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Ubuntu Security Notice 6815-1 - Xiantong Hou discovered that AOM did not properly handle certain malformed media files. If an application using AOM opened a specially crafted file, a remote attacker could cause a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
Ubuntu Security Notice 6814-1 - Xiantong Hou discovered that libvpx did not properly handle certain malformed media files. If an application using libvpx opened a specially crafted file, a remote attacker could cause a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
Ubuntu Security Notice 6813-1 - It was discovered that the Hotspot component of OpenJDK 21 incorrectly handled certain exceptions with specially crafted long messages. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. It was discovered that OpenJDK 21 incorrectly performed reverse DNS query under certain circumstances in the Networking/HTTP client component. An attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information.
Ubuntu Security Notice 6567-2 - USN-6567-1 fixed vulnerabilities QEMU. The fix for CVE-2023-2861 was too restrictive and introduced a behavior change leading to a regression in certain environments. This update fixes the problem. Gaoning Pan and Xingwei Li discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the USB xHCI controller device. A privileged guest attacker could possibly use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, leading to a denial of service. Various other issues were also addressed.
Ubuntu Security Notice 6809-1 - It was discovered that BlueZ could be made to dereference invalid memory. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. It was discovered that BlueZ could be made to write out of bounds. If a user were tricked into connecting to a malicious device, an attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code.
Ubuntu Security Notice 6812-1 - It was discovered that the Hotspot component of OpenJDK 17 incorrectly handled certain exceptions with specially crafted long messages. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. It was discovered that OpenJDK 17 incorrectly performed reverse DNS query under certain circumstances in the Networking/HTTP client component. An attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information.
Ubuntu Security Notice 6811-1 - It was discovered that the Hotspot component of OpenJDK 11 incorrectly handled certain exceptions with specially crafted long messages. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. It was discovered that OpenJDK 11 incorrectly performed reverse DNS query under certain circumstances in the Networking/HTTP client component. An attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information.
Ubuntu Security Notice 6810-1 - It was discovered that the Hotspot component of OpenJDK 8 incorrectly handled certain exceptions with specially crafted long messages. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. Vladimir Kondratyev discovered that the Hotspot component of OpenJDK 8 incorrectly handled address offset calculations in the C1 compiler. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code.
Ubuntu Security Notice 6808-1 - It was discovered that Atril was vulnerable to a path traversal attack. An attacker could possibly use this vulnerability to create arbitrary files on the host filesystem with user privileges.
Ubuntu Security Notice 6804-1 - It was discovered that GNU C Library nscd daemon contained a stack-based buffer overflow. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service. It was discovered that GNU C Library nscd daemon did not properly check the cache content, leading to a null pointer dereference vulnerability. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service.