USN-7259-1 fixed a vulnerability in GNU C Library. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. Original advisory details: It was discovered that GNU C Library incorrectly handled memory when using the assert function. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code.

Goldberg, Miro Haller, Nadia Heninger, Mike Milano, Dan Shumow, Marc Stevens, and Adam Suhl discovered that Kerberos incorrectly authenticated certain responses. An attacker able to intercept communications between a RADIUS client and server could possibly use this issue to forge responses, bypass authentication, and access network devices and services. This update introduces support for the Message-Authenticator attribute in non-EAP authentication methods for communications between Kerberos and a RADIUS server.

USN-7096-1 fixed vulnerabilities in OpenJDK 8. The update introduced several minor regressions. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: Andy Boothe discovered that the Networking component of OpenJDK 8 did not properly handle access under certain circumstances. An unauthenticated attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2024-21208) It was discovered that the Hotspot component of OpenJDK 8 did not properly handle vectorization under certain circumstances. An unauthenticated attacker could possibly use this issue to access unauthorized resources and expose sensitive information. (CVE-2024-21210, CVE-2024-21235) It was discovered that the Serialization component of OpenJDK 8 did not properly handle deserialization under certain circumstances. An unauthenticated attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2024-21217) It was discovered that the Hotspot component of OpenJDK 8 was not properly bounding certain UTF-8 strings, which could lead to a buffer overflow. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. This issue was only addressed in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2024-21131) It was discovered that the Hotspot component of OpenJDK 8 could be made to run into an infinite loop. If an automated system were tricked into processing excessively large symbols, an attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue was only addressed in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2024-21138) It was discovered that the Hotspot component of OpenJDK 8 did not properly perform range check elimination. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service, execute arbitrary code or bypass Java sandbox restrictions. This issue was only addressed in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2024-21140) Yakov Shafranovich discovered that the Concurrency component of OpenJDK 8 incorrectly performed header validation in the Pack200 archive format. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue was only addressed in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2024-21144) Sergey Bylokhov discovered that OpenJDK 8 did not properly manage memory when handling 2D images. An attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information. This issue was only addressed in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2024-21145) It was discovered that the Hotspot component of OpenJDK 8 incorrectly handled memory when performing range check elimination under certain circumstances. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service, execute arbitrary code or bypass Java sandbox restrictions. This issue was only addressed in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2024-21147) 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. This issue was only addressed in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2024-21011) 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. This issue was only addressed in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2024-21068) Yakov Shafranovich discovered that OpenJDK 8 did not properly manage memory in the Pack200 archive format. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue was only addressed in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2024-21085) It was discovered that the Hotspot component of OpenJDK 8 incorrectly handled array accesses in the C2 compiler. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. This issue was only addressed in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2024-21094) Yi Yang discovered that the Hotspot component of OpenJDK 8 incorrectly handled array accesses in the C1 compiler. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service, execute arbitrary code or bypass Java sandbox restrictions. This issue was only addressed in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2024-20918) It was discovered that the Hotspot component of OpenJDK 8 did not properly verify bytecode in certain situations. An attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass Java sandbox restrictions. This issue was only addressed in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2024-20919) It was discovered that the Hotspot component of OpenJDK 8 had an optimization flaw when generating range check loop predicates. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service, execute arbitrary code or bypass Java sandbox restrictions. This issue was only addressed in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2024-20921) Valentin Eudeline discovered that OpenJDK 8 incorrectly handled certain options in the Nashorn JavaScript subcomponent. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. This issue was only addressed in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2024-20926) It was discovered that OpenJDK 8 could produce debug logs that contained private keys used for digital signatures. An attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information. This issue was only addressed in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2024-20945) Hubert Kario discovered that the TLS implementation in OpenJDK 8 had a timing side-channel and incorrectly handled RSA padding. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to recover sensitive information. This issue was only addressed in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2024-20952)

Xiantong Hou discovered that libvpx would overflow when attempting to allocate memory for very large images. If an application using libvpx opened a specially crafted file, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause the application to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or the execution of arbitrary code.

It was discovered that libndp incorrectly handled certain malformed IPv6 router advertisement packets. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to cause NetworkManager to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or the execution of arbitrary code.

It was discovered that VLC incorrectly handled memory when reading an MMS stream. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code.

It was discovered that Tcpreplay incorrectly handled memory when using the tcprewrite utility. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Tcpreplay to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2023-27783) It was discovered that Tcpreplay incorrectly validated external input. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Tcpreplay to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2023-27784, CVE-2023-27785, CVE-2023-27786, CVE-2023-27787, CVE-2023-27788, CVE-2023-27789) It was discovered that Tcpreplay incorrectly handled memory when using the tcprewrite utility. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Tcpreplay to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2023-4256, CVE-2023-43279)

It was discovered that PCL incorrectly handled certain malformed files. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted file, an attacker could possibly exploit this to cause a denial of service.

Frank Zeng discovered that OpenJPEG incorrectly handled memory when using the decompression utility. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2024-56826, CVE-2024-56827)

It was discovered that HTMLDOC incorrectly handled memory in the imagesetmask, gitreadlzw, writeheader and writenode functions, which could lead to a heap buffer overflow. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-0137, CVE-2022-24191, CVE-2022-34033, CVE-2022-34035) It was discovered that HTMLDOC incorrectly handled memory in the gifgetcode function, which could lead to a segmentation fault. If a user or application were tricked into opening a crafted GIF file, an attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-0534) It was discovered that HTMLDOC did not perform proper bounds checks on image dimensions when loading JPEG images, which could lead to a buffer overflow. If a user or application were tricked into opening a crafted JPEG image, an attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-27114) It was discovered that HTMLDOC incorrectly handled memory in the pdfwritenames function, which could lead to a heap buffer overflow. If a user or application were tricked into opening a specially crafted file, an attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or leak sensitive information. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-28085) It was discovered that HTMLDOC could be made to write out of bounds when attempting to strip whitespace. An attacker could use this issue to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2024-45508) It was discovered that HTMLDOC incorrectly handled memory in the parsepre function, which could lead to a heap buffer overflow. If a user or application were tricked into opening a specially crafted file, an attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2024-46478)

It was discovered that the PoDoFo library could dereference a NULL pointer when getting the number of pages in a PDF. If a user or application were tricked into opening a crafted PDF file, an attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2018-11255) It was discovered that PoDoFo library incorrectly handled memory when computing an encryption key, which could lead to a buffer overflow. If a user or application were tricked into opening a crafted PDF file, an attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2018-12983) It was discovered that the PoDoFo library incorrectly handled memory allocation. If a user or application were tricked into opening a crafted PDF file, an attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2018-20797) It was discovered that the PoDoFo library did not properly validate memcpy arguments. If a user or application were tricked into opening a crafted PDF file, an attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2018-5308) It was discovered that the PoDoFo library incorrectly handled memory in the GetNextToken function, which could lead to a buffer overflow. If a user or application were tricked into opening a crafted PDF file, an attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2017-5886) It was discovered that the PoDoFo library could enter an infinite loop, which could lead to a stack overflow. If a user or application were tricked into opening a crafted PDF file, an attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2018-8002, CVE-2020-18971, CVE-2021-30471, CVE-2021-30470) It was discovered that the PoDoFo library incorrectly handled memory allocation due to nInitialSize not being validated. If a user or application were tricked into opening a crafted PDF file, an attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2019-10723)

Mike Salvatore discovered that Audacity incorrectly handled default permissions of temporary files created by the application. An attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information.

Felix Wilhelm discovered that Apache Commons BCEL APIs incorrectly handled parameters due to a memory issue. An attacker supplying malicious input could exploit this to generate and execute arbitrary bytecode.

It was discovered that poppler incorrectly handled memory when opening certain PDF files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause denial of service or obtain sensitive information.

Jacob Boerema discovered that the GIMP DDS Plugin incorrectly processed DDS files due to a memory issue. An attacker could exploit this through a specifically crafted DDS file to cause GIMP to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

USN-7206-1 fixed vulnerabilities in rsync. The update introduced a regression in rsync. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: Simon Scannell, Pedro Gallegos, and Jasiel Spelman discovered that rsync did not properly handle checksum lengths. An attacker could use this issue to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2024-12084) Simon Scannell, Pedro Gallegos, and Jasiel Spelman discovered that rsync compared checksums with uninitialized memory. An attacker could exploit this issue to leak sensitive information. (CVE-2024-12085) Simon Scannell, Pedro Gallegos, and Jasiel Spelman discovered that rsync incorrectly handled file checksums. A malicious server could use this to expose arbitrary client files. (CVE-2024-12086) Simon Scannell, Pedro Gallegos, and Jasiel Spelman discovered that rsync mishandled symlinks for some settings. An attacker could exploit this to write files outside the intended directory. (CVE-2024-12087) Simon Scannell, Pedro Gallegos, and Jasiel Spelman discovered that rsync failed to verify symbolic link destinations for some settings. An attacker could exploit this for path traversal attacks. (CVE-2024-12088) Aleksei Gorban discovered a race condition in rsync's handling of symbolic links. An attacker could use this to access sensitive information or escalate privileges. (CVE-2024-12747)

Wei Hao discovered that PowerDNS Authoritative Server incorrectly handled memory when accessing certain files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to achieve arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2018-1046) It was discovered that PowerDNS Authoritative Server and PowerDNS Recursor incorrectly handled memory when receiving certain remote input. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause denial of service. (CVE-2018-10851) Kees Monshouwer discovered that PowerDNS Authoritative Server and PowerDNS Recursor incorrectly handled request validation after having cached malformed input. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause denial of service. (CVE-2018-14626) Toshifumi Sakaguchi discovered that PowerDNS Recursor incorrectly handled requests after having cached malformed input. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause denial of service. (CVE-2018-14644) Nathaniel Ferguson discovered that PowerDNS Authoritative Server incorrectly handled memory when receiving certain remote input. An attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2020-17482) Nicolas Dehaine and Dmitry Shabanov discovered that PowerDNS Authoritative Server and PowerDNS Recursor incorrectly handled IXFR requests in certain circumstances. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause denial of service. (CVE-2022-27227)

Simon Scannell, Pedro Gallegos, and Jasiel Spelman discovered that rsync did not properly handle checksum lengths. An attacker could use this issue to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2024-12084) Simon Scannell, Pedro Gallegos, and Jasiel Spelman discovered that rsync compared checksums with uninitialized memory. An attacker could exploit this issue to leak sensitive information. (CVE-2024-12085) Simon Scannell, Pedro Gallegos, and Jasiel Spelman discovered that rsync incorrectly handled file checksums. A malicious server could use this to expose arbitrary client files. (CVE-2024-12086) Simon Scannell, Pedro Gallegos, and Jasiel Spelman discovered that rsync mishandled symlinks for some settings. An attacker could exploit this to write files outside the intended directory. (CVE-2024-12087) Simon Scannell, Pedro Gallegos, and Jasiel Spelman discovered that rsync failed to verify symbolic link destinations for some settings. An attacker could exploit this for path traversal attacks. (CVE-2024-12088) Aleksei Gorban discovered a race condition in rsync's handling of symbolic links. An attacker could use this to access sensitive information or escalate privileges. (CVE-2024-12747)

It was discovered that Roundcube incorrectly handled certain file-based attachment plugins. An attacker could exploit this to gain unauthorized access to arbitrary files on the host’s file system.

Guido Vranken discovered that Go Networking handled input to the Parse functions inefficiently. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause denial of service. This update addresses the issue in the golang-golang-x-net and golang-golang-x-net-dev packages, as well as the library vendored within adsys and juju-core.

It was discovered that FFmpeg incorrectly handled certain input, which could lead to an integer overflow. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service by crashing the application.

It was discovered that HTMLDOC incorrectly handled certain inputs, which could lead to an integer overflow. An attacker could potentially use this issue to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2021-20308) It was discovered that HTMLDOC incorrectly handled memory in pspdfexport, which could lead to a double-free. An attacker could potentially use this issue to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2021-23158) It was discovered that HTMLDOC incorrectly handled memory when loading a JPEG image, which could lead to a NULL pointer dereference. An attacker could potentially use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2021-23191, CVE-2021-26948) It was discovered that HTMLDOC incorrectly handled certain inputs, which could lead to a stack buffer overflow. An attacker could potentially use this issue to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2021-23206, CVE-2021-40985, CVE-2021-43579) It was discovered that HTMLDOC incorrectly handled memory in pdpdfpreparepage and rendertablerow, which could lead to a heap buffer overflow. An attacker could potentially use this issue to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2021-26252, CVE-2021-26259) It was discovered that HTMLDOC incorrectly handled memory in parseparagraph, which could lead to a heap buffer overflow. An attacker could potentially use this issue to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2021-34119) It was discovered that HTMLDOC incorrectly handled memory in parsetree. An attacker could potentially use this issue to leak sensitive information. (CVE-2021-34121)

It was discovered that Tinyproxy did not properly manage memory during the parsing of HTTP connection headers. An attacker could use this issue to cause a DoS or possibly execute arbitrary code.

It was discovered that EditorConfig improperly managed memory when handling certain inputs, leading to overflows. An attacker could possibly use these issues to cause a denial of service, or execute arbitrary code.

It was discovered that PHPUnit incorrectly handled web requests if exposed to the internet. An attacker could possibly use this issue to achive remote code execution or obtain sensitive information.

It was discovered Mpmath incorrectly handled certain regular expressions. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Mpmath to consume resources, leading to a denial of service.

It was discovered that PHP incorrectly handled long string inputs in two database drivers. An attacker could possibly use this issue to write files in locations they would not normally have access to. (CVE-2024-11236)

Avraham Shalev and Nagaraju N Kodalapura discovered that some Intel(R) Xeon(R) processors did not properly restrict access to the memory controller when using Intel(R) SGX. This may allow a local privileged attacker to further escalate their privileges. (CVE-2024-21820, CVE-2024-23918) It was discovered that some 4th and 5th Generation Intel(R) Xeon(R) Processors did not properly implement finite state machines (FSMs) in hardware logic. THis may allow a local privileged attacker to cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2024-21853) It was discovered that some Intel(R) Processors did not properly restrict access to the Running Average Power Limit (RAPL) interface. This may allow a local privileged attacker to obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2024-23984) It was discovered that some Intel(R) Processors did not properly implement finite state machines (FSMs) in hardware logic. This may allow a local privileged attacker to cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2024-24968)

It was discovered that oFono incorrectly handled decoding SMS messages leading to a stack overflow. A remote attacker could potentially use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2023-4232, CVE-2023-4235)

Christina Fu discovered that Dogtag PKI accidentally enabled a mock authentication plugin by default. An attacker could potentially use this flaw to bypass the regular authentication process and trick the CA server into issuing certificates. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2017-7537) It was discovered that Dogtag PKI did not properly sanitize user input. An attacker could possibly use this issue to perform cross site scripting and obtain sensitive information. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2020-25715) It was discovered that the XML parser did not properly handle entity expansion. A remote attacker could potentially retrieve the content of arbitrary files by sending specially crafted HTTP requests. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-2414)