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-2070-1: Linux kernel (Saucy HWE) 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-1977-1: Linux kernel (EC2) 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-1849-1: Linux kernel (Raring HWE) vulnerability

Kees Cook discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel's iSCSI subsystem. A remote unauthenticated attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash or potentially gain administrative privileges. CVE-2013-2850 An flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's perfevents interface. A...

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-1647-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) 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 Rodrigo Freire discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel's TCP illinois congestion control algorithm. A local attacker could use this to cau...

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-1535-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

An error was discovered in the Linux kernel's network TUN/TAP device implementation. A local user with access to the TUN/TAP interface which is not available to unprivileged users until granted by a root user could exploit this flaw to crash the system or potential gain administrative privileges...

USN-1509-2: ubufox update

USN-1509-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. This update provides an updated ubufox package for use with the lastest Firefox. Original advisory details: Benoit Jacob, Jesse Ruderman, Christian Holler, Bill McCloskey, Brian Smith, Gary Kwong, Christoph Diehl, Chris Jones, Brad Lassey, and Kyle Hue...

USN-1387-1: Linux kernel (Maverick backport) vulnerabilities

Aristide Fattori and Roberto Paleari reported a flaw in the Linux kernel's handling of IPv4 icmp packets. A remote user could exploit this to cause a denial of service. CVE-2011-1927 A flaw was found in the Linux Ethernet bridge's handling of IGMP Internet Group Management Protocol packets. An...

USN-1373-2: OpenJDK 6 (ARM) vulnerabilities

USN 1373-1 fixed vulnerabilities in OpenJDK 6 in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, Ubuntu 10.10 and Ubuntu 11.04 for all architectures except for ARM armel. This provides the corresponding OpenJDK 6 update for use with the ARM armel architecture in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, Ubuntu 10.10 and Ubuntu 11.04. Original adviso...

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-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-1319-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) 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-1291-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

A bug was discovered in the XFS filesystem's handling of pathnames. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service, or gain root privileges. CVE-2011-4077 A flaw was found in the Journaling Block Device JBD. A local attacker able to mount ext3 or ext4 file...

USN-1205-1: Linux kernel (Maverick backport) vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the /proc filesystem did not correctly handle permission changes when programs executed. A local attacker could hold open files to examine details about programs running with higher privileges, potentially increasing the chances of exploiting additional vulnerabilities...

USN-1113-1: Postfix vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the Postfix package incorrectly granted write access on the PID directory to the postfix user. A local attacker could use this flaw to possibly conduct a symlink attack and overwrite arbitrary files. This issue only affected Ubuntu 6.06 LTS and 8.04 LTS. CVE-2009-2939 Wiets...

USN-1019-1: Firefox and Xulrunner vulnerabilities

Jesse Ruderman, Andreas Gal, Nils, Brian Hackett, and Igor Bukanov 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 program. CVE-2010-3776, CVE-2010-3777, CVE-2010-3778 It was...

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-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-915-1: Thunderbird vulnerabilities

Several flaws were discovered in the JavaScript engine of Thunderbird. If a user had JavaScript enabled and were tricked into viewing malicious web content, a remote attacker could cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program...

USN-821-1: Firefox and Xulrunner vulnerabilities

Several flaws were discovered in the Firefox browser and JavaScript engines. 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-2009-3070,...

USN-809-1: GnuTLS vulnerabilities

Moxie Marlinspike and Dan Kaminsky independently discovered that GnuTLS did not properly handle certificates with NULL characters in the certificate name. An attacker could exploit this to perform a machine-in-the-middle attack to view sensitive information or alter encrypted communications...

USN-707-1: CUPS vulnerabilities

It was discovered that CUPS didn't properly handle adding a large number of RSS subscriptions. A local user could exploit this and cause CUPS to crash, leading to a denial of service. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 7.10, 8.04 LTS and 8.10. CVE-2008-5183 It was discovered that CUPS did not...

USN-690-2: Firefox vulnerabilities

Several flaws were discovered in the browser engine. These problems could allow an attacker to crash the browser and possibly execute arbitrary code with user privileges. CVE-2008-5500 Boris Zbarsky discovered that the same-origin check in Firefox could be bypassed by utilizing XBL-bindings. An...

USN-651-1: Ruby vulnerabilities

Akira Tagoh discovered a vulnerability in Ruby which lead to an integer overflow. If a user or automated system were tricked into running a malicious script, an attacker could cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program...

USN-528-1: MySQL vulnerabilities

Neil Kettle discovered that MySQL could be made to dereference a NULL pointer and divide by zero. An authenticated user could exploit this with a crafted IF clause, leading to a denial of service. CVE-2007-2583 Victoria Reznichenko discovered that MySQL did not always require the DROP privilege. ...

USN-424-2: PHP regression

USN-424-1 fixed vulnerabilities in PHP. However, some upstream changes were not included, which caused errors in the stream filters. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: Multiple buffer overflows have been discovered in various PHP modules...

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-339-1: OpenSSL vulnerability

Philip Mackenzie, Marius Schilder, Jason Waddle and Ben Laurie of Google Security discovered that the OpenSSL library did not sufficiently check the padding of PKCS 1 v1.5 signatures if the exponent of the public key is 3 which is widely used for CAs. This could be exploited to forge signatures...

USN-197-1: Shorewall vulnerability

A firewall bypass vulnerability has been found in shorewall. If MACLISTTTL was set to a value greater than 0 or MACLISTDISPOSITION was set to "ACCEPT" in /etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf, and a client was positively identified through its MAC address, that client bypassed all other policies/rules in...

USN-184-1: umount vulnerability

David Watson discovered that "umount -r" removed some restrictive mount options like the "nosuid" flag. If /etc/fstab contains user-mountable removable devices which specify the "nosuid" flag which is common practice for such devices, a local attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary...

USN-177-1: Apache 2 vulnerabilities

Apache did not honour the "SSLVerifyClient require" directive within a block if the surrounding block contained a directive "SSLVerifyClient optional". This allowed clients to bypass client certificate validation on servers with the above configuration. CAN-2005-2700 Filip Sneppe discovered a...

USN-34-1: OpenSSH information leakage

@Mediaservice.net discovered two information leaks in the OpenSSH server. When using password authentication, an attacker could test whether a login name exists by measuring the time between failed login attempts, i. e. the time after which the "password:" prompt appears again. A similar issue...

USN-10-1: XML library vulnerabilities

Several buffer overflows have been discovered in libxml2's FTP connection and DNS resolution functions. Supplying very long FTP URLs or IP addresses might result in execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the process using libxml2. Since libxml2 is used in packages like php4-imagick, t...

USN-6892-1: Linux kernel (IBM) vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the ATA over Ethernet AoE driver in the Linux kernel contained a race condition, leading to a use-after-free vulnerability. An attacker could use this to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2023-6270 It was discovered that the Atheros 802.11ac...

USN-6857-1: Squid vulnerabilities

Joshua Rogers discovered that Squid incorrectly handled requests with the urn: scheme. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Squid to consume resources, leading to a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. CVE-2021-28651 It was discovered that Squid...

USN-6766-3: Linux kernel (AWS) vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the Open vSwitch implementation in the Linux kernel could overflow its stack during recursive action operations under certain conditions. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2024-1151 Sander Wiebing, Alvise de Faveri Tron, Herbert...

USN-6703-1: Firefox vulnerabilities

Multiple security issues were discovered in Firefox. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service, obtain sensitive information across domains, or execute arbitrary code. CVE-2024-2609, CVE-2024-2611,...

USN-6541-2: GNU C Library regression

USN-6541-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the GNU C Library. Unfortunately, changes made to allow proper application of the fix for CVE-2023-4806 in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS introduced an issue in the NSCD service IPv6 processing functionalities. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenienc...

USN-6525-1: pysha3 vulnerability

Nicky Mouha discovered that pysha incorrectly handled certain SHA-3 operations. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause pysha3 to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code...

USN-6441-3: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Ross Lagerwall discovered that the Xen netback backend driver in the Linux kernel did not properly handle certain unusual packets from a paravirtualized network frontend, leading to a buffer overflow. An attacker in a guest VM could use this to cause a denial of service host system crash or...

USN-6440-3: Linux kernel (HWE) vulnerabilities

Seth Jenkins discovered that the Linux kernel did not properly perform address randomization for a per-cpu memory management structure. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information kernel memory or in conjunction with another kernel vulnerability. CVE-2023-0597 It was discovere...

USN-6422-2: Ring vulnerabilities

It was discovered that Ring incorrectly handled certain inputs. If a user or an automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted input file, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. CVE-2021-37706 It was discovered that Ring incorrectly handled...

USN-6394-2: Python vulnerability

USN-6394-1 fixed a vulnerability in Python. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Original advisory details: It was discovered that Python incorrectly handled certain scripts. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute...

USN-6346-1: Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi) vulnerabilities

Daniel Moghimi discovered that some IntelR Processors did not properly clear microarchitectural state after speculative execution of various instructions. A local unprivileged user could use this to obtain to sensitive information. CVE-2022-40982 Tavis Ormandy discovered that some AMD processors...

USN-6267-2: Firefox regressions

USN-6267-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. The update introduced several minor regressions. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: Multiple security issues were discovered in Firefox. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted...

USN-6229-1: LibTIFF vulnerabilities

It was discovered that LibTIFF was not properly handling variables used to perform memory management operations when processing an image through tiffcrop, which could lead to a heap buffer overflow. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code...

USN-6179-1: Jettison vulnerability

It was discovered that Jettison incorrectly handled certain inputs. If a user or an automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted input file, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service...

USN-6175-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Patryk Sondej and Piotr Krysiuk discovered that a race condition existed in the netfilter subsystem of the Linux kernel when processing batch requests, leading to a use-after-free vulnerability. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrar...