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USN-3176-1: PCSC-Lite vulnerability Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3176-1 23rd January, 2017 pcsc-lite vulnerability A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 16.10 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Summary PCSC-Lite could be made to crash or run programs as an administrator if it received specially crafted input. Software description pcsc-lite – Middleware to access a smart card using PC/SC Details Peter Wu discovered that the PC/SC service did not correctly handle certainresources. A local attacker could use this issue to cause PC/SC to crash,resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code withroot privileges. Update instructions The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package version: Ubuntu 16.10: pcscd 1.8.14-1ubuntu1.16.10.1 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS: pcscd 1.8.14-1ubuntu1.16.04.1 Ubuntu 14.04 LTS: pcscd 1.8.10-1ubuntu1.1 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: pcscd 1.7.4-2ubuntu2.1 To update your [ more… ]

USN-3177-1: Tomcat vulnerabilities Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3177-1 23rd January, 2017 tomcat6, tomcat7, tomcat8 vulnerabilities A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 16.10 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Summary Several security issues were fixed in Tomcat. Software description tomcat6 – Servlet and JSP engine tomcat7 – Servlet and JSP engine tomcat8 – Servlet and JSP engine Details It was discovered that the Tomcat realm implementations incorrectly handledpasswords when a username didn't exist. A remote attacker could possiblyuse this issue to enumerate usernames. This issue only applied to Ubuntu12.04 LTS, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2016-0762) Alvaro Munoz and Alexander Mirosh discovered that Tomcat incorrectlylimited use of a certain utility method. A malicious application couldpossibly use this to bypass Security Manager restrictions. This issue onlyapplied to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Ubuntu 14.04 [ more… ]