security issues were discovered in the Linux kernel. An attacker could possibly use these to compromise the system. This update corrects flaws in the following subsystems: - ARM64 architecture; - M68K architecture; - User-Mode Linux UML; - x86 architecture; - Accessibility subsystem; -...
USN-6893-2: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
It was discovered that a race condition existed in the Bluetooth subsystem in the Linux kernel when modifying certain settings values through debugfs. A privileged local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service. CVE-2024-24857, CVE-2024-24858, CVE-2024-24859 Several security issues we...