USN-3406-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that an out of bounds read vulnerability existed in the associative array implementation in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or expose sensitive information. CVE-2016-7914 It was discovered that a NULL pointer dereferenc...

USN-3355-1: Spice vulnerability

Frediano Ziglio discovered that Spice incorrectly handled certain invalid monitor configurations. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause Spice to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code...

USN-3250-1: Linux kernel vulnerability

It was discovered that the xfrm framework for transforming packets in the Linux kernel did not properly validate data received from user space. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or execute arbitrary code with administrative privileges...

USN-3214-1: w3m vulnerabilities

A large number of security issues were discovered in the w3m browser. 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 attacks, and arbitrary code...

USN-3199-2: Python Crypto regression

USN-3199-1 fixed a vulnerability in the Python Cryptography Toolkit. Unfortunately, various programs depended on the original behavior of the Python Cryptography Toolkit which was altered when fixing the vulnerability. This update retains the fix for the vulnerability but issues a warning rather...

USN-3165-1: Thunderbird vulnerabilities

Multiple memory safety issues were discovered in Thunderbird. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted message, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code. CVE-2016-9893, CVE-2017-5373 Andrew Krasichkov...

USN-3160-2: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerabilities

USN-3160-1 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. CAI Qian discovered that shared bind mounts in a mount namespace exponentially added...

USN-3155-1: Firefox vulnerabilities

Multiple security vulnerabilities were discovered in Firefox. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit these to conduct cross-site scripting XSS attacks, obtain sensitive information, cause a denial of service via application crash, o...

USN-3149-2: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerability

USN-3149-1 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. Philip Pettersson discovered a race condition in the afpacket implementation in the...

USN-3146-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the getuserasmex implementation in the Linux kernel for x86/x8664 contained extended asm statements that were incompatible with the exception table. A local attacker could use this to gain administrative privileges. CVE-2016-9644 Andreas Gruenbacher and Jan Kara discovered...

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-3058-1: Oxide vulnerabilities

An issue was discovered in Blink involving the provisional URL for an initially empty document. An attacker could potentially exploit this to spoof the currently displayed URL. CVE-2016-5141 A use-after-free was discovered in the WebCrypto implementation in Blink. If a user were tricked in to...

USN-2987-1: GD library vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the GD library incorrectly handled certain color tables in XPM images. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted XPM image, an attacker could cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS...

USN-2979-4: Linux kernel (Qualcomm Snapdragon) vulnerability

Philip Pettersson discovered that the Linux kernel's ASN.1 DER decoder did not properly process certificate files with tags of indefinite length. A local unprivileged attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code with administrative privilege...

USN-2968-2: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerabilities

USN-2968-1 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. Ralf Spenneberg discovered that the Aiptek Tablet USB device driver in the Linux kerne...

USN-2949-1: Linux kernel (Vivid HWE) 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-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-2906-1: GNU cpio vulnerabilities

Alexander Cherepanov discovered that GNU cpio incorrectly handled symbolic links when used with the --no-absolute-filenames option. If a user or automated system were tricked into extracting a specially-crafted cpio archive, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to write arbitrary files...

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-2883-1: OpenSSL vulnerability

Antonio Sanso discovered that OpenSSL reused the same private DH exponent for the life of a server process when configured with a X9.42 style parameter file. This could allow a remote attacker to possibly discover the server's private DH exponent when being used with non-safe primes...

USN-2875-1: libxml2 vulnerabilities

It was discovered that libxml2 incorrectly handled certain malformed documents. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted document, an attacker could possibly cause libxml2 to crash, resulting in a denial of service...

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-2829-2: Linux kernel (Vivid HWE) vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the SCTP protocol implementation in the Linux kernel performed an incorrect sequence of protocol-initialization steps. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2015-5283 Dmitry Vyukov discovered that the Linux kernel's keyring handler...

USN-2677-1: Oxide vulnerabilities

An uninitialized value issue was discovered in ICU. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service. CVE-2015-1270 A use-after-free was discovered in the GPU process implementation in Chromium. If a user wer...

USN-2667-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

A race condition was discovered in the Linux kernel's filehandle size verification. A local user could exploit this flaw to read potentially sensative memory locations. CVE-2015-1420 A underflow error was discovered in the Linux kernel's Ozmo Devices USB over WiFi host controller driver. A remote...

USN-2640-1: Linux kernel vulnerability

Philip Pettersson discovered a privilege escalation when using overlayfs mounts inside of user namespaces. A local user could exploit this flaw to gain administrative privileges on the system...

USN-2583-1: Linux kernel vulnerability

A race condition between chown and execve was discovered in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could exploit this race by using chown on a setuid-user-binary to gain administrative privileges...

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-2494-1: file vulnerabilities

Francisco Alonso discovered that file incorrectly handled certain ELF files. An attacker could use this issue to cause file to crash, resulting in a denial of service. CVE-2014-3710 Thomas Jarosch discovered that file incorrectly handled certain ELF files. An attacker could use this issue to caus...

USN-2459-1: OpenSSL vulnerabilities

Pieter Wuille discovered that OpenSSL incorrectly handled Bignum squaring. CVE-2014-3570 Markus Stenberg discovered that OpenSSL incorrectly handled certain crafted DTLS messages. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause OpenSSL to crash, resulting in a denial of service. CVE-2014-3571...

USN-2428-1: Thunderbird vulnerabilities

Gary Kwong, Randell Jesup, Nils Ohlmeier, Jesse Ruderman, and Max Jonas Werner 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...

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-2375-1: Linux kernel (EC2) vulnerabilities

Ben Hawkes reported some off by one errors for report descriptors in the Linux kernel's HID stack. A physically proximate attacker could exploit these flaws to cause a denial of service out-of-bounds write via a specially crafted device. CVE-2014-3184 Several bounds check flaws allowing for buffe...

USN-2274-1: Linux kernel 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-2198-1: 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-2137-1: Linux kernel (Saucy HWE) vulnerabilities

An information leak was discovered in the Linux kernel when built with the NetFilter Connection Tracking NFCONNTRACK support for IRC protocol NFNATIRC. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw to obtain potentially sensitive kernel information when communicating over a client- to-client IRC...

USN-2061-1: OpenStack Keystone vulnerability

Steven Hardy discovered that Keystone did not properly enforce trusts when using the ec2tokens API. An authenticated attacker could exploit this to retrieve a token not scoped to the trust and elevate privileges to the trustor's roles...

USN-2044-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) 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-1995-1: Linux kernel (Raring HWE) vulnerabilities

An information leak was discovered in the Linux kernel when reading broadcast messages from the notifypolicy interface of the IPSec keysocket. A local user could exploit this flaw to examine potentially sensitive information in kernel memory. CVE-2013-2237 Kees Cook discovered flaw in the Human...

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-1915-1: Linux kernel (Quantal HWE) 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-1913-1: Linux kernel (EC2) vulnerabilities

Jonathan Salwan discovered an information leak in the Linux kernel's cdrom driver. A local user can exploit this leak to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory if the CD-ROM drive is malfunctioning. CVE-2013-2164 A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel when an IPv6 socket is used to...

USN-1903-1: Apache HTTP Server vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the modrewrite module incorrectly sanitized non- printable characters before writing data to log files. A remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to execute arbitrary commands by injecting escape sequences in the log file. CVE-2013-1862 It was discovered that the modda...

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-1834-1: Linux kernel (Quantal HWE) vulnerabilities

A buffer overflow vulnerability was discovered in the Broadcom tg3 ethernet driver for the Linux kernel. A local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service crash the system or potentially escalate privileges on the system. CVE-2013-1929 A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's...

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-1730-1: OpenStack Keystone vulnerabilities

Nathanael Burton discovered that Keystone did not properly verify disabled users. An authenticated but disabled user would continue to have access rights that were removed. CVE-2013-0282 Jonathan Murray discovered that Keystone would allow XML entity processing. A remote unauthenticated attacker...

USN-1579-1: 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...