USN-2527-1: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerability

It was discovered that the Linux kernel's Infiniband subsystem did not properly sanitize its input parameters while registering memory regions from userspace. A local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash or to potentially gain administrative privileges...

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-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-2458-3: Firefox regression

USN-2458-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. This update introduced a regression which could make websites that use CSP fail to load under some circumstances. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: Christian Holler, Patrick McManus, Christoph...

USN-2386-1: OpenJDK 6 vulnerabilities

A vulnerability was discovered in the OpenJDK JRE related to information disclosure and data integrity. An attacker could exploit this to expose sensitive data over the network. CVE-2014-6457 Several vulnerabilities were discovered in the OpenJDK JRE related to data integrity. CVE-2014-6502,...

USN-2333-1: Linux kernel (EC2) vulnerabilities

A bug was discovered in the handling of pathname components when used with an autofs direct mount. A local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash via an open system call. CVE-2014-0203 Toralf Förster reported an error in the Linux kernels syscall auditing on 32 bit...

USN-2311-2: OpenStack Ceilometer vulnerability

USN-2311-1 fixed vulnerabilities in pyCADF. This update provides the corresponding updates for OpenStack Ceilometer. Original advisory details: Zhi Kun Liu discovered that pyCADF incorrectly filtered certain tokens. An attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain authentication tokens used in...

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-2282-1: 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 An flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's audit subsystem when auditing...

USN-2268-1: 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-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-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-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-2076-1: 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-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-2053-1: Thunderbird vulnerabilities

Ben Turner, Bobby Holley, Jesse Ruderman and Christian Holler 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-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-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-1930-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities

An information leak was discovered in the Linux kernel's fanotify interface. A local user could exploit this flaw to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory. CVE-2013-2148 Kees Cook discovered a format string vulnerability in the Broadcom B43 wireless driver for the Linux kernel. A local...

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-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-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-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...

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-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-1492-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Stephan Mueller reported a flaw in the Linux kernel's dl2k network driver's handling of ioctls. An unprivileged local user could leverage this flaw to cause a denial of service. CVE-2012-2313 Timo Warns reported multiple flaws in the Linux kernel's hfsplus filesystem. An unprivileged local user...

USN-1459-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's KVM Kernel Virtual Machine virtual cpu setup. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to crash the system leading to a denial of service. CVE-2012-1601 Steve Grubb reported a flaw with Linux fscaps file system base capabilities when used to increa...

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-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-1320-1: FFmpeg vulnerabilities

Steve Manzuik discovered that FFmpeg incorrectly handled certain malformed Matroska files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted Matroska file, an attacker could cause a denial of service via application crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking th...

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-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-1109-1: GIMP vulnerabilities

It was discovered that GIMP incorrectly handled malformed data in certain plugin configuration files. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted plugin configuration file, an attacker could cause GIMP to crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code with the user's privileges. The defaul...

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-1081-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that KVM did not correctly initialize certain CPU registers. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. CVE-2010-3698 Thomas Pollet discovered that the RDS network protocol did not check certain iovec buffers. A local attacker could...

USN-1071-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Tavis Ormandy discovered that the Linux kernel did not properly implement exception fixup. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the kernel, leading to a denial of service. CVE-2010-3086 Dan Rosenberg discovered that the Linux kernel TIPC implementation contained multiple integer signednes...

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-1011-3: 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-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-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-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-877-1: Firefox 3.0 and Xulrunner 1.9 regression

USN-873-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox and Xulrunner. The upstream changes introduced a regression when using NTLM authentication. This update fixes the problem and adds additional stability fixes. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: Jesse Ruderman, Josh Soref,...

USN-802-1: Apache vulnerabilities

It was discovered that modproxyhttp did not properly handle a large amount of streamed data when used as a reverse proxy. A remote attacker could exploit this and cause a denial of service via memory resource consumption. This issue affected Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, 8.10 and 9.04. CVE-2009-1890 It was...