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USN-5777-1: Pillow vulnerabilities It was discovered that Pillow incorrectly handled the deletion of temporary files when using a temporary directory that contains spaces. An attacker could possibly use this issue to delete arbitrary files. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-24303) It was discovered that Pillow incorrectly handled the decompression of highly compressed GIF data. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Pillow to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2022-45198) Source: USN-5777-1: Pillow vulnerabilities

USN-5776-1: containerd vulnerabilities It was discovered that containerd incorrectly handled memory when receiving certain faulty Exec or ExecSync commands. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or crash containerd. (CVE-2022-23471, CVE-2022-31030) It was discovered that containerd incorrectly set up inheritable file capabilities. An attacker could possibly use this issue to escalate privileges inside a container. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-24769) It was discovered that containerd incorrectly handled access to encrypted container images when using imgcrypt library. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to access encrypted images from other users. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-24778) Source: USN-5776-1: containerd vulnerabilities

USN-5775-1: Vim vulnerabilities It was discovered that Vim uses freed memory in recurisve substitution of specially crafted patterns. An attacker could possbly use this to crash Vim and cause denial of service. (CVE-2022-2345) It was discovered that Vim makes illegal memory calls when patterns start with an illegal byte. An attacker could possibly use this to crash Vim, access or modify memory, or execute arbitrary commands. (CVE-2022-2581) It was discovered that Vim could be made to crash when parsing invalid line numbers. An attacker could possbly use this to crash Vim and cause denial of service. (CVE-2022-3099) It was discovered that Vim uses freed memory when autocmd changes a mark. An attacker could possbly use this to crash Vim and cause denial of service. (CVE-2022-3256) It was discovered the Vim uses an incorrect array index when window width is negative. [ more… ]