#ubuntu

Ubuntu Security Notice 6011-1 - It was discovered that Json-smart incorrectly handled memory when processing input containing unclosed quotes. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause applications using Json-smart to crash, leading to a denial of service. It was discovered that Json-smart incorrectly handled memory when processing input containing unclosed brackets. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause applications using Json-smart to crash, leading to a denial of service.

Ubuntu Security Notice 6010-1 - 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. Irvan Kurniawan discovered that Firefox did not properly manage fullscreen notifications using a combination of window.open, fullscreen requests, window.name assignments, and setInterval calls. An attacker could potentially exploit this issue to perform spoofing attacks.

Ubuntu Security Notice 6009-1 - It was discovered that the System V IPC implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly handle large shared memory counts. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service. It was discovered that a use-after-free vulnerability existed in the SGI GRU driver in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code.

TightVNC before v2.8.75 allows attackers to escalate privileges on the host operating system via replacing legitimate files with crafted files when executing a file transfer. This is due to the fact that TightVNC runs in the backend as a high-privileges account.

Bento4 v1.6.0-639 was discovered to contain an out-of-memory bug in the mp42avc component.

yasm 1.3.0.55.g101bc was discovered to contain a segmentation violation via the component yasm_expr_create at /libyasm/expr.c.

It's the second Tuesday of the month, and Microsoft has released another set of security updates to fix a total of 97 flaws impacting its software, one of which has been actively exploited in ransomware attacks in the wild. Seven of the 97 bugs are rated Critical and 90 are rated Important in severity. Interestingly, 45 of the shortcomings are remote code execution flaws, followed by 20

Bento4 v1.6.0-639 was discovered to contain a segmentation violation via the AP4_TrunAtom::SetDataOffset(int) function in Ap4TrunAtom.h.

A flaw was found in tiffcrop, a program distributed by the libtiff package. A specially crafted tiff file can lead to an out-of-bounds read in the extractImageSection function in tools/tiffcrop.c, resulting in a denial of service and limited information disclosure. This issue affects libtiff versions 4.x.

A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in LiveAction LiveSP v21.1.2 allows attackers to execute arbitrary web scripts or HTML.