Ubuntu security

USN-5619-1: LibTIFF vulnerabilities It was discovered that LibTIFF was not properly performing the calculation of data that would eventually be used as a reference for bound-checking operations. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or to expose sensitive information. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2020-19131) It was discovered that LibTIFF was not properly terminating a function execution when processing incorrect data. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or to expose sensitive information. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2020-19144) It was discovered that LibTIFF did not properly manage memory under certain circumstances. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted TIFF file using tiffinfo tool, an attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected [ more… ]

USN-5618-1: Ghostscript vulnerability It was discovered the Ghostscript incorrectly handled memory when processing certain inputs. By tricking a user into opening a specially crafted PDF file, an attacker could cause the program to crash. Source: USN-5618-1: Ghostscript vulnerability

USN-5617-1: Xen vulnerabilities It was discovered that memory contents previously stored in microarchitectural special registers after RDRAND, RDSEED, and SGX EGETKEY read operations on Intel client and Xeon E3 processors may be briefly exposed to processes on the same or different processor cores. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information. (CVE-2020-0543) Julien Grall discovered that Xen incorrectly handled memory barriers on ARM-based systems. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service, obtain sensitive information or escalate privileges. (CVE-2020-11739) Ilja Van Sprundel discovered that Xen incorrectly handled profiling of guests. An unprivileged attacker could use this issue to obtain sensitive information from other guests, cause a denial of service or possibly gain privileges. (CVE-2020-11740, CVE-2020-11741) It was discovered that Xen incorrectly handled grant tables. A malicious guest could possibly use this issue to [ more… ]

USN-5613-2: Vim regression USN-5613-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Vim. Unfortunately that update failed to include binary packages for some architectures. This update fixes that regression. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: It was discovered that Vim was not properly performing bounds checks when executing spell suggestion commands. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2022-0943) It was discovered that Vim was using freed memory when dealing with regular expressions through its old regular expression engine. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted file, an attacker could crash the application, leading to a denial of service, or possibly achieve code execution. (CVE-2022-1154) It was discovered that Vim was not properly performing checks on name of lambda functions. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a [ more… ]

USN-5616-1: Linux kernel (Intel IoTG) vulnerabilities Asaf Modelevsky discovered that the Intel(R) 10GbE PCI Express (ixgbe) Ethernet driver for the Linux kernel performed insufficient control flow management. A local attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2021-33061) Moshe Kol, Amit Klein and Yossi Gilad discovered that the IP implementation in the Linux kernel did notprovide sufficient randomization when calculating port offsets. An attacker could possibly use this to expose sensitive information. (CVE-2022-1012, CVE-2022-32296) Norbert Slusarek discovered that a race condition existed in the perf subsystem in the Linux kernel, resulting in a use-after-free vulnerability. A privileged local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2022-1729) Qiuhao Li, Gaoning Pan, and Yongkang Jia discovered that the KVM hypervisor implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly handle [ more… ]