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About Elevation of Privilege – needrestart (CVE-2024-48990) vulnerability. On November 19, Qualys released a security bulletin about five privilege escalation vulnerabilities in the needrestart utility (CVE-2024-48990, CVE-2024-48991, CVE-2024-48992, CVE-2024-10224, and CVE-2024-11003) used in Ubuntu Server, starting with version 21.04. The needrestart utility runs automatically after APT operations (installing, updating, or removing packages). It checks if […]

Ubuntu Security Notice 7135-1 - Bahruz Jabiyev, Anthony Gavazzi, Engin Kirda, Kaan Onarlioglu, Adi Peleg, and Harvey Tuch discovered that HAProxy incorrectly handled empty header names. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to manipulate headers and bypass certain authentication checks and restrictions.

Ubuntu Security Notice 7134-1 - Multiple security issues were discovered in Firefox. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service, obtain sensitive information across domains, or execute arbitrary code.

Ubuntu Security Notice 7133-1 - Yuki Mogi discovered that HAProxy incorrectly handled the interpretation of certain HTTP requests. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform a request smuggling attack and obtain sensitive information.

Ubuntu Security Notice 7132-1 - It was discovered that PostgreSQL incorrectly tracked tables with row security. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform forbidden reads and modifications. Jacob Champion discovered that PostgreSQL clients used untrusted server error messages. An attacker that is able to intercept network communications could possibly use this issue to inject error messages that could be interpreted as valid query results.

Ubuntu Security Notice 6846-2 - USN-6846-1 fixed vulnerabilities in ansible. The update introduced a regression in ansible. This update fixes the problem. It was discovered that Ansible incorrectly handled certain inputs when using tower_callback parameter. If a user or an automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted input file, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.

Ubuntu Security Notice 7131-1 - It was discovered that Vim incorrectly handled memory when closing a buffer, leading to use-after-free. If a user was tricked into opening a specially crafted file, an attacker could crash the application, leading to a denial of service.

Ubuntu Security Notice 7092-2 - USN-7092-1 fixed a vulnerability in mpg123. Bastien Roucariès discovered that the fix was incomplete on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. This update fixes the problem. It was discovered that mpg123 incorrectly handled certain mp3 files. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted mp3 file, a remote attacker could use this issue to cause mpg123 to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

Ubuntu Security Notice 7126-1 - It was discovered that libsoup ignored certain characters at the end of header names. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform a HTTP request smuggling attack. It was discovered that libsoup did not correctly handle memory while performing UTF-8 conversions. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. It was discovered that libsoup could enter an infinite loop when reading certain websocket data. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.

Ubuntu Security Notice 7127-1 - It was discovered that libsoup ignored certain characters at the end of header names. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform a HTTP request smuggling attack. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. It was discovered that libsoup did not correctly handle memory while performing UTF-8 conversions. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code.