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Ubuntu Security Notice 5510-2 - USN-5510-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in X.Org. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. Jan-Niklas Sohn discovered that the X.Org X Server incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could use this issue to cause the server to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code and escalate privileges.

Microsoft released its monthly round of Patch Tuesday updates to address 84 new security flaws spanning multiple product categories, counting a zero-day vulnerability that's under active attack in the wild. Of the 84 shortcomings, four are rated Critical, and 80 are rated Important in severity. Also separately resolved by the tech giant are two other bugs in the Chromium-based Edge browser, one

Ubuntu Security Notice 5510-1 - Jan-Niklas Sohn discovered that the X.Org X Server incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could use this issue to cause the server to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code and escalate privileges.

Ubuntu Security Notice 5503-2 - USN-5503-1 fixed a vulnerability in GnuPG. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. Demi Marie Obenour discovered that GnuPG incorrectly handled injection in the status message. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to forge signatures.

Ubuntu Security Notice 5508-1 - It was discovered that Python LDAP incorrectly handled certain regular expressions. An remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.

Ubuntu Security Notice 5509-1 - Julian Brook discovered that Dovecot incorrectly handled multiple passdb configuration entries. In certain configurations, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to escalate privileges.

An issue was discovered in Druva 6.9.0 for macOS, allows attackers to gain escalated local privileges via the inSyncUpgradeDaemon.

Live555 through 1.08 does not handle socket connections properly. A huge number of incoming socket connections in a short time invokes the error-handling module, in which a heap-based buffer overflow happens. An attacker can leverage this to launch a DoS attack.

Ubuntu Security Notice 5507-1 - It was discovered that Vim incorrectly handled memory access. An attacker could potentially use this issue to cause the program to crash, use unexpected values, or execute arbitrary code. It was discovered that Vim incorrectly handled memory access. An attacker could potentially use this issue to cause the corruption of sensitive information, a crash, or arbitrary code execution.

Ubuntu Security Notice 5479-3 - USN-5479-1 fixed vulnerabilities in PHP. Unfortunately that update for CVE-2022-31625 was incomplete for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. This update fixes the problem. Charles Fol discovered that PHP incorrectly handled initializing certain arrays when handling the pg_query_params function. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause PHP to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. Charles Fol discovered that PHP incorrectly handled passwords in mysqlnd. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause PHP to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.