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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-2408-1: OpenStack Neutron vulnerability
Elena Ezhova discovered that OpenStack Neutron did not properly perform access control checks for attributes. A remote authenticated attacker could exploit this to bypass intended access controls and reset admin-only attributes to default values...
USN-2407-1: OpenStack Nova vulnerabilities
Garth Mollett discovered that OpenStack Nova did not properly clean up an instance when using rescue mode with the VMWare driver. A remove authenticated user could exploit this to bypass intended quota limits. By default, Ubuntu does not use the VMWare driver. CVE-2014-3608 Amrith Kumar discovere...
USN-2406-1: OpenStack Keystone vulnerability
Brant Knudson discovered that OpenStack Keystone did not properly perform input sanitization when performing endpoint catalog substitution. A remote attacker with privileged access for creating endpoints could exploit this to obtain sensitive information...
USN-2405-1: OpenStack Cinder vulnerabilities
Duncan Thomas discovered that OpenStack Cinder did not properly track the file format when using the GlusterFS of Smbfs drivers. A remote authenticated user could exploit this to potentially obtain file contents from the compute host. CVE-2014-3641 Amrith Kumar discovered that OpenStack Cinder di...
USN-2404-1: libvirt vulnerabilities
Pavel Hrdina discovered that libvirt incorrectly handled locking when processing the virConnectListAllDomains command. An attacker could use this issue to cause libvirtd to hang, resulting in a denial of service. CVE-2014-3657 Eric Blake discovered that libvirt incorrectly handled permissions whe...
USN-2403-1: GnuTLS vulnerability
Sean Burford discovered that GnuTLS incorrectly handled printing certain elliptic curve parameters. A malicious remote server or client could use this issue to cause GnuTLS to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code...
USN-2402-1: KDE workspace vulnerability
David Edmundson discovered that the KDE Clock KCM policykit helper did not properly guard against untrusted input. Under certain circumstances, a process running under the user's session could exploit this to run programs as the administrator...
USN-2401-1: Konversation vulnerability
Manuel Nickschas discovered that Konversation did not properly perform input sanitization when using Blowfish ECB encryption. A remote attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service...
USN-2400-1: LibreOffice vulnerability
It was discovered that LibreOffice incorrectly handled OLE preview generation. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted document, an attacker could possibly exploit this to embed arbitrary data into documents...
USN-2399-1: curl vulnerability
Symeon Paraschoudis discovered that curl incorrectly handled memory when being used with CURLOPTCOPYPOSTFIELDS and curleasyduphandle. This may result in sensitive data being incorrectly sent to the remote server...
USN-2398-1: LibreOffice vulnerability
It was discovered that LibreOffice incorrectly handled the Impress remote control port. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Impress to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code...
USN-2397-1: Ruby vulnerabilities
Will Wood discovered that Ruby incorrectly handled the encodes function. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Ruby to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. The default compiler options for affected releases should reduce the vulnerability to a...
USN-2396-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Nadav Amit reported that the KVM Kernel Virtual Machine mishandles noncanonical addresses when emulating instructions that change the rip Instruction Pointer. A guest user with access to I/O or the MMIO can use this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash of the guest. CVE-2014-3647 A flaw...
USN-2395-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Nadav Amit reported that the KVM Kernel Virtual Machine mishandles noncanonical addresses when emulating instructions that change the rip Instruction Pointer. A guest user with access to I/O or the MMIO can use this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash of the guest. CVE-2014-3647 A flaw...
USN-2394-1: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerabilities
Nadav Amit reported that the KVM Kernel Virtual Machine mishandles noncanonical addresses when emulating instructions that change the rip Instruction Pointer. A guest user with access to I/O or the MMIO can use this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash of the guest. CVE-2014-3647 A flaw...
USN-2393-1: Wget vulnerability
HD Moore discovered that Wget contained a path traversal vulnerability when downloading symlinks using FTP. A malicious remote FTP server or a man in the middle could use this issue to cause Wget to overwrite arbitrary files, possibly leading to arbitrary code execution...
USN-2392-1: systemd-shim vulnerability
It was discovered that systemd-shim incorrectly shipped with a debugging clause enabled. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service...
USN-2391-1: php5 vulnerabilities
Symeon Paraschoudis discovered that PHP incorrectly handled the mkgmtime function. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause PHP to crash, resulting in a denial of service. CVE-2014-3668 Symeon Paraschoudis discovered that PHP incorrectly handled unserializing objects. A remote...
USN-2390-1: Pidgin vulnerabilities
Jacob Appelbaum and an anonymous person discovered that Pidgin incorrectly handled certificate validation. A remote attacker could exploit this to perform a machine-in-the-middle attack to view sensitive information or alter encrypted communications. CVE-2014-3694 Yves Younan and Richard Johnson...
USN-2389-1: libxml2 vulnerability
It was discovered that libxml2 would incorrectly perform entity substitution even when requested not to. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted document, an attacker could possibly cause resource consumption, resulting in a denial of service...
USN-2388-2: OpenJDK 7 vulnerabilities
USN-2388-1 fixed vulnerabilities in OpenJDK 7 for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for Ubuntu 14.10. Original advisory details: A vulnerability was discovered in the OpenJDK JRE related to information disclosure and data integrity. An attacker could exploit this to...
USN-2388-1: OpenJDK 7 vulnerabilities
A vulnerability was discovered in the OpenJDK JRE related to information disclosure and data integrity. An attacker could exploit this to expose sensitive data over the network. CVE-2014-6457 Several vulnerabilities were discovered in the OpenJDK JRE related to data integrity. CVE-2014-6502,...
USN-2387-1: pollinate update
The pollinate package bundles the certificate for entropy.ubuntu.com. This update refreshes the certificate to match the one currently used on the server...
USN-2386-1: OpenJDK 6 vulnerabilities
A vulnerability was discovered in the OpenJDK JRE related to information disclosure and data integrity. An attacker could exploit this to expose sensitive data over the network. CVE-2014-6457 Several vulnerabilities were discovered in the OpenJDK JRE related to data integrity. CVE-2014-6502,...
USN-2385-1: OpenSSL vulnerabilities
It was discovered that OpenSSL incorrectly handled memory when parsing DTLS SRTP extension data. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause OpenSSL to consume resources, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. CVE-2014-3513 I...
USN-2384-1: 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 5.5.40. In addition to security fixes, the updated packages contain bug fixes, new features, and possibly incompatible changes. Please see the...
USN-2373-1: Thunderbird vulnerabilities
Bobby Holley, Christian Holler, David Bolter, Byron Campen and Jon Coppeard 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 a denial of service vi...
USN-2383-1: wpa_supplicant vulnerability
Jouni Malinen discovered that the wpacli tool incorrectly sanitized strings when being used with action scripts. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary commands...
USN-2372-1: Firefox vulnerabilities
Bobby Holley, Christian Holler, David Bolter, Byron Campen, Jon Coppeard, Carsten Book, Martijn Wargers, Shih-Chiang Chien, Terrence Cole and Jeff Walden discovered multiple memory safety issues in Firefox. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could...
USN-2345-1: Oxide vulnerabilities
Multiple use-after-free issues were discovered in Blink. 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-2382-1: Requests vulnerabilities
Jakub Wilk discovered that Requests incorrectly reused authentication credentials after being redirected. An attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain authentication credentials intended for another site. CVE-2014-1829, CVE-2014-1830...
USN-2381-1: Rsyslog vulnerabilities
It was discovered that Rsyslog incorrectly handled invalid PRI values. An attacker could use this issue to send malformed messages to the Rsyslog server and cause it to stop responding, resulting in a denial of service and possibly message loss. CVE-2014-3634, CVE-2014-3683...
USN-2380-1: Bash vulnerabilities
Michal Zalewski discovered that Bash incorrectly handled parsing certain function definitions. If an attacker were able to create an environment variable containing a function definition with a very specific name, these issues could possibly be used to bypass certain environment restrictions and...
USN-2379-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Steven Vittitoe reported multiple stack buffer overflows in Linux kernel's magicmouse HID driver. A physically proximate attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code via specially crafted devices. CVE-2014-3181 Ben Hawkes reported...
USN-2378-1: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerabilities
Steven Vittitoe reported multiple stack buffer overflows in Linux kernel's magicmouse HID driver. A physically proximate attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code via specially crafted devices. CVE-2014-3181 Ben Hawkes reported...
USN-2377-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities
Steven Vittitoe reported multiple stack buffer overflows in Linux kernel's magicmouse HID driver. A physically proximate attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code via specially crafted devices. CVE-2014-3181 A bounds check error...
USN-2376-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Steven Vittitoe reported multiple stack buffer overflows in Linux kernel's magicmouse HID driver. A physically proximate attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code via specially crafted devices. CVE-2014-3181 A bounds check error...
USN-2375-1: Linux kernel (EC2) vulnerabilities
Ben Hawkes reported some off by one errors for report descriptors in the Linux kernel's HID stack. A physically proximate attacker could exploit these flaws to cause a denial of service out-of-bounds write via a specially crafted device. CVE-2014-3184 Several bounds check flaws allowing for buffe...
USN-2374-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Ben Hawkes reported some off by one errors for report descriptors in the Linux kernel's HID stack. A physically proximate attacker could exploit these flaws to cause a denial of service out-of-bounds write via a specially crafted device. CVE-2014-3184 Several bounds check flaws allowing for buffe...
USN-2371-1: Exuberant Ctags vulnerability
It was discovered that Exuberant Ctags incorrectly handled certain minified js files. An attacker could use this issue to possibly cause Exuberant Ctags to consume resources, resulting in a denial of service...
USN-2370-1: APT vulnerability
Guillem Jover discovered that APT incorrectly created a temporary file when handling the changelog command. A local attacker could use this issue to overwrite arbitrary files. In the default installation of Ubuntu, this should be prevented by the kernel link restrictions...
USN-2369-1: file vulnerability
It was discovered that file incorrectly handled certain CDF documents. A attacker could use this issue to cause file to hang or crash, resulting in a denial of service...
USN-2368-1: OpenVPN vulnerability
It was discovered that OpenVPN incorrectly handled HMAC comparisons when running in UDP mode. If a remote attacker were able to perform a machine-in-the-middle attack, this flaw could possibly be used to perform a plaintext recovery attack...
USN-2367-1: OpenSSL update
For compatibility reasons, OpenSSL in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS disables TLSv1.2 by default when being used as a client. When forcing the use of TLSv1.2, another compatibility feature OPENSSLMAXTLS12CIPHERLENGTH was used that would truncate the cipher list. This would prevent certain ciphers from being...
USN-2366-1: libvirt vulnerabilities
Daniel P. Berrange and Richard Jones discovered that libvirt incorrectly handled XML documents containing XML external entity declarations. An attacker could use this issue to cause libvirtd to crash, resulting in a denial of service on all affected releases, or possibly read arbitrary files if...
USN-2365-1: LibVNCServer vulnerabilities
Nicolas Ruff discovered that LibVNCServer incorrectly handled memory when being advertised large screen sizes by the server. If a user were tricked into connecting to a malicious server, an attacker could use this issue to cause a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code...
USN-2364-1: Bash vulnerabilities
Florian Weimer and Todd Sabin discovered that the Bash parser incorrectly handled memory. An attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass certain environment restrictions and execute arbitrary code. CVE-2014-7186, CVE-2014-7187 In addition, this update introduces a hardening measure which add...
USN-2363-2: Bash vulnerability
USN-2363-1 fixed a vulnerability in Bash. Due to a build issue, the patch for CVE-2014-7169 didn't get properly applied in the Ubuntu 14.04 LTS package. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: Tavis Ormandy discovered that the security fix for...
USN-2363-1: Bash vulnerability
Tavis Ormandy discovered that the security fix for Bash included in USN-2362-1 was incomplete. An attacker could use this issue to bypass certain environment restrictions. CVE-2014-7169...