USN-2946-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Venkatesh Pottem discovered a use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel's CXGB3 driver. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2015-8812 Xiaofei Rex Guo discovered a timing side channel vulnerability in the Linux...

USN-2916-1: Perl vulnerabilities

It was discovered that Perl incorrectly handled certain regular expressions with an invalid backreference. An attacker could use this issue to cause Perl to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2013-7422 Markus Vervier discovered that Perl incorrectly...

USN-2908-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

halfdog discovered that OverlayFS, when mounting on top of a FUSE mount, incorrectly propagated file attributes, including setuid. A local unprivileged attacker could use this to gain privileges. CVE-2016-1576 halfdog discovered that OverlayFS in the Linux kernel incorrectly propagated security...

USN-2855-2: Samba regression

USN-2855-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Samba. The upstream fix for CVE-2015-5252 introduced a regression in certain specific environments. This update fixes the problem. Original advisory details: Thilo Uttendorfer discovered that the Samba LDAP server incorrectly handled certain packets. A remote...

USN-2885-1: OpenJDK 6 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-2016-0483, CVE-2016-0494 A...

USN-2805-1: Linux kernel (Utopic HWE) vulnerability

Ben Serebrin discovered that the KVM hypervisor implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly catch Alignment Check exceptions. An attacker in a guest virtual machine could use this to cause a denial of service system crash in the host OS...

USN-2804-1: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerability

Ben Serebrin discovered that the KVM hypervisor implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly catch Alignment Check exceptions. An attacker in a guest virtual machine could use this to cause a denial of service system crash in the host OS...

USN-2727-1: GnuTLS vulnerabilities

It was discovered that GnuTLS incorrectly handled parsing CRL distribution points. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service, or execute arbitrary code. CVE-2015-3308 Kurt Roeckx discovered that GnuTLS incorrectly handled a long DistinguishedName DN entry in a...

USN-2630-1: QEMU vulnerabilities

Matt Tait discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the virtual PCNET driver. A malicious guest could use this issue to cause a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code on the host as the user running the QEMU process. In the default installation, when QEMU is used with libvirt,...

USN-2603-1: Thunderbird vulnerabilities

Jesse Ruderman, Mats Palmgren, Byron Campen, and Steve Fink discovered multiple memory safety issues in Thunderbird. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted message with scripting enabled, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service via application...

USN-2522-2: ICU regression

USN-2522-1 fixed vulnerabilities in ICU. On Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, the font patches caused a regression when using LibreOffice Calc. The patches have been temporarily backed out until the regression is investigated. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: It was discovered that...

USN-2491-1: Linux kernel (EC2) vulnerabilities

Andy Lutomirski discovered that the Linux kernel does not properly handle faults associated with the Stack Segment SS register in the x86 architecture. A local attacker could exploit this flaw to gain administrative privileges. CVE-2014-9322 Lars Bull reported a race condition in the PIT...

USN-2479-1: RPM vulnerabilities

Florian Weimer discovered that RPM incorrectly handled temporary files. A local attacker could use this issue to execute arbitrary code. CVE-2013-6435 Florian Weimer discovered that RPM incorrectly handled certain CPIO headers. If a user or automated system were tricked into installing a maliciou...

USN-2425-1: DBus vulnerability

It was discovered that DBus incorrectly handled a large number of file descriptor messages. A local attacker could use this issue to cause DBus to stop responding, resulting in a denial of service. CVE-2014-7824...

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-2285-1: Linux kernel (Quantal HWE) 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 Michael S. Tsirkin discovered an information leak in the Linux kernel's...

USN-2283-1: Linux kernel 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 Michael S. Tsirkin discovered an information leak in the Linux kernel's...

USN-2264-1: 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-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-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-2124-2: OpenJDK 6 regression

USN-2124-1 fixed vulnerabilities in OpenJDK 6. Due to an upstream regression, memory was not properly zeroed under certain circumstances which could lead to instability. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: A vulnerability was discovered in...

USN-2133-1: Linux kernel 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 an error in the Linux Kernel's Kernel Virtual Machine KVM...

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-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-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-2010-1: Thunderbird vulnerabilities

Multiple memory safety issues were discovered in Thunderbird. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted message with scripting enabled, an attacker could possibly exploit these to cause a denial of service via application crash, or potentially execute arbitrary code with the...

USN-1946-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities

A denial of service flaw was discovered in the Btrfs file system in the Linux kernel. A local user could cause a denial of service by creating a large number of files with names that have the same CRC32 hash value. CVE-2012-5374 A denial of service flaw was discovered in the Btrfs file system in...

USN-1940-1: Linux kernel (EC2) vulnerabilities

Vasily Kulikov discovered a flaw in the Linux Kernel's perf tool that allows for privilege escalation. A local user could exploit this flaw to run commands as root when using the perf tool. CVE-2013-1060 Michael S. Tsirkin discovered a flaw in how the Linux kernel's KVM subsystem allocates memory...

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-1696-1: Linux kernel 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-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-1433-1: Linux kernel (Oneiric 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-1400-4: Thunderbird regressions

USN-1400-3 fixed vulnerabilities in Thunderbird. The new Thunderbird version caused a regression in IMAP connections and mail filtering. This update fixes the problem. Original advisory details: Soroush Dalili discovered that Firefox did not adequately protect against dropping JavaScript links on...

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-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-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-1343-1: Thunderbird vulnerabilities

Alexandre Poirot, Chris Blizzard, Kyle Huey, Scoobidiver, Christian Holler, David Baron, Gary Kwong, Jim Blandy, Bob Clary, Jesse Ruderman, Marcia Knous, and Rober Longson discovered several memory safety issues which could possibly be exploited to crash Thunderbird or execute arbitrary code as t...

USN-1292-1: Linux kernel (Maverick backport) 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 Nick Bowler discovered the kernel GHASH message digest algorithm incorrectly handled error conditions...

USN-1151-1: Nagios vulnerabilities

Stefan Schurtz discovered than Nagios did not properly sanitize its input when processing certain requests, 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...

USN-1079-2: OpenJDK 6 vulnerabilities

USN-1079-1 fixed vulnerabilities in OpenJDK 6 for non-armel ARM architectures. This update provides the corresponding updates for OpenJDK 6 for use with the armel ARM architectures. In order to build the armel ARM OpenJDK 6 update for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, it was necessary to rebuild binutils and...

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-975-1: Firefox and Xulrunner vulnerabilities

Several dangling pointer vulnerabilities were discovered in Firefox. An attacker could exploit this to crash the browser or possibly run arbitrary code as the user invoking the program. CVE-2010-2760, CVE-2010-2767, CVE-2010-3167 Blake Kaplan and Michal Zalewski discovered several weaknesses in t...

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-940-2: Kerberos vulnerability

USN-940-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Kerberos. This update provides the corresponding updates for Ubuntu 10.04. Original advisory details: Joel Johnson, Brian Almeida, and Shawn Emery discovered that Kerberos did not correctly verify certain packet structures. An unauthenticated remote attacker cou...

USN-896-1: Firefox 3.5 and Xulrunner 1.9.1 vulnerabilities

Several flaws were discovered in the browser engine of Firefox. 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-2010-0159 Orlando Barrera II...

USN-757-1: Ghostscript vulnerabilities

It was discovered that Ghostscript contained a buffer underflow in its CCITTFax decoding filter. 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 privileges of the user invoking the program...

USN-728-1: Firefox and Xulrunner vulnerabilities

Glenn Randers-Pehrson discovered that the embedded libpng in Firefox did not properly initialize pointers. If a user were tricked into viewing a malicious website with a crafted PNG file, a remote attacker could cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of t...

USN-717-3: Firefox vulnerabilities

Kojima Hajime discovered that Firefox did not properly handle an escaped null character. An attacker may be able to exploit this flaw to bypass script sanitization. CVE-2008-5510 Wladimir Palant discovered that Firefox did not restrict access to cookies in HTTP response headers. If a user were...

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...