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Ubuntu Security Notice 6888-1 - Elias Myllymäki discovered that Django incorrectly handled certain inputs with a large number of brackets. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Django to consume resources or stop responding, resulting in a denial of service. It was discovered that Django incorrectly handled authenticating users with unusable passwords. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform a timing attack and enumerate users.

Ubuntu Security Notice 6887-1 - Philippos Giavridis, Jacky Wei En Kung, Daniel Hugenroth, and Alastair Beresford discovered that the OpenSSH ObscureKeystrokeTiming feature did not work as expected. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to determine timing information about keystrokes.

Microsoft has released patches to address a total of 143 security flaws as part of its monthly security updates, two of which have come under active exploitation in the wild. Five out of the 143 flaws are rated Critical, 136 are rated Important, and four are rated Moderate in severity. The fixes are in addition to 33 vulnerabilities that have been addressed in the Chromium-based Edge browser

Ubuntu Security Notice 6886-1 - It was discovered that the Go net/http module did not properly handle the requests when request\'s headers exceed MaxHeaderBytes. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a panic resulting into a denial of service. This issue only affected Go 1.21 in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. It was discovered that the Go net/http module did not properly validate the subdomain match or exact match of the initial domain. An attacker could possibly use this issue to read sensitive information. This issue only affected Go 1.21 in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.

Ubuntu Security Notice 6880-1 - Sam Shahsavar discovered that Apache Tomcat did not properly reject HTTP requests with an invalid Content-Length header. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform HTTP request smuggling attacks.

Ubuntu Security Notice 6885-1 - Marc Stern discovered that the Apache HTTP Server incorrectly handled serving WebSocket protocol upgrades over HTTP/2 connections. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause the server to crash, resulting in a denial of service. Orange Tsai discovered that the Apache HTTP Server mod_proxy module incorrectly sent certain request URLs with incorrect encodings to backends. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass authentication.

Ubuntu Security Notice 6884-1 - Martin Kaesberger discovered that Nova incorrectly handled QCOW2 image processing. An authenticated user could use this issue to access arbitrary files on the server, possibly exposing sensitive information.

Ubuntu Security Notice 6883-1 - Martin Kaesberger discovered that Glance incorrectly handled QCOW2 image processing. An authenticated user could use this issue to access arbitrary files on the server, possibly exposing sensitive information.

Ubuntu Security Notice 6882-1 - Martin Kaesberger discovered that Cinder incorrectly handled QCOW2 image processing. An authenticated user could use this issue to access arbitrary files on the server, possibly exposing sensitive information.

Four unpatched security flaws, including three critical ones, have been disclosed in the Gogs open-source, self-hosted Git service that could enable an authenticated attacker to breach susceptible instances, steal or wipe source code, and even plant backdoors. The vulnerabilities, according to SonarSource researchers Thomas Chauchefoin and Paul Gerste, are listed below - CVE-2024-39930 (CVSS