Category Archives: Advisories

USN-6690-1: Open vSwitch vulnerabilities

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Timothy Redaelli and Haresh Khandelwal discovered that Open vSwitch
incorrectly handled certain crafted Geneve packets when hardware offloading
via the netlink path is enabled. A remote attacker could possibly use this
issue to cause Open vSwitch to crash, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2023-3966)

It was discovered that Open vSwitch incorrectly handled certain ICMPv6
Neighbor Advertisement packets. A remote attacker could possibly use this
issue to redirect traffic to arbitrary IP addresses. (CVE-2023-5366)

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USN-6656-2: PostgreSQL vulnerability

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USN-6656-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in PostgreSQL. This update provides
the corresponding updates for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Original advisory details:

It was discovered that PostgreSQL incorrectly handled dropping privileges
when handling REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW CONCURRENTLY commands. If a user or
automatic system were tricked into running a specially crafted command, a
remote attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary SQL
functions.

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