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-2259-1: Linux kernel 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-2236-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) 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 vhost-net subsystem of the Linux kernel. Guest OS users...

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-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-2177-1: Linux kernel (Saucy HWE) 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-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...

USN-1936-1: Linux kernel (Raring HWE) 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 An information leak was discovered in the Linux kernel's fanotify interface. A local user could exploit this flaw to obtai...

USN-1932-1: Linux kernel 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 An information leak was discovered in the Linux kernel's fanotify interface. A local user could exploit this flaw to obtai...

USN-1876-1: Linux kernel 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-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-1769-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Andrew Cooper of Citrix reported a Xen stack corruption in the Linux kernel. An unprivileged user in a 32bit PVOPS guest can cause the guest kernel to crash, or operate erroneously. CVE-2013-0190 A failure to validate input was discovered in the Linux kernel's Xen netback network backend driver. ...

USN-1755-2: OpenJDK 7 vulnerabilities

USN-1755-1 fixed vulnerabilities in OpenJDK 6. This update provides the corresponding updates for OpenJDK 7. Original advisory details: 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 I...

USN-1736-1: Linux kernel vulnerability

Suleiman Souhlal, Salman Qazi, Aaron Durbin and Michael Davidson discovered a race condition in the Linux kernel's ptrace syscall. An unprivileged local attacker could exploit this flaw to run programs as an administrator...

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-1692-1: QEMU vulnerability

It was discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled certain e1000 packet sizes. In certain environments, an attacker may use this flaw in combination with large packets to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code in the guest...

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-1568-1: Linux kernel 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-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-1509-1: Firefox 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 Firefox. If the user were tricked into opening a specially crafted page, an attacker could possibly exploit...

USN-1504-1: Qt vulnerabilities

It was discovered that Qt did not properly handle wildcard domain names or IP addresses in the Common Name field of X.509 certificates. An attacker could exploit this to perform a machine-in-the-middle attack to view sensitive information or alter encrypted communications. This issue only affecte...

USN-1453-1: Linux kernel (EC2) 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-1450-1: Net-SNMP vulnerability

It was discovered that Net-SNMP incorrectly performed entry lookups in the extension table. A remote attacker could send a specially crafted request and cause the SNMP server to crash, leading to a denial of service...

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-1389-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Paolo Bonzini discovered a flaw in Linux's handling of the SGIO ioctl command. A local user, or user in a VM could exploit this flaw to bypass restrictions and gain read/write access to all data on the affected block device. CVE-2011-4127 A flaw was found in KVM's Programmable Interval Timer PIT...

USN-1337-1: Linux kernel (Natty backport) 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-1297-1: Django vulnerabilities

Pall McMillan discovered that Django used the root namespace when storing cached session data. A remote attacker could exploit this to modify sessions. CVE-2011-4136 Paul McMillan discovered that Django would not timeout on arbitrary URLs when the application used URLFields. This could be exploit...

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-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-1192-1: Firefox vulnerabilities

Aral Yaman discovered a vulnerability in the WebGL engine. An attacker could potentially use this to crash Firefox or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. CVE-2011-2989 Vivekanand Bolajwar discovered a vulnerability in the JavaScript engine. An attacker could...

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-1021-1: Apache vulnerabilities

It was discovered that Apache's modcache and moddav modules incorrectly handled requests that lacked a path. A remote attacker could exploit this with a crafted request and cause a denial of service. This issue affected Ubuntu 6.06 LTS, 8.04 LTS, 9.10 and 10.04 LTS. CVE-2010-1452 It was discovere...

USN-1017-1: MySQL vulnerabilities

It was discovered that MySQL incorrectly handled certain requests with the UPGRADE DATA DIRECTORY NAME command. An authenticated user could exploit this to make MySQL crash, causing a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 9.10 and 10.04 LTS. CVE-2010-2008 It was discovered that MySQL...

USN-1016-1: libxml2 vulnerability

Bui Quang Minh discovered that libxml2 did not properly process XPath namespaces and attributes. If an application using libxml2 opened a specially crafted XML file, an attacker could cause a denial of service or possibly execute code as the user invoking the program...

USN-1011-2: Thunderbird vulnerability

USN-1011-1 fixed a vulnerability in Firefox. This update provides the corresponding update for Thunderbird. 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-959-2: PAM vulnerability

USN-959-1 fixed vulnerabilities in PAM. This update provides the corresponding updates for Ubuntu 10.10. Original advisory details: Denis Excoffier discovered that the PAM MOTD module in Ubuntu did not correctly handle path permissions when creating user file stamps. A local attacker could exploi...

USN-1003-1: OpenSSL vulnerabilities

It was discovered that OpenSSL incorrectly handled return codes from the bnwexpand function calls. A remote attacker could trigger this flaw in services that used SSL to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code with application privileges. This issue only affected Ubuntu 6.06...

USN-999-1: Kerberos vulnerability

Mike Roszkowski discovered that the Kerberos KDC did not correctly validate the contents of certain messages. If an authenticated remote attacker sent specially crafted TGS requests, the KDC service would crash, leading to a denial of service...

USN-977-1: MoinMoin vulnerabilities

It was discovered that MoinMoin did not properly sanitize its input, resulting in cross-site scripting XSS vulnerabilities. With cross-site scripting vulnerabilities, if a user were tricked into viewing server output during a crafted server request, a remote attacker could exploit this to modify...

USN-974-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Gael Delalleu, Rafal Wojtczuk, and Brad Spengler discovered that the memory manager did not properly handle when applications grow stacks into adjacent memory regions. A local attacker could exploit this to gain control of certain applications, potentially leading to privilege escalation, as...

USN-930-4: Firefox and Xulrunner vulnerabilities

USN-930-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox and Xulrunner. This update provides the corresponding updates for Ubuntu 9.04 and 9.10, along with additional updates affecting Firefox 3.6.6. Several flaws were discovered in the browser engine of Firefox. If a user were tricked into viewing a malicious...

USN-925-1: MoinMoin vulnerabilities

It was discovered that MoinMoin did not properly sanitize its input when processing Despam actions, resulting in cross-site scripting XSS vulnerabilities. If a privileged wiki user were tricked into performing the Despam action on a page with a crafted title, a remote attacker could exploit this ...

USN-859-1: OpenJDK vulnerabilities

Dan Kaminsky discovered that SSL certificates signed with MD2 could be spoofed given enough time. As a result, an attacker could potentially create a malicious trusted certificate to impersonate another site. This update handles this issue by completely disabling MD2 for certificate validation in...

USN-838-1: Dovecot vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the ACL plugin in Dovecot would incorrectly handle negative access rights. An attacker could exploit this flaw to access the Dovecot server, bypassing the intended access restrictions. This only affected Ubuntu 8.04 LTS. CVE-2008-4577 It was discovered that the ManageSieve...

USN-781-1: Pidgin vulnerabilities

It was discovered that Pidgin did not properly handle certain malformed messages when sending a file using the XMPP protocol handler. If a user were tricked into sending a file, a remote attacker could send a specially crafted response and cause Pidgin to crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code...

USN-764-1: Firefox and Xulrunner vulnerabilities

Several flaws were discovered in the browser engine. If a user were tricked into viewing a malicious website, a remote attacker could cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. CVE-2009-1302, CVE-2009-1303, CVE-2009-1304,...