USN-2774-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities

It was discovered that virtio networking in the Linux kernel did not handle fragments correctly, leading to kernel memory corruption. A remote attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute code with administrative privileges. CVE-2015-5156 It was discovered...

USN-2754-1: Thunderbird vulnerabilities

Andrew Osmond, Olli Pettay, Andrew Sutherland, Christian Holler, David Major, Andrew McCreight, and Cameron McCormack discovered multiple memory safety issues in Thunderbird. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted message, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a...

USN-2724-1: QEMU vulnerabilities

It was discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled a PRDT with zero complete sectors in the IDE functionality. A malicious guest could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. CVE-2014-9718 Donghai Zhu discovered that QEMU...

USN-2721-1: Subversion vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the Subversion moddavsvn module incorrectly handled REPORT requests for a resource that does not exist. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause the server to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS...

USN-2702-2: Ubufox update

USN-2702-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. This update provides the corresponding updates for Ubufox. Original advisory details: Gary Kwong, Christian Holler, Byron Campen, Tyson Smith, Bobby Holley, Chris Coulson, and Eric Rahm discovered multiple memory safety issues in Firefox. If a user wer...

USN-2650-1: wpa_supplicant and hostapd vulnerabilities

Kostya Kortchinsky discovered multiple flaws in wpasupplicant and hostapd. A remote attacker could use these issues to cause wpasupplicant or hostapd to crash, resulting in a denial of service. CVE-2015-4141, CVE-2015-4142, CVE-2015-4143, CVE-2015-4144, CVE-2015-4145, CVE-2015-4146...

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-2610-1: Oxide vulnerabilities

Several security issues were discovered in the DOM implementation in Blink. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit these to bypass Same Origin Policy restrictions. CVE-2015-1253, CVE-2015-1254 A use-after-free was discovered in the...

USN-2608-1: QEMU vulnerabilities

Jason Geffner discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the virtual floppy driver. This issue is known as VENOM. A malicious guest could use this issue to cause a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code on the host as the user running the QEMU process. In the default installation, wh...

USN-2574-1: 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-2015-0460, CVE-2015-0469 Alexander Cherepanov discovered that...

USN-2573-1: OpenJDK 6 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-2015-0460, CVE-2015-0469 Alexander Cherepanov discovered that...

USN-2557-1: Firefox vulnerability

Muneaki Nishimura discovered a flaw in Mozilla's HTTP Alternative Services implementation which meant SSL certificate verification could be bypassed in some circumstances. A remote attacker could potentially exploit this to conduct a machine-in-the-middle attack. CVE-2015-0799...

USN-2515-2: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerabilities regression

USN-2515-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel. There was an unrelated regression in the use of the virtual counter CNTVCT on arm64 architectures. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: A flaw was discovered in the Kernel Virtual...

USN-2476-1: Oxide vulnerabilities

Several memory corruption bugs were discovered in ICU. 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 renderer crash or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the sandboxed render process...

USN-2480-1: MySQL vulnerabilities

Multiple security issues were discovered in MySQL and this update includes a new upstream MySQL version to fix these issues. MySQL has been updated to 5.5.41. In addition to security fixes, the updated packages contain bug fixes, new features, and possibly incompatible changes. Please see the...

USN-2449-1: NTP vulnerabilities

Neel Mehta discovered that NTP generated weak authentication keys. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to brute force the authentication key and send requests if permitted by IP restrictions. CVE-2014-9293 Stephen Roettger discovered that NTP generated weak MD5 keys. A remote attacker...

USN-2409-1: QEMU vulnerabilities

Laszlo Ersek discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled memory in the vga device. A malicious guest could possibly use this issue to read arbitrary host memory. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.10. CVE-2014-3615 Xavier Mehrenberger and Stephane Duverger discovered that QEMU...

USN-2327-1: Squid 3 vulnerability

Matthew Daley discovered that Squid 3 did not properly perform input validation in request parsing. A remote attacker could send crafted Range requests to cause a denial of service...

USN-2312-1: OpenJDK 6 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-2014-2490, CVE-2014-4216, CVE-2014-4219, CVE-2014-4262 Several...

USN-2182-1: QEMU vulnerabilities

Michael S. Tsirkin discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled vmxnet3 devices. A local guest could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code on the host. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 13.10 and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. CVE-2013-4544 Michael S. Tsirkin...

USN-2151-1: Thunderbird vulnerabilities

Benoit Jacob, Olli Pettay, Jan Varga, Jan de Mooij, Jesse Ruderman, Dan Gohman and Christoph Diehl 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...

USN-2114-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Vasily Kulikov reported a flaw in the Linux kernel's implementation of ptrace. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory. CVE-2013-2929 A flaw in the handling of memory regions of the kernel virtual machine KVM subsystem was discovered. ...

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-2074-1: 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-2021-1: 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-1886-1: Puppet vulnerability

It was discovered that Puppet incorrectly handled YAML payloads. An attacker on an untrusted client could use this issue to execute arbitrary code on the primary server...

USN-1744-1: Linux kernel 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-1740-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) 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...

USN-1735-1: OpenJDK vulnerabilities

Nadhem Alfardan and Kenny Paterson discovered that the TLS protocol as used in OpenJDK was vulnerable to a timing side-channel attack known as the "Lucky Thirteen" issue. A remote attacker could use this issue to perform plaintext-recovery attacks via analysis of timing data. CVE-2013-0169 A...

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-1597-1: Linux kernel (EC2) vulnerability

A flaw was found in how the Linux kernel passed the replacement session keyring to a child process. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service panic...

USN-1572-1: 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-1540-1: NSS vulnerability

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 a specially crafted certificate, an attacker could possibly exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash...

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-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-1455-1: Linux kernel (Oneiric backport) 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-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-1367-3: Thunderbird vulnerability

USN-1367-1 fixed vulnerabilities in libpng. This provides the corresponding update for Thunderbird. Original advisory details: Jueri Aedla discovered that libpng did not properly verify the size used when allocating memory during chunk decompression. If a user or automated system using libpng wer...

USN-1328-1: Linux kernel (Marvell DOVE) 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-1318-1: Linux kernel (FSL-IMX51) 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 Clement Lecigne discovered a bug in the HFS filesystem. A local attacker could exploit this to cause a kernel...

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-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-1281-1: Linux (OMAP4) vulnerabilities

Andrea Righi discovered a race condition in the KSM memory merging support. If KSM was being used, a local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. CVE-2011-2183 It was discovered that an mmap call with the MAPPRIVATE flag on "/dev/zero" was incorrectly...

USN-1234-1: acpid vulnerability

Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that acpid did not properly handle connections from poorly behaving clients. A local attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service...

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-1188-1: eCryptfs vulnerabilities

Vasiliy Kulikov and Dan Rosenberg discovered that eCryptfs incorrectly validated permissions on the requested mountpoint. A local attacker could use this flaw to mount to arbitrary locations, leading to privilege escalation. CVE-2011-1831 Vasiliy Kulikov and Dan Rosenberg discovered that eCryptfs...

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-986-1: bzip2 vulnerability

An integer overflow was discovered in bzip2. If a user or automated system were tricked into decompressing a crafted bz2 file, an attacker could cause bzip2 or any application linked against libbz2 to crash or possibly execute code as the user running the program...

USN-943-1: Thunderbird vulnerabilities

Martin Barbella discovered an integer overflow in an XSLT node sorting routine. An attacker could exploit this to overflow a buffer and cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. CVE-2010-1199 An integer overflow was discover...

USN-890-1: Expat vulnerabilities

Jukka Taimisto, Tero Rontti and Rauli Kaksonen discovered that Expat did not properly process malformed XML. If a user or application linked against Expat were tricked into opening a crafted XML file, an attacker could cause a denial of service via application crash. CVE-2009-2625, CVE-2009-3720 ...