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USN-2077-2: Puppet regression
USN-2077-1 fixed a vulnerability in Puppet. The upstream patch introduced a regression resulting in the default file mode being incorrect. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: It was discovered that Puppet incorrectly handled temporary file...
USN-2078-1: libXfont vulnerability
It was discovered that libXfont incorrectly handled certain malformed BDF fonts. An attacker could use a specially crafted font file to cause libXfont to crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code in order to gain privileges. The default compiler options for affected releases should reduce the...
USN-2077-1: Puppet vulnerability
It was discovered that Puppet incorrectly handled temporary files. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to overwrite arbitrary files. In the default installation of Ubuntu, this should be prevented by the Yama link restrictions...
USN-2076-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities
Dave Jones and Vince Weaver reported a flaw in the Linux kernel's per event subsystem that allows normal users to enable function tracing. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to obtain potentially sensitive information from the kernel. CVE-2013-2930 Stephan Mueller reported an erro...
USN-2074-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities
Dave Jones and Vince Weaver reported a flaw in the Linux kernel's per event subsystem that allows normal users to enable function tracing. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to obtain potentially sensitive information from the kernel. CVE-2013-2930 Stephan Mueller reported an erro...
USN-2075-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Vasily Kulikov reported a flaw in the Linux kernel's implementation of ptrace. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory. CVE-2013-2929 Dave Jones and Vince Weaver reported a flaw in the Linux kernel's per event subsystem that allows...
USN-2073-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Hannes Frederic Sowa discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel's UDP Fragmentation Offload UFO. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly gain administrative privileges. CVE-2013-4470 Multiple integer overflow flaws were discovered in the...
USN-2072-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities
Dave Jones and Vince Weaver reported a flaw in the Linux kernel's per event subsystem that allows normal users to enable function tracing. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to obtain potentially sensitive information from the kernel. CVE-2013-2930 Stephan Mueller reported an erro...
USN-2071-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Dave Jones and Vince Weaver reported a flaw in the Linux kernel's per event subsystem that allows normal users to enable function tracing. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to obtain potentially sensitive information from the kernel. CVE-2013-2930 Stephan Mueller reported an erro...
USN-2070-1: Linux kernel (Saucy HWE) vulnerabilities
Vasily Kulikov reported a flaw in the Linux kernel's implementation of ptrace. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory. CVE-2013-2929 Dave Jones and Vince Weaver reported a flaw in the Linux kernel's per event subsystem that allows...
USN-2069-1: Linux kernel (Raring HWE) vulnerabilities
Hannes Frederic Sowa discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel's UDP Fragmentation Offload UFO. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly gain administrative privileges. CVE-2013-4470 Multiple integer overflow flaws were discovered in the...
USN-2068-1: Linux kernel (Quantal HWE) vulnerabilities
Dave Jones and Vince Weaver reported a flaw in the Linux kernel's per event subsystem that allows normal users to enable function tracing. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to obtain potentially sensitive information from the kernel. CVE-2013-2930 Stephan Mueller reported an erro...
USN-2067-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities
A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's dm snapshot facility. A remote authenticated user could exploit this flaw to obtain sensitive information or modify/corrupt data. CVE-2013-4299 Hannes Frederic Sowa discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel's UDP Fragmentation Offload UFO. An unprivileged...
USN-2066-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's dm snapshot facility. A remote authenticated user could exploit this flaw to obtain sensitive information or modify/corrupt data. CVE-2013-4299 Hannes Frederic Sowa discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel's UDP Fragmentation Offload UFO. An unprivileged...
USN-2065-1: Linux kernel (EC2) vulnerabilities
Stephan Mueller reported an error in the Linux kernel's ansi cprng random number generator. This flaw makes it easier for a local attacker to break cryptographic protections. CVE-2013-4345 A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's IP Virtual Server IPVS support. A local user with the CAPNETADMI...
USN-2064-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Stephan Mueller reported an error in the Linux kernel's ansi cprng random number generator. This flaw makes it easier for a local attacker to break cryptographic protections. CVE-2013-4345 A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's IP Virtual Server IPVS support. A local user with the CAPNETADMI...
USN-2063-1: NSS vulnerability
It was discovered that an intermediate certificate was incorrectly issued by a subordinate certificate authority of a trusted CA included in NSS. This intermediate certificate could be used in a machine-in-the-middle attack, and has such been marked as untrusted in this update...
USN-2062-1: OpenStack Horizon vulnerability
Chris Chapman discovered cross-site scripting XSS vulnerabilities in Horizon via the Volumes and Network Topology pages. An authenticated attacker could exploit these to conduct stored cross-site scripting XSS attacks against users viewing these pages in order to modify the contents or steal...
USN-2061-1: OpenStack Keystone vulnerability
Steven Hardy discovered that Keystone did not properly enforce trusts when using the ec2tokens API. An authenticated attacker could exploit this to retrieve a token not scoped to the trust and elevate privileges to the trustor's roles...
USN-2060-1: libjpeg, libjpeg-turbo vulnerabilities
Michal Zalewski discovered that libjpeg and libjpeg-turbo incorrectly handled certain memory operations. An attacker could use this issue with a specially-crafted JPEG file to possibly expose sensitive information...
USN-2059-1: GnuPG vulnerability
Daniel Genkin, Adi Shamir, and Eran Tromer discovered that GnuPG was susceptible to an adaptive chosen ciphertext attack via acoustic emanations. A local attacker could use this attack to possibly recover private keys...
USN-2058-1: curl vulnerability
Marc Deslauriers discovered that libcurl incorrectly verified CN and SAN name fields when digital signature verification was disabled in the GnuTLS backend. When libcurl is being used in this uncommon way by specific applications, an attacker could exploit this to perform a machine-in-the-middle...
USN-2057-1: Qt vulnerability
It was discovered that QXmlSimpleReader in Qt incorrectly handled XML entity expansion. An attacker could use this flaw to cause Qt applications to consume large amounts of resources, resulting in a denial of service...
USN-2056-1: DjVuLibre vulnerability
It was discovered that DjVuLibre incorrectly handled certain memory operations. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted DjVu file, applications could be made to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code...
USN-2055-1: PHP vulnerabilities
Stefan Esser discovered that PHP incorrectly parsed certificates. An attacker could use a malformed certificate to cause PHP to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2013-6420 It was discovered that PHP incorrectly handled DateInterval objects. An attack...
USN-2053-1: Thunderbird vulnerabilities
Ben Turner, Bobby Holley, Jesse Ruderman and Christian Holler 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 via application...
USN-2052-1: Firefox vulnerabilities
Ben Turner, Bobby Holley, Jesse Ruderman, Christian Holler and Christoph Diehl discovered multiple memory safety issues in Firefox. 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 application crash, or...
USN-2054-1: Samba vulnerabilities
It was discovered that Winbind incorrectly handled invalid group names with the requiremembershipof parameter. If an administrator used an invalid group name by mistake, access was granted instead of having the login fail. CVE-2012-6150 Stefan Metzmacher and Michael Adam discovered that Samba...
USN-2051-1: GIMP vulnerability
Murray McAllister discovered that GIMP incorrectly handled malformed XWD files. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted XWD file, an attacker could cause GIMP to crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code with the user's privileges...
USN-2050-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities
An information leak was discovered in the handling of ICMPv6 Router Advertisement RA messages in the Linux kernel's IPv6 network stack. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service excessive retries and address-generation outage, and consequently obtain sensitive...
USN-2049-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Miroslav Vadkerti discovered a flaw in how the permissions for network sysctls are handled in the Linux kernel. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to have privileged access to files in /proc/sys/net/. CVE-2013-4270 A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's dm snapshot facility. ...
USN-2048-2: curl regression
USN-2048-1 fixed a vulnerability in curl. The security fix uncovered a bug in the curl command line tool which resulted in the --insecure -k option not working as intended. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: Scott Cantor discovered that...
USN-2048-1: curl vulnerability
Scott Cantor discovered that libcurl incorrectly verified CN and SAN name fields when digital signature verification was disabled. When libcurl is being used in this uncommon way by specific applications, an attacker could exploit this to perform a machine-in-the-middle attack to view sensitive...
USN-2047-1: pixman vulnerability
Bryan Quigley discovered an integer underflow in pixman. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted file, an attacker could cause a denial of service via application crash...
USN-2046-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities
A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's dm snapshot facility. A remote authenticated user could exploit this flaw to obtain sensitive information or modify/corrupt data. CVE-2013-4299 Hannes Frederic Sowa discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel's UDP Fragmentation Offload UFO. An unprivileged...
USN-2045-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's dm snapshot facility. A remote authenticated user could exploit this flaw to obtain sensitive information or modify/corrupt data. CVE-2013-4299 Alan Chester reported a flaw in the IPv6 Stream Control Transmission Protocol SCTP of the Linux kernel. A...
USN-2044-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities
A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's dm snapshot facility. A remote authenticated user could exploit this flaw to obtain sensitive information or modify/corrupt data. CVE-2013-4299 Hannes Frederic Sowa discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel's UDP Fragmentation Offload UFO. An unprivileged...
USN-2043-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's dm snapshot facility. A remote authenticated user could exploit this flaw to obtain sensitive information or modify/corrupt data. CVE-2013-4299 Hannes Frederic Sowa discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel's UDP Fragmentation Offload UFO. An unprivileged...
USN-2042-1: Linux kernel (Saucy HWE) vulnerabilities
A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's dm snapshot facility. A remote authenticated user could exploit this flaw to obtain sensitive information or modify/corrupt data. CVE-2013-4299 Hannes Frederic Sowa discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel's UDP Fragmentation Offload UFO. An unprivileged...
USN-2041-1: Linux kernel (Raring HWE) vulnerabilities
A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's dm snapshot facility. A remote authenticated user could exploit this flaw to obtain sensitive information or modify/corrupt data. CVE-2013-4299 Alan Chester reported a flaw in the IPv6 Stream Control Transmission Protocol SCTP of the Linux kernel. A...
USN-2040-1: Linux kernel (Quantal HWE) vulnerabilities
A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's dm snapshot facility. A remote authenticated user could exploit this flaw to obtain sensitive information or modify/corrupt data. CVE-2013-4299 Hannes Frederic Sowa discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel's UDP Fragmentation Offload UFO. An unprivileged...
USN-2039-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities
An information leak was discovered in the handling of ICMPv6 Router Advertisement RA messages in the Linux kernel's IPv6 network stack. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service excessive retries and address-generation outage, and consequently obtain sensitive...
USN-2038-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
An information leak was discovered in the handling of ICMPv6 Router Advertisement RA messages in the Linux kernel's IPv6 network stack. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service excessive retries and address-generation outage, and consequently obtain sensitive...
USN-2037-1: Linux kernel (EC2) vulnerabilities
A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's KVM kernel virtual machine. An administrative user in the guest OS could leverage this flaw to cause a denial of service in the host OS. CVE-2012-2121 Multiple integer overflow flaws were discovered in the Alchemy LCD frame- buffer drivers in the Linux...
USN-2036-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's KVM kernel virtual machine. An administrative user in the guest OS could leverage this flaw to cause a denial of service in the host OS. CVE-2012-2121 Multiple integer overflow flaws were discovered in the Alchemy LCD frame- buffer drivers in the Linux...
USN-2035-1: Ruby vulnerabilities
Charlie Somerville discovered that Ruby incorrectly handled floating point number conversion. An attacker could possibly use this issue with an application that converts text to floating point numbers to cause the application to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitra...
USN-2034-1: OpenStack Keystone vulnerability
Brant Knudson discovered a logic error in the LDAP backend in Keystone where removing a role on a tenant for a user who does not have that role would instead add the role to the user. An authenticated user could use this to gain privileges. Ubuntu is not configured to use the LDAP Keystone backen...
USN-2033-1: OpenJDK 6 vulnerabilities
Several vulnerabilities were discovered in the OpenJDK JRE related to information disclosure and data integrity. An attacker could exploit these to expose sensitive data over the network. CVE-2013-3829, CVE-2013-5783, CVE-2013-5804 Several vulnerabilities were discovered in the OpenJDK JRE relate...
USN-2032-1: Thunderbird vulnerabilities
Multiple security issues were discovered in Thunderbird. If a user were tricked into connecting to a malicious server, an attacker could possibly exploit these to cause a denial of service via application crash, potentially execute arbitrary code, or lead to information disclosure. CVE-2013-1741,...
USN-2031-1: Firefox vulnerabilities
Multiple security issues were discovered in Firefox. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted page, an attacker could possibly exploit these to cause a denial of service via application crash, potentially execute arbitrary code, or lead to information disclosure. CVE-2013-1741,...