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USN-3083-2: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerabilities
USN-3083-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 14.04 LTS for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. Dmitry Vyukov discovered that the IPv6 implementation in the Linux kernel did not...
USN-3070-3: Linux kernel (Qualcomm Snapdragon) vulnerabilities
A missing permission check when settings ACLs was discovered in nfsd. A local user could exploit this flaw to gain access to any file by setting an ACL. CVE-2016-1237 Kangjie Lu discovered an information leak in the Reliable Datagram Sockets RDS implementation in the Linux kernel. A local attacke...
USN-3047-2: QEMU regression
USN-3047-1 fixed vulnerabilities in QEMU. The patch to fix CVE-2016-5403 caused a regression which resulted in save/restore failures when virtio memory balloon statistics are enabled. This update temporarily reverts the security fix for CVE-2016-5403 pending further investigation. We apologize fo...
USN-3017-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Jesse Hertz and Tim Newsham discovered that the Linux netfilter implementation did not correctly perform validation when handling 32 bit compatibility IPTSOSETREPLACE events on 64 bit platforms. A local unprivileged attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or execute...
USN-3016-2: Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi 2) vulnerabilities
Jesse Hertz and Tim Newsham discovered that the Linux netfilter implementation did not correctly perform validation when handling 32 bit compatibility IPTSOSETREPLACE events on 64 bit platforms. A local unprivileged attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or execute...
USN-2930-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Ben Hawkes discovered that the Linux netfilter implementation did not correctly perform validation when handling IPTSOSETREPLACE events. A local unprivileged attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code with administrative privileges...
USN-2928-2: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerability
Andrey Konovalov discovered that the ALSA USB MIDI driver incorrectly performed a double-free. A local attacker with physical access could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code with administrative privileges...
USN-2866-1: Firefox vulnerability
Karthikeyan Bhargavan and Gaetan Leurent discovered that NSS incorrectly allowed MD5 to be used for TLS 1.2 connections. If a remote attacker were able to perform a machine-in-the-middle attack, this flaw could be exploited to view sensitive information...
USN-2858-3: Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi 2) vulnerability
Nathan Williams discovered that overlayfs in the Linux kernel incorrectly handled setattr operations. A local unprivileged attacker could use this to create files with administrative permission attributes and execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges...
USN-2852-1: Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi 2) vulnerability
Jann Horn discovered a ptrace issue with user namespaces in the Linux kernel. The namespace owner could potentially exploit this flaw by ptracing a root owned process entering the user namespace to elevate its privileges and potentially gain access outside of the namespace...
USN-2841-2: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerabilities
Jan Beulich discovered that the KVM svm hypervisor implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly catch Debug exceptions on AMD processors. An attacker in a guest virtual machine could use this to cause a denial of service system crash in the host OS. CVE-2015-8104 éƒæ°¸åˆš discovered that the pp...
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-2798-1: Linux kernel (Vivid HWE) vulnerabilities
It was discovered that in certain situations, a directory could be renamed outside of a bind mounted location. An attacker could use this to escape bind mount containment and gain access to sensitive information. CVE-2015-2925 Moein Ghasemzadeh discovered that the USB WhiteHEAT serial driver...
USN-2794-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
It was discovered that in certain situations, a directory could be renamed outside of a bind mounted location. An attacker could use this to escape bind mount containment and gain access to sensitive information. CVE-2015-2925 Moein Ghasemzadeh discovered that the USB WhiteHEAT serial driver...
USN-2784-1: OpenJDK 7 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 or expose sensitive data over the network. CVE-2015-4805, CVE-2015-4835, CVE-2015-4843, CVE-2015-4844,...
USN-2775-1: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerabilities
It was discovered that the Linux kernel did not check if a new IPv6 MTU set by a user space application was valid. A remote attacker could forge a route advertisement with an invalid MTU that a user space daemon like NetworkManager would honor and apply to the kernel, causing a denial of service...
USN-2734-1: Linux kernel vulnerability
It was discovered that an integer overflow error existed in the SCSI generic sg driver in the Linux kernel. A local attacker with write permission to a SCSI generic device could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or potentially escalate their privileges...
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-2691-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Andy Lutomirski discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel's handling of nested NMIs non-maskable interrupts. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash or potentially escalate their privileges. CVE-2015-3290 Colin King discovered a flaw in the addkey...
USN-2685-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
A flaw was discovered in the kvm kernel virtual machine subsystem's kvmapichasevents function. A unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2015-4692 A flaw was discovered in how the Linux kernel handles invalid UDP checksums. A remote attacker...
USN-2680-1: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerabilities
A flaw was discovered in the user space memory copying for the pipe iovecs in the Linux kernel. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash or potentially escalate their privileges. CVE-2015-1805 A flaw was discovered in the kvm kernel virtual...
USN-2672-1: NSS vulnerabilities
Karthikeyan Bhargavan discovered that NSS incorrectly handled state transitions for the TLS state machine. If a remote attacker were able to perform a machine-in-the-middle attack, this flaw could be exploited to skip the ServerKeyExchange message and remove the forward-secrecy property...
USN-2632-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities
Jan Beulich discovered the Xen virtual machine subsystem of the Linux kernel did not properly restrict access to PCI command registers. A local guest user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service host crash. CVE-2015-2150 A privilege escalation was discovered in the fork syscall via t...
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-2521-1: Oxide vulnerabilities
Several out-of-bounds write bugs were discovered in Skia. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service via application crash or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program...
USN-2505-2: Firefox regression
USN-2505-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. This update removed the deprecated "-remote" command-line switch that some older software still depends on. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: Matthew Noorenberghe discovered that allowlisted...
USN-2517-1: Linux kernel (Utopic HWE) vulnerabilities
A flaw was discovered in the Kernel Virtual Machine's KVM emulation of the SYSTENTER instruction when the guest OS does not initialize the SYSENTER MSRs. A guest OS user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service of the guest OS crash or potentially gain privileges on the guest OS...
USN-2498-1: Kerberos vulnerabilities
It was discovered that Kerberos incorrectly sent old keys in response to a -randkey -keepold request. An authenticated remote attacker could use this issue to forge tickets by leveraging administrative access. This issue only affected Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS...
USN-2495-1: Oxide vulnerabilities
A use-after-free bug was discovered in the DOM 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 rende...
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-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-2232-4: OpenSSL regression
USN-2232-1 fixed vulnerabilities in OpenSSL. One of the patch backports for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS caused a regression for certain applications. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: Jüri Aedla discovered that OpenSSL incorrectly handled invalid...
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-2272-1: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerability
Andy Lutomirski discovered a flaw with the Linux kernel's ptrace syscall on x8664 processors. An attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service System Crash or potential gain administrative privileges...
USN-2200-1: Linux kernel (Raring 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-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-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-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-2130-1: Tomcat vulnerabilities
It was discovered that Tomcat incorrectly handled certain inconsistent HTTP headers. A remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to conduct request smuggling attacks. CVE-2013-4286 It was discovered that Tomcat incorrectly handled certain requests submitted using chunked transfer encoding. A...
USN-1976-1: 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-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-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-1918-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerability
Kees Cook discovered a format string vulnerability in the Broadcom B43 wireless driver for the Linux kernel. A local user could exploit this flaw to gain administrative privileges...
USN-1882-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities
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 Andy Lutomirski discover an error in the Linux kernel's credential...
USN-1880-1: Linux kernel (Quantal HWE) vulnerabilities
Andy Lutomirski discover an error in the Linux kernel's credential handling on unix sockets. A local user could exploit this flaw to gain administrative privileges. CVE-2013-1979 An information leak was discovered in the Linux kernel when inotify is used to monitor the /dev/ptmx device. A local...
USN-1846-1: Linux kernel 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...
USN-1829-1: Linux kernel (EC2) vulnerabilities
Mathias Krause discovered an information leak in the Linux kernel's ISO 9660 CDROM file system driver. A local user could exploit this flaw to examine some of the kernel's heap memory. CVE-2012-6549 Mathias Krause discovered a flaw in xfrmuser in the Linux kernel. A local attacker with NETADMIN...
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-1794-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities
Emese Revfy discovered that in the Linux kernel signal handlers could leak address information across an exec, making it possible to by pass ASLR Address Space Layout Randomization. A local user could use this flaw to by pass ASLR to reliably deliver an exploit payload that would otherwise be...
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. ...