On October 10th, in a security notice Canonical published details about a QEMU vulnerability for its Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Ubuntu 11.10, Ubuntu 11.04, Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 8.04 LTS operating systems.
According to Canonical, Bind could be made to crash if it received specially crafted network traffic. It was discovered that Bind incorrectly handled certain specific combinations of RDATA.
On October 11th, in a security notice Canonical published details about a Quagga vulnerability for its Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Ubuntu 11.10, Ubuntu 11.04, and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS operating systems. According to Canonical, Quagga could have been made to crash if it received specially crafted network traffic. Quagga then incorrectly handled certain malformed messages.
On January 28, in a security notice Canonical published details about a libssh vulnerability for its Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Ubuntu 11.10, and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS operating systems. According to Canonical, libssh could have been made to crash, if it received specially crafted network traffic. It was discovered that libssh incorrectly handled certain negotiation requests.
In a security notice, Canonical published details about a FreeRADIUS vulnerability for its Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Ubuntu 11.10, and Ubuntu 11.04 operating systems.
According to Canonical, FreeRADIUS could be made to crash or run programs if it received specially crafted network traffic.
On December 17, Canonical published in a security notice details about a bogofilter vulnerability for its Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) operating systems.
According to Canonical, bogofilter could have been made to crash or run programs, if it processed a specially crafted email.
It was discovered that bogofilter incorrectly handled certain invalid base64 code.
On October 26, in a security notice Canonical published details about an Exim vulnerability for its Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Ubuntu 11.10, Ubuntu 11.04, and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS operating systems.
According to Canonical, Exim could have been made to run programs if it received specially crafted network traffic.
It was discovered that Exim incorrectly handled DKIM DNS decoding.
On February 25, in a security notice Canonical published details about Transmission vulnerabilities for its Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 11.10 operating systems.
According to Canonical, Transmission could be made to crash or run programs if it received specially crafted network traffic.
It was discovered that Transmission incorrectly handled certain micro transport protocol packets
In a security notice, Canonical has published details about a Mesa vulnerability for its Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) operating system.
According to Canonical, Mesa could have been made to crash or run programs, if it processed specially crafted data.
It was discovered that Mesa incorrectly handled certain arrays.
On December 10, Canonical published in a security notice details about a GIMP vulnerability for its Ubuntu 12.10 Ubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu 11.10, and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS operating systems.According to Canonical, GIMP could have been made to crash or run programs as the users login, if it opened a specially crafted file.It was discovered that GIMP incorrectly handled malformed XWD files.