Ubuntu 16.04

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 4 October 2016 Affected versions: Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3217-1 Related CVEs: https://launchpad.net/bugs/1668321 Upstream summary: Frederic Bardy and Quentin Biguenet discovered that network-manager-applet incorrectly checked permissions when connecting to certain wireless networks. A local attacker could use this issue […]

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 September 2016 Affected versions: Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6493-2 Related CVEs: https://launchpad.net/bugs/2043739 Upstream summary: USN-6493-1 fixed a vulnerability in hibagent. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Original advisory details: On […]

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 14 September 2016 Affected versions: Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4772-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2015-0255 CVE-2015-1283 Upstream summary: USN-2500-1 addressed CVE-2015-0255 for xorg-server. This update provides the corresponding fix for VNC4 on Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. (CVE-2015-0255) USN-2726-1 […]

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 5 September 2016 Affected versions: Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4794-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2016-6255 CVE-2016-8863 Upstream summary: Matthew Garrett discovered that libupnp mishandled POST requests by default. An attacker could use this vulnerability to write files to arbitrary locations in […]

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 30 August 2016 Affected versions: Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4790-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2016-5301 Upstream summary: It was discovered that libtorrent incorrectly handled chunked headers. A remote attacker could possibly use this to cause a crash resulting in a denial […]

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 17 August 2016 Affected versions: Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2986-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2015-8872 CVE-2016-4804 Upstream summary: Hanno Böck discovered that dosfstools incorrectly handled certain malformed filesystems. A local attacker could use this issue to cause dosfstools to crash, resulting […]

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 12 August 2016 Affected versions: Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4774-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2015-3192 CVE-2015-5211 CVE-2016-9878 CVE-2014-0225 CVE-2014-3625 CVE-2014-3578 Upstream summary: Toshiaki Maki discovered that Spring Framework incorrectly handled certain XML files. A remote attacker could exploit this with a […]

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 2 August 2016 Affected versions: Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3391-2 Related CVEs: https://launchpad.net/bugs/1711137 Upstream summary: USN-3391-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubufox. Original advisory details: Multiple security issues were discovered in Firefox. If […]

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 July 2016 Affected versions: Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3063-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2016-5384 Upstream summary: Tobias Stoeckmann discovered that Fontconfig incorrectly handled cache files. A local attacker could possibly use this issue with a specially crafted cache file to […]

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 17 July 2016 Affected versions: Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4500-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2014-9862 Upstream summary: It was discovered that bsdiff mishandled certain input. If a user were tricked into opening a malicious file, an attacker could cause bsdiff to […]