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Ubuntu Security Notice 5617-1 - It was discovered that memory contents previously stored in microarchitectural special registers after RDRAND, RDSEED, and SGX EGETKEY read operations on Intel client and Xeon E3 processors may be briefly exposed to processes on the same or different processor cores. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information. Julien Grall discovered that Xen incorrectly handled memory barriers on ARM-based systems. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service, obtain sensitive information or escalate privileges.

Ubuntu Security Notice 5613-2 - USN-5613-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Vim. Unfortunately that update failed to include binary packages for some architectures. This update fixes that regression. It was discovered that Vim was not properly performing bounds checks when executing spell suggestion commands. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. It was discovered that Vim was using freed memory when dealing with regular expressions through its old regular expression engine. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted file, an attacker could crash the application, leading to a denial of service, or possibly achieve code execution. It was discovered that Vim was not properly performing checks on name of lambda functions. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue affected only Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. It was discovered that Vim was incorrectly performing bounds checks when processing invalid...

Ubuntu Security Notice 5616-1 - Asaf Modelevsky discovered that the Intel 10GbE PCI Express Ethernet driver for the Linux kernel performed insufficient control flow management. A local attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service. Moshe Kol, Amit Klein and Yossi Gilad discovered that the IP implementation in the Linux kernel did not provide sufficient randomization when calculating port offsets. An attacker could possibly use this to expose sensitive information.

An issue was discovered in Bento4 through 1.6.0-639. There is a NULL pointer dereference in AP4_StszAtom::GetSampleSize.

SoX suffers from a division by zero attack when handling WAV files, resulting in denial of service vulnerability and possibly loss of data.

Hello everyone! This video was recorded for the VMconf 22 Vulnerability Management conference, vmconf.pw. I will be talking about my open source project Scanvus. This project is already a year old and I use it almost every day. Alternative video link (for Russia): https://vk.com/video-149273431_456239100 Scanvus (Simple Credentialed Authenticated Network VUlnerability Scanner) is a vulnerability scanner for Linux. Currently for Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, […]

JasPer 3.0.6 allows denial of service via a reachable assertion in the function inttobits in libjasper/base/jas_image.c.

Ubuntu Security Notice 5615-1 - It was discovered that SQLite incorrectly handled INTERSEC query processing. An attacker could use this issue to cause SQLite to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. It was discovered that SQLite incorrectly handled ALTER TABLE for views that have a nested FROM clause. An attacker could use this issue to cause SQLite to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue was only addressed in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.

Ubuntu Security Notice 5614-1 - It was discovered that Wayland incorrectly handled reference counting certain objects. An attacker could use this issue to cause Wayland to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

Mplayer SVN-r38374-13.0.1 is vulnerable to Memory Leak via vf.c and vf_vo.c.