USN-4938-1: Unbound vulnerabilities

It was discovered that Unbound contained multiple security issues. A remote attacker could possibly use these issues to cause a denial of service, inject arbitrary commands, execute arbitrary code, and overwrite local files...

USN-4934-2: Exim vulnerabilities

USN-4934-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in Exim. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. CVE-2020-28026 only affected Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. Original advisory details: It was discovered that Exim contained multiple security issues. An attacker could us...

USN-4937-1: GNOME Autoar vulnerability

Ondrej Holy discovered that GNOME Autoar could extract files outside of the intended directory. If a user were tricked into extracting a specially crafted archive, a remote attacker could create files in arbitrary locations, possibly leading to code execution...

USN-4935-1: NVIDIA graphics drivers vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the NVIDIA GPU display driver for the Linux kernel incorrectly performed access control. A local attacker could use this issue to cause a denial of service, expose sensitive information, or escalate privileges. CVE-2021-1076 It was discovered that the NVIDIA GPU display...

USN-4934-1: Exim vulnerabilities

It was discovered that Exim contained multiple security issues. An attacker could use these issues to cause a denial of service, execute arbitrary code remotely, obtain sensitive information, or escalate local privileges...

USN-4932-1: Django vulnerability

It was discovered that Django incorrectly handled certain filenames. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to create or overwrite files in unexpected directories...

USN-4933-1: OpenVPN vulnerabilities

It was discovered that OpenVPN incorrectly handled certain data channel v2 packets. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to inject packets using a victim's peer-id. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. CVE-2020-11810 It was discovered that OpenVPN incorrectly...

USN-4918-3: ClamAV regression

USN-4918-1 fixed vulnerabilities in ClamAV. The updated package could fail to properly scan in some situations. This update fixes the problem. Original advisory details: It was discovered that ClamAV incorrectly handled parsing Excel documents. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to...

USN-4931-1: Samba vulnerabilities

Steven French discovered that Samba incorrectly handled ChangeNotify permissions. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain file name information. CVE-2020-14318 Bas Alberts discovered that Samba incorrectly handled certain winbind requests. A remote attacker could possibly use th...

LSN-0076-1: Kernel Live Patch Security Notice

It was discovered that the overlayfs implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly validate the application of file system capabilities with respect to user namespaces. A local attacker could use this to gain elevated privileges.CVE-2021-3493 Piotr Krysiuk discovered that the BPF JIT compil...

USN-4930-1: Samba vulnerability

Peter Eriksson discovered that Samba incorrectly handled certain negative idmap cache entries. This issue could result in certain users gaining unauthorized access to files, contrary to expected behaviour...

USN-4929-1: Bind vulnerabilities

Greg Kuechle discovered that Bind incorrectly handled certain incremental zone updates. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Bind to crash, resulting in a denial of service. CVE-2021-25214 Siva Kakarla discovered that Bind incorrectly handled certain DNAME records. A remote...

USN-4928-1: GStreamer Good Plugins vulnerabilities

It was discovered that GStreamer Good Plugins incorrectly handled certain files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause access sensitive information or cause a crash. CVE-2021-3497 It was discovered that GStreamer Good Plugins incorrectly handled certain files. An attacker could...

USN-4913-2: Underscore vulnerability

USN-4913-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Underscore. This update provides the corresponding updates for Ubuntu 21.04. Original advisory details: It was discovered that Underscore incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to inject arbitrary code...

USN-4892-1: OpenJDK vulnerability

It was discovered that OpenJDK incorrectly verified Jar signatures. An attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass intended security restrictions when using Jar files signed with a disabled algorithm...

USN-4922-2: Ruby vulnerability

USN-4922-1 fixed a vulnerability in Ruby. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 21.04. Original advisory details: Juho Nurminen discovered that the REXML gem bundled with Ruby incorrectly parsed and serialized XML documents. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to...

USN-4927-1: File Roller vulnerability

It was discovered that File Roller incorrectly handled symlinks. An attacker could possibly use this issue to expose sensitive information...

USN-4926-1: 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 browser UI, bypass security restrictions, trick the user into disclosing confidential...

USN-4925-1: Shibboleth vulnerability

Toni Huttunen and Fraktal Oy discovered that the Shibboleth Service provider allowed content injection due to allowing attacker-controlled parameters in error or other status pages. An attacker could use this to inject malicious content...

USN-4924-1: Dnsmasq vulnerabilities

It was discovered that Dnsmasq incorrectly handled certain wildcard synthesized NSEC records. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to prove the non-existence of hostnames that actually exist. CVE-2017-15107 It was discovered that Dnsmasq incorrectly handled certain large DNS packets. A...

USN-4916-2: Linux kernel regression

USN-4916-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel. Unfortunately, the fix for CVE-2021-3493 introduced a memory leak in some situations. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: It was discovered that the overlayfs implementation in the Linu...

USN-4923-1: EDK II vulnerabilities

Laszlo Ersek discovered that EDK II incorrectly handled recursion. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause EDK II to consume resources, leading to a denial of service. CVE-2021-28210 Satoshi Tanda discovered that EDK II incorrectly handled decompressing certain images. A remote...

USN-4922-1: Ruby vulnerability

Juho Nurminen discovered that the REXML gem bundled with Ruby incorrectly parsed and serialized XML documents. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform an XML round-trip attack...

USN-4921-1: libcaca vulnerability

It was discovered that libcaca incorrectly handled certain images. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code...

USN-4918-2: ClamAV vulnerabilities

USN-4918-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in ClamAV. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM. Original advisory details: It was discovered that ClamAV incorrectly handled parsing Excel documents. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause ClamAV to hang,...

USN-4563-2: NTP vulnerability

USN-4563-1 fixed a vulnerability in NTP. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.10. Original advisory details: It was discovered that the fix for CVE-2018-7182 introduced a NULL pointer dereference into NTP. An attacker could use this vulnerability to cau...

USN-4919-1: OpenSLP vulnerability

It was discovered that OpenSLP did not properly validate URLs. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause OpenSLP to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code...

USN-4918-1: ClamAV vulnerabilities

It was discovered that ClamAV incorrectly handled parsing Excel documents. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause ClamAV to hang, resulting in a denial of service. CVE-2021-1252 It was discovered that ClamAV incorrectly handled parsing PDF documents. A remote attacker could...

USN-4917-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the overlayfs implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly validate the application of file system capabilities with respect to user namespaces. A local attacker could use this to gain elevated privileges. CVE-2021-3493 Vincent Dehors discovered that the shiftfs file...

USN-4916-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the overlayfs implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly validate the application of file system capabilities with respect to user namespaces. A local attacker could use this to gain elevated privileges. CVE-2021-3493 Piotr Krysiuk discovered that the BPF JIT...

USN-4915-1: Linux kernel (OEM) vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the overlayfs implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly validate the application of file system capabilities with respect to user namespaces. A local attacker could use this to gain elevated privileges. CVE-2021-3493 Vincent Dehors discovered that the shiftfs file...

USN-4913-1: Underscore vulnerability

It was discovered that Underscore incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to inject arbitrary code...

USN-4914-1: NetworkManager vulnerability

It was discovered that NetworkManager incorrectly handled certain profiles. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to cause NetworkManager to crash, resulting in a denial of service...

USN-4911-1: Linux kernel (OEM) vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the Nouveau GPU driver in the Linux kernel did not properly handle error conditions in some situations. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2020-25639 Jan Beulich discovered that the Xen netback backend in the Linux kernel did not...

USN-4909-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Loris Reiff discovered that the BPF implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly validate attributes in the getsockopt BPF hook. A local attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2021-20194 Olivier Benjamin, Norbert Manthey, Martin Mazein, and Jan H...

USN-4912-1: Linux kernel (OEM) vulnerabilities

Piotr Krysiuk discovered that the BPF JIT compiler for x86 in the Linux kernel did not properly validate computation of branch displacements in some situations. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2021-29154 It was...

USN-4910-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Ryota Shiga discovered that the sockopt BPF hooks in the Linux kernel could allow a user space program to probe for valid kernel addresses. A local attacker could use this to ease exploitation of another kernel vulnerability. CVE-2021-20239 It was discovered that the BPF verifier in the Linux...

USN-4907-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Wen Xu discovered that the xfs file system implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly validate the number of extents in an inode. An attacker could use this to construct a malicious xfs image that, when mounted, could cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2018-13095 It was discover...

USN-4906-1: Nettle vulnerability

It was discovered that Nettle incorrectly handled signature verification. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause Nettle to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly force invalid signatures...

USN-4904-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Ben Harris discovered that the Linux kernel would strip extended privilege attributes of files when performing a failed unprivileged system call. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service. CVE-2015-1350 Andrey Konovalov discovered that the video4linux driver for Hauppauge HD PV...

USN-4905-1: X.Org X Server vulnerability

Jan-Niklas Sohn discovered that the X.Org X Server incorrectly handled certain lengths of XInput extension ChangeFeedbackControl requests. An attacker could use this issue to cause the server to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code...

USN-4899-2: SpamAssassin vulnerability

USN-4899-1 fixed a vulnerability in SpamAssassin. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM. Original advisory details: Damian Lukowski discovered that SpamAssassin incorrectly handled certain CF files. If a user or automated system were tricked into using a specially-...

USN-4896-2: lxml vulnerability

USN-4896-1 fixed a vulnerability in lxml. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM. Original advisory details: It was discovered that lxml incorrectly handled certain HTML attributes. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform cross-site scripting XSS...

USN-4903-1: curl vulnerability

Viktor Szakats discovered that curl did not strip off user credentials from referrer header fields. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information...

USN-4561-2: Rack vulnerabilities

USN-4561-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Rack. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.10. Original advisory details: It was discovered that Rack incorrectly handled certain paths. An attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive...

USN-4902-1: Django vulnerability

Dennis Brinkrolf discovered that Django incorrectly handled certain filenames. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to create or overwrite files in unexpected directories...

USN-4901-1: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerabilities

Adam Nichols discovered that heap overflows existed in the iSCSI subsystem in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2021-27365 It was discovered that the LIO SCSI target implementation in the Linux kerne...

USN-4900-1: 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-4899-1: SpamAssassin vulnerability

Damian Lukowski discovered that SpamAssassin incorrectly handled certain CF files. If a user or automated system were tricked into using a specially- crafted CF file, a remote attacker could possibly run arbitrary code...

USN-4898-1: curl vulnerabilities

Viktor Szakats discovered that curl did not strip off user credentials from referrer header fields. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information. CVE-2021-22876 Mingtao Yang discovered that curl incorrectly handled session tickets when using an HTTPS proxy. A...