The OVAL Repository 5.9 2012-01-27T05:06:56.832-05:00 Ubuntu 10.10 Ubuntu 9.10 Ubuntu 10.04 rsync rsync: fast remote file copy program rsync could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it connected to a malicious server. SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 8.04 Ubuntu 10.10 Ubuntu 9.10 Ubuntu 10.04 firefox firefox-3.0 firefox-3.5 xulrunner-1.9.2 firefox: safe and easy web browser from Mozilla - xulrunner-1.9.2: XUL + XPCOM application runner - firefox-3.5: safe and easy web browser from Mozilla - firefox-3.0: safe and easy web browser from Mozilla Multiple vulnerabilities in Firefox and Xulrunner SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 8.04 Ubuntu 10.10 Ubuntu 6.06 Ubuntu 9.10 Ubuntu 10.04 php5 php5: HTML-embedded scripting language interpreter Multiple vulnerabilities in PHP. SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 8.04 Ubuntu 10.10 Ubuntu 6.06 Ubuntu 9.10 Ubuntu 10.04 openslp openslp-dfsg openslp-dfsg: OpenSLP is an implementation of the Service Location Protocol - openslp: OpenSLP is an implementation of the Service Location Protocol An attacker could send crafted input to OpenSLP and cause it to hang. SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 8.04 Ubuntu 10.10 Ubuntu 6.06 Ubuntu 9.10 Ubuntu 10.04 php php5: HTML-embedded scripting language interpreter Details: USN 1126-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in PHP. The fix for CVE-2010-4697 introduced an incorrect reference counting regression in the Zend engine that caused the PHP interpreter to segfault. This regression affects Ubuntu 6.06 LTS and Ubuntu 8.04 LTS. The fixes for CVE-2011-1072 and CVE-2011-1144 introduced a regression in the PEAR installer that prevented it from creating its cache directory and reporting errors correctly. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory USN 1126-1 introduced two regressions in PHP. SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 8.04 Ubuntu 8.10 Ubuntu 9.10 Ubuntu 9.04 libvorbis It was discovered that libvorbis did not correctly handle ogg files with underpopulated Huffman trees. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted ogg file with an application that uses libvorbis, an attacker could cause a denial of service. It was discovered that libvorbis did not correctly handle certain malformed ogg files. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted ogg file with an application that uses libvorbis, an attacker could cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code with the user"s privileges SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 10.10 Ubuntu 9.10 Ubuntu 10.04 dhcp3 dhcp3: DHCP Client Details: USN-1108-1 fixed vulnerabilities in DHCP. Due to an error, the patch to fix the vulnerability was not properly applied on Ubuntu 9.10 and higher. This update fixes the problem. Original advisory An attacker"s DHCP server could send crafted responses to your computer and cause it to run programs as root. SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 9.10 firefox-3.5 xulrunner-1.9.1 Jesse Ruderman, Josh Soref, Martijn Wargers, Jose Angel, Olli Pettay, and David James discovered several flaws in the browser and JavaScript engines of Firefox. If a user were tricked into viewing a malicious website, a remote attacker could cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. Takehiro Takahashi discovered flaws in the NTLM implementation in Firefox. If an NTLM authenticated user visited a malicious website, a remote attacker could send requests to other applications, authenticated as the user. Jonathan Morgan discovered that Firefox did not properly display SSL indicators under certain circumstances. This could be used by an attacker to spoof an encrypted page, such as in a phishing attack. Jordi Chancel discovered that Firefox did not properly display invalid URLs for a blank page. If a user were tricked into accessing a malicious website, an attacker could exploit this to spoof the location bar, such as in a phishing attack. David Keeler, Bob Clary, and Dan Kaminsky discovered several flaws in third party media libraries. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted media file, a remote attacker could cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 9.10 linux David Ford discovered that the IPv4 defragmentation routine did not correctly handle oversized packets. A remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic that would cause a system to crash, leading to a denial of service. Akira Fujita discovered that the Ext4 "move extents" ioctl did not correctly check permissions. A local attacker could exploit this to overwrite arbitrary files on the system, leading to root privilege escalation SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 9.10 grub2 It was discovered that GRUB 2 did not properly validate passwords. An attacker with physical access could conduct a brute force attack and bypass authentication by submitting a 1 character password. SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 8.04 Ubuntu 8.10 Ubuntu 9.10 Ubuntu 6.06 Ubuntu 9.04 libgd2 Tomas Hoger discovered that the GD library did not properly handle the number of colors in certain malformed GD images. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted GD image, an attacker could cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. It was discovered that the GD library did not properly handle incorrect color indexes. An attacker could send specially crafted input to applications linked against libgd2 and cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 6.06 LTS. It was discovered that the GD library did not properly handle certain malformed GIF images. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted GIF image, an attacker could cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 6.06 LTS. It was discovered that the GD library did not properly handle large angle degree values. An attacker could send specially crafted input to applications linked against libgd2 and cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 6.06 LTS SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 8.10 Ubuntu 9.10 Ubuntu 9.04 openjdk-6 Dan Kaminsky discovered that SSL certificates signed with MD2 could be spoofed given enough time. As a result, an attacker could potentially create a malicious trusted certificate to impersonate another site. This update handles this issue by completely disabling MD2 for certificate validation in OpenJDK. It was discovered that ICC profiles could be identified with ".." pathnames. If a user were tricked into running a specially crafted applet, a remote attacker could gain information about a local system. Peter Vreugdenhil discovered multiple flaws in the processing of graphics in the AWT library. If a user were tricked into running a specially crafted applet, a remote attacker could crash the application or run arbitrary code with user privileges. Multiple flaws were discovered in JPEG and BMP image handling. If a user were tricked into loading a specially crafted image, a remote attacker could crash the application or run arbitrary code with user privileges. Coda Hale discovered that HMAC-based signatures were not correctly validated. Remote attackers could bypass certain forms of authentication, granting unexpected access. Multiple flaws were discovered in ASN.1 parsing. A remote attacker could send a specially crafted HTTP stream that would exhaust system memory and lead to a denial of service. It was discovered that the graphics configuration subsystem did not correctly handle arrays. If a user were tricked into running a specially crafted applet, a remote attacker could exploit this to crash the application or execute arbitrary code with user privileges. It was discovered that loggers and Swing did not correctly handle certain sensitive objects. If a user were tricked into running a specially crafted applet, private information could be leaked to a remote attacker, leading to a loss of privacy. It was discovered that the ClassLoader did not correctly handle certain options. If a user were tricked into running a specially crafted applet, a remote attacker could execute arbitrary code with user privileges. It was discovered that time zone file loading could be used to determine the existence of files on the local system. If a user were tricked into running a specially crafted applet, private information could be leaked to a remote attacker, leading to a loss of privacy SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 10.10 Ubuntu 9.10 Ubuntu 10.04 kdenetwork kdenetwork: networking applications for KDE 4 An attacker could overwrite files owned by the user if KGet opened a crafted metalink file. SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 8.10 Ubuntu 9.10 Ubuntu 9.04 kde4libs USN-871-1 fixed vulnerabilities in KDE. This update provides the corresponding updates for KDE 4. This update also fixes a directory traversal flaw in KDE when processing help:// URLs. This issue only affected Ubuntu 8.10. Original advisory details: It was discovered that the KDE libraries could use KHTML to process an unknown MIME type. If a user or application linked against kdelibs were tricked into opening a crafted file, an attacker could potentially trigger XMLHTTPRequests to remote sites. SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 10.10 Ubuntu 9.10 Ubuntu 10.04 kde4libs kde4libs: KDE 4 core applications An attacker could send crafted input to Konqueror to view sensitive information. SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 8.04 Ubuntu 10.10 Ubuntu 10.04 Ubuntu 9.10 Ubuntu 6.06 dhcp3 Sebastian Krahmer discovered that the dhclient utility incorrectly filtered crafted responses. An attacker could use this flaw with a malicious DHCP server to execute arbitrary code, resulting in root privilege escalation. SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 8.04 Ubuntu 10.10 Ubuntu 9.10 Ubuntu 10.04 qt4-x11 It was discovered that several invalid HTTPS certificates were issued and revoked. An attacker could exploit these to perform a man in the middle attack to view sensitive information or alter encrypted communications. These were placed on the certificate blacklist to prevent their misuse. SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 9.10 linux linux-ec2 Dan Rosenberg discovered that multiple terminal ioctls did not correctly initialize structure memory. A local attacker could exploit this to read portions of kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy. Dan Rosenberg discovered that the socket filters did not correctly initialize structure memory. A local attacker could create malicious filters to read portions of kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy. Dan Rosenberg discovered that certain iovec operations did not calculate page counts correctly. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. Dan Rosenberg discovered that the SCSI subsystem did not correctly validate iov segments. A local attacker with access to a SCSI device could send specially crafted requests to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. Dan Rosenberg discovered that the RDS protocol did not correctly check ioctl arguments. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. Alan Cox discovered that the HCI UART driver did not correctly check if a write operation was available. If the mmap_min-addr sysctl was changed from the Ubuntu default to a value of 0, a local attacker could exploit this flaw to gain root privileges SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 10.10 Ubuntu 9.10 Ubuntu 10.04 tomcat6 It was discovered that the Tomcat SecurityManager did not properly restrict the working directory. An attacker could use this flaw to read or write files outside of the intended working directory. It was discovered that Tomcat did not properly escape certain parameters in the Manager application which could result in browsers becoming vulnerable to cross-site scripting attacks when processing the output. With cross-site scripting vulnerabilities, if a user were tricked into viewing server output during a crafted server request, a remote attacker could exploit this to modify the contents, or steal confidential data , within the same domain. It was discovered that Tomcat incorrectly enforced the maxHttpHeaderSize limit in certain configurations. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause Tomcat to consume all available memory, resulting in a denial of service SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 10.10 Ubuntu 9.10 Ubuntu 10.04 libvirt Petr Matousek discovered that libvirt did not always honor read-only connections. An attacker who is authorized to connect to the libvirt daemon could exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash. SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 10.10 Ubuntu 9.10 Ubuntu 10.04 gdm Sebastian Krahmer discovered that GDM did not properly drop privileges when handling the cache directories used to store users" dmrc and face icon files. This could allow a local attacker to change the ownership of arbitrary files, thereby gaining root privileges. SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 8.04 Ubuntu 10.10 Ubuntu 10.04 Ubuntu 9.10 Ubuntu 6.06 vsftpd It was discovered that vsftpd incorrectly handled certain glob expressions. A remote authenticated user could use a crafted glob expression to cause vftpd to consume all resources, leading to a denial of service. SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 8.04 Ubuntu 10.10 Ubuntu 9.10 Ubuntu 10.04 gimp It was discovered that GIMP incorrectly handled malformed data in certain plugin configuration files. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted plugin configuration file, an attacker could cause GIMP to crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code with the user"s privileges. The default compiler options for affected releases should reduce the vulnerability to a denial of service. It was discovered that GIMP incorrectly handled malformed PSP image files. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted PSP image file, an attacker could cause GIMP to crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code with the user"s privileges SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 8.04 Ubuntu 10.10 Ubuntu 10.04 Ubuntu 9.10 Ubuntu 6.06 subversion Philip Martin discovered that the Subversion mod_dav_svn module for Apache did not properly handle certain requests containing a lock token. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause the service to crash, leading to a denial of service. SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 10.10 Ubuntu 9.10 Ubuntu 10.04 policykit-1 policykit-1: framework for managing administrative policies and privileges Local users could gain root access by using the pkexec tool in PolicyKit. SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 9.10 firefox-3.5 xulrunner-1.9.1 USN-853-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox and Xulrunner. The upstream changes introduced regressions that could lead to crashes when processing certain malformed GIF images, fonts and web pages. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: Alin Rad Pop discovered a heap-based buffer overflow in Firefox when it converted strings to floating point numbers. If a user were tricked into viewing a malicious website, a remote attacker could cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. Jeremy Brown discovered that the Firefox Download Manager was vulnerable to symlink attacks. A local attacker could exploit this to create or overwrite files with the privileges of the user invoking the program. Paul Stone discovered a flaw in the Firefox form history. If a user were tricked into viewing a malicious website, a remote attacker could access this data to steal confidential information. Orlando Berrera discovered that Firefox did not properly free memory when using web-workers. If a user were tricked into viewing a malicious website, a remote attacker could cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. This issue only affected Ubuntu 9.10. A flaw was discovered in the way Firefox processed Proxy Auto-configuration files. If a user configured the browser to use PAC files with certain regular expressions, an attacker could cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. A heap-based buffer overflow was discovered in Mozilla"s GIF image parser. If a user were tricked into viewing a malicious website, a remote attacker could cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. A flaw was discovered in the JavaScript engine of Firefox. An attacker could exploit this to execute scripts from page content with chrome privileges. Gregory Fleischer discovered that the same-origin check in Firefox could be bypassed by utilizing the document.getSelection function. An attacker could exploit this to read data from other domains. Jesse Ruderman and Sid Stamm discovered that Firefox did not properly display filenames containing right-to-left override characters. If a user were tricked into downloading a malicious file with a crafted filename, an attacker could exploit this to trick the user into opening a different file than the user expected. Several flaws were discovered in third party media libraries. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted media file, a remote attacker could cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. This issue only affected Ubuntu 9.10. Vladimir Vukicevic, Jesse Ruderman, Martijn Wargers, Daniel Banchero, David Keeler, Boris Zbarsky, Thomas Frederiksen, Marcia Knous, Carsten Book, Kevin Brosnan, David Anderson and Jeff Walden discovered various flaws in the browser and JavaScript engines of Firefox. If a user were tricked into viewing a malicious website, a remote attacker could cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 8.04 Ubuntu 10.10 Ubuntu 9.10 Ubuntu 10.04 openoffice.org Charlie Miller discovered several heap overflows in PPT processing. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted PPT document, a remote attacker could execute arbitrary code with user privileges. Ubuntu 10.10 was not affected. Marc Schoenefeld discovered that directory traversal was not correctly handled in XSLT, OXT, JAR, or ZIP files. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted document, a remote attacker overwrite arbitrary files, possibly leading to arbitrary code execution with user privileges. Dan Rosenberg discovered multiple heap overflows in RTF and DOC processing. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted RTF or DOC document, a remote attacker could execute arbitrary code with user privileges. Dmitri Gribenko discovered that OpenOffice.org did not correctly handle LD_LIBRARY_PATH in various tools. If a local attacker tricked a user or automated system into using OpenOffice.org from an attacker-controlled directory, they could execute arbitrary code with user privileges. Marc Schoenefeld discovered that OpenOffice.org did not correctly process PNG images. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted document, a remote attacker could execute arbitrary code with user privileges. It was discovered that OpenOffice.org did not correctly process TGA images. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted document, a remote attacker could execute arbitrary code with user privileges SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 8.04 Ubuntu 10.10 Ubuntu 10.04 Ubuntu 9.10 Ubuntu 6.06 exim4 It was discovered that Exim contained a design flaw in the way it processed alternate configuration files. An attacker that obtained privileges of the "Debian-exim" user could use an alternate configuration file to obtain root privileges. It was discovered that Exim incorrectly handled certain return values when handling logging. A local attacker could use this flaw to obtain root privileges. Dan Rosenberg discovered that Exim incorrectly handled writable sticky-bit mail directories. If Exim were configured in this manner, a local user could use this flaw to cause a denial of service or possibly gain privileges. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 6.06 LTS, 8.04 LTS, 9.10, and 10.04 LTS. Dan Rosenberg discovered that Exim incorrectly handled MBX locking. If Exim were configured in this manner, a local user could use this flaw to cause a denial of service or possibly gain privileges. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 6.06 LTS, 8.04 LTS, 9.10, and 10.04 LTS SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 9.10 Ubuntu 10.04 openjdk-6b18 USN-1079-1 fixed vulnerabilities in OpenJDK 6 for non-armel architectures. This update provides the corresponding updates for OpenJDK 6 for use with the armel architectures. In order to build the armel OpenJDK 6 update for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, it was necessary to rebuild binutils and gcj-4.4 from Ubuntu 10.04 LTS updates. Original advisory details: It was discovered that untrusted Java applets could create domain name resolution cache entries, allowing an attacker to manipulate name resolution within the JVM. It was discovered that the Java launcher did not did not properly setup the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable. A local attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary code as the user invoking the program. It was discovered that within the Swing library, forged timer events could allow bypass of SecurityManager checks. This could allow an attacker to access restricted resources. It was discovered that certain bytecode combinations confused memory management within the HotSpot JVM. This could allow an attacker to cause a denial of service through an application crash or possibly inject code. It was discovered that the way JAXP components were handled allowed them to be manipulated by untrusted applets. An attacker could use this to bypass XML processing restrictions and elevate privileges. It was discovered that the Java2D subcomponent, when processing broken CFF fonts could leak system properties. It was discovered that a flaw in the XML Digital Signature component could allow an attacker to cause untrusted code to replace the XML Digital Signature Transform or C14N algorithm implementations. Konstantin Preißer and others discovered that specific double literals were improperly handled, allowing a remote attacker to cause a denial of service. It was discovered that the JNLPClassLoader class when handling multiple signatures allowed remote attackers to gain privileges due to the assignment of an inappropriate security descriptor SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 8.04 Ubuntu 10.10 Ubuntu 10.04 Ubuntu 9.10 Ubuntu 6.06 mailman It was discovered that Mailman did not properly sanitize certain fields, resulting in cross-site scripting vulnerabilities. With cross-site scripting vulnerabilities, if a user were tricked into viewing server output during a crafted server request, a remote attacker could exploit this to modify the contents, or steal confidential data, within the same domain. SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 8.04 Ubuntu 10.10 Ubuntu 9.10 Ubuntu 10.04 openldap openldap2.3 It was discovered that OpenLDAP did not properly check forwarded authentication failures when using a slave server and chain overlay. If OpenLDAP were configured in this manner, an attacker could bypass authentication checks by sending an invalid password to a slave server. It was discovered that OpenLDAP did not properly perform authentication checks to the rootdn when using the back-ndb backend. An attacker could exploit this to access the directory by sending an arbitrary password. Ubuntu does not ship OpenLDAP with back-ndb support by default. This issue did not affect Ubuntu 8.04 LTS. It was discovered that OpenLDAP did not properly validate modrdn requests. An unauthenticated remote user could use this to cause a denial of service via application crash SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 8.04 Ubuntu 10.10 Ubuntu 9.10 Ubuntu 10.04 firefox firefox-3.0 firefox-3.5 xulrunner-1.9.2 Jesse Ruderman, Igor Bukanov, Olli Pettay, Gary Kwong, Jeff Walden, Henry Sivonen, Martijn Wargers, David Baron and Marcia Knous discovered several memory issues in the browser engine. An attacker could exploit these to crash the browser or possibly run arbitrary code as the user invoking the program. Zach Hoffman discovered that a recursive call to eval wrapped in a try/catch statement places the browser into a inconsistent state. An attacker could exploit this to force a user to accept any dialog. It was discovered that memory was used after being freed in a method used by JSON.stringify. An attacker could exploit this to crash the browser or possibly run arbitrary code as the user invoking the program. Christian Holler discovered multiple buffer overflows in the JavaScript engine. An attacker could exploit these to crash the browser or possibly run arbitrary code as the user invoking the program. Daniel Kozlowski discovered that a JavaScript Worker kept a reference to memory after it was freed. An attacker could exploit this to crash the browser or possibly run arbitrary code as the user invoking the program. Alex Miller discovered a buffer overflow in the browser rendering engine. An attacker could exploit this to crash the browser or possibly run arbitrary code as the user invoking the program. Roberto Suggi Liverani discovered a possible issue with unsafe JavaScript execution in chrome documents. A malicious extension could exploit this to execute arbitrary code with chrome privlieges. Jordi Chancel discovered a buffer overlow in the JPEG decoding engine. An attacker could exploit this to crash the browser or possibly run arbitrary code as the user invoking the program. Peleus Uhley discovered a CSRF vulnerability in the plugin code related to 307 redirects. This could allow custom headers to be forwarded across origins SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 8.04 Ubuntu 10.10 Ubuntu 10.04 Ubuntu 9.10 Ubuntu 6.06 postgresql-8.1 postgresql-8.3 postgresql-8.4 Geoff Keating reported that a buffer overflow exists in the intarray module"s input function for the query_int type. This could allow an attacker to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code as the postgres user. SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 8.04 Ubuntu 8.10 Ubuntu 9.10 Ubuntu 6.06 Ubuntu 9.04 php5 Maksymilian Arciemowicz discovered that PHP did not properly validate arguments to the dba_replace function. If a script passed untrusted input to the dba_replace function, an attacker could truncate the database. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 6.06 LTS, 8.04 LTS, and 8.10. It was discovered that PHP"s php_openssl_apply_verification_policy function did not correctly handle SSL certificates with zero bytes in the Common Name. A remote attacker could exploit this to perform a man in the middle attack to view sensitive information or alter encrypted communications. It was discovered that PHP did not properly handle certain malformed images when being parsed by the Exif module. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw and cause the PHP server to crash, resulting in a denial of service. Grzegorz Stachowiak discovered that PHP did not properly enforce restrictions in the tempnam function. An attacker could exploit this issue to bypass safe_mode restrictions. Grzegorz Stachowiak discovered that PHP did not properly enforce restrictions in the posix_mkfifo function. An attacker could exploit this issue to bypass open_basedir restrictions. Bogdan Calin discovered that PHP did not limit the number of temporary files created when handling multipart/form-data POST requests. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw and cause the PHP server to consume all available resources, resulting in a denial of service. ATTENTION: This update changes previous PHP behaviour by limiting the number of files in a POST request to 50. This may be increased by adding a "max_file_uploads" directive to the php.ini configuration file. It was discovered that PHP did not properly enforce restrictions in the proc_open function. An attacker could exploit this issue to bypass safe_mode_protected_env_vars restrictions and possibly execute arbitrary code with application privileges SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 8.04 Ubuntu 10.10 Ubuntu 9.10 Ubuntu 10.04 krb5 Keiichi Mori discovered that the MIT krb5 KDC database propagation daemon is vulnerable to a denial of service attack due to improper logic when a worker child process exited because of invalid network input. This could only occur when kpropd is running in standalone mode; kpropd was not affected when running in incremental propagation mode or as an inetd server. This issue only affects Ubuntu 9.10, Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 10.10. Kevin Longfellow and others discovered that the MIT krb5 Key Distribution Center daemon is vulnerable to denial of service attacks when using an LDAP back end due to improper handling of network input SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 8.04 Ubuntu 10.10 Ubuntu 9.10 Ubuntu 10.04 pango1.0 Marc Schoenefeld discovered that Pango incorrectly handled certain Glyph Definition tables. If a user were tricked into displaying text with a specially-crafted font, an attacker could cause Pango to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 8.04 LTS and 9.10. Dan Rosenberg discovered that Pango incorrectly handled certain FT_Bitmap objects. If a user were tricked into displaying text with a specially- crafted font, an attacker could cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code with privileges of the user invoking the program. The default compiler options for affected releases should reduce the vulnerability to a denial of service. It was discovered that Pango incorrectly handled certain memory reallocation failures. If a user were tricked into displaying text in a way that would cause a reallocation failure, an attacker could cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code with privileges of the user invoking the program. This issue only affected Ubuntu 9.10, 10.04 LTS and 10.10 SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 8.04 Ubuntu 10.10 Ubuntu 9.10 Ubuntu 10.04 evince Jon Larimer discovered that Evince"s font parsers incorrectly handled certain buffer lengths when rendering a DVI file. By tricking a user into opening or previewing a DVI file that uses a specially crafted font file, an attacker could crash evince or execute arbitrary code with the user"s privileges. In the default installation of Ubuntu 9.10 and later, attackers would be isolated by the Evince AppArmor profile. SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 8.04 Ubuntu 10.10 Ubuntu 9.10 Ubuntu 10.04 firefox firefox-3.0 firefox-3.5 xulrunner-1.9.2 USN-1049-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox and Xulrunner. That update introduced a regression where some Java applets would fail to load. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: Jesse Ruderman, Igor Bukanov, Olli Pettay, Gary Kwong, Jeff Walden, Henry Sivonen, Martijn Wargers, David Baron and Marcia Knous discovered several memory issues in the browser engine. An attacker could exploit these to crash the browser or possibly run arbitrary code as the user invoking the program. Zach Hoffman discovered that a recursive call to eval wrapped in a try/catch statement places the browser into a inconsistent state. An attacker could exploit this to force a user to accept any dialog. It was discovered that memory was used after being freed in a method used by JSON.stringify. An attacker could exploit this to crash the browser or possibly run arbitrary code as the user invoking the program. Christian Holler discovered multiple buffer overflows in the JavaScript engine. An attacker could exploit these to crash the browser or possibly run arbitrary code as the user invoking the program. Daniel Kozlowski discovered that a JavaScript Worker kept a reference to memory after it was freed. An attacker could exploit this to crash the browser or possibly run arbitrary code as the user invoking the program. Alex Miller discovered a buffer overflow in the browser rendering engine. An attacker could exploit this to crash the browser or possibly run arbitrary code as the user invoking the program. Roberto Suggi Liverani discovered a possible issue with unsafe JavaScript execution in chrome documents. A malicious extension could exploit this to execute arbitrary code with chrome privlieges. Jordi Chancel discovered a buffer overlow in the JPEG decoding engine. An attacker could exploit this to crash the browser or possibly run arbitrary code as the user invoking the program. Peleus Uhley discovered a CSRF vulnerability in the plugin code related to 307 redirects. This could allow custom headers to be forwarded across origins SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 8.04 Ubuntu 8.10 Ubuntu 9.10 Ubuntu 9.04 gimp Stefan Cornelius discovered that GIMP did not correctly handle certain malformed BMP files. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted BMP file, an attacker could execute arbitrary code with the user"s privileges. Stefan Cornelius discovered that GIMP did not correctly handle certain malformed PSD files. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted PSD file, an attacker could execute arbitrary code with the user"s privileges. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 8.10, 9.04 and 9.10 SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 10.10 Ubuntu 9.10 Ubuntu 10.04 sudo Alexander Kurtz discovered that sudo would not prompt for a password when a group was specified in the Runas_Spec. A local attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary code as the specified group if sudo was configured to allow the attacker to use a program as this group. The group Runas_Spec is not used in the default installation of Ubuntu. SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 8.10 Ubuntu 9.10 Ubuntu 9.04 ruby1.9 Emmanouel Kellinis discovered that Ruby did not properly handle certain string operations. An attacker could exploit this issue and possibly execute arbitrary code with application privileges. Giovanni Pellerano, Alessandro Tanasi, and Francesco Ongaro discovered that Ruby did not properly sanitize data written to log files. An attacker could insert specially-crafted data into log files which could affect certain terminal emulators and cause arbitrary files to be overwritten, or even possibly execute arbitrary commands. It was discovered that Ruby did not properly handle string arguments that represent large numbers. An attacker could exploit this and cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 9.10 SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 8.04 Ubuntu 10.10 Ubuntu 9.10 Ubuntu 10.04 ffmpeg Cesar Bernardini and Felipe Andres Manzano discovered that FFmpeg incorrectly handled certain malformed flic files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted flic file, an attacker could cause a denial of service via application crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. This issue only affected Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, 9.10 and 10.04 LTS. Dan Rosenberg discovered that FFmpeg incorrectly handled certain malformed wmv files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted wmv file, an attacker could cause a denial of service via application crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. This issue only affected Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, 9.10 and 10.04 LTS. It was discovered that FFmpeg incorrectly handled certain malformed ogg files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted ogg file, an attacker could cause a denial of service via application crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. It was discovered that FFmpeg incorrectly handled certain malformed WebM files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted WebM file, an attacker could cause a denial of service via application crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. Dan Rosenberg discovered that FFmpeg incorrectly handled certain malformed RealMedia files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted RealMedia file, an attacker could cause a denial of service via application crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. This issue only affected Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, 9.10 and 10.04 LTS. Dan Rosenberg discovered that FFmpeg incorrectly handled certain malformed VC1 files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted VC1 file, an attacker could cause a denial of service via application crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 10.10 Ubuntu 9.10 Ubuntu 10.04 python-django It was discovered that Django did not properly validate HTTP requests that contain an X-Requested-With header. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to perform cross-site request forgery attacks. It was discovered that Django did not properly sanitize its input when performing file uploads, resulting in cross-site scripting vulnerabilities. With cross-site scripting vulnerabilities, if a user were tricked into viewing server output during a crafted server request, a remote attacker could exploit this to modify the contents, or steal confidential data, within the same domain SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 9.10 qemu-kvm It was discovered that QEMU did not properly setup the virtio networking features available to its guests. A remote attacker could exploit this to crash QEMU guests which use virtio networking on Linux kernels earlier than 2.6.26. SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 9.10 krb5 Emmanuel Bouillon discovered that Kerberos did not correctly handle certain message types. An unauthenticated remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to cause the KDC to crash, leading to a denial of service. Nalin Dahyabhai, Jan iankko Lieskovsky, and Zbysek Mraz discovered that Kerberos did not correctly handle certain GSS packets. An unauthenticated remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic that would cause services using GSS-API to crash, leading to a denial of service SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 8.04 Ubuntu 10.10 Ubuntu 10.04 Ubuntu 9.10 Ubuntu 6.06 mysql-5.1 mysql-dfsg-5.0 mysql-dfsg-5.1 It was discovered that MySQL incorrectly handled certain requests with the UPGRADE DATA DIRECTORY NAME command. An authenticated user could exploit this to make MySQL crash, causing a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 9.10 and 10.04 LTS. It was discovered that MySQL incorrectly handled joins involving a table with a unique SET column. An authenticated user could exploit this to make MySQL crash, causing a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 6.06 LTS, 8.04 LTS, 9.10 and 10.04 LTS. It was discovered that MySQL incorrectly handled NULL arguments to IN or CASE operations. An authenticated user could exploit this to make MySQL crash, causing a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 9.10 and 10.04 LTS. It was discovered that MySQL incorrectly handled malformed arguments to the BINLOG statement. An authenticated user could exploit this to make MySQL crash, causing a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 9.10 and 10.04 LTS. It was discovered that MySQL incorrectly handled the use of TEMPORARY InnoDB tables with nullable columns. An authenticated user could exploit this to make MySQL crash, causing a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 6.06 LTS, 8.04 LTS, 9.10 and 10.04 LTS. It was discovered that MySQL incorrectly handled alternate reads from two indexes on a table using the HANDLER interface. An authenticated user could exploit this to make MySQL crash, causing a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 6.06 LTS, 8.04 LTS, 9.10 and 10.04 LTS. It was discovered that MySQL incorrectly handled use of EXPLAIN with certain queries. An authenticated user could exploit this to make MySQL crash, causing a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 6.06 LTS, 8.04 LTS, 9.10 and 10.04 LTS. It was discovered that MySQL incorrectly handled error reporting when using LOAD DATA INFILE and would incorrectly raise an assert in certain circumstances. An authenticated user could exploit this to make MySQL crash, causing a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 9.10 and 10.04 LTS. It was discovered that MySQL incorrectly handled propagation during evaluation of arguments to extreme-value functions. An authenticated user could exploit this to make MySQL crash, causing a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, 9.10, 10.04 LTS and 10.10. It was discovered that MySQL incorrectly handled materializing a derived table that required a temporary table for grouping. An authenticated user could exploit this to make MySQL crash, causing a denial of service. It was discovered that MySQL incorrectly handled certain user-variable assignment expressions that are evaluated in a logical expression context. An authenticated user could exploit this to make MySQL crash, causing a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, 9.10, 10.04 LTS and 10.10. It was discovered that MySQL incorrectly handled pre-evaluation of LIKE predicates during view preparation. An authenticated user could exploit this to make MySQL crash, causing a denial of service. It was discovered that MySQL incorrectly handled using GROUP_CONCAT and WITH ROLLUP together. An authenticated user could exploit this to make MySQL crash, causing a denial of service. It was discovered that MySQL incorrectly handled certain queries using a mixed list of numeric and LONGBLOB arguments to the GREATEST or LEAST functions. An authenticated user could exploit this to make MySQL crash, causing a denial of service. It was discovered that MySQL incorrectly handled queries with nested joins when used from stored procedures and prepared statements. An authenticated user could exploit this to make MySQL hang, causing a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 9.10, 10.04 LTS and 10.10. It was discovered that MySQL incorrectly handled improper WKB data passed to the PolyFromWKB function. An authenticated user could exploit this to make MySQL crash, causing a denial of service SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 8.04 Ubuntu 8.10 Ubuntu 9.10 Ubuntu 9.04 python2.5 USN-890-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Expat. This update provides the corresponding updates for the PyExpat module in Python 2.5. Original advisory details: Jukka Taimisto, Tero Rontti and Rauli Kaksonen discovered that Expat did not properly process malformed XML. If a user or application linked against Expat were tricked into opening a crafted XML file, an attacker could cause a denial of service via application crash. It was discovered that Expat did not properly process malformed UTF-8 sequences. If a user or application linked against Expat were tricked into opening a crafted XML file, an attacker could cause a denial of service via application crash SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 10.10 Ubuntu 9.10 Ubuntu 10.04 linux linux-ec2 Dan Rosenberg discovered that the btrfs filesystem did not correctly validate permissions when using the clone function. A local attacker could overwrite the contents of file handles that were opened for append-only, or potentially read arbitrary contents, leading to a loss of privacy. Only Ubuntu 9.10 was affected. Dave Chinner discovered that the XFS filesystem did not correctly order inode lookups when exported by NFS. A remote attacker could exploit this to read or write disk blocks that had changed file assignement or had become unlinked, leading to a loss of privacy. Kees Cook discovered that the Intel i915 graphics driver did not correctly validate memory regions. A local attacker with access to the video card could read and write arbitrary kernel memory to gain root privileges. Ubuntu 10.10 was not affected. Robert Swiecki discovered that ftrace did not correctly handle mutexes. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the kernel, leading to a denial of service. Dan Rosenberg discovered that several network ioctls did not clear kernel memory correctly. A local user could exploit this to read kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy. Ben Hawkes discovered that the Linux kernel did not correctly filter registers on 64bit kernels when performing 32bit system calls. On a 64bit system, a local attacker could manipulate 32bit system calls to gain root privileges. The Ubuntu EC2 kernels needed additional fixing. Brad Spengler discovered that stack memory for new a process was not correctly calculated. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. Kees Cook discovered that the ethtool interface did not correctly clear kernel memory. A local attacker could read kernel heap memory, leading to a loss of privacy. Kees Cook and Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that the shm interface did not clear kernel memory correctly. A local attacker could exploit this to read kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 8.10 Ubuntu 9.10 Ubuntu 9.04 gnome-screensaver It was discovered that gnome-screensaver did not correctly lock all screens when monitors get hotplugged. An attacker with physical access could use this flaw to gain access to a locked session. It was discovered that gnome-screensaver did not correctly handle keyboard grab when monitors get hotplugged. An attacker with physical access could use this flaw to gain access to a locked session. This issue only affected Ubuntu 9.10 SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 9.10 erlang USN-624-1 fixed a vulnerability in PCRE. This update provides the corresponding update for Erlang. Original advisory details: Tavis Ormandy discovered that the PCRE library did not correctly handle certain in-pattern options. An attacker could cause applications linked against pcre3 to crash, leading to a denial of service. SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 8.04 Ubuntu 8.10 Ubuntu 9.10 Ubuntu 6.06 Ubuntu 9.04 moin It was discovered that several wiki actions and preference settings in MoinMoin were not protected from cross-site request forgery . If an authenticated user were tricked into visiting a malicious website while logged into MoinMoin, a remote attacker could change the user"s configuration or wiki content. It was discovered that MoinMoin did not properly sanitize its input when processing user preferences. An attacker could enter malicious content which when viewed by a user, could render in unexpected ways SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 8.04 Ubuntu 10.10 Ubuntu 10.04 Ubuntu 9.10 Ubuntu 6.06 php5 USN-1042-1 fixed vulnerabilities in PHP5. The fix for CVE-2010-3436 introduced a regression in the open_basedir restriction handling code. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: It was discovered that attackers might be able to bypass open_basedir restrictions by passing a specially crafted filename SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 8.04 Ubuntu 10.10 Ubuntu 9.10 Ubuntu 10.04 x11-xserver-utils Sebastian Krahmer discovered that the xrdb utility incorrectly filtered crafted hostnames. An attacker could use this flaw with a malicious DHCP server or with a remote xdmcp login and execute arbitrary code, resulting in root privilege escalation. SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 8.04 Ubuntu 10.04 Ubuntu 9.04 Ubuntu 9.10 openoffice.org Marc Schoenefeld discovered that OpenOffice.org would run document macros from the macro browser, even when macros were disabled. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted document and examining a macro, a remote attacker could execute arbitrary code with user privileges. SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 8.04 Ubuntu 10.04 Ubuntu 9.10 Ubuntu 6.06 Ubuntu 9.04 apache2 USN-860-1 introduced a partial workaround to Apache that disabled client initiated TLS renegotiation in order to mitigate CVE-2009-3555. USN-990-1 introduced the new RFC5746 renegotiation extension in openssl, and completely resolves the issue. After updating openssl, an Apache server will allow both patched and unpatched web browsers to connect, but unpatched browsers will not be able to renegotiate. This update introduces the new SSLInsecureRenegotiation directive for Apache that may be used to re-enable insecure renegotiations with unpatched web browsers. If an attacker could perform a man in the middle attack at the start of a TLS connection, the attacker could inject arbitrary content at the beginning of the user"s session. This update adds backported support for the new RFC5746 renegotiation extension and will use it when both the client and the server support it. SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 10.04 Ubuntu 9.04 Ubuntu 9.10 libpam-opie USN-955-1 fixed vulnerabilities in OPIE. This update provides rebuilt libpam-opie packages against the updated libopie library. Original advisory details: Maksymilian Arciemowicz and Adam Zabrocki discovered that OPIE incorrectly handled long usernames. A remote attacker could exploit this with a crafted username and make applications linked against libopie crash, leading to a denial of service. SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 8.04 Ubuntu 10.10 Ubuntu 9.10 Ubuntu 10.04 lcms It was discovered that a NULL pointer dereference in the code for handling transformations of monochrome profiles could allow an attacker to cause a denial of service through a specially crafted image SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 8.04 Ubuntu 10.10 Ubuntu 9.10 Ubuntu 10.04 xulrunner-1.9.1 xulrunner-1.9.2 USN-1011-1 fixed a vulnerability in Firefox. This update provides the corresponding update for Xulrunner. Original advisory details: Morten Krakvik discovered a heap-based buffer overflow in Firefox. If a user were tricked into navigating to a malicious site, an attacker could cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code as the user invoking the program. SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 8.04 Ubuntu 8.10 Ubuntu 9.10 Ubuntu 9.04 openoffice.org It was discovered that the XML HMAC signature system did not correctly check certain lengths. If an attacker sent a truncated HMAC, it could bypass authentication, leading to potential privilege escalation. Sebastian Apelt and Frank Reißner discovered that OpenOffice did not correctly import XPM and GIF images. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted image, an attacker could execute arbitrary code with user privileges. Nicolas Joly discovered that OpenOffice did not correctly handle certain Word documents. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted document, an attacker could execute arbitrary code with user privileges. It was discovered that OpenOffice did not correctly handle certain VBA macros correctly. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted document, an attacker could execute arbitrary macro commands, bypassing security controls SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 8.04 Ubuntu 8.10 Ubuntu 9.10 Ubuntu 6.06 Ubuntu 9.04 bind9 It was discovered that Bind would incorrectly cache bogus NXDOMAIN responses. When DNSSEC validation is in use, a remote attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service, and possibly poison DNS caches. USN-865-1 provided updated Bind packages to fix a security vulnerability. The upstream security patch to fix CVE-2009-4022 was incomplete and CVE-2010-0290 was assigned to the issue. This update corrects the problem. Original advisory details: Michael Sinatra discovered that Bind did not correctly validate certain records added to its cache. When DNSSEC validation is in use, a remote attacker could exploit this to spoof DNS entries and poison DNS caches. Among other things, this could lead to misdirected email and web traffic. SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 10.10 Ubuntu 9.10 Ubuntu 10.04 tomcat6 It was discovered that Tomcat did not properly escape certain parameters in the Manager application which could result in browsers becoming vulnerable to cross-site scripting attacks when processing the output. With cross-site scripting vulnerabilities, if a user were tricked into viewing server output during a crafted server request, a remote attacker could exploit this to modify the contents, or steal confidential data , within the same domain. SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 8.04 Ubuntu 8.10 Ubuntu 9.10 Ubuntu 9.04 kdelibs A buffer overflow was found in the KDE libraries when converting a string to a floating point number. If a user or application linked against kdelibs were tricked into processing crafted input, an attacker could cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. It was discovered that the KDE libraries could use KHTML to process an unknown MIME type. If a user or application linked against kdelibs were tricked into opening a crafted file, an attacker could potentially trigger XMLHTTPRequests to remote sites. SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 8.04 Ubuntu 10.10 Ubuntu 10.04 Ubuntu 9.04 Ubuntu 9.10 glibc eglibc Tavis Ormandy discovered multiple flaws in the GNU C Library"s handling of the LD_AUDIT environment variable when running a privileged binary. A local attacker could exploit this to gain root privileges SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 8.04 Ubuntu 8.10 Ubuntu 9.10 Ubuntu 6.06 Ubuntu 9.04 ntp Robin Park and Dmitri Vinokurov discovered a logic error in ntpd. A remote attacker could send a crafted NTP mode 7 packet with a spoofed IP address of an affected server and cause a denial of service via CPU and disk resource consumption. SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 8.04 Ubuntu 10.04 Ubuntu 9.10 Ubuntu 6.06 Ubuntu 9.04 postgresql-8.1 postgresql-8.3 postgresql-8.4 It was discovered that the Safe.pm module as used by PostgreSQL did not properly restrict PL/perl procedures. If PostgreSQL was configured to use Perl stored procedures, a remote authenticated attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary Perl code. It was discovered that PostgreSQL did not properly check permissions to restrict PL/Tcl procedures. If PostgreSQL was configured to use Tcl stored procedures, a remote authenticated attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary Tcl code SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 10.10 Ubuntu 9.10 Ubuntu 10.04 qemu-kvm Neil Wilson discovered that if VNC passwords were blank in QEMU configurations, access to VNC sessions was allowed without a password instead of being disabled. A remote attacker could connect to running VNC sessions of QEMU and directly control the system. By default, QEMU does not start VNC sessions. SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 8.04 Ubuntu 10.04 Ubuntu 9.04 Ubuntu 9.10 lftp It was discovered that LFTP incorrectly filtered filenames suggested by Content-Disposition headers. If a user or automated system were tricked into downloading a file from a malicious site, a remote attacker could create the file with an arbitrary name, such as a dotfile, and possibly run arbitrary code. SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 8.04 Ubuntu 10.10 Ubuntu 9.10 Ubuntu 10.04 util-linux USN-1045-1 fixed vulnerabilities in FUSE. This update to util-linux adds support for new options required by the FUSE update. Original advisory details: It was discovered that FUSE could be tricked into incorrectly updating the mtab file when mounting filesystems. A local attacker, with access to use FUSE, could unmount arbitrary locations, leading to a denial of service. SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 10.10 Ubuntu 9.10 Ubuntu 10.04 dpkg Jakub Wilk and Raphaël Hertzog discovered that dpkg-source did not correctly handle certain paths and symlinks when unpacking source-format version 3.0 packages. If a user or an automated system were tricked into unpacking a specially crafted source package, a remote attacker could modify files outside the target unpack directory, leading to a denial of service or potentially gaining access to the system. SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 8.04 Ubuntu 8.10 Ubuntu 9.10 Ubuntu 6.06 Ubuntu 9.04 linux linux-source-2.6.15 It was discovered that the AX.25 network subsystem did not correctly check integer signedness in certain setsockopt calls. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. Ubuntu 9.10 was not affected. Jan Beulich discovered that the kernel could leak register contents to 32-bit processes that were switched to 64-bit mode. A local attacker could run a specially crafted binary to read register values from an earlier process, leading to a loss of privacy. Dave Jones discovered that the gdth SCSI driver did not correctly validate array indexes in certain ioctl calls. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system or gain elevated privileges. Eric Dumazet and Jiri Pirko discovered that the TC and CLS subsystems would leak kernel memory via uninitialized structure members. A local attacker could exploit this to read several bytes of kernel memory, leading to a loss of privacy. Earl Chew discovered race conditions in pipe handling. A local attacker could exploit anonymous pipes via /proc/*/fd/ and crash the system or gain root privileges. Dave Jones and Francois Romieu discovered that the r8169 network driver could be made to leak kernel memory. A remote attacker could send a large number of jumbo frames until the system memory was exhausted, leading to a denial of service. Ubuntu 9.10 was not affected. Ben Hutchings discovered that the ATI Rage 128 video driver did not correctly validate initialization states. A local attacker could make specially crafted ioctl calls to crash the system or gain root privileges. Tomoki Sekiyama discovered that Unix sockets did not correctly verify namespaces. A local attacker could exploit this to cause a system hang, leading to a denial of service. J. Bruce Fields discovered that NFSv4 did not correctly use the credential cache. A local attacker using a mount with AUTH_NULL authentication could exploit this to crash the system or gain root privileges. Only Ubuntu 9.10 was affected. Alexander Zangerl discovered that the kernel keyring did not correctly reference count. A local attacker could issue a series of specially crafted keyring calls to crash the system or gain root privileges. Only Ubuntu 9.10 was affected. David Wagner discovered that KVM did not correctly bounds-check CPUID entries. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system or possibly gain elevated privileges. Ubuntu 6.06 and 9.10 were not affected. Avi Kivity discovered that KVM did not correctly check privileges when accessing debug registers. A local attacker could exploit this to crash a host system from within a guest system, leading to a denial of service. Ubuntu 6.06 and 9.10 were not affected. Philip Reisner discovered that the connector layer for uvesafb, pohmelfs, dst, and dm did not correctly check capabilties. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system or gain elevated privileges. Ubuntu 6.06 was not affected. Trond Myklebust discovered that NFSv4 clients did not robustly verify attributes. A malicious remote NFSv4 server could exploit this to crash a client or gain root privileges. Ubuntu 9.10 was not affected. Robin Getz discovered that NOMMU systems did not correctly validate NULL pointers in do_mmap_pgoff calls. A local attacker could attempt to allocate large amounts of memory to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. Only Ubuntu 6.06 and 9.10 were affected. Joseph Malicki discovered that the MegaRAID SAS driver had world-writable option files. A local attacker could exploit these to disrupt the behavior of the controller, leading to a denial of service. Roel Kluin discovered that the Hisax ISDN driver did not correctly check the size of packets. A remote attacker could send specially crafted packets to cause a system crash, leading to a denial of service. Lennert Buytenhek discovered that certain 802.11 states were not handled correctly. A physically-proximate remote attacker could send specially crafted wireless traffic that would crash the system, leading to a denial of service. Only Ubuntu 9.10 was affected SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 8.04 Ubuntu 10.04 Ubuntu 9.04 Ubuntu 9.10 firefox firefox-3.0 firefox-3.5 xulrunner-1.9.1 xulrunner-1.9.2 USN-975-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox and Xulrunner. Some users reported stability problems under certain circumstances. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: Several dangling pointer vulnerabilities were discovered in Firefox. An attacker could exploit this to crash the browser or possibly run arbitrary code as the user invoking the program. Blake Kaplan and Michal Zalewski discovered several weaknesses in the XPCSafeJSObjectWrapper security wrapper. If a user were tricked into viewing a malicious site, a remote attacker could use this to run arbitrary JavaScript with chrome privileges. Matt Haggard discovered that Firefox did not honor same-origin policy when processing the statusText property of an XMLHttpRequest object. If a user were tricked into viewing a malicious site, a remote attacker could use this to gather information about servers on internal private networks. Chris Rohlf discovered an integer overflow when Firefox processed the HTML frameset element. If a user were tricked into viewing a malicious site, a remote attacker could use this to crash the browser or possibly run arbitrary code as the user invoking the program. Several issues were discovered in the browser engine. If a user were tricked into viewing a malicious site, a remote attacker could use this to crash the browser or possibly run arbitrary code as the user invoking the program. David Huang and Collin Jackson discovered that the <object> tag could override the charset of a framed HTML document in another origin. An attacker could utilize this to perform cross-site scripting attacks. Paul Stone discovered that with designMode enabled an HTML selection containing JavaScript could be copied and pasted into a document and have the JavaScript execute within the context of the site where the code was dropped. An attacker could utilize this to perform cross-site scripting attacks. A buffer overflow was discovered in Firefox when processing text runs. If a user were tricked into viewing a malicious site, a remote attacker could use this to crash the browser or possibly run arbitrary code as the user invoking the program. Peter Van der Beken, Jason Oster, Jesse Ruderman, Igor Bukanov, Jeff Walden, Gary Kwong and Olli Pettay discovered several flaws in the browser engine. If a user were tricked into viewing a malicious site, a remote attacker could use this to crash the browser or possibly run arbitrary code as the user invoking the program SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 8.04 Ubuntu 10.04 Ubuntu 9.10 Ubuntu 6.06 Ubuntu 9.04 linux linux-source-2.6.15 linux-ec2 linux-mvl-dove linux-ti-omap Junjiro R. Okajima discovered that knfsd did not correctly handle strict overcommit. A local attacker could exploit this to crash knfsd, leading to a denial of service. Chris Guo, Jukka Taimisto, and Olli Jarva discovered that SCTP did not correctly handle invalid parameters. A remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic that could crash the system, leading to a denial of service. Mario Mikocevic discovered that GFS2 did not correctly handle certain quota structures. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. Toshiyuki Okajima discovered that the kernel keyring did not correctly handle dead keyrings. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. Brad Spengler discovered that Sparc did not correctly implement non-executable stacks. This made userspace applications vulnerable to exploits that would have been otherwise blocked due to non-executable memory protections. Dan Rosenberg discovered that the btrfs clone function did not correctly validate permissions. A local attacker could exploit this to read sensitive information, leading to a loss of privacy. Dan Rosenberg discovered that GFS2 set_flags function did not correctly validate permissions. A local attacker could exploit this to gain access to files, leading to a loss of privacy and potential privilege escalation. Shi Weihua discovered that btrfs xattr_set_acl function did not correctly validate permissions. A local attacker could exploit this to gain access to files, leading to a loss of privacy and potential privilege escalation. Andre Osterhues discovered that eCryptfs did not correctly calculate hash values. A local attacker with certain uids could exploit this to crash the system or potentially gain root privileges SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 8.04 Ubuntu 9.04 Ubuntu 9.10 libmikmod It was discovered that libMikMod incorrectly handled songs with different channel counts. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted song file, an attacker could cause a denial of service. It was discovered that libMikMod incorrectly handled certain malformed XM files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted XM file, an attacker could cause a denial of service. It was discovered that libMikMod incorrectly handled certain malformed Impulse Tracker files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted Impulse Tracker file, an attacker could cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. It was discovered that libMikMod incorrectly handled certain malformed Ultratracker files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted Ultratracker file, an attacker could cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 10.04 Ubuntu 9.04 Ubuntu 9.10 quassel Jima discovered that quassel would respond to a single privmsg containing multiple CTCP requests with multiple NOTICEs, possibly resulting in a denial of service against the IRC connection. SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 8.04 Ubuntu 10.10 Ubuntu 10.04 Ubuntu 9.10 Ubuntu 6.06 tiff USN-1085-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the system TIFF library. The upstream fixes were incomplete and created problems for certain CCITTFAX4 files. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: Sauli Pahlman discovered that the TIFF library incorrectly handled invalid td_stripbytecount fields. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted TIFF image, a remote attacker could crash the application, leading to a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and 10.10. Sauli Pahlman discovered that the TIFF library incorrectly handled TIFF files with an invalid combination of SamplesPerPixel and Photometric values. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted TIFF image, a remote attacker could crash the application, leading to a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 10.10. Nicolae Ghimbovschi discovered that the TIFF library incorrectly handled invalid ReferenceBlackWhite values. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted TIFF image, a remote attacker could crash the application, leading to a denial of service. Sauli Pahlman discovered that the TIFF library incorrectly handled certain default fields. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted TIFF image, a remote attacker could crash the application, leading to a denial of service. It was discovered that the TIFF library incorrectly validated certain data types. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted TIFF image, a remote attacker could crash the application, leading to a denial of service. It was discovered that the TIFF library incorrectly handled downsampled JPEG data. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted TIFF image, a remote attacker could execute arbitrary code with user privileges, or crash the application, leading to a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and 10.10. It was discovered that the TIFF library incorrectly handled certain JPEG data. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted TIFF image, a remote attacker could execute arbitrary code with user privileges, or crash the application, leading to a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 6.06 LTS, 8.04 LTS and 9.10. It was discovered that the TIFF library incorrectly handled certain TIFF FAX images. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted TIFF FAX image, a remote attacker could execute arbitrary code with user privileges, or crash the application, leading to a denial of service SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 8.04 Ubuntu 8.10 Ubuntu 9.10 Ubuntu 6.06 Ubuntu 9.04 audiofile It was discovered that Audio File Library contained a heap-based buffer overflow. If a user or automated system processed a crafted WAV file, an attacker could cause a denial of service via application crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. The default compiler options for Ubuntu should reduce this vulnerability to a denial of service. SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 8.04 Ubuntu 10.10 Ubuntu 10.04 Ubuntu 9.10 Ubuntu 6.06 openssl It was discovered that an old bug workaround in the SSL/TLS server code allowed an attacker to modify the stored session cache ciphersuite. This could possibly allow an attacker to downgrade the ciphersuite to a weaker one on subsequent connections. It was discovered that an old bug workaround in the SSL/TLS server code allowed allowed an attacker to modify the stored session cache ciphersuite. An attacker could possibly take advantage of this to force the use of a disabled cipher. This vulnerability only affects the versions of OpenSSL in Ubuntu 6.06 LTS, Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 9.10 SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 9.04 Ubuntu 9.10 Ubuntu 6.06 Ubuntu 8.04 Ubuntu 10.10 Ubuntu 10.04 poppler It was discovered that poppler contained multiple security issues when parsing malformed PDF documents. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a crafted PDF file, an attacker could cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code with privileges of the user invoking the program. SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 8.04 Ubuntu 10.10 Ubuntu 10.04 Ubuntu 9.10 Ubuntu 6.06 samba Volker Lendecke discovered that Samba incorrectly handled certain file descriptors. A remote attacker could send a specially crafted request to the server and cause Samba to crash or hang, resulting in a denial of service. SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 8.04 Ubuntu 9.10 Ubuntu 6.06 Ubuntu 9.04 krb5 It was discovered that Kerberos did not correctly free memory in the GSSAPI and kdb libraries. If a remote attacker were able to manipulate an application using these libraries carefully, the service could crash, leading to a denial of service. Joel Johnson, Brian Almeida, and Shawn Emery discovered that Kerberos did not correctly verify certain packet structures. An unauthenticated remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to cause the KDC or kadmind services to crash, leading to a denial of service SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 8.04 Ubuntu 10.10 Ubuntu 9.10 Ubuntu 10.04 fuse It was discovered that FUSE would incorrectly follow symlinks when checking mountpoints under certain conditions. A local attacker, with access to use FUSE, could unmount arbitrary locations, leading to a denial of service. SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 8.04 Ubuntu 8.10 Ubuntu 9.10 Ubuntu 9.04 ffmpeg ffmpeg-debian USN-931-1 fixed vulnerabilities in FFmpeg. The update introduced a regression when trying to play certain multimedia files. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: It was discovered that FFmpeg contained multiple security issues when handling certain multimedia files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted multimedia file, an attacker could cause a denial of service via application crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 10.10 Ubuntu 9.10 Ubuntu 10.04 telepathy-gabble It was discovered that Gabble did not verify the from field of google jingleinfo updates. This could allow a remote attacker to perform man in the middle attacks on streamed media. SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 8.04 Ubuntu 10.04 Ubuntu 9.10 Ubuntu 6.06 Ubuntu 9.04 openssl Marsh Ray and Steve Dispensa discovered a flaw in the TLS and SSLv3 protocols. If an attacker could perform a man in the middle attack at the start of a TLS connection, the attacker could inject arbitrary content at the beginning of the user"s session. This update adds backported support for the new RFC5746 renegotiation extension and will use it when both the client and the server support it. ATTENTION: After applying this update, a patched server will allow both patched and unpatched clients to connect, but unpatched clients will not be able to renegotiate SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 8.04 Ubuntu 10.10 Ubuntu 10.04 Ubuntu 9.10 Ubuntu 6.06 linux linux-ec2 linux-source-2.6.15 Nelson Elhage discovered several problems with the Acorn Econet protocol driver. A local user could cause a denial of service via a NULL pointer dereference, escalate privileges by overflowing the kernel stack, and assign Econet addresses to arbitrary interfaces. SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 10.10 Ubuntu 9.10 Ubuntu 10.04 openjdk-6 openjdk-6b18 It was discovered that the JNLP SecurityManager in IcedTea for Java OpenJDK in some instances failed to properly apply the intended scurity policy in its checkPermission method. This could allow an attacker execute code with privileges that should have been prevented SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 8.04 Ubuntu 10.04 Ubuntu 9.10 Ubuntu 6.06 Ubuntu 9.04 libpng It was discovered that libpng did not properly handle certain malformed PNG images. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a crafted PNG file, an attacker could cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. It was discovered that libpng did not properly handle certain malformed PNG images. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a crafted PNG image, an attacker could possibly use this flaw to consume all available resources, resulting in a denial of service SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 8.04 Ubuntu 10.04 Ubuntu 9.04 Ubuntu 9.10 texlive-bin It was discovered that TeX Live incorrectly handled certain long .bib bibliography files. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted bib file, an attacker could cause a denial of service via application crash. This issue only affected Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, 9.04 and 9.10. Marc Schoenefeld, Karel Šrot and Ludwig Nussel discovered that TeX Live incorrectly handled certain malformed dvi files. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted dvi file, an attacker could cause a denial of service via application crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. Dan Rosenberg discovered that TeX Live incorrectly handled certain malformed dvi files. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted dvi file, an attacker could cause a denial of service via application crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 10.04 Ubuntu 9.04 Ubuntu 9.10 tomcat6 It was discovered that Tomcat incorrectly handled invalid Transfer-Encoding headers. A remote attacker could send specially crafted requests containing invalid headers to the server and cause a denial of service, or possibly obtain sensitive information from other requests. SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 10.10 Ubuntu 9.10 Ubuntu 10.04 webkit A large number of security issues were discovered in the WebKit browser and JavaScript engines. If a user were tricked into viewing a malicious website, a remote attacker could exploit a variety of issues related to web browser security, including cross-site scripting attacks, denial of service attacks, and arbitrary code execution. Please consult the bug listed at the top of this advisory to get the exact list of CVE numbers fixed for each release. SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 8.04 Ubuntu 10.10 Ubuntu 10.04 Ubuntu 9.04 Ubuntu 9.10 firefox firefox-3.0 firefox-3.5 xulrunner-1.9.1 xulrunner-1.9.2 Paul Nickerson, Jesse Ruderman, Olli Pettay, Igor Bukanov, Josh Soref, Gary Kwong, Martijn Wargers, Siddharth Agarwal and Michal Zalewski discovered various flaws in the browser engine. An attacker could exploit this to crash the browser or possibly run arbitrary code as the user invoking the program. Alexander Miller, Sergey Glazunov, and others discovered several flaws in the JavaScript engine. An attacker could exploit this to crash the browser or possibly run arbitrary code as the user invoking the program. Robert Swiecki discovered that Firefox did not properly validate Gopher URLs. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted file via Gopher, an attacker could possibly run arbitrary JavaScript. Eduardo Vela Nava discovered that Firefox could be made to violate the same-origin policy by using modal calls with JavaScript. An attacker could exploit this to steal information from another site. Dmitri GribenkoDmitri Gribenko discovered that Firefox did not properly setup the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable. A local attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary code as the user invoking the program SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 8.04 Ubuntu 10.10 Ubuntu 9.10 Ubuntu 10.04 imagemagick It was discovered that ImageMagick would search for configuration files in the current directory. If a user were tricked into opening or processing an image in an arbitrary directory, a local attacker could execute arbitrary code with the user"s privileges. SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 8.04 Ubuntu 10.10 Ubuntu 9.10 Ubuntu 10.04 openssl Rob Hulswit discovered a race condition in the OpenSSL TLS server extension parsing code when used within a threaded server. A remote attacker could trigger this flaw to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code with application privileges SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 10.10 Ubuntu 9.10 Ubuntu 10.04 openjdk-6 openjdk-6b18 It was discovered that IcedTea for Java did not properly verify signatures when handling multiply signed or partially signed JAR files, allowing an attacker to cause code to execute that appeared to come from a verified source. USN 1052-1 fixed a vulnerability in OpenJDK for Ubuntu 9.10 and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS on all architectures, and Ubuntu 10.10 for all architectures except for the armel architecture. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 10.10 on the armel architecture. Original advisory details: It was discovered that the JNLP SecurityManager in IcedTea for Java OpenJDK in some instances failed to properly apply the intended scurity policy in its checkPermission method. This could allow an attacker to execute code with privileges that should have been prevented SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 10.04 Ubuntu 9.04 Ubuntu 9.10 vte Janne Snabb discovered that applications using VTE, such as gnome-terminal, did not correctly filter window and icon title request escape codes. If a user were tricked into viewing specially crafted output in their terminal, a remote attacker could execute arbitrary commands with user privileges. SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 8.04 Ubuntu 8.10 Ubuntu 9.10 Ubuntu 6.06 Ubuntu 9.04 cups cupsys Aaron Sigel discovered that the CUPS web interface incorrectly protected against cross-site scripting and cross-site request forgery attacks. If an authenticated user were tricked into visiting a malicious website while logged into CUPS, a remote attacker could modify the CUPS configuration and possibly steal confidential data. SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 8.04 Ubuntu 9.04 Ubuntu 9.10 netpbm-free Marc Schoenefeld discovered a buffer overflow in Netpbm when loading certain images. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted XPM image, a remote attacker could crash Netpbm. The default compiler options for affected releases should reduce the vulnerability to a denial of service. SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 8.04 Ubuntu 10.04 Ubuntu 9.10 Ubuntu 6.06 Ubuntu 9.04 cups cupsys Adrian Pastor and Tim Starling discovered that the CUPS web interface incorrectly protected against cross-site request forgery attacks. If an authenticated user were tricked into visiting a malicious website while logged into CUPS, a remote attacker could modify the CUPS configuration and possibly steal confidential data. It was discovered that CUPS did not properly handle memory allocations in the texttops filter. If a user or automated system were tricked into printing a crafted text file, a remote attacker could cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code with privileges of the CUPS user . Luca Carettoni discovered that the CUPS web interface incorrectly handled form variables. A remote attacker who had access to the CUPS web interface could use this flaw to read a limited amount of memory from the cupsd process and possibly obtain confidential data SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 10.04 Ubuntu 9.04 Ubuntu 9.10 clamav USN-986-1 fixed a vulnerability in bzip2. This update provides the corresponding update for ClamAV. Original advisory details: An integer overflow was discovered in bzip2. If a user or automated system were tricked into decompressing a crafted bz2 file, an attacker could cause bzip2 or any application linked against libbz2 to crash or possibly execute code as the user running the program. SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 8.04 Ubuntu 10.04 Ubuntu 9.10 Ubuntu 6.06 Ubuntu 9.04 postgresql-8.1 postgresql-8.3 postgresql-8.4 It was discovered that PostgreSQL did not properly enforce permissions within sessions when PL/Perl and PL/Tcl functions or operators were redefined. A remote authenticated attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary code with permissions of a different user, possibly leading to privilege escalation. SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 8.04 Ubuntu 8.10 Ubuntu 9.10 Ubuntu 6.06 Ubuntu 9.04 sudo Valerio Costamagna discovered that sudo did not properly validate the path for the "sudoedit" pseudo-command when the PATH contained only a dot . If secure_path and ignore_dot were disabled, a local attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary code as root if sudo was configured to allow the attacker to use sudoedit. By default, secure_path is used and the sudoedit pseudo-command is not used in Ubuntu. This is a different but related issue to CVE-2010-0426. SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 8.04 Ubuntu 8.10 Ubuntu 9.10 Ubuntu 6.06 Ubuntu 9.04 samba Ronald Volgers discovered that the mount.cifs utility, when installed as a setuid program, suffered from a race condition when verifying user permissions. A local attacker could trick samba into mounting over arbitrary locations, leading to a root privilege escalation. SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 8.04 Ubuntu 10.04 Ubuntu 9.10 Ubuntu 6.06 Ubuntu 9.04 linux linux-ec2 linux-fsl-imx51 linux-mvl-dove linux-source-2.6.15 linux-ti-omap Gael Delalleu, Rafal Wojtczuk, and Brad Spengler discovered that the memory manager did not properly handle when applications grow stacks into adjacent memory regions. A local attacker could exploit this to gain control of certain applications, potentially leading to privilege escalation, as demonstrated in attacks against the X server. Kees Cook discovered that under certain situations the ioctl subsystem for DRM did not properly sanitize its arguments. A local attacker could exploit this to read previously freed kernel memory, leading to a loss of privacy. Ben Hawkes discovered an integer overflow in the Controller Area Network subsystem when setting up frame content and filtering certain messages. An attacker could send specially crafted CAN traffic to crash the system or gain root privileges SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 9.10 xulrunner-1.9.1 xulrunner-1.9.1: XUL + XPCOM application runner Multiple xulrunner-1.9.1 vulnerabilities SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 8.04 Ubuntu 10.04 Ubuntu 9.10 Ubuntu 6.06 quagga It was discovered that Quagga incorrectly handled certain Outbound Route Filtering records. A remote authenticated attacker could use this flaw to cause a denial of service or potentially execute arbitrary code. The default compiler options for Ubuntu 8.04 LTS and later should reduce the vulnerability to a denial of service. It was discovered that Quagga incorrectly parsed certain AS paths. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause Quagga to crash, resulting in a denial of service SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 8.04 Ubuntu 8.10 Ubuntu 9.10 Ubuntu 6.06 Ubuntu 9.04 gzip It was discovered that gzip incorrectly handled certain malformed compressed files. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted gzip file, an attacker could cause gzip to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. Aki Helin discovered that gzip incorrectly handled certain malformed files compressed with the Lempel–Ziv–Welch algorithm. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted gzip file, an attacker could cause gzip to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 8.04 Ubuntu 10.04 Ubuntu 9.04 Ubuntu 9.10 avahi It was discovered that Avahi incorrectly handled certain mDNS query packets when the reflector feature is enabled, which is not the default configuration on Ubuntu. A remote attacker could send crafted mDNS queries and perform a denial of service on the server and on the network. This issue only affected Ubuntu 8.04 LTS and 9.04. It was discovered that Avahi incorrectly handled mDNS packets with corrupted checksums. A remote attacker could send crafted mDNS packets and cause Avahi to crash, resulting in a denial of service SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 9.10 firefox-3.5 xulrunner-1.9.1 Martijn Wargers, Josh Soref, Jesse Ruderman, and Ehsan Akhgari discovered flaws in the browser engine of Firefox. If a user were tricked into viewing a malicious website, a remote attacker could cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. It was discovered that Firefox could be made to access previously freed memory. If a user were tricked into viewing a malicious website, a remote attacker could cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. Paul Stone discovered that Firefox could be made to change a mouse click into a drag and drop event. If the user could be tricked into performing this action twice on a crafted website, an attacker could execute arbitrary JavaScript with chrome privileges. It was discovered that the XMLHttpRequestSpy module as used by the Firebug add-on could be used to escalate privileges within the browser. If the user had the Firebug add-on installed and were tricked into viewing a malicious website, an attacker could potentially run arbitrary JavaScript. Henry Sudhof discovered that an image tag could be used as a redirect to a mailto: URL to launch an external mail handler. Wladimir Palant discovered that Firefox did not always perform security checks on XML content. An attacker could exploit this to bypass security policies to load certain resources SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 9.10 poppler USN-850-1 fixed vulnerabilities in poppler. This update provides the corresponding updates for Ubuntu 9.10. Original advisory details: It was discovered that poppler contained multiple security issues when parsing malformed PDF documents. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a crafted PDF file, an attacker could cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code with privileges of the user invoking the program. SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 9.04 Ubuntu 9.10 Ubuntu 6.06 Ubuntu 8.04 Ubuntu 10.10 Ubuntu 10.04 linux linux-ec2 linux-source-2.6.15 Joel Becker discovered that OCFS2 did not correctly validate on-disk symlink structures. If an attacker were able to trick a user or automated system into mounting a specially crafted filesystem, it could crash the system or exposde kernel memory, leading to a loss of privacy. Al Viro discovered a race condition in the TTY driver. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. Dan Rosenberg discovered that the MOVE_EXT ext4 ioctl did not correctly check file permissions. A local attacker could overwrite append-only files, leading to potential data loss. Dan Rosenberg discovered that the swapexit xfs ioctl did not correctly check file permissions. A local attacker could exploit this to read from write-only files, leading to a loss of privacy. Suresh Jayaraman discovered that CIFS did not correctly validate certain response packats. A remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic that would crash the system, leading to a denial of service. Ben Hutchings discovered that the ethtool interface did not correctly check certain sizes. A local attacker could perform malicious ioctl calls that could crash the system, leading to a denial of service. James Chapman discovered that L2TP did not correctly evaluate checksum capabilities. If an attacker could make malicious routing changes, they could crash the system, leading to a denial of service. Neil Brown discovered that NFSv4 did not correctly check certain write requests. A remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic that could crash the system or possibly gain root privileges. David Howells discovered that DNS resolution in CIFS could be spoofed. A local attacker could exploit this to control DNS replies, leading to a loss of privacy and possible privilege escalation. Bob Peterson discovered that GFS2 rename operations did not correctly validate certain sizes. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. Eric Dumazet discovered that many network functions could leak kernel stack contents. A local attacker could exploit this to read portions of kernel memory, leading to a loss of privacy. Sergey Vlasov discovered that JFS did not correctly handle certain extended attributes. A local attacker could bypass namespace access rules, leading to a loss of privacy. Tavis Ormandy discovered that the IRDA subsystem did not correctly shut down. A local attacker could exploit this to cause the system to crash or possibly gain root privileges. Brad Spengler discovered that the wireless extensions did not correctly validate certain request sizes. A local attacker could exploit this to read portions of kernel memory, leading to a loss of privacy. Tavis Ormandy discovered that the session keyring did not correctly check for its parent. On systems without a default session keyring, a local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. Kees Cook discovered that the V4L1 32bit compat interface did not correctly validate certain parameters. A local attacker on a 64bit system with access to a video device could exploit this to gain root privileges. Toshiyuki Okajima discovered that ext4 did not correctly check certain parameters. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system or overwrite the last block of large files. Tavis Ormandy discovered that the AIO subsystem did not correctly validate certain parameters. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system or possibly gain root privileges. Dan Rosenberg discovered that certain XFS ioctls leaked kernel stack contents. A local attacker could exploit this to read portions of kernel memory, leading to a loss of privacy. Tavis Ormandy discovered that the OSS sequencer device did not correctly shut down. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system or possibly gain root privileges. Dan Rosenberg discovered that the ROSE driver did not correctly check parameters. A local attacker with access to a ROSE network device could exploit this to crash the system or possibly gain root privileges. Thomas Dreibholz discovered that SCTP did not correctly handle appending packet chunks. A remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. Dan Rosenberg discovered that the CD driver did not correctly check parameters. A local attacker could exploit this to read arbitrary kernel memory, leading to a loss of privacy. Dan Rosenberg discovered that the Sound subsystem did not correctly validate parameters. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. Dan Rosenberg discovered that SCTP did not correctly handle HMAC calculations. A remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic that would crash the system, leading to a denial of service. Dan Rosenberg discovered that the RDS network protocol did not correctly check certain parameters. A local attacker could exploit this gain root privileges SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 8.04 Ubuntu 10.04 Ubuntu 9.10 Ubuntu 6.06 Ubuntu 9.04 moin It was discovered that MoinMoin did not properly sanitize its input, resulting in cross-site scripting vulnerabilities. With cross-site scripting vulnerabilities, if a user were tricked into viewing server output during a crafted server request, a remote attacker could exploit this to modify the contents, or steal confidential data, within the same domain. SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 8.04 Ubuntu 10.04 Ubuntu 9.10 Ubuntu 6.06 Ubuntu 9.04 w3m Ludwig Nussel discovered w3m does not properly handle SSL/TLS certificates with NULL characters in the certificate name. An attacker could exploit this to perform a man in the middle attack to view sensitive information or alter encrypted communications SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED Ubuntu 8.04 Ubuntu 10.10 Ubuntu 9.10 Ubuntu 10.04 openjdk-6 openjdk-6b18 SecPod Team DRAFT INTERIM ACCEPTED ACCEPTED