USN-1533-1: 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-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-1493-1: 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-1472-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Andy Adamson discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel's NFSv4 implementation. A remote NFS server attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service. CVE-2011-4131 A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's KVM kernel virtual machine. An administrative user in the guest OS could leverage...

USN-1378-1: PostgreSQL vulnerabilities

It was discovered that PostgreSQL incorrectly checked permissions on functions called by a trigger. An attacker could attach a trigger to a table they owned and possibly escalate privileges. CVE-2012-0866 It was discovered that PostgreSQL incorrectly truncated SSL certificate name checks to 32...

USN-1344-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Clement Lecigne discovered a bug in the HFS filesystem. A local attacker could exploit this to cause a kernel oops. CVE-2011-2203 A flaw was found in how the Linux kernel handles user-defined key types. An unprivileged local user could exploit this to crash the system. CVE-2011-4110...

USN-1287-1: Linux (OMAP4) vulnerability

Nick Bowler discovered the kernel GHASH message digest algorithm incorrectly handled error conditions. A local attacker could exploit this to cause a kernel oops...

USN-1277-2: Mozvoikko and ubufox update

USN-1277-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. This update provides updated Mozvoikko and ubufox packages for use with Firefox 8. Original advisory details: Yosuke Hasegawa discovered that the Mozilla browser engine mishandled invalid sequences in the Shift-JIS encoding. It may be possible to trigg...

USN-1226-2: cifs-utils vulnerabilities

Dan Rosenberg discovered that cifs-utils incorrectly handled changes to the mtab file. A local attacker could use this issue to corrupt the mtab file, possibly leading to a denial of service. CVE-2011-1678 Jan Lieskovsky discovered that cifs-utils incorrectly filtered certain strings being added ...

USN-1102-1: tiff vulnerability

Martin Barbella discovered that the thunder aka ThunderScan decoder in the TIFF library incorrectly handled an unexpected BitsPerSample value. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted TIFF image, a remote attacker could execute arbitrary code with user privilege...

USN-1012-1: CUPS vulnerability

Emmanuel Bouillon discovered that CUPS did not properly handle certain Internet Printing Protocol IPP packets. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. In the default installation in Ubuntu 8.04 LTS and later, attackers would be isolat...

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-930-1: Firefox and Xulrunner vulnerabilities

If was discovered that Firefox could be made to access freed memory. If a user were tricked into viewing a malicious site, a remote attacker could cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. This issue only affected Ubuntu 8.0...

USN-858-1: OpenLDAP vulnerability

It was discovered that OpenLDAP did not correctly handle SSL certificates with zero bytes in the Common Name. A remote attacker could exploit this to perform a machine-in-the-middle attack to view sensitive information or alter encrypted communications...

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...

USN-782-1: 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-758-1: udev vulnerabilities

Sebastian Krahmer discovered that udev did not correctly validate netlink message senders. A local attacker could send specially crafted messages to udev in order to gain root privileges. CVE-2009-1185 Sebastian Krahmer discovered a buffer overflow in the path encoding routines in udev. A local...

USN-667-1: Firefox and xulrunner vulnerabilities

Liu Die Yu discovered an information disclosure vulnerability in Firefox when using saved .url shortcut files. If a user were tricked into downloading a crafted .url file and a crafted HTML file, an attacker could steal information from the user's cache. CVE-2008-4582 Georgi Guninski, Michal...

USN-559-1: MySQL vulnerabilities

Joe Gallo and Artem Russakovskii discovered that the InnoDB engine in MySQL did not properly perform input validation. An authenticated user could use a crafted CONTAINS statement to cause a denial of service. CVE-2007-5925 It was discovered that under certain conditions MySQL could be made to...

USN-464-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Philipp Richter discovered that the AppleTalk protocol handler did not sufficiently verify the length of packets. By sending a crafted AppleTalk packet, a remote attacker could exploit this to crash the kernel. CVE-2007-1357 Gabriel Campana discovered that the doipv6setsockopt function did not...

USN-436-2: KTorrent vulnerability

USN-436-1 fixed a vulnerability in KTorrent. The original fix for path traversal was incomplete, allowing for alternate vectors of attack. This update solves the problem. Original advisory details: Bryan Burns of Juniper Networks discovered that KTorrent did not correctly validate the destination...

USN-431-1: Thunderbird vulnerabilities

The SSLv2 protocol support in the NSS library did not sufficiently check the validity of public keys presented with a SSL certificate. A malicious SSL web site using SSLv2 could potentially exploit this to execute arbitrary code with the user's privileges. CVE-2007-0008 The SSLv2 protocol support...

USN-428-2: Firefox regression

USN-428-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox 1.5. However, changes to library paths caused applications depending on libnss3 to fail to start up. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: Several flaws have been found that could be used to perform...

USN-296-2: Firefox vulnerabilities

USN-296-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in Firefox for the Ubuntu 6.06 LTS release. This update provides the corresponding fixes for Ubuntu 5.04 and Ubuntu 5.10. For reference, these are the details of the original USN: Jonas Sicking discovered that under some circumstances persisted XUL attribut...

USN-250-1: Linux kernel vulnerability

Herbert Xu discovered a remote Denial of Service vulnerability in the ICMP packet handler. In some situations a memory allocation was released twice, which led to memory corruption. A remote attacker could exploit this to crash the machine...

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-109-1: MySQL vulnerability

USN-32-1 fixed a database privilege escalation vulnerability; original advisory text: "If a user was granted privileges to a database with a name containing an underscore "", the user also gained the ability to grant privileges to other databases with similar names. CAN-2004-0957" Recently a corn...

USN-54-1: TIFF library tool vulnerability

Dmitry V. Levin discovered a buffer overflow in the "tiffdump" utility. If an attacker tricked a user into processing a malicious TIFF image with tiffdump, they could cause a buffer overflow which at least causes the program to crash. However, it is not entirely clear whether this can be exploite...

USN-6921-2: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Benedict Schlüter, Supraja Sridhara, Andrin Bertschi, and Shweta Shinde discovered that an untrusted hypervisor could inject malicious VC interrupts and compromise the security guarantees of AMD SEV-SNP. This flaw is known as WeSee. A local attacker in control of the hypervisor could use this to...

USN-6820-2: Linux kernel (NVIDIA) vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the ATA over Ethernet AoE driver in the Linux kernel contained a race condition, leading to a use-after-free vulnerability. An attacker could use this to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2023-6270 It was discovered that the Atheros 802.11ac...

USN-6777-3: Linux kernel (GCP) vulnerabilities

Zheng Wang discovered that the Broadcom FullMAC WLAN driver in the Linux kernel contained a race condition during device removal, leading to a use- after-free vulnerability. A physically proximate attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2023-47233 Several...

USN-6775-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Zheng Wang discovered that the Broadcom FullMAC WLAN driver in the Linux kernel contained a race condition during device removal, leading to a use- after-free vulnerability. A physically proximate attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2023-47233 Several...

USN-6707-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Lonial Con discovered that the netfilter subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly handle element deactivation in certain cases, leading to a use-after-free vulnerability. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code...

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-6670-1: php-guzzlehttp-psr7 vulnerabilities

It was discovered that php-guzzlehttp-psr7 incorrectly parsed HTTP headers. A remote attacker could possibly use these issues to perform an HTTP header injection attack...

USN-6516-1: Linux kernel (Intel IoTG) vulnerabilities

Ivan D Barrera, Christopher Bednarz, Mustafa Ismail, and Shiraz Saleem discovered that the InfiniBand RDMA driver in the Linux kernel did not properly check for zero-length STAG or MR registration. A remote attacker could possibly use this to execute arbitrary code. CVE-2023-25775 Yu Hao and...

USN-6503-1: 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 Bien Pham discovered that the netfiler subsystem in the Linux...

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-6394-1: Python vulnerability

It was discovered that Python incorrectly handled certain scripts. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code or cause a crash...

USN-6387-1: 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-6357-1: Linux kernel (IBM) vulnerabilities

Daniel Moghimi discovered that some IntelR Processors did not properly clear microarchitectural state after speculative execution of various instructions. A local unprivileged user could use this to obtain to sensitive information. CVE-2022-40982 Ruihan Li discovered that the bluetooth subsystem ...

USN-6224-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the XFS file system implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly perform metadata validation when mounting certain images. An attacker could use this to specially craft a file system image that, when mounted, could cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2023-212...

USN-6087-1: Ruby vulnerabilities

It was discovered that Ruby incorrectly handled certain regular expressions. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. CVE-2023-28755 It was discovered that Ruby incorrectly handled certain regular expressions. An attacker could possily use this issue to cause a deni...

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-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-5890-1: Open vSwitch vulnerabilities

Qian Chen discovered that Open vSwitch incorrectly handled certain Organization Specific TLVs. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause Open vSwitch to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code...

USN-5863-1: Linux kernel (Azure) vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the NFSD implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly handle some RPC messages, leading to a buffer overflow. A remote attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2022-43945 Tamás Koczka discovered that th...

USN-5807-1: libXpm vulnerabilities

Martin Ettl discovered that libXpm incorrectly handled certain XPM files. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted XPM file, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause libXpm to stop responding, resulting in a denial of service. CVE-2022-44617 Marc...