Category Archives: Advisories

Advisories

USN-5332-2: Bind vulnerability

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USN-5332-1 fixed a vulnerability in Bind. This update provides
the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM.

Original advisory details:

Xiang Li, Baojun Liu, Chaoyi Lu, and Changgen Zou discovered that Bind
incorrectly handled certain bogus NS records when using forwarders. A
remote attacker could possibly use this issue to manipulate cache results.
(CVE-2021-25220)

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USN-5321-2: Firefox vulnerabilities

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USN-5321-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. The update didn’t include
arm64 because of a regression. This update provides the corresponding
update for arm64.

This update also removes Yandex and Mail.ru as optional search providers
in the drop-down search menu.

Original advisory details:

Multiple security issues were discovered in Firefox. If a user were
tricked into opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could
potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service, spoof the browser
UI, bypass security restrictions, obtain sensitive information, or execute
arbitrary code. (CVE-2022-0843, CVE-2022-26381, CVE-2022-26382,
CVE-2022-26383, CVE-2022-26384, CVE-2022-26385)

A TOCTOU bug was discovered when verifying addon signatures during
install. A local attacker could potentially exploit this to trick a
user into installing an addon with an invalid signature.
(CVE-2022-26387)

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USN-5334-1: man-db vulnerability

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It was discovered that man-db incorrectly handled permission changing
operations in its daily cron job, and was therefore affected by a race
condition. An attacker could possibly use this issue to escalate privileges
and execute arbitrary code.

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CVE-2021-23556

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The package guake before 3.8.5 are vulnerable to Exposed Dangerous Method or Function due to the exposure of execute_command and execute_command_by_uuid methods via the d-bus interface, which makes it possible for a malicious user to run an arbitrary command via the d-bus method. **Note:** Exploitation requires the user to have installed another malicious program that will be able to send dbus signals or run terminal commands.

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kernel-5.16.15-101.fc34

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FEDORA-2022-9342e59a98

Packages in this update:

kernel-5.16.15-101.fc34

Update description:

The 5.16.15 stable kernel update includes a number of important fixes across the tree. It also includes a temporary revert of the feature that makes QNAP NFS mounts fail. We will carry this revert through the 5.16 series in attempt to give the vendor more time to come out with an update, or upstream to come out with a solution.

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kernel-5.16.15-201.fc35

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FEDORA-2022-de4474b89d

Packages in this update:

kernel-5.16.15-201.fc35

Update description:

The 5.16.15 stable kernel update includes a number of important fixes across the tree. It also includes a temporary revert of the feature that makes QNAP NFS mounts fail. We will carry this revert through the 5.16 series in attempt to give the vendor more time to come out with an update, or upstream to come out with a solution.

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