USN-2981-1: libarchive vulnerabilities

It was discovered that libarchive incorrectly handled certain entry-size values in ZIP archives. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause libarchive to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 15.10 and...

USN-2980-1: libndp vulnerability

Julien Bernard discovered that libndp incorrectly performed origin checks when receiving Neighbor Discovery Protocol NDP messages. A remote attacker outside of the local network could use this issue to advertise a node as a router, causing a denial of service, or possibly to act as a...

USN-2979-4: Linux kernel (Qualcomm Snapdragon) vulnerability

Philip Pettersson discovered that the Linux kernel's ASN.1 DER decoder did not properly process certificate files with tags of indefinite length. A local unprivileged attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code with administrative privilege...

USN-2979-3: Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi 2) vulnerability

Philip Pettersson discovered that the Linux kernel's ASN.1 DER decoder did not properly process certificate files with tags of indefinite length. A local unprivileged attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code with administrative privilege...

USN-2979-2: Linux kernel (Xenial HWE) vulnerabilities

USN-2979-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. David Matlack discovered that the Kernel-based Virtual Machine KVM implementation in t...

USN-2979-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

David Matlack discovered that the Kernel-based Virtual Machine KVM implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly restrict variable Memory Type Range Registers MTRR in KVM guests. A privileged user in a guest VM could use this to cause a denial of service system crash in the host, expose...

USN-2978-3: Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi 2) vulnerability

Philip Pettersson discovered that the Linux kernel's ASN.1 DER decoder did not properly process certificate files with tags of indefinite length. A local unprivileged attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code with administrative privilege...

USN-2978-2: Linux kernel (Wily HWE) vulnerabilities

USN-2978-1 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. David Matlack discovered that the Kernel-based Virtual Machine KVM implementation in the Linux...

USN-2978-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

David Matlack discovered that the Kernel-based Virtual Machine KVM implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly restrict variable Memory Type Range Registers MTRR in KVM guests. A privileged user in a guest VM could use this to cause a denial of service system crash in the host, expose...

USN-2977-1: Linux kernel (Vivid HWE) vulnerability

Philip Pettersson discovered that the Linux kernel's ASN.1 DER decoder did not properly process certificate files with tags of indefinite length. A local unprivileged attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code with administrative privilege...

USN-2976-1: Linux kernel (Utopic HWE) vulnerability

Philip Pettersson discovered that the Linux kernel's ASN.1 DER decoder did not properly process certificate files with tags of indefinite length. A local unprivileged attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code with administrative privilege...

USN-2975-2: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerability

USN-2975-1 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. Philip Pettersson discovered that the Linux kernel's ASN.1 DER decoder did not properl...

USN-2975-1: Linux kernel vulnerability

Philip Pettersson discovered that the Linux kernel's ASN.1 DER decoder did not properly process certificate files with tags of indefinite length. A local unprivileged attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code with administrative privilege...

USN-2974-1: QEMU vulnerabilities

Zuozhi Fzz discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled USB OHCI emulation support. A privileged attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service. CVE-2016-2391 Qinghao Tang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled USB Net emulation support. A...

USN-2972-1: OpenJDK 6 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-2016-0686, CVE-2016-0687,...

USN-2971-3: Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi 2) vulnerabilities

Ralf Spenneberg discovered that the Aiptek Tablet USB device driver in the Linux kernel did not properly validate the endpoints reported by the device. An attacker with physical access could cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2015-7515 Zach Riggle discovered that the Linux kernel's list...

USN-2971-2: Linux kernel (Wily HWE) vulnerabilities

USN-2971-1 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. Ralf Spenneberg discovered that the Aiptek Tablet USB device driver in the Linux kernel did no...

USN-2971-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Ralf Spenneberg discovered that the Aiptek Tablet USB device driver in the Linux kernel did not properly validate the endpoints reported by the device. An attacker with physical access could cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2015-7515 Zach Riggle discovered that the Linux kernel's list...

USN-2970-1: Linux kernel (Vivid HWE) vulnerabilities

Ralf Spenneberg discovered that the Aiptek Tablet USB device driver in the Linux kernel did not properly validate the endpoints reported by the device. An attacker with physical access could cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2015-7515 Ben Hawkes discovered that the Linux kernel's AIO...

USN-2969-1: Linux kernel (Utopic HWE) vulnerabilities

Ralf Spenneberg discovered that the Aiptek Tablet USB device driver in the Linux kernel did not properly validate the endpoints reported by the device. An attacker with physical access could cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2015-7515 Ben Hawkes discovered that the Linux kernel's AIO...

USN-2968-2: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerabilities

USN-2968-1 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. Ralf Spenneberg discovered that the Aiptek Tablet USB device driver in the Linux kerne...

USN-2968-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Ralf Spenneberg discovered that the Aiptek Tablet USB device driver in the Linux kernel did not properly validate the endpoints reported by the device. An attacker with physical access could cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2015-7515 Ben Hawkes discovered that the Linux kernel's AIO...

USN-2967-2: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the Linux kernel did not properly enforce rlimits for file descriptors sent over UNIX domain sockets. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service. CVE-2013-4312 Ralf Spenneberg discovered that the Aiptek Tablet USB device driver in the Linux kernel did not...

USN-2967-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the Linux kernel did not properly enforce rlimits for file descriptors sent over UNIX domain sockets. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service. CVE-2013-4312 Ralf Spenneberg discovered that the Aiptek Tablet USB device driver in the Linux kernel did not...

USN-2966-1: OpenSSH vulnerabilities

Shayan Sadigh discovered that OpenSSH incorrectly handled environment files when the UseLogin feature is enabled. A local attacker could use this issue to gain privileges. CVE-2015-8325 Ben Hawkes discovered that OpenSSH incorrectly handled certain network traffic. A remote attacker could possibl...

USN-2965-4: Linux kernel (Qualcomm Snapdragon) vulnerability

Jann Horn discovered that the extended Berkeley Packet Filter eBPF implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly reference count file descriptors, leading to a use-after-free. A local unprivileged attacker could use this to gain administrative privileges. Ralf Spenneberg discovered that the...

USN-2965-3: Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi 2) vulnerabilities

Jann Horn discovered that the extended Berkeley Packet Filter eBPF implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly reference count file descriptors, leading to a use-after-free. A local unprivileged attacker could use this to gain administrative privileges. CVE-2016-4557 Ralf Spenneberg...

USN-2965-2: Linux kernel (Xenial HWE) vulnerabilities

USN-2965-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Jann Horn discovered that the extended Berkeley Packet Filter eBPF implementation in t...

USN-2965-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Jann Horn discovered that the extended Berkeley Packet Filter eBPF implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly reference count file descriptors, leading to a use-after-free. A local unprivileged attacker could use this to gain administrative privileges. CVE-2016-4557 Ralf Spenneberg...

USN-2964-1: 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-2016-0686, CVE-2016-0687,...

USN-2963-1: 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-2016-0686, CVE-2016-0687,...

USN-2961-1: Little CMS vulnerability

It was discovered that a double free could occur when the intent handling code in the Little CMS library detected an error. An attacker could use this to specially craft a file that caused an application using the Little CMS library to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code...

USN-2950-3: Samba regressions

USN-2950-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Samba. The fixes introduced in Samba 4.3.8 caused certain regressions and interoperability issues. This update resolves some of these issues by updating to Samba 4.3.9 in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 15.10 and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. Backported regression fixes were adde...

USN-2950-2: libsoup update

USN-2950-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Samba. The updated Samba packages introduced a compatibility issue with NTLM authentication in libsoup. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: Jouni Knuutinen discovered that Samba contained multiple flaws ...

USN-2959-1: OpenSSL vulnerabilities

Huzaifa Sidhpurwala, Hanno Böck, and David Benjamin discovered that OpenSSL incorrectly handled memory when decoding ASN.1 structures. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause OpenSSL to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2016-2108 Juraj...

USN-2936-2: Oxygen-GTK3 update

USN-2936-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. The update caused Firefox to crash on startup with the Oxygen GTK theme due to a pre-existing bug in the Oxygen-GTK3 theme engine. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: Christian Holler, Tyson...

USN-2957-2: Libtasn1 vulnerability

USN-2957-1 fixed a vulnerability in Libtasn1. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. Original advisory details: Pascal Cuoq and Miod Vallat discovered that Libtasn1 incorrectly handled certain malformed DER certificates. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue...

USN-2958-1: poppler vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the poppler pdfseparate tool incorrectly handled certain filenames. A local attacker could use this issue to cause the tool to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. CVE-2013-4473,...

USN-2957-1: Libtasn1 vulnerability

Pascal Cuoq and Miod Vallat discovered that Libtasn1 incorrectly handled certain malformed DER certificates. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause applications using Libtasn1 to hang, resulting in a denial of service...

USN-2956-1: ubuntu-core-launcher vulnerability

Zygmunt Krynicki discovered that ubuntu-core-launcher did not properly sanitize its input and contained a logic error when determining the mountpoint of bind mounts when using snaps on Ubuntu classic systems eg, traditional desktop and server. If a user were tricked into installing a malicious sn...

USN-2934-1: Thunderbird vulnerabilities

Bob Clary, Christoph Diehl, Christian Holler, Andrew McCreight, Daniel Holbert, Jesse Ruderman, and Randell Jesup 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 denia...

USN-2955-1: Oxide vulnerabilities

A use-after-free was discovered when responding synchronously to permission requests. An attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. CVE-2016-1578 An out-of-bounds read...

USN-2952-2: PHP regression

USN-2952-1 fixed vulnerabilities in PHP. One of the backported patches caused a regression in the PHP Soap client. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: It was discovered that the PHP Zip extension incorrectly handled directories when...

USN-2936-1: Firefox vulnerabilities

Christian Holler, Tyson Smith, Phil Ringalda, Gary Kwong, Jesse Ruderman, Mats Palmgren, Carsten Book, Boris Zbarsky, David Bolter, Randell Jesup, Andrew McCreight, and Steve Fink discovered multiple memory safety issues in Firefox. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website...

USN-2954-1: 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 5.7.12 in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. In addition to security fixes, the updated packages contain bug fixes, new features, and possibly incompatible changes...

USN-2953-1: 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 5.5.49 in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Ubuntu 15.10 has been updated to MySQL 5.6.30. In addition to security fixes, the updated packages...

USN-2952-1: PHP vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the PHP Zip extension incorrectly handled directories when processing certain zip files. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to create arbitrary directories. CVE-2014-9767 It was discovered that the PHP Soap client incorrectly validated data types. A remote...

USN-2917-3: Firefox regressions

USN-2917-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. This update caused several web compatibility regressions. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: Francis Gabriel discovered a buffer overflow during ASN.1 decoding in NSS. If a user were tricked in...

USN-2951-1: OptiPNG vulnerabilities

Gustavo Grieco discovered that OptiPNG incorrectly handled memory. A remote attacker could use this issue with a specially crafted image file to cause OptiPNG to crash, resulting in a denial of service. CVE-2015-7801 Gustavo Grieco discovered that OptiPNG incorrectly handled memory. A remote...

USN-2950-1: Samba vulnerabilities

Jouni Knuutinen discovered that Samba contained multiple flaws in the DCE/RPC implementation. A remote attacker could use this issue to perform a denial of service, downgrade secure connections by performing a machine-in-the-middle attack, or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2015-5370 Stefan...