USN-7040-1 fixed a vulnerability in ConfigObj. This update
provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.
Original advisory details:
It was discovered that ConfigObj contains regex that is susceptible to
catastrophic backtracking. An attacker could possibly use this issue to
cause a regular expression denial of service.
USN-7014-1 fixed a vulnerability in nginx. This update
provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.
Original advisory details:
It was discovered that the nginx ngx_http_mp4 module incorrectly handled
certain malformed mp4 files. In environments where the mp4 directive is in
use, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause nginx to
crash, resulting in a denial of service.
USN-6968-1 fixed CVE-2024-7348 in PostgreSQL-12, PostgreSQL-14, and
PostgreSQL-16.
This update provides the corresponding updates for PostgreSQL-9.3 in
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and PostgreSQL-10 in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.
Original advisory details:
Noah Misch discovered that PostgreSQL incorrectly handled certain
SQL objects. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute
arbitrary SQL functions as the superuser.
USN-7015-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in Python. This update provides the
corresponding update for CVE-2023-27043 for python2.7 and python3.5 in
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.
Original advisory details:
It was discovered that the Python email module incorrectly parsed email
addresses that contain special characters. A remote attacker could
possibly use this issue to bypass certain protection mechanisms.
(CVE-2023-27043)
It was discovered that Python allowed excessive backtracking while parsing
certain tarfile headers. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue
to cause Python to consume resources, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2024-6232)
It was discovered that the Python email module incorrectly quoted newlines
for email headers. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to
perform header injection. (CVE-2024-6923)
It was discovered that the Python http.cookies module incorrectly handled
parsing cookies that contained backslashes for quoted characters. A remote
attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Python to consume
resources, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2024-7592)
It was discovered that the Python zipfile module incorrectly handled
certain malformed zip files. A remote attacker could possibly use this
issue to cause Python to stop responding, resulting in a denial of
service. (CVE-2024-8088)
It was discovered that HAProxy did not properly limit the creation of new
HTTP/2 streams. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause
HAProxy to consume excessive resources, leading to a denial of service.
wireshark-4.2.8-1.fc40
New version 4.2.8
Fix for CVE-2024-9781
Damien Schaeffer discovered that Thunderbird did not properly manage
certain memory operations when processing content in the Animation
timelines. An attacker could potentially exploit this issue to achieve
arbitrary code execution.
Damien Schaeffer discovered that Firefox did not properly manage memory in
the content process when handling Animation timelines, leading to a use
after free vulnerability. An attacker could possibly use this issue to
achieve remote code execution.
The following vulnerabilities have been discovered in the WebKitGTK
web engine:
CVE-2024-40866
Hafiizh and YoKo Kho discovered that visiting a malicious website
may lead to address bar spoofing.
CVE-2024-44187
Narendra Bhati discovered that a malicious website may exfiltrate
data cross-origin.
Elyas Damej discovered that a sandbox mechanism in ReportLab, a Python
library to create PDF documents, could be bypassed which may result in
the execution of arbitrary code when converting malformed HTML to a PDF
document.
