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USN-2438-1: NVIDIA graphics drivers vulnerabilities
It was discovered that the NVIDIA graphics drivers incorrectly handled GLX indirect rendering support. An attacker able to connect to an X server, either locally or remotely, could use these issues to cause the X server to crash or execute arbitrary code resulting in possible privilege escalation...
USN-2436-2: X.Org X server vulnerabilities
USN-2436-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the X.Org X server. Since publication, additional fixes have been made available for these issues. This update adds the additional fixes. Original advisory details: Ilja van Sprundel discovered a multitude of security issues in the X.Org X server. An attacker...
USN-2437-1: Bind vulnerability
Florian Maury discovered that Bind incorrectly handled delegation. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Bind to consume resources and crash, resulting in a denial of service...
USN-2436-1: X.Org X server vulnerabilities
Ilja van Sprundel discovered a multitude of security issues in the X.Org X server. An attacker able to connect to an X server, either locally or remotely, could use these issues to cause the X server to crash or execute arbitrary code resulting in possible privilege escalation...
USN-2435-1: Graphviz vulnerability
It was discovered that graphviz incorrectly handled parsing errors. An attacker could use this issue to cause graphviz to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code...
USN-2434-2: Ghostscript vulnerability
USN-2434-1 fixed a vulnerability in JasPer. This update provides the corresponding fix for the JasPer library embedded in the Ghostscript package. Original advisory details: Jose Duart discovered that JasPer incorrectly handled certain malformed JPEG-2000 image files. If a user were tricked into...
USN-2434-1: JasPer vulnerability
Jose Duart discovered that JasPer incorrectly handled certain malformed JPEG-2000 image files. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted JPEG-2000 image file, a remote attacker could cause JasPer to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code with user privileges...
USN-2431-2: MAAS regression
USN-2431-1 fixed vulnerabilities in modwsgi. The security update exposed an issue in the MAAS package, causing a regression. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: It was discovered that modwsgi incorrectly handled errors when setting up the...
USN-2433-1: tcpdump vulnerabilities
Steffen Bauch discovered that tcpdump incorrectly handled printing OSLR packets. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause tcpdump to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2014-8767 Steffen Bauch discovered that tcpdump incorrectly handled printing...
USN-2432-1: GNU C Library vulnerabilities
Siddhesh Poyarekar discovered that the GNU C Library incorrectly handled certain multibyte characters when using the iconv function. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause applications to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and Ubuntu 12....
USN-2428-1: Thunderbird vulnerabilities
Gary Kwong, Randell Jesup, Nils Ohlmeier, Jesse Ruderman, and Max Jonas Werner 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...
USN-2431-1: mod_wsgi vulnerability
It was discovered that modwsgi incorrectly handled errors when setting up the working directory and group access rights. A malicious application could possibly use this issue to cause a local privilege escalation when using daemon mode...
USN-2424-1: Firefox vulnerabilities
Gary Kwong, Randell Jesup, Nils Ohlmeier, Jesse Ruderman, Max Jonas Werner, Christian Holler, Jon Coppeard, Eric Rahm, Byron Campen, Eric Rescorla, and Xidorn Quan discovered multiple memory safety issues in Firefox. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker...
USN-2430-1: OpenVPN vulnerability
Dragana Damjanovic discovered that OpenVPN incorrectly handled certain control channel packets. An authenticated attacker could use this issue to cause an OpenVPN server to crash, resulting in a denial of service...
USN-2429-1: ppp vulnerability
It was discovered that ppp incorrectly handled certain options files. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to escalate privileges...
USN-2427-1: Libksba vulnerability
Hanno Böck discovered that Libksba incorrectly handled certain S/MIME messages or ECC based OpenPGP data. An attacker could use this issue to cause Libksba to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code...
USN-2426-1: FLAC vulnerabilities
Michele Spagnuolo discovered that FLAC incorrectly handled certain malformed audio files. An attacker could use this issue to cause FLAC to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code...
USN-2425-1: DBus vulnerability
It was discovered that DBus incorrectly handled a large number of file descriptor messages. A local attacker could use this issue to cause DBus to stop responding, resulting in a denial of service. CVE-2014-7824...
USN-2423-1: ClamAV vulnerabilities
Kurt Seifried discovered that ClamAV incorrectly handled certain JavaScript files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause ClamAV to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2013-6497 Damien Millescamp discovered that ClamAV incorrectly handled...
USN-2422-1: Squid vulnerabilities
Sebastian Krahmer discovered that the Squid pinger incorrectly handled certain malformed ICMP packets. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Squid to crash, resulting in a denial of service...
USN-2421-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
A flaw was discovered in how the Linux kernel's KVM Kernel Virtual Machine subsystem handles the CR4 control register at VM entry on Intel processors. A local host OS user can exploit this to cause a denial of service kill arbitrary processes, or system disruption by leveraging /dev/kvm access...
USN-2420-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
A flaw was discovered in how the Linux kernel's KVM Kernel Virtual Machine subsystem handles the CR4 control register at VM entry on Intel processors. A local host OS user can exploit this to cause a denial of service kill arbitrary processes, or system disruption by leveraging /dev/kvm access...
USN-2419-1: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerabilities
A flaw was discovered in how the Linux kernel's KVM Kernel Virtual Machine subsystem handles the CR4 control register at VM entry on Intel processors. A local host OS user can exploit this to cause a denial of service kill arbitrary processes, or system disruption by leveraging /dev/kvm access...
USN-2418-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) 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-2417-1: 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-2416-1: Linux kernel (EC2) vulnerabilities
Don Bailey discovered a flaw in the LZO decompress algorithm used by the Linux kernel. An attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service memory corruption or OOPS. CVE-2014-4608 Andy Lutomirski discovered that the Linux kernel was not checking the CAPSYSADMIN when remounting...
USN-2415-1: Linux kernel vulnerability
Don Bailey discovered a flaw in the LZO decompress algorithm used by the Linux kernel. An attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service memory corruption or OOPS. CVE-2014-4608 Andy Lutomirski discovered that the Linux kernel was not checking the CAPSYSADMIN when remounting...
USN-2414-1: KDE-Runtime vulnerability
Tim Brown and Darron Burton discovered that KDE-Runtime incorrectly handled input validation. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary javascript...
USN-2413-1: AppArmor vulnerability
An AppArmor policy miscompilation flaw was discovered in apparmorparser. Under certain circumstances, a malicious application could use this flaw to perform operations that are not allowed by AppArmor policy. The flaw may also prevent applications from accessing resources that are allowed by...
USN-2412-1: Ruby vulnerability
Tomas Hoger discovered that Ruby incorrectly handled XML entity expansion. An attacker could use this flaw to cause Ruby to consume large amounts of resources, resulting in a denial of service...
USN-2410-1: Oxide vulnerabilities
A buffer overflow was discovered in Skia. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacked could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via renderer crash or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the sandboxed render process. CVE-2014-7904...
USN-2411-1: mountall vulnerability
Saurav Sengupta discovered that mountall incorrectly handled umask when calling the mount utility, resulting in certain filesystems possibly being mounted with incorrect permissions...
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...