USN-3070-2: Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi 2) vulnerabilities

A missing permission check when settings ACLs was discovered in nfsd. A local user could exploit this flaw to gain access to any file by setting an ACL. CVE-2016-1237 Kangjie Lu discovered an information leak in the Reliable Datagram Sockets RDS implementation in the Linux kernel. A local attacke...

USN-3072-2: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities

Kangjie Lu discovered an information leak in the Reliable Datagram Sockets RDS implementation in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory. CVE-2016-5244 Yue Cao et al discovered a flaw in the TCP implementation's handling of...

USN-3072-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Kangjie Lu discovered an information leak in the Reliable Datagram Sockets RDS implementation in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory. CVE-2016-5244 Yue Cao et al discovered a flaw in the TCP implementation's handling of...

USN-3071-2: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerabilities

USN-3071-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 14.04 LTS for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. Kangjie Lu discovered an information leak in the Reliable Datagram Sockets RDS...

USN-3071-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Kangjie Lu discovered an information leak in the Reliable Datagram Sockets RDS implementation in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory. CVE-2016-5244 Yue Cao et al discovered a flaw in the TCP implementation's handling of...

USN-3070-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

A missing permission check when settings ACLs was discovered in nfsd. A local user could exploit this flaw to gain access to any file by setting an ACL. CVE-2016-1237 Kangjie Lu discovered an information leak in the Reliable Datagram Sockets RDS implementation in the Linux kernel. A local attacke...

USN-3069-1: Eye of GNOME vulnerability

It was discovered that Eye of GNOME incorrectly handled certain invalid UTF-8 strings. If a user were tricked into opening a specially-crafted image, a remote attacker could use this issue to cause Eye of GNOME to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code...

USN-3067-1: HarfBuzz vulnerabilities

Kostya Serebryany discovered that HarfBuzz incorrectly handled memory. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause HarfBuzz to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2015-8947 It was discovered that HarfBuzz incorrectly handled certain length checks. ...

USN-3068-1: Libidn vulnerabilities

Thijs Alkemade, Gustavo Grieco, Daniel Stenberg, and Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos discovered that Libidn incorrectly handled invalid UTF-8 characters. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause Libidn to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly disclose sensitive memory. This issue on...

USN-3066-1: PostgreSQL vulnerabilities

Heikki Linnakangas discovered that PostgreSQL incorrectly handled certain nested CASE/WHEN expressions. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause PostgreSQL to crash, resulting in a denial of service. CVE-2016-5423 Nathan Bossart discovered that PostgreSQL incorrectly handled speci...

USN-3065-1: Libgcrypt vulnerability

Felix Dörre and Vladimir Klebanov discovered that Libgcrypt incorrectly handled mixing functions in the random number generator. An attacker able to obtain 4640 bits from the RNG can trivially predict the next 160 bits of output...

USN-3064-1: GnuPG vulnerability

Felix Dörre and Vladimir Klebanov discovered that GnuPG incorrectly handled mixing functions in the random number generator. An attacker able to obtain 4640 bits from the RNG can trivially predict the next 160 bits of output...

USN-3063-1: Fontconfig vulnerability

Tobias Stoeckmann discovered that Fontconfig incorrectly handled cache files. A local attacker could possibly use this issue with a specially crafted cache file to elevate privileges...

USN-3062-1: OpenJDK 7 vulnerabilities

Multiple 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, expose sensitive data over the network, or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2016-3598, CVE-2016-3606,...

USN-3061-1: OpenSSH vulnerabilities

Eddie Harari discovered that OpenSSH incorrectly handled password hashing when authenticating non-existing users. A remote attacker could perform a timing attack and enumerate valid users. CVE-2016-6210 Tomas Kuthan, Andres Rojas, and Javier Nieto discovered that OpenSSH did not limit password...

USN-3047-2: QEMU regression

USN-3047-1 fixed vulnerabilities in QEMU. The patch to fix CVE-2016-5403 caused a regression which resulted in save/restore failures when virtio memory balloon statistics are enabled. This update temporarily reverts the security fix for CVE-2016-5403 pending further investigation. We apologize fo...

USN-3060-1: GD library vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the GD library incorrectly handled certain malformed TGA images. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted TGA image, an attacker could cause a denial of service. CVE-2016-6132, CVE-2016-6214 It was discovered that the GD library...

USN-3059-1: xmlrpc-epi vulnerability

It was discovered that xmlrpc-epi incorrectly handled lengths in the simplestringaddn function. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause applications using xmlrpc-epi such as PHP to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code...

USN-3057-1: Linux kernel (Qualcomm Snapdragon) vulnerabilities

Ben Hawkes discovered an integer overflow in the Linux netfilter implementation. On systems running 32 bit kernels, a local unprivileged attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code with administrative privileges. CVE-2016-3135 It was...

USN-3056-1: Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi 2) vulnerabilities

Ben Hawkes discovered an integer overflow in the Linux netfilter implementation. On systems running 32 bit kernels, a local unprivileged attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code with administrative privileges. CVE-2016-3135 It was...

USN-3055-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Ben Hawkes discovered an integer overflow in the Linux netfilter implementation. On systems running 32 bit kernels, a local unprivileged attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code with administrative privileges. CVE-2016-3135 It was...

USN-3054-1: Linux kernel (Xenial HWE) vulnerabilities

Ben Hawkes discovered an integer overflow in the Linux netfilter implementation. On systems running 32 bit kernels, a local unprivileged attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code with administrative privileges. CVE-2016-3135 It was...

USN-3053-1: Linux kernel (Vivid HWE) vulnerabilities

A missing permission check when settings ACLs was discovered in nfsd. A local user could exploit this flaw to gain access to any file by setting an ACL. CVE-2016-1237 It was discovered that the keyring implementation in the Linux kernel did not ensure a data structure was initialized before...

USN-3052-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the keyring implementation in the Linux kernel did not ensure a data structure was initialized before referencing it after an error condition occurred. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2016-4470 Kangjie Lu discovered an...

USN-3051-1: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the keyring implementation in the Linux kernel did not ensure a data structure was initialized before referencing it after an error condition occurred. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2016-4470 Kangjie Lu discovered an...

USN-3050-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities

Ben Hawkes discovered that the Linux netfilter implementation did not correctly perform validation when handling IPTSOSETREPLACE events. A local unprivileged attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code with administrative privileges...

USN-3049-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Ben Hawkes discovered that the Linux netfilter implementation did not correctly perform validation when handling IPTSOSETREPLACE events. A local unprivileged attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code with administrative privileges...

USN-3048-1: curl vulnerabilities

Bru Rom discovered that curl incorrectly handled client certificates when resuming a TLS session. CVE-2016-5419 It was discovered that curl incorrectly handled client certificates when reusing TLS connections. CVE-2016-5420 Marcelo Echeverria and Fernando Muñoz discovered that curl incorrectly...

USN-3041-1: Oxide vulnerabilities

Multiple security issues were discovered in Chromium. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit these to read uninitialized memory, cause a denial of service application crash or execute arbitrary code. CVE-2016-1705 It was discovered...

USN-3044-1: Firefox vulnerabilities

Gustavo Grieco discovered an out-of-bounds read during XML parsing in some circumstances. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash, or obtain sensitive information. CVE-2016-0718...

USN-3047-1: QEMU vulnerabilities

Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled 53C9X Fast SCSI controller emulation. A privileged attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code on the host. In the default installation, when QEMU is...

USN-3046-1: LibreOffice vulnerability

Yves Younan and Richard Johnson discovered that LibreOffice incorrectly handled presentation files. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted presentation file, a remote attacker could cause LibreOffice to crash, and possibly execute arbitrary code...

USN-3045-1: PHP vulnerabilities

It was discovered that PHP incorrectly handled certain SplMinHeap::compare operations. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause PHP to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. CVE-2015-4116 ...

USN-3043-1: OpenJDK 8 vulnerabilities

Multiple 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, expose sensitive data over the network, or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2016-3587, CVE-2016-3598,...

USN-3042-1: KDE-Libs vulnerability

Andreas Cord-Landwehr discovered that KDE-Libs incorrectly handled extracting certain archives. If a user were tricked into extracting a specially-crafted archive, a remote attacker could use this issue to overwrite arbitrary files out of the extraction directory...

USN-3040-1: MySQL vulnerabilities

Multiple security issues were discovered in MySQL and this update includes new upstream MySQL versions to fix these issues. MySQL has been updated to 5.5.50 in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Ubuntu 15.10 has been updated to MySQL 5.6.31. Ubuntu 16.04 LTS has been updated to MySQL 5.7.13. ...

USN-3039-1: Django vulnerability

It was discovered that Django incorrectly handled the admin's add/change related popup. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform a cross-site scripting attack...

USN-3038-1: Apache HTTP Server vulnerability

It was discovered that the Apache HTTP Server would set the HTTPPROXY environment variable based on the contents of the Proxy header from HTTP requests. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue in combination with CGI scripts that honour the HTTPPROXY variable to redirect outgoing HTTP...

USN-3023-1: Thunderbird vulnerabilities

It was discovered that NSPR incorrectly handled memory allocation. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted message, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code. CVE-2016-1951 Christian Holler, Gary Kwong...

USN-3037-1: Linux kernel (Vivid HWE) vulnerability

Jan Stancek discovered that the Linux kernel's memory manager did not properly handle moving pages mapped by the asynchronous I/O AIO ring buffer to the other nodes. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash...

USN-3036-1: Linux kernel (Utopic HWE) vulnerability

Jan Stancek discovered that the Linux kernel's memory manager did not properly handle moving pages mapped by the asynchronous I/O AIO ring buffer to the other nodes. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash...

USN-3035-3: Linux kernel (Wily HWE) vulnerability

USN-3035-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 15.10. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 15.10 for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Jan Stancek discovered that the Linux kernel's memory manager did not properly handle moving...

USN-3035-2: Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi 2) vulnerability

Jan Stancek discovered that the Linux kernel's memory manager did not properly handle moving pages mapped by the asynchronous I/O AIO ring buffer to the other nodes. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash...

USN-3035-1: Linux kernel vulnerability

Jan Stancek discovered that the Linux kernel's memory manager did not properly handle moving pages mapped by the asynchronous I/O AIO ring buffer to the other nodes. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash...

USN-3034-2: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerability

USN-3034-1 fixed a vulnerability in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 14.04 LTS for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. Jan Stancek discovered that the Linux kernel's memory manager did not properly handle...

USN-3034-1: Linux kernel vulnerability

Jan Stancek discovered that the Linux kernel's memory manager did not properly handle moving pages mapped by the asynchronous I/O AIO ring buffer to the other nodes. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash...

USN-3033-1: libarchive vulnerabilities

Hanno Böck discovered that libarchive contained multiple security issues when processing certain malformed archive files. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause libarchive to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2015-8916, CVE-2015-8917...

USN-3032-1: eCryptfs vulnerability

It was discovered that eCryptfs incorrectly configured the encrypted swap partition for certain drive types. An attacker could use this issue to discover sensitive information...

USN-3031-1: Pidgin vulnerabilities

Yves Younan discovered that Pidgin contained multiple issues in the MXit protocol support. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause Pidgin to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code...

USN-3030-1: GD library vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the GD library incorrectly handled memory when using gdImageScaleTwoPass. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. CVE-2013-7456 It was discovered that the GD library incorrectly handled certain...