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 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 March 12, in a security notice Canonical published details about Puppet vulnerabilities for its Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 11.10 operating systems.According to Canonical, several security issues were fixed in Puppet. For example, it was discovered that Puppet agents incorrectly handled certain kick connections in a non-default configuration.
Canonical published details about ClamAV vulnerabilities, in a security notice, 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 were fixed in ClamAV.Felix Groebert, Mateusz Jurczyk and Gynvael Coldwind discovered multiple security issues with ClamAV.
On January 30, in a security notice Canonical published details about Inkscape 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 Inkscape. It was discovered that Inkscape incorrectly handled XML external entities in SVG files.
On October 11th, Canonical published in a security notice details about MoinMoin 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 MoinMoin.
On October 4th, in a security notice Canonical published details about some Python 2.7 vulnerabilities affecting its Ubuntu 11.10, Ubuntu 11.04, and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS operating systems.
According to Canonical, several security issues were fixed in Python 2.6. Multiple vulnerabilities have been unidentified and repaired.
On February 14, Canonical published in a security notice details about Qt vulnerabilities for its Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Ubuntu 11.10 and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) operating systems. According to Canonical, several security issues were fixed in Qt. For example, Richard J. Moore and Peter Hartmann discovered that Qt allowed redirecting requests from http to file schemes.
On October 1st, in a security notice Canonical published details about GNU C Library vulnerabilities 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, multiple security issues were fixed in the GNU C Library. Positional arguments to the printf() family of functions were not handled properly in the GNU C Library.