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Ubuntu Security Notice 6553-1 - Nina Jensen discovered that Pydantic incorrectly handled user input in the date and datetime fields. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service via application crash.

Ubuntu Security Notice 6554-1 - Zygmunt Krynicki discovered that GNOME Settings did not accurately reflect the SSH remote login status when the system was configured to use systemd socket activation for OpenSSH. Remote SSH access may be unknowingly enabled, contrary to expectation.

Ubuntu Security Notice 6548-2 - It was discovered that Spectre-BHB mitigations were missing for Ampere processors. A local attacker could potentially use this to expose sensitive information. It was discovered that the USB subsystem in the Linux kernel contained a race condition while handling device descriptors in certain situations, leading to a out-of-bounds read vulnerability. A local attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service.

Ubuntu Security Notice 6549-2 - It was discovered that the USB subsystem in the Linux kernel contained a race condition while handling device descriptors in certain situations, leading to a out-of-bounds read vulnerability. A local attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service. Lin Ma discovered that the Netlink Transformation subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly initialize a policy data structure, leading to an out-of-bounds vulnerability. A local privileged attacker could use this to cause a denial of service or possibly expose sensitive information.

Ubuntu Security Notice 6534-2 - It was discovered that the USB subsystem in the Linux kernel contained a race condition while handling device descriptors in certain situations, leading to a out-of-bounds read vulnerability. A local attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service. Lin Ma discovered that the Netlink Transformation subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly initialize a policy data structure, leading to an out-of-bounds vulnerability. A local privileged attacker could use this to cause a denial of service or possibly expose sensitive information.

Ubuntu Security Notice 6552-1 - Florent Saudel and Arnaud Gatignol discovered that Netatalk incorrectly handled certain specially crafted Spotlight requests. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause heap corruption and execute arbitrary code.

Ubuntu Security Notice 6551-1 - It was discovered that Ghostscript incorrectly handled writing TIFF files. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Ghostscript to crash, resulting in a denial of service.

Microsoft released its final set of Patch Tuesday updates for 2023, closing out 33 flaws in its software, making it one of the lightest releases in recent years. Of the 33 shortcomings, four are rated Critical and 29 are rated Important in severity. The fixes are in addition to 18 flaws Microsoft addressed in its Chromium-based Edge browser since the release of Patch

NCurse v6.4-20230418 was discovered to contain a segmentation fault via the component _nc_wrap_entry().

Espeak-ng 1.52-dev was discovered to contain a Floating Point Exception via the function PeaksToHarmspect at wavegen.c.