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-2238-1: Linux kernel (Raring HWE) 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 A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's IPC reference counting. An unprivileged loc...

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-2219-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Matthew Daley reported an information leak in the floppy disk driver of the Linux kernel. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory. CVE-2014-1738 Matthew Daley reported a flaw in the handling of ioctl commands by the floppy...

USN-2203-1: 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-2199-1: Linux kernel (Quantal 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-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-2135-1: Linux kernel (Quantal 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-2129-1: Linux kernel (EC2) vulnerabilities

An information leak was discovered in the Linux kernel when inotify is used to monitor the /dev/ptmx device. A local user could exploit this flaw to discover keystroke timing and potentially discover sensitive information like password length. CVE-2013-0160 Vasily Kulikov reported a flaw in the...

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-2040-1: Linux kernel (Quantal HWE) 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-1975-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities

Vince Weaver discovered a flaw in the perf subsystem of the Linux kernel on ARM platforms. A local user could exploit this flaw to gain privileges or cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2013-4254 A failure to validate block numbers was discovered in the Linux kernel's implementation of th...

USN-1973-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities

Vince Weaver discovered a flaw in the perf subsystem of the Linux kernel on ARM platforms. A local user could exploit this flaw to gain privileges or cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2013-4254 A failure to validate block numbers was discovered in the Linux kernel's implementation of th...

USN-1942-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities

Chanam Park reported a Null pointer flaw in the Linux kernel's Ceph client. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2013-1059 Vasily Kulikov discovered a flaw in the Linux Kernel's perf tool that allows for privilege escalation. A local user could...

USN-1812-1: Linux kernel (Quantal HWE) vulnerabilities

Mathias Krause discovered an information leak in the Linux kernel's UDF file system implementation. A local user could exploit this flaw to examine some of the kernel's heap memory. CVE-2012-6548 Mathias Krause discovered an information leak in the Linux kernel's ISO 9660 CDROM file system driver...

USN-1811-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities

Mathias Krause discovered an information leak in the Linux kernel's UDF file system implementation. A local user could exploit this flaw to examine some of the kernel's heap memory. CVE-2012-6548 Mathias Krause discovered an information leak in the Linux kernel's ISO 9660 CDROM file system driver...

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-1722-1: jQuery vulnerability

It was discovered that jQuery incorrectly handled selecting elements using location.hash, resulting in a possible cross-site scripting XSS issue. With cross-site scripting vulnerabilities, if a user were tricked into viewing a specially crafted page, a remote attacker could exploit this to modify...

USN-1688-1: Linux kernel (Oneiric backport) vulnerabilities

Jon Howell reported a flaw in the Linux kernel's KVM Kernel-based virtual machine subsystem's handling of the XSAVE feature. On hosts, using qemu userspace, without the XSAVE feature an unprivileged local attacker could exploit this flaw to crash the system. CVE-2012-4461 A flaw was discovered in...

USN-1650-1: Linux kernel vulnerability

Rodrigo Freire discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel's TCP illinois congestion control algorithm. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service...

USN-1643-1: Perl vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the decodexs function in the Encode module is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow via a crafted Unicode string. An attacker could use this overflow to cause a denial of service. CVE-2011-2939 It was discovered that the 'new' constructor in the Digest module is...

USN-1578-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) 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-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-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-1455-1: Linux kernel (Oneiric backport) vulnerabilities

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's KVM Kernel Virtual Machine virtual cpu setup. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to crash the system leading to a denial of service. CVE-2012-1601 Steve Grubb reported a flaw with Linux fscaps file system base capabilities when used to increa...

USN-1446-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) 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-1440-1: Linux kernel (Natty backport) 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 Sasha Levin discovered a flaw in the permission checking for device assignments requested via the kvm ioctl in the...

USN-1359-1: Tomcat vulnerabilities

It was discovered that Tomcat incorrectly performed certain caching and recycling operations. A remote attacker could use this flaw to obtain read access to IP address and HTTP header information in certain cases. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 11.10. CVE-2011-3375 It was discovered that Tomca...

USN-1345-1: Linux kernel 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-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-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-1192-2: Mozvoikko update

USN-1192-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. This update provides an updated Mozvoikko for use with Firefox 6. Original advisory details: Aral Yaman discovered a vulnerability in the WebGL engine. An attacker could potentially use this to crash Firefox or execute arbitrary code with the privilege...

USN-1049-1: Firefox and Xulrunner vulnerabilities

Jesse Ruderman, Igor Bukanov, Olli Pettay, Gary Kwong, Jeff Walden, Henry Sivonen, Martijn Wargers, David Baron and Marcia Knous discovered several memory issues in the browser engine. An attacker could exploit these to crash the browser or possibly run arbitrary code as the user invoking the...

USN-1011-1: Firefox vulnerability

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 service or possibly execute arbitrary code as the user invoking the program...

USN-957-2: 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-897-1: MySQL vulnerabilities

It was discovered that MySQL could be made to overwrite existing table files in the data directory. An authenticated user could use the DATA DIRECTORY and INDEX DIRECTORY options to possibly bypass privilege checks. This update alters table creation behaviour by disallowing the use of the MySQL...

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-776-1: KVM vulnerabilities

Avi Kivity discovered that KVM did not correctly handle certain disk formats. A local attacker could attach a malicious partition that would allow the guest VM to read files on the VM host. CVE-2008-1945, CVE-2008-2004 Alfredo Ortega discovered that KVM's VNC protocol handler did not correctly...

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-617-1: Samba vulnerabilities

Samba developers discovered that nmbd could be made to overrun a buffer during the processing of GETDC logon server requests. When samba is configured as a Primary or Backup Domain Controller, a remote attacker could send malicious logon requests and possibly cause a denial of service...

USN-577-1: Linux kernel vulnerability

Wojciech Purczynski discovered that the vmsplice system call did not properly perform verification of user-memory pointers. A local attacker could exploit this to overwrite arbitrary kernel memory and gain root privileges. CVE-2008-0600...

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-469-1: Thunderbird vulnerabilities

Gaëtan Leurent showed a weakness in APOP authentication. An attacker posing as a trusted server could recover portions of the user's password via multiple authentication attempts. CVE-2007-1558 Various flaws were discovered in the layout and JavaScript engines. By tricking a user into opening a...

USN-431-1: Thunderbird vulnerabilities

The SSLv2 protocol support in the NSS library did not sufficiently check the validity of public keys presented with a SSL certificate. A malicious SSL web site using SSLv2 could potentially exploit this to execute arbitrary code with the user's privileges. CVE-2007-0008 The SSLv2 protocol support...

USN-395-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Mark Dowd discovered that the netfilter iptables module did not correcly handle fragmented packets. By sending specially crafted packets, a remote attacker could exploit this to bypass firewall rules. This has only be fixed for Ubuntu 6.10; the corresponding fix for Ubuntu 5.10 and 6.06 will foll...

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-231-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Rudolf Polzer reported an abuse of the 'loadkeys' command. By redefining one or more keys and tricking another user like root into logging in on a text console and typing something that involves the redefined keys, a local user could cause execution of arbitrary commands with the privileges of th...

USN-99-1: PHP4 vulnerabilities

Stefano Di Paola discovered integer overflows in PHP's pack and unpack functions. A malicious PHP script could exploit these to break out of safe mode and execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the PHP interpreter. CAN-2004-1018 Note: The second part of CAN-2004-1018 buffer overflow in the...

USN-54-1: TIFF library tool vulnerability

Dmitry V. Levin discovered a buffer overflow in the "tiffdump" utility. If an attacker tricked a user into processing a malicious TIFF image with tiffdump, they could cause a buffer overflow which at least causes the program to crash. However, it is not entirely clear whether this can be exploite...

USN-8373-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the Linux kernel did not properly handle shared page fragments during socket buffer operations, collectively known as Dirty Frag. A logic flaw existed in the XFRM ESP-in-TCP subsystem and in the RxRPC networking subsystem when processing paged fragments. A local attacker...