On March 25, Canonical published in a security notice details about a GNOME Online Accounts vulnerability for its Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 11.10 operating systems.
According to Canonical, GNOME Online Accounts could be made to expose sensitive information over the network.
It was discovered that GNOME Online Accounts did not properly check SSL certificates when configuring onli
On December 12, Canonical published in a security notice details about an APT vulnerability for its Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal), Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin), and Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) operating systems.
According to Canonical, APT could have made to expose sensitive information.
It was discovered that APT set inappropriate permissions on the term.log file.
On March 14, Canonical published in a security notice details about a NSS vulnerability for its Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Ubuntu 11.10, and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS operating systems. According to Canonical, NSS could be made to expose sensitive information over the network.
On November 8, Canonical published in a security notice details about a Qt vulnerability for its Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal), Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) operating systems. According to Canonical, Qt applications could be made to expose sensitive information over the network.
On October 29, in a security notice Canonical published details about Thunderbird vulnerabilities for its Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Ubuntu 11.10, Ubuntu 11.04, and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS operating systems.
On October 2rd, in a security notice Canonical published details about some Python 2.7 vulnerabilities affecting its Ubuntu 11.10 and Ubuntu 11.04 operating systems.According to Canonical, several security issues were fixed in Python 2.7.
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 January 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 have been fixed in Thunderbird, which allowed a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via application crash, or potentially execute code with the privile
On March 14, Canonical published in a security notice details about an NSPR update for its Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Ubuntu 11.10, and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS operating systems.
According to Canonical, NSPR was updated in order to work with the new NSS. A previous fix, USN-1763-1, repaired a vulnerability in NSS.