SECURITY

USN-5462-2: Ruby vulnerability USN-5462-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in Ruby. This update provides the corresponding CVE-2022-28739 update for ruby2.3 on Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. Original advisory details: It was discovered that Ruby incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to expose sensitive information. Source: USN-5462-2: Ruby vulnerability

USN-5462-1: Ruby vulnerabilities It was discovered that Ruby incorrectly handled certain regular expressions. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (2022-28738) It was discovered that Ruby incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to expose sensitive information. (CVE-2022-28739) Source: USN-5462-1: Ruby vulnerabilities

USN-5461-1: FreeRDP vulnerabilities It was discovered that FreeRDP incorrectly handled empty password values. A remote attacker could use this issue to bypass server authentication. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 21.10. (CVE-2022-24882) It was discovered that FreeRDP incorrectly handled server configurations with an invalid SAM file path. A remote attacker could use this issue to bypass server authentication. (CVE-2022-24883) Source: USN-5461-1: FreeRDP vulnerabilities

USN-5460-1: Vim vulnerabilities It was discovered that Vim was incorrectly processing Vim buffers. An attacker could possibly use this issue to perform illegal memory access and expose sensitive information. (CVE-2022-0554) It was discovered that Vim was not properly performing bounds checks for column numbers when replacing tabs with spaces or spaces with tabs, which could cause a heap buffer overflow. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2022-0572) It was discovered that Vim was not properly performing validation of data that contained special multi-byte characters, which could cause an out-of-bounds read. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2022-0685) It was discovered that Vim was incorrectly processing data used to define indentation in a file, which could cause a heap buffer overflow. An attacker [ more… ]

USN-5459-1: cifs-utils vulnerabilities Aurélien Aptel discovered that cifs-utils invoked a shell when requesting a password. In certain environments, a local attacker could possibly use this issue to escalate privileges. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2020-14342) It was discovered that cifs-utils incorrectly used host credentials when mounting a krb5 CIFS file system from within a container. An attacker inside a container could possibly use this issue to obtain access to sensitive information. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2021-20208) It was discovered that cifs-utils incorrectly handled certain command-line arguments. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain root privileges. (CVE-2022-27239) It was discovered that cifs-utils incorrectly handled verbose logging. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2022-29869) Source: USN-5459-1: cifs-utils vulnerabilities