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  • Medium 5.5

    Accountsservice incorrectly drops privileges

    accountsservice no longer drops permissions when writting .pam_environment

  • Medium 4.4

    aufs: improperly managed inode reference counts in the vfsub_dentry_open() method

    It was discovered that aufs improperly managed inode reference counts in the vfsub_dentry_open() method. A local attacker could use this vulnerability to cause a denial of service attack.

  • Medium 5.7

    GRUB2 contained integer overflows when handling the initrd command, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow.

    Integer overflows were discovered in the functions grub_cmd_initrd and grub_initrd_init in the efilinux component of GRUB2, as shipped in Debian, Red Hat, and Ubuntu (the functionality is not included in GRUB2 upstream), leading to a heap-based buffer overflo…

  • Medium 6.4

    GRUB2: avoid loading unsigned kernels when GRUB is booted directly under secureboot without shim

    GRUB2 fails to validate kernel signature when booted directly without shim, allowing secure boot to be bypassed. This only affects systems where the kernel signing certificate has been imported directly into the secure boot database and the GRUB image is boot…

  • Medium 6.4

    GRUB2 contains a race condition leading to a use-after-free vulnerability which can be triggered by redefining a function whilst the same function is already executing.

    GRUB2 contains a race condition in grub_script_function_create() leading to a use-after-free vulnerability which can be triggered by redefining a function whilst the same function is already executing, leading to arbitrary code execution and secure boot restr…

  • Medium 5.9

    Online Accounts Signon daemon gives out all oauth tokens to any app

    signond before 8.57+15.04.20141127.1-0ubuntu1, as used in Ubuntu Touch, did not properly restrict applications from querying oath tokens due to incorrect checks and the missing installation of the signon-apparmor-extension. An attacker could use this create a…

  • Medium 6.5
    CVE-2019-15793 Public exploit

    Mishandling of file-system uid/gid with namespaces in shiftfs

    In shiftfs, a non-upstream patch to the Linux kernel included in the Ubuntu 5.0 and 5.3 kernel series, several locations which shift ids translate user/group ids before performing operations in the lower filesystem were translating them into init_user_ns, whe…

  • Medium 5.5

    Ubuntu 18.04 Linux kernel i915 incomplete fix for CVE-2019-14615

    The fix for the Linux kernel in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS for CVE-2019-14615 ("The Linux kernel did not properly clear data structures on context switches for certain Intel graphics processors.") was discovered to be incomplete, meaning that in versions of the kernel …

  • Medium 6.5

    Apport contains a TOCTTOU vulnerability when reading the users ~/.apport-ignore.xml

    Apport before versions 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.29+esm1, 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.19, 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.7, 2.20.10-0ubuntu27.1, 2.20.11-0ubuntu5 contained a TOCTTOU vulnerability when reading the users ~/.apport-ignore.xml file, which allows a local attacker to replace this file…

  • Medium 6.5

    Integer overflow in whoopsie results in out-of-bounds heap write

    An integer overflow in whoopsie before versions 0.2.52.5ubuntu0.1, 0.2.62ubuntu0.1, 0.2.64ubuntu0.1, 0.2.66, results in an out-of-bounds write to a heap allocated buffer when processing large crash dumps. This results in a crash or possible code-execution in …

  • Medium 5.5

    Probe-and-enlist for SeaMicro chassis writes password to the log

    The SeaMicro provisioning of Ubuntu MAAS logs credentials, including username and password, for the management interface. This issue affects Ubuntu MAAS versions prior to 1.9.2.

  • Medium 6.4

    Juju Joyent provider uploads user's private ssh key by default

    Juju Core's Joyent provider before version 1.25.5 uploads the user's private ssh key.

  • Medium 5.7

    python-dbusmock arbitrary code execution or file overwrite when templates are loaded from /tmp

    python-dbusmock before version 0.15.1 AddTemplate() D-Bus method call or DBusTestCase.spawn_server_template() method could be tricked into executing malicious code if an attacker supplies a .pyc file.

  • Medium 6.7

    UDM doesn't check for confinement before running post-processing commands

    UDM provides support for running commands after a download is completed, this is currently made use of for click package installation. This functionality was not restricted to unconfined applications. Before UDM version 1.2+16.04.20160408-0ubuntu1 any confine…

  • Medium 4.8

    Using a specially crafted fallback art property, scopes can execute arbitrary QML code in context of unity8-dash

    Versions of Unity8 before 8.11+16.04.20160122-0ubuntu1 file plugins/Dash/CardCreator.js will execute any code found in place of a fallback image supplied by a scope.