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Ubuntu: jasper vulnerability

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It was discovered that Jasper did not correctly handle corrupted JPEG2000 images. By tricking a user into opening a specially crafted JPG, a remote attacker could cause the application using libjasper to crash, resulting in a denial of service.

Ubuntu: rsync vulnerability USN-500-1

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Sebastian Krahmer discovered that rsync contained an off-by-one miscalculation when handling certain file paths. By creating a specially crafted tree of files and tricking an rsync server into processing them, a remote attacker could write a single NULL to stack memory, possibly leading to arbitrary code execution.

Ubuntu: Apache vulnerabilities USN-499-1

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Stefan Esser discovered that mod_status did not force a character set, which could result in browsers becoming vulnerable to XSS attacks when processing the output. If a user were tricked into viewing server status output during a crafted server request, a remote attacker could exploit this to modify the contents, or steal confidential data (such as passwords), within the same domain. By default, mod_status is disabled in Ubuntu.

Ubuntu: libvorbis vulnerabilities USN-498-1

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David Thiel discovered that libvorbis did not correctly verify the size of certain headers, and did not correctly clean up a broken stream. If a user were tricked into processing a specially crafted Vorbis stream, a remote attacker could execute arbitrary code with the user's privileges.

Ubuntu: Qt vulnerability USN-579-1

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Several format string vulnerabilities have been discovered in Qt warning messages. By causing an application to process specially crafted input data which triggered Qt warnings, this could be exploited to execute arbitrary code with the privilege of the user running the application.

Ubuntu: Gimp vulnerability

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Sean Larsson discovered multiple integer overflows in Gimp. By tricking a user into opening a specially crafted DICOM, PNM, PSD, PSP, RAS, XBM, or XWD image, a remote attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary code with the user's privileges.

Ubuntu: Firefox vulnerabilities USN-493-1

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A flaw was discovered in handling of "about:blank" windows used by addons. A malicious web site could exploit this to modify the contents, or steal confidential data (such as passwords), of other web pages. Jesper Johansson discovered that spaces and double-quotes were not correctly handled when launching external programs. In rare configurations, after tricking a user into opening a malicious web page, an attacker could execute helpers with arbitrary arguments with the user's privileges.

Ubuntu: Bind vulnerability

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A flaw was discovered in Bind's sequence number generator. A remote attacker could calculate future sequence numbers and send forged DNS query responses. This could lead to client connections being directed to attacker-controlled hosts, resulting in credential theft and other attacks.

Ubuntu: redhat-cluster-suite vulnerability

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USN-489-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel. This update provides the corresponding fixes for the redhat cluster suite kernel sources. A flaw was discovered in the cluster manager. A remote attacker could connect to the DLM port and block further DLM operations.

Ubuntu: Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-489-1

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A flaw was discovered in dvb ULE decapsulation. A remote attacker could send a specially crafted message and cause a denial of service. The compat_sys_mount function allowed local users to cause a denial of service when mounting a smbfs filesystem in compatibility mode.

Ubuntu: mod_perl vulnerability

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Alex Solovey discovered that mod_perl did not correctly validate certain regular expression matches. A remote attacker could send a specially crafted request to a web application using mod_perl, causing the web server to monopolize CPU resources. This could lead to a remote denial of service.

Ubuntu: PHP vulnerabilities USN-485-1

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It was discovered that the PHP xmlrpc extension did not correctly check heap memory allocation sizes. A remote attacker could send a specially crafted request to a PHP application using xmlrpc and execute arbitrary code as the Apache user.

Ubuntu: curl vulnerability

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It was discovered that the GnuTLS certificate verification methods implemented in Curl did not check for expiration and activation dates. When performing validations, tools using libcurl3-gnutls would incorrectly allow connections to sites using expired certificates.