On October 2rd, in a security notice Canonical published details about devscripts vulnerabilities for its Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Ubuntu 11.10, Ubuntu 11.04, and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS operating systems. According to Canonical, several security issues were fixed in devscripts.
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.
Canonical published details about LibTIFF vulnerabilities for its Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS operating systems.According to Canonical, LibTIFF could be made to crash or run programs, as the user’s login, if it opened a specially crafted file.It was discovered discovered that LibTIFF incorrectly handled certain malformed images when using the tiff2pdf t
On April 8, Canonical published details about Thunderbird vulnerabilities for its Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Ubuntu 11.10, and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS operating systems in a security notice.According to Canonical, several security issues were fixed in Thunderbird.Multiple memory safety issues affecting Thunderbird were discovered.
On February 25, Canonical published details about Thunderbird vulnerabilities for its Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Ubuntu 11.10, and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS operating systems in a security notice.
According to Canonical, several security issues have been fixed in Thunderbird.
For example, vulnerabilities have been identified in Chrome Object Wrappers (COW) and System Only Wrappers (SOW).
On November 5, in a security notice Canonical published details about Munin vulnerabilities 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, several security issues were fixed in Munin.
On January 14, Canonical published in a security notice details about FreeType vulnerabilities for its Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Ubuntu 11.10, Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 8.04 LTS operating systems.
According to Canonical, FreeType could have been made to crash or run programs as the user's login, if it opened a specially crafted file.
If a user were tricked into using a specially crafted
On February 25, in a security notice Canonical published details about Pidgin vulnerabilities for its Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Ubuntu 11.10, and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS operating systems.
According to Canonical, several security issues have been fixed in Pidgin.
For example, it was discovered that Pidgin incorrectly handled file transfers in the MXit protocol handler.
On May 16, Canonical published in a security notice details about HAProxy vulnerabilities for its Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 11.10 operating systems.
According to Canonical, HAProxy could be made to crash or run programs, if it received specially crafted network traffic.
For example, it was discovered that HAProxy incorrectly handled configurations where global.tune.bufsize was s
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