USN-1553-1: OpenJDK 6 vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the Beans component in OpenJDK 6 did not properly prevent access to restricted classes. A remote attacker could use this to create an untrusted Java applet or application that would bypass Java sandbox restrictions. CVE-2012-1682 It was discovered that functionality in the...

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-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-1452-1: Linux kernel 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-1373-2: OpenJDK 6 (ARM) vulnerabilities

USN 1373-1 fixed vulnerabilities in OpenJDK 6 in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, Ubuntu 10.10 and Ubuntu 11.04 for all architectures except for ARM armel. This provides the corresponding OpenJDK 6 update for use with the ARM armel architecture in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, Ubuntu 10.10 and Ubuntu 11.04. Original adviso...

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-1319-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) 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-1298-1: Apache Commons Daemon vulnerability

Wilfried Weissmann discovered that Apache Commons Daemon incorrectly dropped capabilities after starting. A remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to read certain files, bypassing the intended permissions...

USN-1268-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that CIFS incorrectly handled authentication. When a user had a CIFS share mounted that required authentication, a local user could mount the same share without knowing the correct password. CVE-2011-1585 It was discovered that the GRE protocol incorrectly handled netns...

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-1205-1: Linux kernel (Maverick backport) vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the /proc filesystem did not correctly handle permission changes when programs executed. A local attacker could hold open files to examine details about programs running with higher privileges, potentially increasing the chances of exploiting additional vulnerabilities...

USN-1111-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Dan Rosenberg discovered multiple flaws in the X.25 facilities parsing. If a system was using X.25, a remote attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. CVE-2010-4164 Vegard Nossum discovered that memory garbage collection was not handled correctly for active...

USN-1108-1: DHCP vulnerability

Sebastian Krahmer discovered that the dhclient utility incorrectly filtered crafted responses. An attacker could use this flaw with a malicious DHCP server to execute arbitrary code, resulting in root privilege escalation...

USN-1018-1: OpenSSL vulnerability

Rob Hulswit discovered a race condition in the OpenSSL TLS server extension parsing code when used within a threaded server. A remote attacker could trigger this flaw to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code with application privileges. CVE-2010-3864...

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-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-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-930-6: Firefox and Xulrunner vulnerability

USN-957-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox and Xulrunner. Daniel Holbert discovered that the fix for CVE-2010-1214 introduced a regression which did not properly initialize a plugin pointer. If a user were tricked into viewing a malicious site, a remote attacker could use this to crash the browse...

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-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-821-1: Firefox and Xulrunner vulnerabilities

Several flaws were discovered in the Firefox browser and JavaScript engines. 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-2009-3070,...

USN-809-1: GnuTLS vulnerabilities

Moxie Marlinspike and Dan Kaminsky independently discovered that GnuTLS did not properly handle certificates with NULL characters in the certificate name. An 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-799-1: D-Bus vulnerability

It was discovered that the D-Bus library did not correctly validate signatures. If a local user sent a specially crafted D-Bus key, they could spoof a valid signature and bypass security policies...

USN-722-1: sudo vulnerability

Harald Koenig discovered that sudo did not correctly handle certain privilege changes when handling groups. If a local attacker belonged to a group included in a "RunAs" list in the /etc/sudoers file, that user could gain root privileges. This was not an issue for the default sudoers file shipped...

USN-717-3: Firefox vulnerabilities

Kojima Hajime discovered that Firefox did not properly handle an escaped null character. An attacker may be able to exploit this flaw to bypass script sanitization. CVE-2008-5510 Wladimir Palant discovered that Firefox did not restrict access to cookies in HTTP response headers. If a user were...

USN-706-1: Bind vulnerability

It was discovered that Bind did not properly perform signature verification. When DNSSEC with DSA signatures are in use, a remote attacker could exploit this to bypass signature validation to spoof DNS entries and poison DNS caches. Among other things, this could lead to misdirected email and web...

USN-626-1: Firefox and xulrunner vulnerabilities

A flaw was discovered in the browser engine. A variable could be made to overflow causing the browser to crash. If a user were tricked into opening a malicious web page, an attacker could cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the...

USN-612-2: OpenSSH vulnerability

A weakness has been discovered in the random number generator used by OpenSSL on Debian and Ubuntu systems. As a result of this weakness, certain encryption keys are much more common than they should be, such that an attacker could guess the key through a brute-force attack given minimal knowledg...

USN-360-1: awstats vulnerabilities

awstats did not fully sanitize input, which was passed directly to the user's browser, allowing for an XSS attack. If a user was tricked into following a specially crafted awstats URL, the user's authentication information could be exposed for the domain where awstats was hosted. CVE-2006-3681...

USN-339-1: OpenSSL vulnerability

Philip Mackenzie, Marius Schilder, Jason Waddle and Ben Laurie of Google Security discovered that the OpenSSL library did not sufficiently check the padding of PKCS 1 v1.5 signatures if the exponent of the public key is 3 which is widely used for CAs. This could be exploited to forge signatures...

USN-177-1: Apache 2 vulnerabilities

Apache did not honour the "SSLVerifyClient require" directive within a block if the surrounding block contained a directive "SSLVerifyClient optional". This allowed clients to bypass client certificate validation on servers with the above configuration. CAN-2005-2700 Filip Sneppe discovered a...

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-32-1: mysql vulnerabilities

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the MySQL database server. Lukasz Wojtow discovered a potential buffer overflow in the function mysqlrealconnect. A malicious name server could send specially crafted DNS packages which might result in execution of arbitrary code with the database...

USN-9-1: tetex-bin vulnerabilities

Chris Evans and Marcus Meissner recently discovered several integer overflow vulnerabilities in xpdf, a viewer for PDF files. Because tetex-bin contains xpdf code, it is also affected. These vulnerabilities could be exploited by an attacker providing a specially crafted TeX, LaTeX, or PDF file...

USN-7435-1: Protocol Buffers vulnerability

It was discovered that Protocol Buffers incorrectly handled memory when receiving malicious input using the Java bindings. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service...

USN-7166-3: Linux kernel (HWE) 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: - ARM32 architecture; - RISC-V architecture; - S390 architecture; - x86 architecture; - Block layer subsystem; - ACPI...

USN-6924-1: Linux kernel 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: - ARM SCMI message protocol; - InfiniBand drivers; - TTY drivers; - TLS protocol; CVE-2024-26584, CVE-2024-36016,...

USN-6835-1: Ghostscript vulnerabilities

It was discovered that Ghostscript did not properly restrict eexec seeds to those specified by the Type 1 Font Format standard when SAFER mode is used. An attacker could use this issue to bypass SAFER restrictions and cause unspecified impact. CVE-2023-52722 This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04...

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-6589-1: FileZilla vulnerability

Fabian Baeumer, Marcus Brinkmann and Joerg Schwenk discovered that the SSH protocol used in FileZilla is prone to a prefix truncation attack, known as the "Terrapin attack". A remote attacker could use this issue to downgrade or disable some security features and obtain sensitive information...

USN-6520-1: Linux kernel (StarFive) 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-6482-1: Quagga vulnerabilities

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

USN-6465-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Yu Hao and Weiteng Chen discovered that the Bluetooth HCI UART driver in the Linux kernel contained a race condition, leading to a null pointer dereference vulnerability. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2023-31083 Lin Ma discovered that the Netlink...

USN-6434-1: PMIx vulnerability

Francois Diakhate discovered that PMIx did not properly handle race conditions in the pmix library, which could lead to unwanted privilege escalation. An attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain ownership of an arbitrary file on the filesystem, under the default configuration of the...

USN-6396-1: 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 Daniel Moghimi discovered that some IntelR Processors...

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 ...