USN-275-1: Mozilla vulnerabilities

Web pages with extremely long titles caused subsequent launches of Mozilla browser to hang for up to a few minutes, or caused Mozilla to crash on computers with insufficient memory. CVE-2005-4134 Igor Bukanov discovered that the JavaScript engine did not properly declare some temporary variables...

USN-231-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Rudolf Polzer reported an abuse of the 'loadkeys' command. By redefining one or more keys and tricking another user like root into logging in on a text console and typing something that involves the redefined keys, a local user could cause execution of arbitrary commands with the privileges of th...

USN-162-1: ekg and Gadu library vulnerabilities

Marcin Owsiany and Wojtek Kaniewski discovered that some contributed scripts contrib/ekgh, contrib/ekgnv.sh, and contrib/getekg.sh in the ekg package created temporary files in an insecure way, which allowed exploitation of a race condition to create or overwrite files with the privileges of the...

USN-78-1: Mailman vulnerability

An path traversal vulnerability has been discovered in the "private" module of Mailman. A flawed path sanitation algorithm allowed the construction of URLS to arbitrary files readable by Mailman. This allowed a remote attacker to retrieve configuration and password databases, private list archive...

USN-72-1: Perl vulnerabilities

Two exploitable vulnerabilities involving setuid-enabled perl scripts have been discovered. The package "perl-suid" provides a wrapper around perl which allows to use setuid-root perl scripts, i.e. user-callable Perl scripts which have full root privileges. Previous versions allowed users to...

USN-60-0: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

CAN-2005-0001: Paul Starzetz discovered a race condition in the Linux page fault handler code. This allowed an unprivileged user to gain root privileges on multiprocessor machines under some circumstances. This also affects the Hyper-Threading mode on Pentium 4 processors...

USN-47-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Georgi Guninski discovered two Denial of Service vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel. An integer overflow in the vcresize function caused the memory allocation for the new screen being too short, thus causing a buffer overflow and a kernel crash. There was also a memory leak in the ipoptionsget...

USN-29-1: samba vulnerability

During an audit of the Samba 3.x code base Stefan Esser discovered a Unicode file name buffer overflow within the handling of TRANSACT2QFILEPATHINFO replies. A malicious samba user with write access to a share could exploit this by creating specially crafted path names files with very long names...

USN-25-1: libgd2 vulnerability

CAN-2004-0990 described several more buffer overflows which had been discovered in libgd2's PNG handling functions. However, it was determined that the update from USN-11-1 was not sufficient to prevent every possible attack, so another update is required. If an attacker tricked a user into loadi...

USN-7479-1: MySQL vulnerabilities

Multiple security issues were discovered in MySQL and this update includes new upstream MySQL versions to fix these issues. MySQL has been updated to 8.0.42 in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 24.10. Ubuntu 25.04 has been updated to MySQL 8.4.5. In addition to...

USN-6699-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Reima Ishii discovered that the nested KVM implementation for Intel x86 processors in the Linux kernel did not properly validate control registers in certain situations. An attacker in a guest VM could use this to cause a denial of service guest crash. CVE-2023-30456 It was discovered that the...

USN-6598-1: Paramiko vulnerability

Fabian Bäumer, Marcus Brinkmann, Jörg Schwenk discovered that the SSH protocol was vulnerable to a prefix truncation attack. If a remote attacker was able to intercept SSH communications, extension negotiation messages could be truncated, possibly leading to certain algorithms and features being...

USN-6574-1: Go vulnerabilities

Takeshi Kaneko discovered that Go did not properly handle comments and special tags in the script context of html/template module. An attacker could possibly use this issue to inject Javascript code and perform a cross site scripting attack. This issue only affected Go 1.20 in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS,...

USN-6495-2: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Yu Hao discovered that the UBI driver in the Linux kernel did not properly check for MTD with zero erasesize during device attachment. A local privileged attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2023-31085 Manfred Rudigier discovered that the IntelR PCI-Express Gigab...

USN-6452-1: Vim vulnerabilities

It was discovered that Vim could be made to divide by zero. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 23.04. CVE-2023-3896 It was discovered that Vim did not properly manage memory. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a...

USN-6404-1: 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-2023-5169, CVE-2023-5170,...

USN-6387-2: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Jana Hofmann, Emanuele Vannacci, Cedric Fournet, Boris Kopf, and Oleksii Oleksenko discovered that some AMD processors could leak stale data from division operations in certain situations. A local attacker could possibly use this to expose sensitive information. CVE-2023-20588 It was discovered...

USN-6381-1: GNU binutils vulnerabilities

It was discovered that a memory leak existed in certain GNU binutils modules. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service memory exhaustion. CVE-2020-19724, CVE-2020-21490 It was discovered that GNU binutils was not properly performing bounds checks in several functions...

USN-6347-1: Linux kernel (Azure CVM) vulnerabilities

William Zhao discovered that the Traffic Control TC subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly handle network packet retransmission in certain situations. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service kernel deadlock. CVE-2022-4269 It was discovered that the NTFS file system...

USN-6285-1: Linux kernel (OEM) vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the NTFS file system implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly check buffer indexes in certain situations, leading to an out-of-bounds read vulnerability. A local attacker could possibly use this to expose sensitive information kernel memory. CVE-2022-48502...

USN-6079-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that some AMD x86-64 processors with SMT enabled could speculatively execute instructions using a return address from a sibling thread. A local attacker could possibly use this to expose sensitive information. CVE-2022-27672 Ziming Zhang discovered that the VMware Virtual GPU DR...

USN-6021-1: Chromium vulnerabilities

It was discovered that Chromium did not properly manage memory in several components. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to corrupt memory via a crafted HTML page, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2023-1528, CVE-2023-1530, CVE-2023-1531,...

USN-5967-1: object-path vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the set method in object-path could be corrupted as a result of prototype pollution by sending a message to the parent process. An attacker could use this issue to cause object-path to crash. CVE-2020-15256, CVE-2021-23434, CVE-2021-3805...

USN-5910-1: Rack vulnerabilities

It was discovered that Rack did not properly structure regular expressions in some of its parsing components, which could result in uncontrolled resource consumption if an application using Rack received specially crafted input. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of...

USN-5842-1: EditorConfig Core C vulnerability

Mark Esler and David Fernandez Gonzalez discovered that EditorConfig Core C incorrectly handled memory when handling certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause applications using EditorConfig Core C to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary...

USN-5782-3: Firefox regressions

USN-5782-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. The update introduced several minor regressions. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: It was discovered that Firefox was using an out-of-date libusrsctp library. An attacker could possibly use th...

USN-5760-1: libxml2 vulnerabilities

It was discovered that libxml2 incorrectly handled certain XML files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a crash. CVE-2022-2309 It was discovered that libxml2 incorrectly handled certain XML files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to expose sensitive information or cause ...

USN-5736-1: ImageMagick vulnerabilities

It was discovered that ImageMagick incorrectly handled certain values when processing PDF files. If a user or automated system using ImageMagick were tricked into opening a specially crafted PDF file, an attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14....

USN-5714-1: LibTIFF vulnerabilities

It was discovered that LibTIFF incorrectly handled certain memory operations when using tiffcrop. An attacker could trick a user into processing a specially crafted tiff image file and potentially use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.10. CVE-2022-2519,...

USN-5711-1: NTFS-3G vulnerability

Yuchen Zeng and Eduardo Vela discovered that NTFS-3G incorrectly validated certain NTFS metadata. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to gain privileges...

USN-5616-1: Linux kernel (Intel IoTG) vulnerabilities

Asaf Modelevsky discovered that the IntelR 10GbE PCI Express ixgbe Ethernet driver for the Linux kernel performed insufficient control flow management. A local attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service. CVE-2021-33061 Moshe Kol, Amit Klein and Yossi Gilad discovered that the I...

USN-5603-1: Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi) vulnerabilities

Asaf Modelevsky discovered that the IntelR 10GbE PCI Express ixgbe Ethernet driver for the Linux kernel performed insufficient control flow management. A local attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service. CVE-2021-33061 It was discovered that the virtual terminal driver in the...

USN-5598-1: Linux kernel (Oracle) vulnerability

It was discovered that the virtual terminal driver in the Linux kernel did not properly handle VGA console font changes, leading to an out-of-bounds write. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code...

USN-5536-1: 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, spoof the mouse pointer position, bypass Subresource Integrity protections, obtain sensitive information,...

USN-5516-1: Vim vulnerabilities

It was discovered that Vim incorrectly handled memory access. An attacker could potentially use this issue to cause the corruption of sensitive information, a crash, or arbitrary code execution...

USN-5501-1: Django vulnerability

It was discovered that Django incorrectly handled certain SQL. An attacker could possibly use this issue to expose sensitive information...

USN-5452-1: NTFS-3G vulnerability

It was discovered that NTFS-3G was incorrectly validating NTFS metadata in its ntfsck tool by not performing boundary checks. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or to execute arbitrary code...

USN-5445-1: Subversion vulnerabilities

Ace Olszowka discovered that Subversion incorrectly handled certain svnserve requests. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause svnserver to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. CVE-2018-11782 Tomas Bortoli discovered that Subversion...

USN-5438-1: HTMLDOC vulnerability

It was discovered that HTMLDOC did not properly manage memory under certain circumstances. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted HTML file, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause HTMLDOC to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary...

USN-5161-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Ilja Van Sprundel discovered that the SCTP implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly perform size validations on incoming packets in some situations. An attacker could possibly use this to expose sensitive information kernel memory. CVE-2021-3655 It was discovered that the AMD...

USN-4789-1: Apache ZooKeeper vulnerabilities

It was discovered that Apache ZooKeeper incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or other unspecified impact. CVE-2016-5017 It was discovered that Apache ZooKeeper incorrectly implemented "wchp/wchc" commands. An attacker could...

USN-4634-1: OpenLDAP vulnerabilities

It was discovered that OpenLDAP incorrectly handled certain malformed inputs. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause OpenLDAP to crash, resulting in a denial of service...

USN-4624-1: libexif vulnerability

It was discovered that libexif incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause unexpected behaviours, or execute arbitrary code...

USN-4598-1: LibEtPan vulnerability

It was discovered that LibEtPan incorrectly handled STARTTLS when using IMAP, SMTP and POP3. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform a response injection attack. CVE-2020-15953...

USN-4595-1: Grunt vulnerability

It was discovered that Grunt did not properly load yaml files. An attacker could possibly use this to execute arbitrary code. CVE-2020-7729...

USN-4520-1: Exim SpamAssassin vulnerability

It was discovered that Exim SpamAssassin does not properly handle configuration strings. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. CVE-2019-19920...

USN-4470-1: sane-backends vulnerabilities

Kritphong Mongkhonvanit discovered that sane-backends incorrectly handled certain packets. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive memory information. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. CVE-2017-6318 It was discovered that sane-backends incorrectly handled...

USN-4418-1: OpenEXR vulnerabilities

It was discovered that OpenEXR incorrectly handled certain malformed EXR image files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted EXR image file, a remote attacker could cause a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code...

USN-4417-1: NSS vulnerability

Cesar Pereida, Billy Bob Brumley, Yuval Yarom, and Nicola Tuveri discovered that NSS incorrectly handled RSA key generation. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to perform a timing attack and recover RSA keys...

USN-4403-1: Mutt vulnerability and regression

It was discovered that Mutt incorrectly handled certain requests. An attacker could possibly use this issue to enable MITM attacks. CVE-2020-14954 This update also address a regression caused in the last update USN-4401-1. It only affected Ubuntu 12.04 ESM, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and...