Ubuntu 16.04

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 29 June 2018 Affected versions: Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4820-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2017-5899 Upstream summary: It was discovered that S-nail incorrectly handled paths. An attacker could possible use this issue to write arbitrary files and escalate privileges. Table of […]

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 20 June 2018 Affected versions: Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4378-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2018-1000656 Upstream summary: It was discovered that Flask incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. Table of […]

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 8 June 2018 Affected versions: Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5770-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2017-11671 Upstream summary: Todd Eisenberger discovered that certain versions of GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) could be made to clobber the status flag of RDRAND and RDSEED with […]

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 8 June 2018 Affected versions: Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3955-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2018-14938 CVE-2018-18409 Upstream summary: It was discovered that tcpflow incorrectly handled certain malformed network packets. A remote attacker could send these packets to a target system, causing […]

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 6 June 2018 Affected versions: Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3429-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2017-7982 Upstream summary: Wang Junjie discovered that Libplist incorrectly handled certain files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted file, an attacker could possibly use […]

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 21 May 2018 Affected versions: Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4814-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2017-16671 CVE-2017-7617 Upstream summary: Richard Mudgett discovered that Asterisk did not properly check the length of input string when setting the user field for PartyB on a […]

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 16 May 2018 Affected versions: Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4844-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2018-13054 Upstream summary: Matthias Gerstner discovered that the cinnamon-settings-users utility in Cinnamon did not safely handle symlinks. An unprivileged attacker could potentially use this vulnerability to overwrite […]

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 13 May 2018 Affected versions: Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3240-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2017-0318 CVE-2016-8826 CVE-2016-7382 CVE-2016-7389 Upstream summary: It was discovered that the NVIDIA graphics drivers contained a flaw in the kernel mode layer. A local attacker could use […]

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 10 May 2018 Affected versions: Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4809-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2017-13135 Upstream summary: It was discovered that VideoLAN x265 mishandled certain memory-allocation inputs. An attacker could use this vulnerability to cause a denial of service (crash) Table […]

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 10 May 2018 Affected versions: Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4845-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2018-14348 Upstream summary: It was discovered that libcgroup incorrectly handled log file permissions. An attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information. Table of contents […]