This conflates two issues, and anyhow, Basic Authentication is not a
problem (Digest won’t be any more secure than Basic, if SSL is used…
is it present?).
CAPTCHA has nothing to do with CSRF. Neither do default credentials.
Just wanted to let you know I’ve released a blog post discussing an interesting Outlook bug (remote crashing, or?),
feel free to reach me for discussions of the exploitability of the bug.
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its
derivatives:
Ubuntu 16.10
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Summary
GStreamer Base Plugins could be made to crash if it opened a specially
crafted file.
Software description
gst-plugins-base0.10
– GStreamer Plugins
gst-plugins-base1.0
– GStreamer Plugins
Details
Hanno Böck discovered that GStreamer Base Plugins did not correctly handle certain malformed media files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted media file with a GStreamer application, an attacker could cause a denial of service via application crash.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package version:
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its
derivatives:
Ubuntu 16.10
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Summary
GStreamer Good Plugins could be made to crash if it opened a specially
crafted file.
Software description
gst-plugins-good0.10
– GStreamer plugins
gst-plugins-good1.0
– GStreamer plugins
Details
Hanno Böck discovered that GStreamer Good Plugins did not correctly handle certain malformed media files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted media file with a GStreamer application, an attacker could cause a denial of service via application crash.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package version:
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its
derivatives:
Ubuntu 16.10
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Summary
Eject could be made to run programs as an administrator.
Software description
eject
– ejects CDs and operates CD-Changers under Linux
Details
Ilja Van Sprundel discovered that dmcrypt-get-device incorrectly checked setuid and setgid return values. A local attacker could use this issue to execute code as an administrator.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package version: