USN-1755-2: OpenJDK 7 vulnerabilities

USN-1755-1 fixed vulnerabilities in OpenJDK 6. This update provides the corresponding updates for OpenJDK 7. Original advisory details: It was discovered that OpenJDK did not properly validate certain types of images. A remote attacker could exploit this to cause OpenJDK to crash. CVE-2013-0809 I...

USN-1743-1: Linux kernel (Quantal HWE) vulnerability

Suleiman Souhlal, Salman Qazi, Aaron Durbin and Michael Davidson discovered a race condition in the Linux kernel's ptrace syscall. An unprivileged local attacker could exploit this flaw to run programs as an administrator. CVE-2013-0871 A flaw was discovered in the Edgeort USB serial converter...

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-1620-2: Thunderbird vulnerabilities

USN-1620-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. This update provides the corresponding updates for Thunderbird. Please note that Thunderbird is only affected by window.location issues through RSS feeds and extensions that load web content. Original advisory details: Mariusz Mlynski and others...

USN-1540-2: NSS vulnerability

USN-1540-1 fixed vulnerabilities in NSS. This update provides the corresponding updates for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. Original advisory details: Kaspar Brand discovered a vulnerability in how the Network Security Services NSS ASN.1 decoder handles zero length items. If the user were tricked into opening ...

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-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-1478-1: Libav vulnerabilities

Mateusz Jurczyk and Gynvael Coldwind discovered that Libav incorrectly handled certain malformed DV files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted DV file, an attacker could cause a denial of service via application crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the 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-1450-1: Net-SNMP vulnerability

It was discovered that Net-SNMP incorrectly performed entry lookups in the extension table. A remote attacker could send a specially crafted request and cause the SNMP server to crash, leading to a denial of service...

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-1330-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) 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 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 ro...

USN-1299-1: Linux kernel (EC2) vulnerabilities

Peter Huewe discovered an information leak in the handling of reading security-related TPM data. A local, unprivileged user could read the results of a previous TPM command. CVE-2011-1162 Zheng Liu discovered a flaw in how the ext4 filesystem splits extents. A local unprivileged attacker could...

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-1218-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Dan Rosenberg discovered that multiple terminal ioctls did not correctly initialize structure memory. A local attacker could exploit this to read portions of kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy. CVE-2010-4076, CVE-2010-4077 Alex Shi and Eric Dumazet discovered that the network stack...

USN-1212-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities

Goldwyn Rodrigues discovered that the OCFS2 filesystem did not correctly clear memory when writing certain file holes. A local attacker could exploit this to read uninitialized data from the disk, leading to a loss of privacy. CVE-2011-0463 Timo Warns discovered that the LDM disk partition handli...

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-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-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-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-1015-1: libvpx vulnerability

Christoph Diehl discovered that libvpx did not properly perform bounds checking. If an application using libvpx opened a specially crafted WebM file, an attacker could cause a denial of service or possibly execute code as the user invoking the program...

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-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-993-1: libgdiplus vulnerability

Stefan Cornelius discovered that libgdiplus incorrectly handled certain image files. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a crafted image file, an attacker could cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program...

USN-978-2: Thunderbird regression

USN-978-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Thunderbird. Some users reported stability problems under certain circumstances. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: Several dangling pointer vulnerabilities were discovered in Thunderbird. An attacker...

USN-975-2: Firefox and Xulrunner regression

USN-975-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox and Xulrunner. Some users reported stability problems under certain circumstances. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: Several dangling pointer vulnerabilities were discovered in Firefox. An...

USN-889-1: gzip vulnerabilities

It was discovered that gzip incorrectly handled certain malformed compressed files. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted gzip file, an attacker could cause gzip to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program...

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-797-1: tiff vulnerability

It was discovered that the TIFF library did not correctly handle certain malformed TIFF images. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a malicious image, a remote attacker could cause an application linked against libtiff to crash, leading to a denial of service...

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-781-1: Pidgin vulnerabilities

It was discovered that Pidgin did not properly handle certain malformed messages when sending a file using the XMPP protocol handler. If a user were tricked into sending a file, a remote attacker could send a specially crafted response and cause Pidgin to crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code...

USN-776-2: KVM regression

USN-776-1 fixed vulnerabilities in KVM. Due to an incorrect fix, a regression was introduced in Ubuntu 8.04 LTS that caused KVM to fail to boot virtual machines started via libvirt. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: Avi Kivity discovered...

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-735-1: GStreamer Base Plugins vulnerability

It was discovered that the Base64 decoding functions in GStreamer Base Plugins did not properly handle large images in Vorbis file tags. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted Vorbis file, an attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with user privileges...

USN-685-1: Net-SNMP vulnerabilities

Wes Hardaker discovered that the SNMP service did not correctly validate HMAC authentication requests. An unauthenticated remote attacker could send specially crafted SNMPv3 traffic with a valid username and gain access to the user's views without a valid authentication passphrase. CVE-2008-0960...

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-557-1: GD library vulnerability

Mattias Bengtsson and Philip Olausson discovered that the GD library did not properly perform bounds checking when creating images. An attacker could send specially crafted input to applications linked against libgd2 and cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code...

USN-488-1: mod_perl vulnerability

Alex Solovey discovered that modperl did not correctly validate certain regular expression matches. A remote attacker could send a specially crafted request to a web application using modperl, causing the web server to monopolize CPU resources. This could lead to a remote denial of service...

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-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-382-1: Thunderbird vulnerabilities

USN-352-1 fixed a flaw in the verification of PKCS certificate signatures. Ulrich Kuehn discovered a variant of the original attack which the original fix did not cover. CVE-2006-5462 Various flaws have been reported that allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code with user privileges by trickin...

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-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-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-22-1: samba vulnerability

Karol Wiesek discovered a Denial of Service vulnerability in samba. A flaw in the input validation routines used to match filename strings containing wildcard characters may allow a remote user to consume more than normal amounts of CPU resources, thus impacting the performance and response of th...

USN-11-1: libgd2 vulnerabilities

Several buffer overflows have been discovered in libgd's PNG handling functions. If an attacker tricked a user into loading a malicious PNG image, they could leverage this into executing arbitrary code in the context of the user opening image. Most importantly, this library is commonly used in PH...

USN-7436-1: WebKitGTK vulnerabilities

Several security issues were discovered in the WebKitGTK Web and JavaScript engines. 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...

USN-6951-4: Linux kernel (BlueField) vulnerabilities

Several security issues were discovered in the Linux kernel. An attacker could possibly use these to compromise the system. This update corrects flaws in the following subsystems: - ARM64 architecture; - M68K architecture; - User-Mode Linux UML; - x86 architecture; - Accessibility subsystem; -...

USN-6910-1: Apache ActiveMQ vulnerabilities

Chess Hazlett discovered that Apache ActiveMQ incorrectly handled certain commands. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to terminate the program, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. CVE-2015-7559 Peter Stöckli discovered that Apache ActiveMQ...