Category Archives: Advisories

CVE-2009-1142

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An issue was discovered in open-vm-tools 2009.03.18-154848. Local users can gain privileges via a symlink attack on /tmp files if vmware-user-suid-wrapper is setuid root and the ChmodChownDirectory function is enabled.

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CVE-2009-1143

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An issue was discovered in open-vm-tools 2009.03.18-154848. Local users can bypass intended access restrictions on mounting shares via a symlink attack that leverages a realpath race condition in mount.vmhgfs (aka hgfsmounter).

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CVE-2021-35246

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The application fails to prevent users from connecting to it over unencrypted connections. An attacker able to modify a legitimate user’s network traffic could bypass the application’s use of SSL/TLS encryption and use the application as a platform for attacks against its users.

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USN-5739-1: MariaDB vulnerabilities

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Several security issues were discovered in MariaDB and this update
includes new upstream MariaDB versions to fix these issues.

MariaDB has been updated to 10.3.37 in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and to 10.6.11
in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.10.

In addition to security fixes, the updated packages contain bug fixes,
new features, and possibly incompatible changes.

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USN-5638-3: Expat vulnerability

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USN-5638-1 fixed a vulnerability in Expat. This update provides
the corresponding updates for Ubuntu 16.04 ESM, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS,
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.10. (CVE-2022-43680)
This update also fixes a minor regression introduced in
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

Original advisory details:

Rhodri James discovered that Expat incorrectly handled memory when
processing certain malformed XML files. An attacker could possibly
use this issue to cause a crash or execute arbitrary code.

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