DSA-3574 libarchive – security update

Rock Stevens, Andrew Ruef and Marcin Icewall Noga discovered a
heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the zip_read_mac_metadata
function in libarchive, a multi-format archive and compression library,
which may lead to the execution of arbitrary code if a user or automated
system is tricked into processing a specially crafted ZIP file.

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2969-1

Ubuntu Security Notice 2969-1 – Ralf Spenneberg discovered that the Aiptek Tablet USB device driver in the Linux kernel did not properly sanity check the endpoints reported by the device. An attacker with physical access could cause a denial of service (system crash). Ben Hawkes discovered that the Linux kernel’s AIO interface allowed single writes greater than 2GB, which could cause an integer overflow when writing to certain filesystems, socket or device types. A local attacker could this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. Various other issues were also addressed.

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2970-1

Ubuntu Security Notice 2970-1 – Ralf Spenneberg discovered that the Aiptek Tablet USB device driver in the Linux kernel did not properly sanity check the endpoints reported by the device. An attacker with physical access could cause a denial of service (system crash). Ben Hawkes discovered that the Linux kernel’s AIO interface allowed single writes greater than 2GB, which could cause an integer overflow when writing to certain filesystems, socket or device types. A local attacker could this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. Various other issues were also addressed.

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2971-1

Ubuntu Security Notice 2971-1 – Ralf Spenneberg discovered that the Aiptek Tablet USB device driver in the Linux kernel did not properly sanity check the endpoints reported by the device. An attacker with physical access could cause a denial of service (system crash). Zach Riggle discovered that the Linux kernel’s list poison feature did not take into account the mmap_min_addr value. A local attacker could use this to bypass the kernel’s poison-pointer protection mechanism while attempting to exploit an existing kernel vulnerability. Various other issues were also addressed.

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2971-2

Ubuntu Security Notice 2971-2 – USN-2971-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 15.10. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement (HWE) kernel from Ubuntu 15.10 for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Ralf Spenneberg discovered that the Aiptek Tablet USB device driver in the Linux kernel did not properly sanity check the endpoints reported by the device. An attacker with physical access could cause a denial of service (system crash). Various other issues were also addressed.

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2971-3

Ubuntu Security Notice 2971-3 – Ralf Spenneberg discovered that the Aiptek Tablet USB device driver in the Linux kernel did not properly sanity check the endpoints reported by the device. An attacker with physical access could cause a denial of service (system crash). Zach Riggle discovered that the Linux kernel’s list poison feature did not take into account the mmap_min_addr value. A local attacker could use this to bypass the kernel’s poison-pointer protection mechanism while attempting to exploit an existing kernel vulnerability. Various other issues were also addressed.

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2968-1

Ubuntu Security Notice 2968-1 – Ralf Spenneberg discovered that the Aiptek Tablet USB device driver in the Linux kernel did not properly sanity check the endpoints reported by the device. An attacker with physical access could cause a denial of service (system crash). Ben Hawkes discovered that the Linux kernel’s AIO interface allowed single writes greater than 2GB, which could cause an integer overflow when writing to certain filesystems, socket or device types. A local attacker could this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. Various other issues were also addressed.

Red Hat Security Advisory 2016-0725-01

Red Hat Security Advisory 2016-0725-01 – KVM is a full virtualization solution for Linux on AMD64 and Intel 64 systems. The qemu-kvm-rhev package provides the user-space component for running virtual machines using KVM in environments managed by Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager. Security Fix: An out-of-bounds read/write access flaw was found in the way QEMU’s VGA emulation with VESA BIOS Extensions support performed read/write operations via I/O port methods. A privileged guest user could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code on the host with the privileges of the host’s QEMU process.

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2966-1

Ubuntu Security Notice 2966-1 – Shayan Sadigh discovered that OpenSSH incorrectly handled environment files when the UseLogin feature is enabled. A local attacker could use this issue to gain privileges. Ben Hawkes discovered that OpenSSH incorrectly handled certain network traffic. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause OpenSSH to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 15.10. Various other issues were also addressed.

Debian Security Advisory 3572-1

Debian Linux Security Advisory 3572-1 – Nitin Venkatesh discovered that websvn, a web viewer for Subversion repositories, is susceptible to cross-site scripting attacks via specially crafted file and directory names in repositories.